St. Raymond Elementary School's Youth Choir performed at the Inner-City Scholarship Fund dinner on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, along with choirs from Cardinal Hayes High School and the Academy of Mount St. Ursula. The photos below are courtesy of photographer Matthew Adams. 



Left, 5th grader Jake Espinal delivers the invocation at the ICSF Dinner. Right, His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan with Jake.




Top, Sherline Pichardo Cabrera and Jeremy Barefield perform a duet with Fredy Navarrete and the rest of the choir standing by.

Bottom, The whole choir performs the finale.

Our three Fall Fundraiser winners, 1st place winner Victoria King, Class 4-208, 2nd place winner Sevette Velox-McKoy, Class 2-105, and 3rd place winner Zyair St. Clair, Class 2-105, have received additional prizes from the fundraiser supplier. 



(Left to right)    Sevette Velox-McKoy, Victoria King and Zyair St. Clair. Congratulations to all for their fundraising success!

Thank you to our Art teacher, Mrs. Charmaine Griffiths Adderley, for her work with our students in Art class. Below are some examples of their work in a variety of styles.

The Persistence of Memory, also known as Melting Clocks, is one of artist Salvator Dali's most famous works. Below, our students created their own Melting Clocks.





The first three collages below are examples of elongated animals, also in the style of  Salvador Dalí.








Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary well known Japanese artist famous for her polka dot patterns. Under Mrs. Adderley's direction, our students created the polka dot pumpkin collages below.

Classes 4-205 and 4-208 created Native American shelters in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Students' projects included a variety of shelters, such as teepees, wigwams and longhouses.



The Lenapes and the Algonquins lived in wigwams.




Teepees were used by the seven tribes of the Sioux, as well as by the Blackfeet, Crow, Arapaho, Plains Cree and others. 






The Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Oneida) lived in longhouses. 

Congratulations to the following students who helped to make our Fall Fundraiser a big success. 

1st place winner Victoria King, Class 4-208, received a $100 gift card for total sales of $1,696.

2nd place winner Sevette Velox-McKoy, Class 2-105, received a $75 gift card for total sales of $1,319.

3rd place winner Zyair St. Clair, Class 2-105, received a $50 gift card for total sales of $969. 



 (Above, front row) Fall Fundraiser winners Zyair St. Clair (3rd place), Sevette Velox-McKoy (2nd place) and Victoria King (1st place).

(Back row) Sr. Josefa Marie Curcio, CSJB, Assistant Principal for Early Childhood; Tarik Hyman, Assistant Principal for Middle School; Eugene Scanlon, Principal, and Yessenia Teron, Assistant Principal for Grades 2-5.

Thank you to our top three students for your hard work and great sales success. We also thank all our other students, staff, families and friends who participated in this year's Fall Fundraiser.

St. Raymond Elementary School celebrated Veterans Day on Thursday, November 9 with a dress down day to benefit United for the Troops, a local organization that sends care packages to our military members stationed overseas. Students and staff who chose to participate donated $2 and $5, respectively. Together, we raised $1,386 for United for the Troops. Thank you to Mrs. Caitlin Galimi, Class 4-202 teacher, for once again organizing our Veterans Day Dress Down for a Cause. Thanks also to all who participated.

Below, students in Mrs. Galimi's class, 4-202, in front of their Veterans Day projects.



Above photo by Caitlin Galimi.








(Above) Class 1-103 dressed in red, white and blue for our Dress Down for a Cause for Veterans Day. Photo by Danielle Fragoso.


(Above) Class 8-311 in the gym wearing red, white and blue. Photo by Christopher D'Armiento.


(Above) Kindergarten East students in their classroom dressed in red, white and blue. Photo by Joey Ann Delgado.



(Above) Ms. Gioia's class, Kindergarten West, dressed in the colors of our flag, also supported our Dress Down for a Cause for Veterans Day. Photo by Tina Gioia.

Our school community celebrated the Feast of All Saints on Wednesday, November 1, with Mass in our auditorium for Kindergarten through 8th Grade. Father Emmanuel Duku was the principal celebrant. Father James Cruz, Father Raphael Boansi and Father Collins Ashu concelebrated. 

Our 4^th Grade students and two 5th Grade students dressed as their saint of choice for Mass. (See the first two photos below.) Both grades researched and wrote about various saints, and presented their findings to our 3rd Grade students. Our 6th Grade students created models of saints with short biographies attached.



Below, the 6th Graders' projects about St. Cecilia, St. Rose of Lima, St. Peter, St. Angela Merici, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Martha, St. Joan of Arc, St. Catherine of Siena, and many other saints.

Students from St. Raymond High School for Boys served as buddies to our Kindergarten through 2nd Grade students who were attending Mass on Friday, October 20. This was the first time this year that our K-2 students attended Mass. The older boys helped them in and out of church, showed them how to kneel, and when to stand and sit. This partnership taught our our younger students how to act during Mass and gave the Boys' High School students community service hours. Thank you to Ms. Delgado, our Kindergarten East teacher, for arranging the pairing of the two student groups.



(Above) St. Raymond High School students sitting with and helping our students before, during and after Mass.



(Above) students from St. Raymond High School for Boys who served as buddies to our Kindergarten through 2nd Grade students at Mass.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Staff and students at St. Raymond Elementary School joined the fight against breast cancer on Tuesday, October 17 by hosting a pink dress down day. Students who chose to dress down made a $2 donation and staff who chose to dress down made a $5 donation. Together, we raised $1,157, which will be donated to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer at the American Cancer Society .

Following are some photos from our Pink Dress Down Day.



Class 1-103



Class 1-104



Class 2-105 



Class 2-106 



UPK 4 East students with teacher aides (left) Ms. DeLeon and Ms. Vasquez.



UPK 4 West 



UPK 4 North with (left to right) teacher aides Ms. Kahn, Mrs. Beleno and teacher
Ms. Pin.




Kindergarten East students with teacher aide Ms. Ramirez (left) and teacher
Ms. Delgado (right).



Kindergarten West teacher Ms. Gioia (left) with students and teacher aide Ms. Rivera (right). 



Class 8-311 with their teacher Mr. D'armiento joined the fight against breast cancer.



Class 8-308 



Class 8-307 


Class 8-301 




Class 3-203 




Class 3-204



Class 4-202



Class 4-205



Class 4-208



Class 5-206 with teacher Ms. Keaveney (center).



Class 5-207 



Class 6-303



St. Raymond adminstrative staff dressed in pink for our Fight Against Breast Cancer.

Please click here for Mr. Scanlon's Monthly Messages for November 2023..