The whole student body will spend the day on fields behind Penns Grove Middle School and compete in track and field and gymnastics competitions. Gym coaches from Elk Ridge will coordinate the event. Awards and ribbons will be distributed to individual and team winners. Parents are invited to attend and cheer. Students have read 34,784 books so far this year and 6,605 for March.
Admission is free.
About 80 students participated in the recent Youth to Youth Conference held at Unionville High School. Students from Unionville, Kennett Square, Avon Grove and Oxford attended. Morgan Eisler, another eighth-grade student of Cass', won first prize for her historical paper on the development of anesthesia at the history day competition at West Chester University. Josh Taylor won second place for his video documentary on railroads in Chester County. Both students will go to Pennsylvania State University in May for the state competition.