Flower Hill Primary School students are off to a great start to the 2019/20 school year. The youngsters are working hard, getting along with their teachers and classmates and learning fun and interesting things every day.
Flower Hill students are a happy bunch. They disembark buses each morning and exhibit a spring in their step as they head to the building’s main entrance. The youngsters genuinely enjoy going to school. They absorb whatever their teacher is focusing on like a sponge soaks in water. They are eager to please and simply love to show-off all that they know.
Lucia Laguarda is Flower Hill School's principal.
Principal Lucia Laguarda was thrilled to present the initial round of Star Student Awards to an especially enthusiastic group of boys and girls spread across grades kindergarten through third grade. The students were given certificates to bring home to their loved ones and they were assembled for a commemorative photo with Ms. Laguarda before a large wall mural.
September’s Star Student Award recipients include:
Kindergarten: Nicholas Mills, Angely Gonzalez Quevedo, Cayden Fernandez White
First Grade: Raquiese Blizzard, Kenneth Guardado, Harper Pallack
Second Grade: Charlotte Kindelmann, Dean Michaelian, Ariana Ponce Ponce, Amari Brewer, Leo McTaggart-Levonte, Jr.
Third Grade: Luisa Mackey, Lauren Reed, Caitlin Wegielnik, David Miranda Gomez
Flower Hill Primary School has established a well-deserved reputation in the community for emphasizing academic excellence and social growth. Opened in September 1954, the school today houses students who can compete successfully with those anywhere on Long Island.
Flower Hill School is committed to helping its students achieve their full academic potential and to supporting the development of social skills that will help each child successfully navigate through the school setting during their formative years. To this end, Flower Hill’s goal is to consistently provide a learning environment that fosters the intellectual, emotional, social and physical development of each student.
Flower Hill’s staff of caring professionals offers a child-centered educational program in a supportive and nurturing environment. It is hoped that by providing teaching that inspires, informs and challenges, teachers and support staff can instill a love for learning that will continue throughout each child’s school years and beyond.
In addition to the rich regular day classroom program, each child receives instruction in art, music, physical education, library skills and technology from teachers who are specialists in each of these areas. Flower Hill also has a school nurse, psychologist, social worker, reading and math specialists and other professional staff members who provide critical support to students.
A strong partnership between students, parents and teachers is very important to daily life at Flower Hill. Principal Lucia Laguarda and all teachers and staff members are confident that by working together to build a positive collaboration between home and school, Flower Hill will continue to provide quality educational experiences for all of its students.