This year’s Empty Bowl Dinner at Seneca Middle School was held on Wednesday, Nov. 14. It is a soup dinner organized and run by the faculty and staff at Seneca. Students and families from the community paid $5 each to come and have soup, dessert, and soda and all the proceeds went to the Seneca Cares organization. The Empty Bowl Dinner generates about half of the money that Seneca spends for needy families over the holiday season.
Teachers and staff made over 20 pots of soup and a variety of desserts were prepared for the members of community. This year the event brought in $1,755.
The evening was a tremendous success thanks to the generosity of staff, students and parents who contributed their time and recipes for the members of our community.
Seneca hosts second annual Wiffle Ball World Series
The second annual Seneca World Series Wiffle Ball Tournament fundraiser was agreat success due to the hard work of many members of the Seneca staff. This event was organized by Brian Harvey and Pete Cafiso. The tournament took place on Tuesday, Oct. 9 on the back sports fields at Seneca.
Despite the cold and rainy day, Seneca had 22 teams play with over 120 students participating. Credit the entire Seneca staff for raising $680 to help benefit Seneca Cares. The final four played one another directly following the school’s pep rally on Friday, Oct. 26 which also turned out to be another great success. Team Stud Muffins prevailed and took home the crown.
Seneca Ambassador Program
Several eighth grade students have been recommended and recruited to be student ambassadors. Teachers were asked to recommend students who had a demonstrated history of compassion and kindness.
There are four ambassadors per lunch period and they will be introduced to the sixth graders as people who have volunteered to use their experience to help their younger schoolmates manage life in the middle school. It is the goal of this program that during lunch periods sixth graders ask questions and seek advice from the ambassadors.
The sixth graders are encouraged to ask questions or seek guidance about the simpler issues of middle school life. The ambassadors will be supervised and trained by the guidance staff. Sixth graders are encouraged to use the ambassadors as a valuable resource.