Centennial School District honored 36 retirees last night at our annual Employee Retirement Dinner at The Fuge where many of our retirees got a chance to be celebrated by many of their fellow colleagues. There was laughter and cheer throughout the evening as many people reminisced about all the memories made while working in the District. We value and appreciate their service to the District and wish them the best in the next chapter of their lives.

Thank you to the Centennial School District School Board for your continued support, and thank you to Sam Cravero, owner of The Fuge, for your generosity and for allowing us to hold such a special event in your beautiful space!

Smiles and excitement filled our schools as students received their Summer Book Packs—bundles of high-quality books to enjoy all summer long! Thanks to a partnership with Nothing But Education, this beloved program has helped place nearly 50,000 books into the hands of K–5 students, supporting early literacy and joyful reading at home. The initiative reflects Dr. Dana Bedden’s lasting impact on our district and his dedication to making reading accessible to all. We thank Dr. Bedden for championing this work and inspiring a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

LCMS and KMS students met for the 4th annual Panther Games, a field day event where the two schools come together. It is a spirited competition and also an introduction for future classmates before entering high school. Congratulations to the Black Team, this year's winner!

Creative problem solvers in the Grade 6 digital literacy course, Innovations & Explorations, collaborated to build functional tools using cardboard. Afterwards, they produced digital media, MP4, and commercials to promote their inventions. More importantly, throughout the 12-class work time, students practiced the art of cooperation and collaboration, essential workforce lifetime skills, as well as Future Ready presentation and communication standards. We are proud of what these scholars have accomplished, now enjoy the shows!

Additionally, a big thanks is extended to all of the LCMS families who donated cardboard for this special endeavor. We couldn’t have done it without your generosity!

On Wednesday, May 28th, musicians from the Log College Singers and the Log College Jazz Band performed tunes for the residents of the Masonic Village at Warminster nursing home. The residents were tapping their toes and were delighted by the students' performances!

On Thursday, May 29, the Centennial School District Chief Science Officers (CSOs) attended an end-of-year meeting at the Franklin Institute. The event began with an icebreaker activity that allowed the CSOs to connect with peers from across Pennsylvania. Next, a panel from the Franklin Institute shared their personal experiences working in STEM fields.

The CSOs then presented their action plans, discussed the outcomes, and reflected on their projects over the past school year. One of the highlights of the Centennial CSOs’ work this year was organizing their first “Women in STEM Career Panel” at William Tennent High School. The event featured female professionals from fields such as biotechnology and medicine who spoke about their career journeys to inspire students.

In recognition of their efforts, the Centennial CSOs received the “Outstanding Action Plan” Award from the Philadelphia Cabinet.

Log and Klinger’s Junior Model UN Club attended their final UN Conference on Thursday, May 15 at Temple University. The goal of Jr. Model UN is to work collaboratively to propose recommendations on solving two of the major world issues from the viewpoint of their assigned nations. Student delegates received badges that included their names, countries (France, India, Panama, and Japan), topics (Gender Inequality or Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies ), and committee (#1 or #2).

Delegates prepared for this conference by creating position and resolution papers.

Upon arrival, students met collectively to discuss expectations and housekeeping items. Additionally, students were greeted with words of inspiration from keynote speaker, former UN Ambassador to Yemen, Gerald Feierstein.

Students were then split into small conference rooms based on their badges. Once in the conference rooms, delegates introduced themselves to delegates from other schools and received directives from council leaders.

Delegates had the opportunity to present their resolutions, collaborate with other schools representing different countries and to compromise on resolutions presented. Log College student, Haneen Mighri won an Outstanding Delegate Award.

Congratulations to both schools' teams of delegates and for all your hard efforts!

"Mr. Tennent" 2025 will be held tonight in the William Tennent High School Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Tickets cost $7 each, and a portion of the proceeds will go to charity. If you wear a Mr. Tennent t-shirt to the event, you will get in for free!

The candidates for "Mr. Tennent" are: Sam Carden, Declan Cashman, Alexis Castro-Luna, Brennen Corcoran, Danny Fox, Mike Lepouski, Nicholas Mento, Luke Torok, Matt Wiegner, and Tristan Ziegler.

The program below has more details! Come out and support "Mr. Tennent"!

Select athletes from Log’s track team competed in the Bucks County League Championship on Tuesday, May 27. Specific athletes from Log were selected based on their speed and ability to perform in several track and field events. Chase Dudley received a 3rd place medal in the 100m sprint. Zaakirah Bell received a 3rd place medal in the women’s shot put. Gavin Tumelty received a 1st place medal for the men's high jump, jumping at a height of 5'5". Janelle Rappo received a 2nd place medal in the women’s 55m hurdles. Devon McDonald received a 3rd place running in the 200m dash (brand new event to her this year), and a 2nd place medal in the 400m sprint. Log’s coaches are proud to have worked with the 2 fastest girls in Bucks County! Devon MacDonald, the reigning champ took home a gold medal in the 100 meter sprint, and Janelle Rappo took the silver. The margin between 1st and second place in this event was .02 of a second!

