Heathcote Students Stuff a Bus, Bernard Most Visits Greenacres and Latin Students Excel at Yale

Heathcote students donated 328 pairs of pajamas to kids in need at their "Stuff a Bus" event on Monday November 9th. In support of the Pajama Program (www.pajamaprogram.org) and Westchester Pajama Week, Heathcote students were asked to bring in a pair of new pajamas and a new storybook.

Pajamas in sizes 5 to 14 were collected in bins at the main office in the weeks prior to the big day. The students and the staff were invited to wear pajamas to school and the teachers got involved by decorating a school bus that was stuffed with the pajamas and books brought in by the kids.

Children's Book Author Bernard Most at Greenacres

Greenacres continued to celebrate its centennial with a visit from a guest author who shares a long history with the school. On November 5th local author and illustrator, Bernard Most, returned to the halls of Greenacres to speak to a class of second graders and to sign copies of his books at the Greenacres bookfair. Greenacres Elementary has special memories for Most, whose own children attended the school decades ago where a request from his son, ended up reshaping the senior Most's life. One of his sons, Glenn, had written in school that he "wanted all the dinosaurs to come back to life." Reading this gave Most the idea for the very first book he published, If The Dinosaurs Came Back. Working in advertising at the time, he had been dreaming of writing and illustrating children's books, but it wasn't until his foray into the prehistoric era that he was able to make this a reality. Several books later (including one that was rejected no less than 42 times) Most was able to come back to Greenacres to meet a new generation of children who would enjoy his books and his son's passion for dinosaurs.

SHS Latin Students Succeed at Yale Certamen

SHS Latin students traveled to Yale University on Saturday, November 7 to compete in the annual Yale Certamen Invitational. Certamen is a contest in which students of the Classics answer questions about the Latin language, literature, ancient history, mythology and culture. Although it was the first year SHS has participated in any Certamen tournament, the team from the Advanced Level made it to the semi-final round. The Latin students are already enthusiastically preparing for the next Certamen tournament at Harvard University in the spring. To find out about more world languages events, follow @SHS_WL_Dept on Twitter.