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Principals will go to any length to get kids to read
The Phillips Avenue School spent a week celebrating reading. Their week long celebration called appropriately "Phillips Avenue Reading Week" featured "Decorate Your Door (scene from a favorite book) and Read-A-T-Shirt Day" (Monday), "Hats Off to Reading Day" (Tuesday), "Team Up and Read Day" (Wednesday), "Poem in Your Pocket Day" (Thursday), "Curl Up with a Good Book Evening (Thursday), and "Sweat it off with a Good Book Day" with everybody dressing up in "sweats" (Friday). (April 5, 2006) More<

Girl Power, Growing Strong
Stony Brook University researcher Janice Grackin, Ph.D. was awarded another three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue and expand the successful four-year-old Girl Power Program, now referred to as Girl Power 21st Century: Growing Strong, Moving On.  More<


Phillips Playground
It was a cold and windy November day, but the eager students at the Phillips Avenue School cheered enthusiastically as Interim Principal Charles Venezia called on them to thank all of the parent association (PAPA) volunteers who worked so hard to raise the funds for Phase I of their new playground. Another cheer went up for the district's maintenance workers who assembled all of the equipment. (November, 2004) More<

Story Night
The Phillips Avenue School’s Annual Story Night is a celebration of reading as the staff, students and family members put on their favorite pajamas and come together for a pajama party. “It’s a fun event to encourage families to read together before bed,” explains one of this year's coordinators, Jenn Simoes. More<

Phillips 21st Century Grant
Funded by the grant, Project E.N.R.I.C.H. (Experience New Riverhead Initiatives for Community Harmony) offers enrichment opportunities afterschool and during vacations and summers for Phillips Avenue students. It will create a Community Center at Phillips Avenue providing homework help, remediation in content areas and enrichment through sports, drama, music and hands-on science, math and technology. More<

Phillips Black History Celebration
Edwina Lee Tyler, an internationally famous musician and educator, shared her "Vision of African Music" with the students at Phillips. Ms. Tyler, wearing a traditional dress from Senegal, demonstrated each of four percussion instruments: a Senegalese drum called a djembe, a shekere, a kalimba and a marimba. The teachers and children got into the act with Ms. Tyler by responding to her drums and her spirit with enthusiasm. More<

Backpacks donated by Rotary
Dr. Marilyn McLaughlin, acting on behalf of the Rotary Club, contacted Madlyn Davis at the Phillips Avenue School. She explained to Ms. Davis, a secretary at the Phillips Avenue School, that the Rotary was interested in "adopting" a school and wanted to provide all the school supplies necessary for as many students as they could.  More<