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Mayor Rossi Congratulates Students At School Promotions
Outdoor promotion ceremonies were recently held at Savin Rock Community School and Bailey Middle School.
Written by Michael P. Walsh
WEST HAVEN, CT — Mayor Nancy R. Rossi attended outdoor promotion ceremonies this week at Savin Rock Community School and Bailey Middle School.
On Tuesday, Rossi congratulated Savin Rock fourth graders of teacher Kerry McQueeney’s class on their promotion during a ceremony in the school parking lot.
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Most of the school’s 87 fourth graders will attend Carrigan Intermediate School for grades five and six in late August, said Savin Rock Principal Taryn Driend, who led the ceremony with McQueeney.
On Wednesday, Rossi spoke at Bailey and congratulated the school’s Team 9 eighth graders on their promotion to high school at a socially distanced ceremony behind the school gym.
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Rossi applauded students’ families and teachers for their guidance and support and helped Principal Robert Bohan present students with certificates of promotion. They were joined onstage by Assistant Principals Paul Giglietti and Stacy Sutton and Colette Bennett, who coordinates English language arts, social studies and library media studies for the school district.
Most of the Eagles’ 473 eighth graders, a class shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, will attend West Haven High School in late August.
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