Our First Grade Teacher's Assistant, Ms. Errico, got married over the weekend! The children celebrated with a wedding party last week. The children were so excited to surprise her! Ms. Errico is now Mrs. Zadwarny! She looked absolutely beautiful. Best wishes to Mrs. Zadwarny and her husband for many years of wedded bliss!

Our families took the night off from cooking and attended Blaze Pizza at the Broadway Mall to enjoy some take out or eat in. Everyone enjoyed the night while raising funds for our school! Thank you to our Parents' Association for organizing and a 2nd thank you to Blaze Pizza. Check out our FaceBook page for more photos!

All of our students, nursery - 8th grade, gathered on the back lawn of the school to celebrate the beginning of our school year as a school community. We celebrated our first Mass as a school community. Fr. Gerard, Fr. Daniel & Fr. Liam concelebrated the Mass. Fr. Gerard told the students how happy he was to see us all together again, and while it is different, we are still together as one, holy family. Fr. Gerard emphasized how proud he is of all of them. He also thanked Mrs. Doherty for her tremendous efforts over the summer to open our school safely. We are grateful!

On Thursday, May 28th, our 8th Graders and their parents arrived at HFS parking lot for a special ceremony. Each car parked and each student walked toward the large Cross whereFr. Gerard gave each one a special blessing. They then lined up 6 ft. apart, paired with a faculty or staff member, and walked through the building and back out again for our traditional "leaving the building" scene for their 8th grade video. Each student runs out and poses or waves for the video! They then were gifted a Holy Family School graduation lawn sign to display at their homes. The 7th & 8th grade teachers presented them with their sign. A socially distant photo was taken in the back lot of the school. The students enjoyed seeing everyone and proudly returned to their smiling parents. This is the first of a few special events planned for our graduating class! We are all very proud of them!

The students and teachers are busy learning from home! We continue to pray for each of you and your families! Make sure you sign up for our facebook page and look for the video from Mrs. Doherty, our teachers and staff! We miss all of you!

Holy Family Girls Middle School Basketball team has won the 2020 Sportsmanship Award. Let by Coach James Mullaney, these girls displayed the values associated with this coveted award. Congratulations girls on this well deserved award.

The students from Kindergarten through 8th grade all participated in our 1st STREAM Fair! The projects were amazing. Our kindergarten made their own neighborhood and cars, 1st graders made their own recycle inventions, 2nd graders made rollercoasters, 3rd graders made amazing magnetic mazes, 4th graders made marble runs, 5th & 6th graders made energy efficient houses and 7th & 8th grades made board games. Our winners that will move on to the Diocesan STEM Fair are: Sofia King -4th Grade, Allison Manduca -5th Grade, Malcolm Anderson -6th Grade, Riley Ezelius & Annabella Sottile - 7th Grade, and Harry Fagan & David Jojan - 8th Grade! Congrats to the winners! First place in kindergarten- Maddie Rawls , 1st Grade winner- Katerina Pietronigro, 2nd Grade Winner - Damien Marsilio, & 3rd Grade Winner - Grace Moone.

Mrs. Buckley's Pre-K class had the Spirit of St. Valentine. They visited Sr. Carol at Outreach. Sister Carol showed the children the donations that people bring for others. The children each brought a donation for the pantry also! Now that is LOVE! Please look for pictures on Facebook and also on Mrs. Buckley's page.

The Holy Family Girls' Basketball team won a nail-biter yesterday at our home gym. The final score was 34-25. Janiya, one of our 8th graders, lead us to victory and had an amazing game! The girls will play St. Raymond's in the semi-finals on Monday at 3:30PM. Take a ride and come see the game!

We had an amazing week here at Holy Family School. On Monday, the entire school celebrated our cultures and we also celebrated our wonderful Principal, Mrs. Doherty. The classes showered her with cards and special drawings and gifts. On Tuesday, we celebrated all of our students! What a fun day! The children dressed in their pjs or comfy clothes and were treated to ice cream and a movie. On Wednesday, we invited in our Grandparents and special people to visit our school and our classrooms. What a treat! I think all had a fun time. In the afternoon, we had our annual spelling bee and Jorge Palacio, a 6th grader, came in first place. Devansh, a 4th grader, came in 2nd. Well done! On Thursday, we celebrated our support staff. Each class made something special for their special person in the school. We also had our Volunteer Tea in the morning for any volunteer that could make it. Each class came down to the cafeteria to present our volunteers with a song or a poem to thank them for all they do. And lastly, on Friday, we began with Mass and celebrated our teachers! We celebrated with an afternoon off! Thank you to all!

