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Link scholars are achieving!

By Sharon Machrone / January 21, 2025 / Comments Off on Link scholars are achieving!

Link is excited to share that recent New Jersey State Learning Assessment scores for our 5th through 8th graders demonstrate that our students are achieving and are on an upward trajectory of academic growth. The Spring 2024 test scores show that Link scholars outperformed the state in English Language Arts (ELA) (for the second year […]

Celebrating winter holidays at Penn

By Sharon Machrone / December 20, 2024 / Comments Off on Celebrating winter holidays at Penn

Our elementary school scholars celebrated four important winter holidays in a wonderful assembly last week! Students worked for weeks researching their grade-assigned winter holiday. They studied traditions and customs, including celebrations, special foods, activities, clothing, and more, and they shared the results of their work at an assembly program for their peers, staff, and families. […]

Fun at Family Write Night!

By Sharon Machrone / December 11, 2024 / Comments Off on Fun at Family Write Night!

Link and our partners, Mighty Writers, hosted a fantastic family night! Students and their families – 40 families and over 100 participants – progressed through several “stations” – each one offering a different activity, including writing a winter story from prompts, reading math problem stories, making a gift (beading) for someone, reading with a partner, […]

Learning about the Chinese New Year traditions

By Sharon Machrone / December 11, 2024 / Comments Off on Learning about the Chinese New Year traditions

Ms. Martina Ng shared an informational presentation with our 3rd graders in preparation for our winter holidays around the world. She spoke about the Chinese New Year celebration and the traditions associated with it, such as thoroughly cleaning the house, sweeping out the dirt and debris, preparing special food like dumplings, fish, and rice cakes […]

Linkers give back to the community!

By Sharon Machrone / December 1, 2024 / Comments Off on Linkers give back to the community!

Before Thanksgiving break, our students at Halsey made nearly 300 sandwiches that they included in bagged lunches for the Food Pantry at Apostle House in Newark. The bags were decorated by students in the lower grades. Apostle House is a non-profit agency in Newark that provides services for the homeless. Scholars at the Halsey Campus […]

4th Annual Vocabulary Parade!

By Sharon Machrone / November 3, 2024 / Comments Off on 4th Annual Vocabulary Parade!

Students in kindergarten – grade 3 dressed to represent a favorite word for the 4th Annual Vocabulary Parade held on Thursday, October 31 on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the school. Students and staff enjoyed the parade during which several judges determined costume winners in a variety of categories.  Such creativity and fun!  Below are […]

Apple day at the Penn Campus

By Sharon Machrone / November 3, 2024 / Comments Off on Apple day at the Penn Campus

Ms. Boyle’s science lessons on apples were amazing!  Each of the K-3 classes visited apple stations set up around the science classroom.  Students engaged in an apple tasting of three different types of apples – MacIntosh, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious.  As they ate apple slices, they described the apples based on taste—sweet, sour, tart, […]

LIGHTS, ACTION, CAMERA!

By Sharon Machrone / November 3, 2024 / Comments Off on LIGHTS, ACTION, CAMERA!

CNBC invited Link students to their studio in Englewood, NJ, to create a promotional video to market their education outreach opportunity to other schools. CNBC’s goal for their outreach is to inspire the next generation of newscasters and video journalists. During the visit, the eleven Linkers were exposed to what happens in a studio in […]

Welcome to the 2024-25 School Year!

By Sharon Machrone / September 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Welcome to the 2024-25 School Year!

It was wonderful to welcome our scholars to the new school year on September 4th! Students at both campuses seemed delighted to reunite with each other after the summer break and eager to meet their teachers. It was an excellent beginning to the new school year, and we look forward to great things to come […]

Staff prepares for SY 2024-25!

By Sharon Machrone / September 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Staff prepares for SY 2024-25!

Link staff had an incredibly busy and productive two weeks at the end of August preparing for the new school year! They had meet-and-greet sessions between veteran and new teachers, group meetings on procedures, school culture and instruction, subject area “boot camps,” a day-long retreat for team building, a classroom preparation team, and more. These […]