AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - June 20, 2013 Inside Celebrate their Special Day!Graduates Across the South Bay This Issue Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................2 Food ......................................8 Hawthorne Happenings......2 Legals ................................6,7 Police Report......................3 Graduates, at a local South Bay graduation, show their jubilation and throw their caps in the air in celebration of their milestone. Photo by Lauren Peters. Politically Speaking...........7 Jane Addams Middle School Hosts Sports...................................5 Seventh Annual Bengal Bowl By Cristian Vasquez to be able to study hard and play hard,” to go out and win at all costs. Organizers Tires, inner tubes, water drills and music Jane Addams Principal Frank Noyse said. want students to compete and be happy if were just part of the day’s activities at Jane “These are memorable days for kids and if they win, but without causing disappointment Addams Middle School during the Seventh you think back to your own experience, you in those who don’t. Annual Bengal Bowl. “When we became a remember the field days and the fun days. “We want them to handle losing and middle school seven years ago, we sat down as This is motivation to get the kids to keep winning in the true spirit of sportsmanship a PE department and we decided what would coming back and wanting to be here. We and to just enjoy the day and the relays,” Weekend Physical Education teacher Laura Schneider It is a great day for kids.” exciting. It is a fun day for the kids. TheySchneider said. “The entire two-hour block,there was a lot of cheering and it makes itwant to make this a place where they wantto be and days like these make that happen.be best with the space that we have and whatkind of field day would be best for the kids,” Forecast it has been a bit different. Most of it is the on from the beginning of the school year. come have fun. They are always lookingleave their backpacks at home and they justThe students know what team they aresaid. “We started brainstorming and each year same. The core of it is stable and we try to They begin their preparation for the event forward to the event and it is the best event come up with things that kids will enjoy so five weeks before the Bengal Bowl, during of the school year.” that they can have that memory that they which time they are required to be on their For Pastor, the event allows kids to have Friday will have with them the rest of their lives.” best behavior. They have to get all homework fun with all the physical education they have The Bengal Bowl is a competition between turned in and avoid receiving strikes in the been involved with all year while providing a AM Clouds/ the different grade levels, sixth through eighth, classroom. Three strikes from anywhere lesson for the future. “The good thing about PM Sun which are split into teams named after some throughout the school will eliminate a student this is that we push that you must have a of the country’s most prestigious universities. from participating. Of 900 students, only 20- work ethic,” Pastor said. “Through physical 73˚/63˚ Sixth graders are represented by Harvard, 25 were excluded from the activities for not education, we also tell them that it health Yale and Princeton while the seventh grade fulfilling the requirements. The Bengal Bowl has long-term implications because of how is represented by USC or UCLA. Eighth is a fun-filled annual tradition for the students, much healthcare costs. I tell my students Saturday grade students are part of Stanford or Cal. but there is a strong academic emphasis in that if they are in worse shape than the AM Clouds/ campus during the sixth grade, know about the “I think that it Bengal Bowl is important insurance. The Bengal Bowl at the end of“All of our kids, when they come on ourother person, then they will pay more forthe day’s event. PM Sun three colleges that represent the sixth grade,” from the standpoint that they know college is the year takes all that physical stuff that we Schneider said. “When we start telling the an option. I personally believe it is an option did all year and we can have fun with it.” 72˚/64˚ kids about these colleges, we start putting that is there and if you want it, then you have While Schneider is credited for spearheading in their heads that there is a step after high to work and study hard for it,” Math teacher this event, she is quick to mention that it school that we want to prepare them for.” Louie Pastor said. “It is an answer for some, would not be possible to coordinate the Sunday The day’s activities begin with relays and but may not be the answer for others. Some Bengal Bowl without Ms. Carter, Pastor and AM Clouds/ must work together in order to try and win pipe fitters or pilots or something where you do by myself,” Schneider said. “Mr. Noysethe rest of the staff. “This is not something Iof these kids might want to be mechanics orraces between the teams where the students PM Sun the competition and bragging rights for the don’t necessarily need a college degree. It has been wonderful in helping planning this year. The students are then served lunch and gives them the option and reminds them that event. All the teachers and staff members have 71˚/64˚ given time at the end of the day to play on if college is what they want to do, then it been great in preparing the kids and getting inflatable jumpers. will take work.” them together to come out and participate. “On this day, we have them compete While there is a winner every year, there is It is amazing. It is a whole school coming like if it were a picnic contest--you want no pressure imposed on the students or teams together.” •
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