4th grade Chinese New Year fun! Two of our students and their families shared their culture and traditions. We celebrated this special day with food, Lucky red envelopes and a 'fireworks' confetti show. Check out more photos on 4th Grade's Home Page- just click on title of this article!

Please come join us at 10:30 AM Mass on Sunday, 1/26/2020. Following Mass, from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, we will have an open house for all our current and interested students. We offer full day Nursery ( 3 year old program), and full day Pre-K ( 4 year old program), and also Kindergarten through 8th grade. Come meet our teachers and see all that Holy Family has to offer! We welcome all of you! Please call 516-938-3846 ext. 329 if you'd like any further information. We will also be open all week, so stop by anytime Monday - Thursday between 9 AM & 1: 45 PM.

Please pray for the family of Mrs. Messina, our cafeteria manager, who's husband passed away this past week. The funeral Mass will be on Tuesday, January 21st at 11:00 AM. Visitation will be at Holy Family Church just before the Mass beginning at 10:00 AM . Please keep Mrs. Messina, her children, and her family in your prayers.

From the Holy Family Parish Bulletin - Our Advent Project benefiting Cross Catholic Outreach's program to build homes for families in Haiti has been very successful. As of the last week of December, we have collected $5,188 toward a goal of $6,981 which will provide a new home for a family. We thank the young people of our school, religious education and youth ministry who created and sold the ornaments that raised these funds. Also a special thank you to Sheila Ferreri and Cathy Weiss for their leadership and creativity. If you wish to contribute to our goal, please submit a check to Nancy Brown in the parish office by Friday, January 3, 2020.

Ms. Hutter became the Principal of the Day today! Ms. Hutter visited all the classrooms, oversaw morning announcements, and conducted the daily duties of the Principal. We caught this photo of Ms. Hutter discussing the daily news with Mrs. Calabro.

Our annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa took place on Sunday. Our school was transformed into a Winter Wonderland thanks to the parent volunteers! Our 6th, 7th & 8th grade students volunteered on the day of the breakfast serving, selling raffles & ornaments, photos with Santa and more! We give a special shout out to our head Elf, Mrs. Ezelius and Raffle Elf, Mrs. Fagan for all the coordinating for this wonderful community event! Thank you also to Santa who took time to come all the way from the North Pole during this busy time to deliver stuffed animals and take pictures at Holy Family School!

What a special day that we all gather together and share a meal as a school/parish family. The entire school had a Thanksgiving lunch together in the gym. Each student decorated a feather during their art classes and all the feathers made our Holy Family Turkey. Fr. Gerard began the meal with the "Superman" prayer. The Rachel's Challenge student leaders along with Mrs. Calle, Ms. Ulrich and Mr. Gilbert set up the entire gym and served all the students, teachers and guests. We'd also like to thank Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Boyle and Mr. Lafalce for a delicious meal topped off with apple pie and ice cream! We are truly blessed! Click here to view some photos of the day!

Sharing God's love, that's what we do at Holy Family School! The fourth grade students happily shared some of their Halloween candy and created beautiful, candy filled Turkey Cups. The love kept flowing as the children visited St Joseph's Hospital. The children personally delivered their gifts to the nurses and staff who will work on Thanksgiving taking care of others instead of being home with their own family. God Bless those who choose a profession dedicated to helping those in need.

From Kindergarten through 8th grade, the children decorated gratitude feathers during their art classes. They thought about the many blessings they have and wrote down something they are thankful for! The nursery and pre-k classes also decorated their feathers during Social, Emotional learning classes. The feathers are beautiful! Wait until Tuesday to see how they were all put together!

Holy Family School fourth graders took a trip back in time to Colonial Long Island! Much was learned about our past while touring Old Bethpage Village Restoration, a living museum.