NMHZ School PTSA educates students on traffic safety and gives away helmets

On Saturday, September 28, the Nelson Mandela/Hosea Zollicoffer School PTSA held its second annual Traffic Safety Event. Students were provided with free helmets and information about staying safe in traffic. NMHZ thanks the New York State PTA, Fleetwood Bakery, Westchester Community Health Center, the Fire Department of Mount Vernon, the New York City Department of Transportation and all the volunteers that helped!

Scholars from Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School lined up in the media center with books in their hands, ready to purchase for the Scholastic Book Fair, which started on Monday, September 23, 2024 and goes until Friday, September 27, 2024.

Students in Vito Dimatteo's sixth grade class at Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School were recently tasked with the objective of creating different types of math games based on core arithmetic skills they learned this year. Students went from creating math chutes and ladders, to creating ping pong tables, turf and mini football fields. Games ranged from small group teams of one to one or groups of four, to playing math bingo and jeopardy as a whole class.  

Pre-K students at Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School orbited around the room, simulating the movement of the planets, during their STEM lesson on Friday, May 3, 2024. Larry Spitzer, an educator from The STEM Alliance, visited the school dressed as an astronaut to teach pre-K students about the solar system.

A sea of denim and teal moved through the hallways at Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School, as students, faculty and staff wore blue for Autism Awareness Month on Thursday, April 18, 2024.  

Students, families and staff worked through math problems and games at Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School's Family Math Night on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Students smiled and laughed as they enjoyed the games, but they also learned about math concepts as they played.

Middle school students at Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School faced off against teachers and staff in the first staff-student basketball game at the school on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Younger students sat on the sidelines cheering, and despite the staff's victory, everyone left happy with smiles on their faces.

As part of the sixth-grade social studies curriculum Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School students have been studying ancient Egypt. As a culminating project to represent their understanding of what they learned, students constructed various projects from pyramids to mummification, from scenes of the Nile River to learning about the different pharaohs. They presented their projects on Friday, March 22, 2024.