School Board Honors Silver Pen Awardees for Outstanding Writing

Last night at the School Board meeting Dr. Kelly Doyle, Supervisor of Communications Arts, presented the Abington Silver Pen Awards to outstanding student writers at Abington elementary schools. Each sixth grade teacher nominates a narrative writing selection from a boy and a girl and then a building committee from each school scores the entries. The highest scoring papers are selected as the winners. Ms. Marie Reynolds, Reading Teacher at Overlook Elementary School, helped organize the awards. The students received their engraved “Silver Pen” awards from Board President Mr. Raymond McGarry and were honored by the School Board. Students will meet for a Writers’ Guild session to share their essays in June. This year’s winners are: Sofia DiBello and Will Pickering, McKinley Elementary School; Jared Bowes and Mirical Brooks, Overlook Elementary School; Tyler Majewski and Fatmah Elsayed, Willow Hill Elementary School; Madison Hughes and Ben Markham, Highland Elementary School; Pablo Cairns and Talitha Cheng, Rydal Elementary School; Emma Ambrose and Owen David, Roslyn Elementary School; and Sagan Brinkert, Erika Forsstrom, Aidan Keller, and Finnegan McClellan, Copper Beech Elementary School. Dr. Doyle congratulated the parents and families and the students’ teachers. The program is funded, as it has been since its origin, by a generous grant from the Abington Educational Foundation.