It’s a Waiting Game for Norfolk Educators
Botelle Beat by Clinton J. Sosna “We educators are planners. We are very good at planning,” says school superintendent Mary Beth Iacobelli, expressing the frustration she feels, in mid-June, with still no official word from the state on how Norfolk’s school should proceed in the fall. It’s a waiting game, filled with unresolved questions concerning […]
Going to School but Staying Home
By Wiley WoodPhoto by Ann DeCerbo When Virginia Coleman-Prisco told her school-age children that spring break was over, one of them piped up, “Does that mean we can go back to school?” The answer, of course, was no, school would still be online. Going to Botelle School these days means sitting down at an internet-connected […]
New Year, New Beginnings at Botelle
By Virginia Coleman-PriscoPhoto, of some of Botelle School’s new staffers this year (from left: Melissa Asselin, Winter Thorne-Kaunelis, Erin Dubecky, Lauren Montagna, Tyler Yelsits, Mary Krusch, Erica McCleary and Shana Bazelmans), by Virginia Coleman-Prisco As summer winds down, Botelle Elementary School is already buzzing with activity in preparation for the new school year. The Botelle […]
Enriching Talent at Botelle
By Virginia Coleman-PriscoPhoto by Kailyn Nadeau On Friday, May 3, Botelle Elementary School hosted its fourth annual Talent Show to a large and enthusiastic audience. Botelle parent and talent show producer Kailyn Nadeau pointed out how “great it is to see Norfolk residents who are without kids in the school attend the talent show and […]
Children’s Book Author Visits Botelle
The pre-K/K and first/second grade students at Botelle Elementary enjoyed a visit with local author and collage artist Sara Beth Videtto, on Thursday, March 21. All students in those classes received a softcover copy of her book, “Turtle’s First Winter: A Read and Find Storybook,” as part of a giveaway contest on Videtto’s Facebook author […]
Botelle Students Take On the National Great Kindness Challenge
By Lauren Valentino At the end of January, Botelle’s Student Council took on a new challenge, the Great Kindness Challenge. This weeklong event is designed to promote a positive community, with students, staff and families completing many different acts of kindness. The Great Kindness Challenge is a yearly program for schools and families across the […]
Education at Botelle—Building Well-Rounded Students
By Lauren Valentino If you ask 50 people what the purpose of public education is, you are likely to get 50 different answers. One reason for this is that people have different priorities: the arts, technology, world languages, raising test scores, the list goes on and on. Differences in priorities became apparent at the […]
Students Travel Back in Time to Meet Women Who Made a Difference
By Lauren Valentino Botelle School students and staff were transported to back in time on Thursday, Feb. 22, when actor LLuana Jones from MobileEd Productions visited the Hall of Flags and taught the students about important women in history. Students contemplated the ideas of freedom and equality during the 45-minute program in which Jones […]
Learning is On Target and Students SOAR at Botelle School
The Botelle Beat By Lauren Valentino The new year is the time when we typically make our resolutions – set goals, make plans, dream big. However, the new year for educators begins in September. That’s the time when we set goals, make plans and dream big, with our students in mind. At Botelle, we […]
Botelle Students Perform ‘Charlotte’s Web’
By Lauren Valentino The curtain rose for Botelle School’s performance of “Charlotte’s Web” on Thursday, April 6 and the audience—young, old and in-between—was entertained by this long-time favorite story of an unlikely friendship between a young pig and a wise spider. Directed by Bruce Connelly and Elizabeth Allyn as part of the Norfolk After School […]
