The Heat is On…Summer Session at Ocean Academy By Eileen Catalano, Ocean Academy Teacher Ocean Academy students and staff hiked over to Blackbeard’s Cave for a day of fun and frolic. Ms. Malley burned up the tracks leaving the competition in the dust on the go karts. While others shot rounds of miniature golf and […]
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A look back at the 2016 Ocean Academy school year… https://youtu.be/Bbxm_7kudxU This year’s senior class trip was a two hour cruise on the Spirit of New Jersey. Sailing on the Hudson River provided spectacular of views of the NYC skyline, including the Empire State Building, The Freedom Tower, and a close up view of the
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Contributed By A Student On June 1st, Ocean Academy went to the Ocean County Landfill in Manchester Township. The students saw a brief presentation on how the landfill works while they had donuts thanks to Mr. Fink, a former student’s dad. After the presentation, students and staff boarded the bus and went on a tour
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The students in Environmental Science and Marine Science had the pleasure of participating in the “Trout in the Classroom” program. Ocean Academy students witnessed the life cycle of trout firsthand and recently released them in the stream at Riverwood Park. Students had the opportunity to release trout individually as well as record the fish acclimating and
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Ocean Academy held its annual OA’s got Talent show on Friday, 6/3. The show ran for nearly an hour. Students emceed the show, played guitar, sang, danced, and performed skits. Mr. Berman’s students made the decorations and set up for the show.
After creating a video promoting Ocean Mental Health Services, Matt Ryan visited Ocean Academy to speak with the students about his career as a radio personality, dealing with disabilities in the working world and life in general. On May 18th, Matt Ryan
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By R Scheiderman and an OA student On May 11th, Ocean Academy attended a Colloquium Conference sponsored by the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Cchange) at Brookdale Community College; which focused on facing racism. Dr. Terrence Roberts was 15 years old when Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated. After
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BY: Eileen Catalano, Ocean Academy Teacher Ocean Academy is an APSD in Bayville, NJ that serves a varied population of classified students grades 3-12 from both Monmouth and Ocean Counties. We offer some very unique services for students and their families including counseling, psychiatric services, yoga therapy, behavior analysis with home visits, and a highly
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Several students from Ocean Academy participated in the “Facing Racism” student art project sponsored by “cchange” at Brookdale Community College. The exhibit opened Sunday, April 10th and will continue through December 16th. Many local schools, along with OA contributed to the exhibit. Each school submitted an artistic “face” of racism, as well as an essay demonstrating
Pet Therapy Dog Pearl Spends the Day in Class Very special visitors came to see the staff and students at Ocean Academy! Thanks to Pearl and her human friends Barbara and Paul for making the rounds at school today. Pearl is a certified pet therapy dog through Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs. The kids…and staff
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