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DVD copies of the 2010 Cherry Hill Upper School Graduation ceremony are now available to graduates and their families. Each family may receive one DVD copy free of charge. Additional copies are $5 each. To have a DVD mailed to you, please contact us via email. Be sure to include your name, phone number, and shipping address. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
As you may have heard, we will soon be offering LEGO-based activities at Y.A.L.E. Schools. We are purchasing new materials, but we would also like to start a “freestyle,” collection of used LEGO. If you have LEGO materials at home that you are no longer using, please feel free to drop them off at the main offices at either the upper or lower schools. The LEGO will be cleaned and sorted by our students and staff, and will be organized and prepared for use in upcoming LEGO projects (LEGO City, stop-motion films, LEGO Comics, etc).
Thank you so much for your support,
Dr. Dan
Daniel B. LeGoff, PhD, LP
Assistant Director
Y.A.L.E. Schools
By Dr. Daniel LeGoff, PhD, LP
Visitors to the Y.A.L.E. Cherry Hill Campus are often met with an unexpected greeting: a wagging tail. Both the Upper and Lower school buildings are currently home to five canines currently in training to become certified therapy dogs, participants in what is becoming known as Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT). The animals are popular with both students and staff and are brought to various classrooms by their owner/handlers, where students interact with and help care for the dogs throughout the school-day.
These therapy-dogs-in-training and their handlers meet with certified dog trainer Carl Johnston on a weekly basis in order to achieve the requirements set out by the American Kennel Club for both the Canine Good Citizen Program and the Therapy Dogs International testing. At Cherry Hill, there are two golden retrievers: Amber, owned by PE teacher Debbie Snyder, and Sedona, owned by industrial arts teacher Scott Reader. There are also three border collies: Stella, owned by teacher Tiffany DiFelice; Zoey, owned by clinical counselor Karen Huber; and Billy, my own dog and the youngest of the bunch. Although the owners assume responsibility for training and health maintenance, these canine celebrities spend most of their time in the classrooms interacting with students and staff.
The Y.A.L.E. School Cherry Hill will once again celebrate Read Across America during the week of March 1st in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday and to promote literacy for children and teens. A variety of special activities will take place including guest readers and a spoken poetry performance. Lower School activities will take place on Monday March 1st and the Upper School will hold its festivities on Friday the 5th.
DVD copies of the 2009 Cherry Hill Lower School Talent Show are now available. Students who participated in the Talent Show and their families may receive one copy for free. Additional copies are $5.00 each. Please contact our media department to order a copy.