St. Raymond Elementary School’s Youth Choir and Bell Choir has been selected by News 12 The Bronx to compete in this year’s Sounds of the Season. Under the direction of our Choir Director Patrick Connolly, our choir performed a Christmas song that was videotaped and submitted to News 12. Our video was one of 12 chosen to be posted on News 12 The Bronx’s website. Thank you to Alex Henriquez, one of our parents and also a member of our Maintenance staff, for making the video.

You can vote for our choir and help us become one of the top five to be featured on this year’s Sounds of the Season. Each person can vote one time per day from Monday, November 28 through Friday, December 2 at noon. Please vote by clicking here to help us win and share the link with your friends and family on social media and via email. Scroll down to the box with our choir and click on the heart to vote. Help make St. Raymond Elementary School’s Youth Choir and Bell Choir this year’s Sounds of the Season winner in the Bronx. We can do it with your help!

Students and staff honored our nation's veterans with a dress down day for a cause on Thursday, November 10. (School is closed Friday, November 11 in honor of Veterans Day.) Organized by Mrs. Caitlin Galami, who teaches Class 5-208, we dressed in red, white and blue to raise money for United for the Troops (unitedforthetroops.org), a nonprofit organization that creates and sends care packages to our military members stationed overseas. Together, the St. Raymond School community raised $1,126 for United for the Troops. Thank you, Mrs. Galimi, for organizing the Red, White & Blue Dress Down. Below, are decorations and student work honoring our veterans.

Northeast/East Bronx Regional Superintendent Ray Vitiello visited St. Raymond on November 2 for a meeting with the administrative team to discuss MAP scores. During his time here, Mr. Vitiello had the chance to meet with some of our Middle School classes. 

Photos by Phyllis Pisacano.

St. Raymond Elementary School celebrated All Saints' Day, Monday, November 1, with Mass in the school auditorium. Several students in 4-202 and 4-205 dressed as saints. See photos below.


Students in class 6-305 choose a saint and created a display about the saint. Below are figures of the saints that they created and descriptions to go with them.


Students in class 6-305 choose a saint and created a display about the saint. 

Friday, October 28, we held our 2nd annual Trunk or Treat Halloween event. The entire school participated. UPK 3 through Grade 5 were dressed in costumes. Teachers and staff decorated their cars and students went from car to car collecting candy. Thank you to all who donated candy, decorated their cars and otherwise helped with the festivities. Thank you also to the Bronx Times Reporter who sent photographer Jewel Webber to take photos. Please see the Bronx Times Reporter for Ms. Webber's photos.  

Mrs. MacKay's class, 5-207, visited the Bronx River Alliance on Friday, October 14. Students learned about some of the organisms (birds, fungus, amphibians, trees) in the Bronx River Forest. They learned how to use binoculars and how to identify poison ivy. They also learned why decomposers like fungus are so important to the forest ecosystem. 

Kindergarten teachers Tina Gioia (K West) and Joey Ann Delgado (K East) organized A Dress Down Day for a Cause for Breast Cancer on Thursday, October 13, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Students and staff were invited to participate for a $2 donation for children and a $5 donation for adults, and were asked to wear pink. Thanks to Ms. Gioia’s and Ms. Delgado’s efforts, we raised $1,383, which will be donated to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fund. Thank you to all the students and staff who participated. See photos below for our classes dressed in pink.

Above, top: Ms. Gioia and Ms. Rivera with Kindergarten West; below, Ms. Delgado (right) and Ms. Caminito with Kindergarten East.


Above, top: Mrs. McClintock and Class 8-301; below, Mr. (Patrick) Scanlon and Class 8-307.


Above, top: Ms. Northover and Class 8-308; below, Mr. D'Armiento and Class 8-311.


Above, top: Ms. Hughes and Class 7-306; below, Mr. Dennis and Class 7-309.



Above, Mrs. Tetro and Class 7-312.


Above, Ms. Ramsaroop and Class 6-303.

Above, top: Mrs. Singh's class, 6-304; below, Ms. Robles and Class 6-305.


Above, top: Mrs. Dias and Class 5-206; below, Mrs. MacKay and Class 5-207.


Above, Mrs. Galimi and Class 5-208.


Above, top: Ms. Virello and Class 4-202; below, Mrs. Lim and Class 4-205.


Above, top: Mrs.Bickart and Class 3-203; below, Ms. Sanseverino and Class 3-204.


Above, top: Ms. Martinez (right), Ms. Ramirez (left) and Class 2-105; bottom,
Sr. Julianne and Ms. Ramirez and Class 2-106.


Above, top: Mrs. Fragoso (left) and Ms. Lanzana, and Class 1-103; bottom, Mrs. Collins and Class 1-104.


Above, top: Ms. Adderley, Ms. Vasquez and UPK 4 East; below, Ms. Brownie, Mrs. Garcia and UPK 4 West.


Above, top: Ms. Kahn, Mrs. Tacinelli and Ms. Pin with UPK 4 North; below, Ms. Roman, Ms. Deleon, and Ms. Aguilar with UPK 4 South.


Above, top: Mrs. Manesis (right) and Ms. Jaichand with UPK 3 West; below, Mrs. Herrmann with UPK 3 East.

 
Not to be outdone, our admin staff participated, too. Above, left to right, Mrs. Mincin, Mrs. Pisacano, Ms. Carrion, Sr. Josefa Marie Cucio, CSJB; Mrs. Anazagasti, Sr. Elaine Hadzima, PBVM; and Mrs. Hernandez. In the second photo, Sr. Josefa shows off her team shirt. 


Above, top: our lunch ladies show us their moves in pink. Below, our After-Care staff went pink, too.

Students in 4-205, Mrs. Lim's class, work together in the Computer Lab with Mr. Pascucci's help.