Despite not taking home the overall trophy, all Log’s athletes performed their best races of the season.

The coaches are very proud of the team for their commitment to bettering themselves as teammates and athletes!

The Landon Vargas Dodgeball Tournament, sponsored by the WTHS Athletic Council, was a huge success! Congratulations to all of the teams for a great night!

Special congratulations to the repeat champions, the Avengers, consisting of Trey Noll, Cody Devor, Cameron Guzman, Chase LuBrant, Jordan Lawson, and AJ Foulds.

Also, congratulations to the silver medal team, the Beach Boys, consisting of Aidan Wilkowski, Collin McVey, Kyle White, Michael Woehr, Brandon Alburger and Alex Vogt.

Finally, congratulations to the Dodgebros. team who won best dressed, consisting of Leah Stever, John Gottschall, Nicole Irwin, Brennen Corcoran, Dylan Kelly and Mya Sebastian.

$600 will be donated to the Landon Vargas Foundation as a result of the Dodgeball Tournament!

The power of familial ties is a running current in the sea of young poets, thoughts that can either drown their ideas or allow them to flow rampant in the wake of their creativity. Kalena Viera, a junior at William Tennent High School, discusses the legacy and expectations of her culture. Kalena was a finalist in the Bucks County High School Poet of the Year Contest. Her poems express her conflicting emotions regarding her upbringing as a Puerto Rican growing up in mainland America. Not targeted to be impactful to just her own story, the young poet strived to make her poetry inclusive, relatable to audiences that struggle with their own insecurities regarding their ethnicities. Kalena shared that “People feel less alone when they hear your writing…never think your poems are not good enough because your poems will relate to other people as well.” Reaching out to her community and to those who may feel alone, Kalena’s first poem illustrates a barrier between one of the most basic forms of communication: language.

“¿Soy boricua?” is the introduction to Kalena’s tercet. Using the powerful semantic symbolism of switching between English and Spanish, the poet creates her own identification of her culture by recognizing the lack of unity between the two languages. Torn between what she was expected to become a part of and what she’s been desperately trying to fit into, this first poem demonstrates the disconnection of her culture and how the barrier between language affects her relation to her roots.

Similarly, Kalena’s second poem, “How to Be?” discusses the hierarchical construction of today’s society and the beauty standards for young women such as herself. Often addressing herself as “one of many,” Kalena relates the theme of how she struggles to fit into a world with different standards than her own. Eyes that are a different shade from hers, hair that runs wild instead of pin-straight, standards that are small, but are noticeable in the gaze of the public. Her rhetorical way of addressing what is expected from the world and how she navigates through what she is not and what she is supposed to be is eye-catching to readers in ways unimaginable. The young poet uses a variety of different techniques to make readers conceptualize what it is like for her.

Out of the bird's view and into the body, mind, and soul of Kalena, her third poem, “My Blood” is a descriptive analogy of how her heart is given too easily. Clogging through her lungs as if there is a lack of oxygen, Kalena’s words of how she effortlessly connects the ache of trusting those she shouldn’t, and how those acts come back to attack her, making visible wounds on her body. Like an act of sacrifice, her body coils at the thought of having those wounds inflicted once again.

Each of the three poems intertwines to become a complicated tree of intricate lines of thought from her poems. All speak to the audience in their way: a disconnection from a culture, image expectations, and being too trusting. Her meaning crawls into the crevices of the thoughts of the public, never a solid focus but one that implants itself to make change. Kalena’s poetry is not an act of peace. It is an act of speaking out, of wanting to be made known, of wanting the visibility that she feels others don’t understand not having. In a beautiful set of pieces, Kalena Viera made the reader feel as if her emotions were being absorbed into their own consciousness. Her tercet lights a flame to spotlight the societal expectations of women within various cultures, and the divides that can exist between feelings of belonging.

The district is migrating to an updated Student Information System. Due to this migration, new student registration will be closed starting June 15, 2025.

If your child will be new to the Centennial School District for the fall of 2025, we encourage you to register AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Please visit our registration website at https://www.centennialsd.org/registration.

If you have questions with regard to registration, you can contact our Registrar:

Phone: 215-441-6000 x 11046

Email: csdregistration@centennialsd.org

If you are in need of language interpretation services, you can contact our Community Liaison:

Phone: 215-441-6000 x 11037

Email: tapial@centennialsd.org

Looking for more information and a free copy of A Parent’s Guide to Phonics: Understanding How to Help Your Child with Reading and Spelling?

Centennial School District is proud to offer:

• follow-up videos on the CSD YouTube Channel

• a free book for each family (contact your child’s school office)

Thank you to the CSD Elementary Reading team members who created these videos: Kim Flounders, Miriam Infanti, Dawn Kremer, Lisa Laatsch, Erin Landy, Danyel Masey, Jennifer McArdle, Rose Miele, Kelley O’Leary, and Susan Stackhouse.

