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A bounty of thanks for Washington Twp. school lunchroom workers
Updated May 11, 2021;
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It was a special school lunch special: Heroes were on the menu.
On Friday, May 7, the Washington Township School District joined the School Nutrition Association in celebrating the eighth annual National School Lunch Hero Day. The staff was recognized for its “dedication, hard work, tenacity and ability to adapt to change on a daily basis.”
“In March of 2020, our normal operation just stopped,” Washington Township food service manager Jennifer Mullin said. “Everything that we were used to doing changed, and we only had one day to adjust to the ‘new normal.’ We stopped serving meals for one day only. On March 17, we were serving meals remotely with lots of help from the operations and transportation staff out of the high school 9/10 parking lot.
Washington Twp. pops concert moves forward to new dates online
Updated 9:00 AM;
Today 8:59 AM
The school chorale will perform during Washington Township High School s online Moving Forward Pops concert May 8-10.Washington Township School District
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The Washington Township High School Choir’s 2021 Pops concert, “Moving Forward,” which was postponed in February, will be video-streamed May 8-10 via BookTix Live.
“Our students have been working diligently to keep singing alive and well, since our return to school this past fall,” WTHS choral cirector Joe Zachowski said. “Our main goal all year has been to maintain a sense of community, and this concert is all about how we move forward and learn from difficult things that happen in our lives. After everything we’ve been through, what comes next?”
Less than 50 N.J. school districts remain all-remote in the last week of April
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 28, 2021
Kindergarten teacher Christine Gappa, reads a book to the class at Irving School in Highland Park. Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media
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Less than 50 New Jersey school districts remain closed for in-person instruction, including half of the 10 largest, as the number of fully in-person districts continue to rise.
As of April 26, 470 school districts were hybrid, 47 were remote and 246 were fully in-person the fifth week in a row the number of in-person districts increased. Forty-eight districts have different educational formats for different schools.
On their way: WTHS students and staff get first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Updated 9:16 AM;
Today 9:16 AM
More than two dozen Inspira Health staff members were on hand to help run the vaccination clinic at Washington Township High School on April 23.Washington Township School District
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Inspira Health nurses and staff members put more than 250 Covid-19 vaccination shots into the arms of high school students and district staff during an on-site clinic at Washington Township High School on Friday, April 23.
The first doses of the Pfizer vaccinations were given inside the school’s 9/10 gymnasium as part of a district/Inspira “pushout” over the course of the week.