Middle School Student Awarded President’s Volunteer Service Award
Taryn Browning tutors fellow students through her schools National Junior Honor Society, helps recycle at her school, andvolunteers most of the summer at a local church preschool as a Junior Camp Counselor helping chaperon field trips, educational activities, crafts, meals, and games. For all her hard work and dedication this 8th grader from Independence Middle School has been [...]
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Science Carts Donated To North County Middle Schools
The Northern Palm Beach County Chamber Foundation and Jupiter Medical Center recently donated science carts to five north county middle schools. The Chamber’s Education and Life Science Committee is committed to raising students’ interest in the area of science, “Energizing students to become career-oriented in the sciences complements the presence of bio-science, medical device technology [...]
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Pre-Teacher Education Academy Teacher Debi Franklin, Receives American Red Cross Award
The Department of Choice and Career Options is pleased to announce that Debi Franklin, from Independence Middle School, has been selected to receive an award at the American Red Cross Community Courage Awards Luncheon. This annual event is an opportunity to show appreciation to everyday heroes in our community. Ms. Franklin was selected as a [...]
Independence Middle School Band Hosts Pancake Breakfast And Silent Auction
The Independence Middle School Band Department is holding its Annual Pancake Breakfast and Silent Auction at the school (4001 Greenway Drive, Jupiter) on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 8:00 a.m.-12 noon. Entertainment will be provided by several Independence Middle School bands, Keep Flippin’ Gymnastics, and the Dwyer High School Jazz Band. This year’s Silent Auction [...]
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Students Perform With “Saturday Night Live” Jazz Musician
Saxophonist Ron Blake, Julliard Professor and member of the “Saturday Night Live Band” will visit Jupiter this week to provide workshops and to perform in concert with Jupiter Middle School, Independence Middle School and Jupiter High school band students. Mr. Blake has gained international acclaim as a clinician, artist and performer. He has appeared on [...]
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Independence Middle School Collects Over A Thousand Food Items For Families In Need
The National Junior Honor Society at Independence Middle School, along with the Student Council, decided it was very important to give back to the community through a community service project. WPTV’s Food For Families drive has been their community service project for the past three years. Each year the school has collected more and more [...]
Two Palm Beach County Schools Vie In National GLEE “Give A Note” Competition
Independence Middle School and Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts are competing against schools from across the country in the GLEE “Give A Note” contest. The two Palm Beach County schools submitted videos which can be viewed and voted on at www.gleegiveanote.com . The videos portray why each school’s music program should receive a [...]
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Palm Beach County Students Are Greeted With Positive Underage Drinking Prevention Messages In Their School Buses
For the first time, Palm Beach County students riding the bus this week were greeted with colorful, positive underage drinking prevention messages inside their buses. Project SMART partnered with the Acreage Loxahatchee Rotary Club to present the Alcohol Prevention Poster Contest to invite county students to give their peers a positive alcohol abuse prevention message. [...]
Project SMART Announces Alcohol Prevention Poster Winners
Student Intervention Services in the Department of Safe Schools developed Project SMART to address the issues of underage drinking in Palm Beach County schools. As part of the initiative’s numerous prevention activities, Project SMART is partnering with the Acreage Loxahatchee Rotary Club to present the Alcohol Prevention Poster Contest. Approximately 500 entries were submitted from Palm [...]
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Independence Middle School Donates Items For Food For Families
For the second year in a row, The National Junior Honor Society and The Student Council at Independence Middle School held a school wide drive to collect non-perishable items for Channel 5’s Food For Families. The teachers and students at Independence Middle collected an astonishing 2800 items this year. Together with last year’s total the [...]
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Independence Middle School Holds School-Wide Anti-Bully Reading Initiative
Bullying is an issue in the news and on the minds of educators and administrators throughout Palm Beach County and the nation. At Independence Middle School in Jupiter all students and staff are reading the anti-bully themed book, The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm during their daily DEAR (Drop Everything And Read). Jupiter Police Chief Kitzerow, [...]
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Renowned Author To Virtually Visit Independence Middle School
Newbery Honor Award winning author, Rodman Philbrick, will soon be visiting students at Independence Middle School. He will meet with students in a live virtual visit from his home in New Hampshire using the School District’s Adobe Connect video and audio conferencing system. The author’s visit will air live in every classroom, May 14th beginning [...]
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