Each month, the Board of Education recognizes students from every school at their meeting. This month the Board of Education celebrated the following students and their achievements with the community:
Manchester Township Elementary School
Kyleigh Schear, Adriana Beiner, and Joseph Drewry serve as daily attendance ambassadors as part of the MTES crusade to improve and increase attendance. Each morning these students visit classes to see who has perfect attendance, and hand in daily results as part of the MTES attendance initiative. Classes work in multi-grade color teams and are awarded pop-in popsicle parties along with other incentives to celebrate classes with 100% daily attendance. Thank you to these attendance ambassadors for doing their part to inspire their fellow dragons.
Ridgeway Elementary School
On October 27th the Ridgeway’s Junior Impact Club, under the direction of Mrs. Schenck, visited the Children’s Memorial Garden located in Winding River Park. The students worked very hard and did an outstanding job. They put sand in between the bricks to prepare for the winter months, shoveled sand, and swept the brick sidewalks. Thank you to Leela Nolan and Kenzie White for accepting the award on behalf of the Junior Impact Club and for their hard work in making the garden look beautiful for the families that visit. We are proud of everything they accomplished!
Whiting Elementary School
Callie Poss displayed her artistic talents while raising awareness about Halloween safety. She was the third-place winner in the Ocean County Halloween Coloring Contest with more than 300 elementary school students across Ocean County participating. The county Department of Consumer Affairs sponsored the contest. She was presented with a Congratulatory certificate from the Ocean County Board of Commissioners.
Regional Day School
Since the start of the new school year, Nathan has made improvements in several key academic and self-help areas. His hygiene schedule has improved immensely. Nathan’s behaviors in the classroom have also improved which has led to positive growth in the classroom. Everyone is so proud of Nathan!
Manchester Township Middle School
The Middle School would like to recognize the following Impact Club members: Zuzanna Wrazen, Olivia Ferrara, and Brayden McIntyre. Each of them has played an exemplary role in leadership as we began the 2023-2024 school year. In our most recent events they were instrumental in assisting in the fall clean up at the Children's Memorial Garden in Toms River and currently the Helping Hands for Hunger Food Drive. Our club is successful because of students like Zuzanna, Olivia, and Brayden, who continuously and willingly give their time, efforts, and energy to make an impact in our school and community.
Manchester Township Middle School Athletes of the Month
We are extremely proud to have John Clark and Kayla Meyer represent MTMS as our Student/Athletes for the month of November. John and Kayla are both a great representation of what it means to be a student athlete. They are both 8th grade leaders of our Cross Country teams, work just as hard in the classroom as they do in the athletic arena and serve as an excellent example to our younger student/athletes.
Manchester Township High School
Katherine Estevanell Governor's STEM Scholar
The Governor’s STEM Scholars 2024 class is comprised of 129 Scholars from 20 New Jersey counties. 63 percent of the class identify as female and 82 percent as students of color. When they graduate in May 2024, they will join an alumni cohort of nearly 850 Scholars. Katherine Estevanell is a sophomore at Manchester Township High School. Her passions lie in chemistry and computer science and she has taught herself intermediate CSS and HTML. Her efforts in STEM have been recognized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology with the Aspirations in Computing Award. In her community, she volunteers regularly at her local public library, where she’s packaged bags with hygiene products for homeless and other struggling community members, and decorated journal covers for domestic abuse victims for her local Providence House Chapter. She is also heavily involved with Student Government in her school, having been former president of the Class of 2026, and now a publicist on the executive level. In her free time, she enjoys reading and creating handmade jewelry for friends and family.
Manchester Township High School Athletes of the Month
Both of our soccer teams finished the season with an 11-9 record and advanced to the semi-finals of the Conference Coaches Tournament & played in the State Tournament.
Shay led the Lady Hawks defense from the back, but also took every free kick and corner kick. She led the team to a 1st round State Tournament upset at Lower Cape May. She earned All Division, 1st Team All County and 3rd Team All-Shore Honors.
Joey set a school record for 28 goals and 62 pts. in a single season. Scored 2 hat tricks, 8 winning goals and had 8 multi-goal games. Led team to 1st B-South title in 20 years. He earned Division Player of the Year, 2 time 1st Team All County !st Team All Shore & County Player of the Year. He led the Shore in Goals Scored and Total Points.
Both players were 2-year Captains and do very well academically for the Hawks.
Congratulations to all and Happy Thanksgiving!