News & Announcements

Back-to-School Night / Open House for all Kindergarten Parents at Clarendon School

When: Wednesday, September 5th at 4:30 P.M

Trenton Thunder honors the 21 teachers up for the NJ State Teacher of the Year award at their game on Saturday, September 1st.

June Golden Bucket Ticket Winners

Kindergarten- Alina Dobrova
First Grade- Beria Senturk
Second Grade- Amritansh Jha
Third Grade- Miia Arboleda
Fourth Grade- Addison Rubin
Fifth Grade- Carol Reyes

The fifth grade math classes culminated the end of the year with a Probability Math Carnival, which took place on July 18th in the Clarendon gym. The students created games of chance and calculated the probability of visitors winning their game. Grades 2-4 visited the projects, played the games, and learned about probability from the students. It was a fun event for all and a great way to end the successful school year. Congratulations fifth grade for a job well done.

Clarendon's end of the year awards ceremony.

The fourth grade students in Mrs. Backiel’s Class and Mrs. Harrsch’s Class held a 21st Century poetry cafe on Monday June 18th at Clarendon School. The students studied different types of poetry throughout the fourth marking period, wrote their own poems, created a slideshow on google slides which they presented to the parents. In addition each student chose a particular poem to read to their audience of family and friends.

The Battle of the Books competition is a reading incentive program designed to encourage students to read quality award winning literature. To prepare for the competition, the students select three to four of 15 books to read and come together in groups to demonstrate their abilities and to test their knowledge of the content within the books. Our teams consist of six students. There are a total of 15 books that the team must read. Each student is responsible for at least three books and must complete a memory jogger to prepare for the battle. The completed memory joggers were typed and shared via Google Docs to ensure all 15 books are covered for the team.


On Thursday, June 7, 2018, students from both Clarendon and Huber Street Schools formed one team and participated in the Hudson County Battle of the Books Competition. The venue for this event was Washington Middle School located in Harrison, New Jersey. Our fifth grade team battled it out with six teams within Hudson County. Secaucus tied for first place with North Bergen and Kearny for several rounds and placed 3rd in Hudson County in the tiebreaker round. North Bergen placed 2nd and Kearny took home the 1st place win!

Clarendon School drama club members in 4th and 5th grade put on a wonderful two night performance of Willy Wonka Jr. The talented students memorized lines, songs and dance routines. A special thank you to Director, Mrs. Maleesa Lamatine for arranging this performance and to our PTA for sponsoring this event by supplying the lights and sound system.

The third graders at Clarendon School showcased their love for reading at the second annual Reading Fair. The students promoted a book by displaying its literary elements and dressing up as their favorite character. They also had some fun at the character selfie station!

End of Year Celebration Days!