Students in West Islip returned to school on Sept. 8, ready for a new year of learning. Each building was prepared to welcome the students back, ensuring safety through new procedures and protocols including mask wearing and distancing.

“It has been a wonderful start to September,” Bellew Principal Rhonda Pratt said. “We are all so happy to be surrounded by our beautiful students.”

The “car-mencement” ceremony on June 17 proved a very special graduation celebration for fifth graders at Bayview. As the students and their families drove by the school, staff congratulated them on their move up to middle school.