Friday, May 27, 2011

CPEP Team Competes in Statewide Event in Hartford


The Wallace CPEP team competed in a statewide event at the Hartford Convention Center on Saturday, May 21. The Wallace team won awards in five different events.

Mr. Stevents and Mr. Sirois thank Mr. Simms, Mr. Serrano, and Mrs. Mercado for their volunteer work throughout the day.

Thanks to Mr. Sirois for these photos.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Wallace Marching Band and Drum Line Visit Generali Elementary School on May 24



Wallace Band and Drum Line had a great performance at Generali Elementary School during a Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday, May 24. There were veterans there who raised the flag and fired a volley, and we played “The Star Spangled Banner.” We said the Pledge, and then we went to a cemetery next to the school and stood in silence to honor the memory of soldiers buried there. We also played a military march and “Rock-a-bye Baby.”

--Ashley Batista, 7th Grade, Huckins House


Thanks to 7th grade Huckins House student Ashley Batista and parent liaison Gretchen Flaherty for these photos.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Wallace Participates in Language Arts Festival

Three Wallace students participated in the district's Language Arts Festival at the Palace Theater on Friday, May 13.  These students created original, authentic responses to literature based on the theme of friendship.  Congratulations to Rezarta Kolludra, a sixth grader in the Huckins House, and Teisiah Lawrence and Elizabeth Angelicola, eighth graders in the Hammond House.  These are the first students from Wallace to participate in the festival.


Huckins House sixth grader Rezarta Kolludra and her dad pause for a moment from practice before  the Language Arts Festival at the Palace on May 13.


Hammond House eighth graders Teisiah Lawrence and Elizabeth Angelicola, who read and performed original poems at the Language Arts Festival at the Palace on May 13, pause for a photo at Wallace.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

A Waterbury Youth Services' Excellence in Youth Award Goes to a Wallace Sixth Grader

Waterbury Youth Services chose Huckins House sixth grade student Egla Hasmillari as a winner of one of its Excellence in Youth awards this year.  She was nominated by language arts teacher Ms. Ann Grace Spizzoucco.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Seventh-Grade Wallace Student Places Third in Reading Competition

Congratulations to Felizaida Tejada, a seventh grade student in the Huckins House, who placed third among the 6th and 7th graders in the Gettysburg Address reading competition at the Waterbury Arts Magnet School April 14.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Eighth Grade Dance, 2011



Thanks to parent liaison Gretchen Flaherty for these photos.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Drum Line and Band at Rock Cats Baseball Game, 5/5/11


Under the direction of music teacher Louis Pontecorvo, Wallace's drum line and band performed at the New Britain Rock Cats' home game on May 5, 2011. The group perform the "Star Spangled Banner" and other songs.

Thanks to Angela Jarvis Pontecorvo for the photos.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

McEducators' Night


Wallace Middle School's faculty and staff got together at the McDonald's near the Brass Mill Center on May 3 to serve up some fine American food and raise some money for the school.

Thanks to Ms. Flaherty for the photos.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Wallace Middle School Announces April Students of the Month

Wallace Middle School has a student-of-the-month program. Each month, one student per grade per house is selected based on the following criteria:

Positive - Is respectful
Attitudes - Accepts responsibility
Working - Completes a high percentage of class work and/or homework
Safely - Follows school rules


April Student of the Month
Yeshion House
Grade 6 – Alexis Banlaki
Grade 7 – Aldi Ajce
Grade 8 – Joshua Melendez

Huckins House
Grade 6 – Rezarta Kolludra
Grade 7 – William Gomez
Grade 8 – Brielle Sanders

Hammond House
Grade 6 – Anxhela Myrtaj
Grade 7 – Andrew Vega
Grade 8 – Gabrielle Hooker

Art
Student 1 – Thaddaeus Vaichus
Student 2- Rayquane Dawkins

Bilingual
Student 1 – Kalil Garcia

Friday, May 6, 2011

Elks Club Honors Wallace Middle School Students



Waterbury Elks #265
Drug Awareness
Poster/Essay Contest
“Not Now – Not Ever”
AND
Americanism Essay Contest
“Why I Am Proud To Be
 an American”
Annual Awards Banquet
May 1, 2011

Congratulations to our
Wallace Middle School Winners
2nd Place Drug Awareness Essay 6th grade
Selena Marin Soto
3rd Place Americanism Essay Division I - 6th & 7th
Terrell Patterson
1st Place Americanism Essay Division II – 7th & 8th
Jolee Iannantuoni
Thank you Waterbury Elks for sponsoring this program