Bay Shore Middle School Hosts Scholar Shirt Day

From Bay Shore School District: On Friday, October 13, 2017, the 6th grade hallways at Bay Shore Middle School were buzzing with excitement as scholars made their way to the auditorium. Guidance Department staff, including Director Louis Balsamo and counselors Jaime Rizzo, Laurie Gassar, Mary Lapid and Lauren Henriques, were eagerly awaiting their arrival for the 21st annual 6th Grade Scholar Shirt Day.

The event, which provides every 6th grade scholar and staff member with a college t-shirt, is designed to inspire our scholars to start thinking about their future. Once seated in the pep rally atmosphere, scholars were treated to a performance by the Varsity Cheerleading team. They also listened to volunteers from Bay Shore High School’s senior class talk about the importance of academic planning, involvement in extracurricular activities, staying organized and working hard towards academic success. The assembly ended with a question and answer session in which scholars attempted to win prizes by correctly answering questions about facts related to college.

Mrs. Attisani, a 6th grade Social Studies teacher, said, “Each year the Guidance Department does a phenomenal job with this event!”

Scholar Shirt Day is followed by “Kids Talk,” a program sponsored by the Guidance Department in which 6th graders meet face-to-face with their guidance counselors to discuss procedures, the Naviance program and other topics vital to the scholars’ success.

The Guidance Department would like to give a special thank you to secretaries Laura Dellacroce and Sue Niemann for all of the time and effort they put in to planning Scholar Shirt Day.

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