
Students Raise over $6,000 • Operation Gratitude • Class 7-45 Visits the United Nations • Basketball Champions • Science Fair and Speech Bee • Ballroom Dancing

Archdiocesan Basketball Champions Incarnation School's Varsity Boys Basketball team was CROWNED THE ARCHDIOCESAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS in 2009 making them the best team in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. The team beat St. Barnabas of the Bronx 52-41 in the championship game. The Varsity Boys Basketball team, which featured five eighth grade starters, has been together since the fourth grade. The team finished their successful year with 17 wins and 2 losses. This year, the boys showed their dedication to the sport by practicing at 6:45AM three school days a week.

Incarnation Science Fair Incarnation holds an annual science fair for fifth through eighth grade students. The winners from each grade participate in the District Science Fair held at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School in Inwood. Incarnation School's resident student scientist, eighth grader Isaris Baez, successfully defended her title as the Manhattan district Science Fair champion last year. She said she "was really nervous" and that being named winner again was "an honor."

Incarnation Speech Bee Incarnation holds an annual Speech Bee in February. Sixth Grader Kent Botia won First Place, Eighth Grader Jacqueline Stephenson-Dale won Second Place and Seventh Grader Tyro Cisco won Third Place. Kent and Jacqueline will represent Incarnation at the District Speech Bee on March 23^rd. Tyro will join them as well to cheer them on! Speeches were about “If I Were President…” We are very proud of all our Speech Bee contestants and wish them luck at the District Speech Bee.

Students Raise $6,000+ to Help Others Incarnation School students raised over $6,000 throughout the 2010-2011 academic year to help those affected by the devastation in Haiti, Japan and Joplin. Proceeds were donated from Bake Sales, Dress Up/Down Days, Canteens and daily sacrifices!

Ballroom Dancing Competition On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons music can be heard wafting through the four floors of Incarnation School as fifth grade students learn how to ballroom dance. Dancing Classrooms, a not-for-profit project of the American Ballroom Theater Company, teaches Incarnation's students the steps, moves and grooves of the merengue, fox trot, rumba, swing, waltz and tango. A select group of fifth grade students were chosen to compete in the NYC Ballroom Dancing competition. Incarnation’s team won the gold medal at the local competition and the bronze model at the district competition. We are very proud of our students!

OPERATION GRATITUDE: On June 16, Incarnation was visited by a very special group of friends- soldiers from the 442D Military Police Company. The soldiers came to thank Incarnation students for participating in Operation Gratitude this winter. Through Operation Gratitude, students mailed boxes of fun and useful goods- everything from toothbrushes to candy to playing cards- to members of the 442D Military Police Company stationed in Iraq. This June the soldiers told Incarnation how much the boxes meant and how some of the goodies were shared with children in Iraq who also truly appreciated the gifts. Incarnation is proud to have supported our troops and thanks them for their service to our country!

CLASS 7-45 VISITS THE UNITED NATIONS On May 5^th Incarnation School put Class 7-45 on a bus and sent it into international territory. Class 7-54 met with Mr. Daniele D. Bodini, the Ambassador of the Republic of San Marino, for a personal tour of the United Nations. Mr. Bodini is also a Board member of The Partnership for Inner-City Education. At the United Nations the students got an exclusive look at both the Security Council and the General Assembly. Other visitors, confined to the press seats in the back, looked on as Class 7-45 explored the floors of the two rooms. Students located the desks of the ambassadors from the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, and other countries where they have family, as well as the desks of Japan and Pakistan, two countries recently in the news. “The best part was when we got to go up behind the podium where the Secretary General and visiting presidents sit and give speeches,” said Kent, a seventh grader. It was a once in a lifetime photo opportunity! Class 7-45 also got to view the permanent and rotating exhibits at the United Nations. In one exhibit students learned about the fight against malaria. In another they learned about the United Nation’s encouragement of nuclear disarmament and the push to ban land mines. Students walked away from the trip with a heightened awareness of the work done by the United Nations and the impact it has on people all over the world. Incarnation School and Class 7-45 extend a very special thank you to Ambassador Bodini for taking time out of his day to show them around international territory! Ambassador Daniele Bodini leads tour of the United Nations for 7th grade class. Here, they make a stop on the floor of the Security Council room.