Wellington School will be hosting open houses at both of its campuses for prospective junior kindergarten through eighth-grade students.
The St. Petersburg campus, 5175 45th St. N, will have open houses on at 7 p.m. Thursday for incoming sixth- through eighth-graders and 7 p.m. Jan. 31 for incoming kindergarteners and elementary students.
The Seminole campus, 8000 Starkey Road, will have an open house at 7 p.m. Feb. 7. This campus offers junior kindergarten through third grade.
Classrooms will be open for inspection, and administrators, teachers and parent ambassadors will be available to answer questions.
Interested parents are welcome to attend. For information or to reserve, call the school at 528-8717 (St. Petersburg campus) or 397-4565 (Seminole campus).
Also, the school will present Partners in Parenting, a lecture for parents, educators and the public. Dr. Andy LePage, professor at the Teacher Education Institute at the Barry University graduate program, will speak at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Seminole campus. Topics will include common sense and usable approaches to raising responsible children ages 5-14, attention and power behavior and consequences, allowing children to resolve everyday conflicts on their own, and discussion on how school and home can work together to reinforce character development.
The event is sponsored by the Wellington School Parent Organization. To reserve by Friday, call 397-4565.
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Lakewood High School Parent Teacher Association will sponsor an Electronics Collection Cleanup Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The group is seeking donations of working, reusable electronic equipment, such as desktop computer hard drives (will be wiped clean by Hands On Recycling processing company prior to reuse) and monitors, laptop computers, cell phones, inkjet and laser print cartridges, televisions, CD and DVD players, stereos, radios and cameras.
Equipment can be dropped off at the tent in the car circle parking lot at the school, 1400 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. For information, call Hands On Recycling at 251-9367.
