Wildwood Elementary
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In the Wild Wood 2005
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Welcome! Wildwood School welcomes our new Principal Matt Behnke. He is currently attending a Principal's Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. To see a description, visit http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/principals/programs/lev.html Enjoy your Summer, and see you on August 28 Wildwood Bike Rodeo Sponsored by the Wildwood PTO, Safe Routes to School, MassBike in conjunction with the Amherst Police Department. On the first Saturday of vacation week, WW held its first ever Bike Rodeo. Amherst Police Department along with the Wildwood community created a fantastic bike safety and awareness event.
SIXTH GRADERS SHINE IN QUIZ BOWL
Once again, Wildwood 6th graders have excelled in the Annual Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl. The contest, completed by teams of students using a computer, involves 100 multiple-choice questions covering a range of topics (math, literature, music, science, history, current events, sports, etc.), and points are awarded based on both accuracy and speed. For the 7th year, Wildwood students competed in the Northeast Region, covering states from New England to Maryland. Fifteen teams competed at Wildwood on the morning of March 4th and the scores of the top four teams were reported to the Quiz Bowl organizers. The results were truly impressive! Wildwood’s top team (made up of Azure Bergman, Isabelle Jackson, Tara Murty, Jessie Pruisto-Chang, and Megan Tassy) scored 1160 points, out of a possible 1500, and achieved an accuracy rating of 91%. In the process, they placed 2nd of all the many dozens of 6th grade teams who competed in the Northeast Region. Wildwood’s 2nd place team (Gloria Miller, Amutha Muthukumar, Talia Rueschemeyer-Bailey, and Kate Schreiber) placed 5th in the Northeast with a score of 1131. Wildwood’s 3rd place team (Rex DePillis, Bryan Meeks, Tom Neill, and Matthew Kowaleski) placed 9th with 1057 points, and the school’s 4th place team (Simon Elliot, Skyler Perot, and Brandon Vazquez) placed 11th with 1037 teams. Three other Wildwood teams, whose scores we could not submit, each scored over 1000 points, which put them in front of the #12 reporting team in the Northeast which tallied 994 points. It was a morning of much excitement and a fine display of the depth and breadth of knowledge Wildwood students bring to such an event. |
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