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Shaw Avenue School 

99 Shaw Avenue, Valley Stream, NY 11580

(516) 434-3700

Erin Malone, Principal 

Ashley Lemmo, Assistant Principal 

  

Shaw Avenue Reopening Procedures

 

Shaw Avenue Elementary School was opened in 1950 as the second school of Valley Stream School District 30.  The school replaced the Rottkamp Potato Farm owned by the Rottkamp family.  For the celebration of Shaw Avenue School’s 50th anniversary in the year 2000, students, staff, parents and community members placed two time capsules in the Library Media Center.  These time capsules will be unveiled during Shaw Avenue’s 100th anniversary in the year 2050.   Shaw Avenue School now serves the northern part of this region and houses a culturally diverse student body from kindergarten to grade six. At Shaw Avenue students receive a good educational foundation that propels them to excel academically, socially, and emotionally.  We honor our students’ learning styles by differentiating our instruction using different pedagogical strategies and modalities.

Overview of Core Instructional Program

LITERACY
We develop literate independent readers who are able to identify their literary genres of choice and understand that good readers read for different purposes including pleasure. To build a stronger foundation for our literacy instruction we use the Common Core Standards and the five components of a scientifically-based reading instruction in the early grades: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. As students advance through the grades we expect them to engage with literary and informational texts on a deeper level by analyzing, explaining, comparing and contrasting, integrating, evaluating, and citing supportive evidence for their arguments.  

MATH
Our students consider themselves mathematicians who can relate theoretical concepts to the real world.  We implement the Common Core Standards by asking students to engage in a variety of activities, such as:
1.    Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2.    Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3.    Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
4.    Apply mathematics to solve everyday problems
5.    Use appropriate tools strategically

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES
Our students are social scientists who begin to apply the scientific method in the early grades while creating their hypotheses while proving and disproving them as they progress through the years.  They learn to analyze and question peoples of the world, cultures, and institutions that surround them.  We integrate literacy skills in our curriculum and encourage students to read and write a variety of informational and non-fiction texts

MUSIC/ARTS/TECHNOLOGY
Shaw Avenue School also provides all students with a richly rewarding educational experience in the areas of art, music, and computer technology. Academic excellence is expected of all students as they forge ahead in their academic pursuits

In addition to our instructional core, we offer a variety of programs at Shaw Avenue School including:
•    Two fully equipped technology labs
•    Full Day Kindergarten Center
•    Implementation of Common Core Standards Across Grade Levels
•    Social and Emotional Learning through Responsive Classroom and PBIS
•    Quest for high achieving students
•    Afterschool Academic Intervention Services
•    Co-teaching classrooms
•    Innovative Literacy Pilots

 

Shaw Avenue News

Second graders participate in ‘Operation Battery’ at Shaw Avenue School

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Second graders at Shaw Avenue School in Valley Stream District 30 recently completed a weeklong interactive program called Submerge Storytelling. The program aims to inspire creativity in children by facilitating a physical and metaphysical environment where they can lose themselves in their imaginations.

Following along the fictional storyline of “Surfing on Saturn,” one of the school’s classrooms was transformed into the room of Emmy Sagan by Submerge Storytelling program founder Cory Levine. Emmy is a 12-year-old scientist and engineer who has invented the award-winning Emmy Engine to help her best friend, Broman, improve his surfing skills.

As the story and week evolved, Emmy asked the students to take part in an Operation Battery simulation along with NASA. As part of the plot, students imagined that the world’s supply of batteries is nearly gone, and NASA asked for the assistance of Emmy and the students at Shaw Avenue to assist with a mission to Saturn to recover minerals that can help restore the supply of batteries. Students used magnifying glasses to closely examine the different minerals such as pyrite, calcite, malachite, and lepidolite based on their color.



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1-6: Second graders at Shaw Avenue School in Valley Stream 30 closely examined minerals as part of an interactive program called Submerge Storytelling.

7: Leading the experience was program founder Cory Levine, who assisted students in an Operation Battery simulation.

8-9: Students worked together on the Operation Battery simulation.

Click here to view the Second graders participate in ‘Operation Battery’ at Shaw Avenue School slideshow.

Photos courtesy of the Valley Stream District 30

Date Added: 5/7/2025

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Shaw Avenue’s Student Advocates hold Thanksgiving food drive

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Shaw Avenue Elementary School’s sixth grade Student Advocates in Valley Stream District 30 held a Thanksgiving food drive to support people in need from Nov. 18-22.  

During the food drive, which was held during American Education Week, students collected nonperishable food items for people throughout the school community. In previous years, the drive was coordinated by Shaw Avenue’s teachers. However, teachers agreed to allow students to run this year’s drive to promote student leadership. The Student Advocates also designed posters which were on display throughout the building to spread awareness for the food drive. All donations will go to the Blessed Sacrament Church’s food pantry to be distributed to community members in need. 

The district commends Shaw Avenue’s Student Advocates for organizing this year’s Thanksgiving food drive. 

 

Click here to view the Shaw Avenue’s Student Advocates hold Thanksgiving food drive slideshow.

Date Added: 11/21/2024

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