Join us this summer for LEGO Robotics Camp! Students entering grades 4th-6th can learn some engineering and programming basics while working collaboratively to tackle a FIRST LEGO League Challenge! Learn from high school students and experience a demonstration from our high school robot. Every camper receives a t-shirt! Register now at www.centennialsd.org/wtrobotics

Now is the time to sign up for one of the best youth soccer camps! The William Tennent Soccer Camp is here! Scan QR code for more information.

The Centennial School District uses Raptor Volunteer Management System to provide a more efficient and effective process to verify and track volunteer clearances. Please visit our website (scroll down to see "How Do I Submit My Paperwork?" to learn more about our volunteer guidelines and/or to upload your clearances to Raptor Volunteer Management System.

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June

June 5: William Tennent High School Commencement Ceremony

June 9: Last Day of School for grades K-11

June 10: CSD School Board Meeting - Work/Regular Meeting at 7:00 PM

June 12: Teacher Close Out Day

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 the Board of School Directors approved the district calendar for the 2025/2026 school year. I want to thank the committee members for their time and efforts in developing the calendar.

The committee was charged with developing a calendar that maintained a continuity of student learning and continuity of professional learning to improve student learning and growth.

(Back row from left to right): Mr. Flemming Godiksen (Vice President), Mr. Mark Gindhart (Assistant Secretary), Dr. Kathleen Maguire, Mr. Michael Hartline (Front row from left to right): Mrs. Jane Schrader Lynch; Mrs. Patti Crossan; Dr. Dana T. Bedden (Superintendent), Mr. Tony Sadowski, Mrs. Mary Alice Brancato (President), Mr. Charles H. Martin not pictured.

Are you multilingual? Would you like to earn $ and help CSD families?

Do you know someone who is multilingual and available to provide interpretation or translation services during or after school hours?

We would like to grow the list of interpreters & translators that we call upon on an as needed basis. Please share our job posting: https://www.applitrack.com/centennialsd/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Independent+Contractor

Spread the word that Centennial School District is hiring!

Check out our employment webpage for a complete list of vacancies. https://www.centennialsd.org/employment

If you know anyone who might be interested in these positions, please have them apply. We offer competitive rates, excellent perks, and benefits, including a pension. For questions, please call 215-441-6000, Ext. 11034.

Enter to win the Ultimate Disney Experience and support education!

We've partnered with Tix for Good to bring you this fun and exciting vacation!

The trip consists of:

Vacation for a family of five, including -

*6 days & 5 nights of Disney magic - (August 21–26, 2025)

*Park Hopper Passes - to all four iconic Disney parks: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and Disney Studios

*Luxury accommodations at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

This fundraiser supports grants and scholarships for students.

Every donation brings you closer to winning this unforgettable adventure while helping a great cause. Don’t miss out, enter today and make dreams come true for your family!

Enter here: https://tixforgood.org/product/disney25?npo=cedf

Contest/Raffle Drawing Rules:

1. Winner must be 18 or older.

2. Prize does not include airfare, meals, parking, etc.

3. Taxes are the responsibility of the winner.

4. Winner must sign a publicity & liability release

For full contest rules visit: https://tixforgood.org/official-sweepstakes-rules

Thank you for supporting the Centennial Education Foundation.

Don't miss our 5th Annual Bruce Beaton Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, June 16th, 2025!

Registration includes:
*18 holes of Golf
*Golf Cart
*Breakfast & Lunch
*Hit it to Win it Green
*Prizes, 50/50 and Silent Auction

All proceeds benefit Centennial Education Foundation and our mission to provide educational opportunities and programs for the students of the Centennial School District.

Link to register: https://centennialef.networkforgood.com/events/79109-5th-annual-bruce-beaton-golf-outing

Last week, we had a wonderful morning celebrating with teachers, educators, supporters and sponsors at the 2025 CEF Grant Awards Breakfast.

BIG THANKS to Ann's Choice for hosting and presenting a hearty breakfast for everyone!!
THANK YOU to all of our board members who work all year long to keep the mission of delivering above and beyond experiences for the students of the Centennial School District!
THANK YOU to our individual and community business partners who sponsored these awesome grants!
CONGRATULATIONS to all the teachers and educators who received grants for the upcoming 25-26 school year.

YOU ARE ALL SUPERHEROES! Keep being super!

Each year, more and more people and organizations are turning to our District to help get the message out about various activities, events, fundraisers, etc. The intent of this process is to support student achievement and to provide mutual assistance and benefit through shared information. Our district spends a great deal of time collecting, reviewing, and posting flyers to the District eFolder. The District no longer is posting eFlyers to any social media outlets or the District cable channel. You may refer to Policy 913 for additional information.

Please click on this link to connect with all the community eFlyers of the month

Website: www.centennialsd.org
Location: 48 Swan Way, Warminster, PA, USA
Phone: (215) 441-6000
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