Education
A Talented Middle School Showing
Published: Dec 01, 2017 12:00 AM
Newtown Middle School seventh and eighth grade students performed in a talent show on November 22 ahead of the district's long holiday weekend. The event was overseen by NMS social studies teacher Will Ryan.
Students sang, performed on the piano, or displayed other talents - including ventriloquism and tap dancing.
After NMS language arts teacher Andrew Tammero and School Resource Officer William Chapman took the stage, they held up blinking lights that looked like simulated harmonicas while music played along. Mr Ryan and computer integration teacher Rachel Smith culminated the talent show by performing Jimmy Eat World's song "The Middle," with Mr Ryan playing on a guitar and Ms Smith singing.
NMS eighth grader Mark DeLoughy tap danced across the stage at the talent show on November 22. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)
NMS eighth grader Tain Gregory performed a ventriloquist act that had students laughing along. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)
All of the students who participated in the talent show lined up to bow at the end of the assembly as organizer and NMS Social Studies teacher Will Ryan, right, entered to share his applause for the student performers. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)
NMS eighth grade student Connor Hill played a song on the piano that he had composed. (Bee Photo, Hallabeck)