South Huntington UFSD

Round 1 of the 36th Annual Frank Gugliotta Basketball Tournament. 🏀🐾 Walt Whitman’s Varsity and JV teams competed against Cold Spring Harbor, with Varsity finishing the day with a 66-58 win. Round 2 brackets will be announced at a later date.

Birchwood ended the school day and welcomed Winter Recess with their annual Holiday Rock and Roll Sing Along Show. The entire building joined together to celebrate and watch the talented teacher band spread some holiday cheer!

Silas Wood knows how to celebrate the holidays! To kick-off the last day of school before Winter Recess, our 6th graders were greeted by Principal Toto dressed as the well-known Elf on a Shelf, only this time, he could be seen from the Silas Wood roof! The day of celebration continued with hot cocoa with holiday characters, and concluded with the annual Holiday Sing Along with members of the Silas Wood staff.

The Voices of Walt Whitman went on a caroling tour today to bring cheer to our community. First stop was at Silas Wood where the high schoolers performed for Ms. Riva’s sixth grade chorus students. The traveling group then went to Stimson Middle School to visit the 7th and 8th grade chorus students who got a chance to use their singing voices as well. The high school carolers then headed to The Bristal where residents enjoyed a number of songs and even sang along. The residents and the students both enjoyed interacting with one another before the group headed to the Dix Hills Diner for lunch and a quick tune before their final stop at the Walt Whitman Shoppes. Thank you to Mr. Altinel and Mr. Modelewski for helping Whitman’s students share their talents and holiday cheer throughout the community!

Thank you to all the students who participated in the Bûche de Noël Contest 2025. As always, you did an amazing job showcasing your talent and creativity.

Contest Winners are:
1st Prize: Cake #23 – John Henry Noderer
2nd Prize: Cake #29 – Julia Denis
3rd Prize: Cake #6 – Alfonso Barahona Medrano

Félicitations! Congratulations!

Some silly but very smart puppets helped teach students at Maplewood a fun science lesson today about how the brain, heart, lungs, and digestive system work hard together to keep our bodies healthy. Ventriloquist, puppeteer, and musician Steve Petra uses all those talents in his show called “It’s Alive!” to bring the heart, lungs, brain, and stomach to life as puppets to explain how they work. Maplewood’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders laughed, clapped, and sang while they also learned important facts about how the brain delivers messages to the body, how the heart pumps blood, and how long the small intestines are! Some students even got the chance to get up on stage and help. Thanks to Maplewood’s PTA for bringing this engaging show to our students, and to Petra Puppets for making learning so much fun!

Congratulations to Stimson’s December 2025 PRIDE Award recipients! The Stimson PRIDE Award honors those students who show Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence. It is a monthly celebration where we recognize these students who best represent the pillars of Stimson Middle School through their character and behavior. These students are nominated by their teachers, and starting this year, one student is selected as the Principal’s Choice PRIDE Award recipient.

Congratulations to…
7th grade PRIDE Award winners: Taj Grant and Max Cohen

8th grade PRIDE Award winners: Ava Dubey, Matthew Wyer, and Juan Garcia

Principal’s Choice PRIDE Award winner: Haylee Hughes

Walt Whitman’s Italian students did an amazing job in decorating the Christmas Cake “Panettone.” We thank all the students who participated in this year’s contest!

Congratulations to this year’s winners:
1st place - Alexa Kuenstler
2nd place - Lilli Montana and Maeve Scharpf
3rd place - Melania and Gianluca Liotino

WWHS faculty participated in a 5k run this past Sunday called Callie Loves Love, in support of fellow teacher Ms. Bradie Bohlen who created the run in honor of her daughter who recently passed away.