Paul J Bellew Elementary Manetuck Elementary
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Wednesdays 8:30 AM the first Thursday of the Month 8:40 AM
Email: m.brady@wi.k12.ny.us
2nd Grade Student Winner of the Be Pool Smart Poster Contest 2025 from Paul J. Bellew Elementary
3rd Grade Student Winner of the How I Use Water and Why It's Important Poster Contest 2025 from Paul J. Bellew Elementary
Hello Families, I’m Ms. Brady the newly appointed Art Teacher at Paul J. Bellew and Manetuck Elementary schools. We are joyfully gearing up for a fantastic year full of artist opportunities at each building. Students will have art instruction once a week, for forty minutes, where they will wield a variety of tools and materials to create art work. Currently, I do not have the space to store smocks. If you wish, you can have your child bring a smock on the designated day that they attend art class.
As we progress through the school year students will have multiple opportunities to celebrate their artwork. Each building has display areas that will be decorated with each student's achievements on a monthly basis. Towards the end of the year the Art Department hosts a District Wide art show featuring students from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Given this wide range of participants we have limited spots available for all the art work that is produced. This is a yearly event, with a fluctuating roster, to make the event accessible for the entire student body.
There are other artistic opportunities outside of the school arena, such as public, county, and state competitions where students can submit their art work at different points in the academic year. I will inform the community on the timing of these events through Parent Square. Students will have time in my class to work on their submissions for said contests. Last school year we had two contest winners from our district. The Be Pool Smart competition, which was hosted by the Suffolk County Legislator, as well as the How I Use Water and Why It's Important annual poster contest hosted by Suffolk County Water Authority. These winning contestants from our art program can be seen on the left hand side of this page.