One of the Red Hook’s social events of the year takes place next week at Pioneer Works.

The 4th Annual PS 15 Spring Celebration will be held on Thursday, March 29, at 159 Pioneer Street.

Anybody who is anybody in Red Hook makes an appearance at this posh event which benefits long suffering and high achieving PS 15 – The Patrick F. Daly Magnet School of the Arts. Led by principal Peggy Wyns-Madison and Assistant Principal Julie Cavanagh, PS 15 has become one of the borough’s leading grade schools.

The school has long served children from the Red Hook public housing development just to the south. In recent years, as Red Hook has gentrified, it has also attracted children of the newcomers.

Studio in a School offers art instruction and Marquis Studio runs puppetry classes. Young Audiences and Brooklyn Youth Chorus bring in theater, dance and music. Fifth graders work on engineering and design projects with a local architectural firm, according to the schools yearly plan. In one science project kids collected litter on the sidewalks, and along Jamaica Bay beach, tallying up what they found in order to educate the community, for example, they suggested shop owners place trash bins outside their stores to cut down on littering.

The administration tries to reach both advanced and struggling students. In addition to following the reading and writing approach from Teachers College, Columbia University, which gets kids excited about writing and reading, teachers lead extra phonics and grammar lessons in the early grades.

There will be music, prizes, food and cocktails on the 29th. PS 15 family tickets are $25 each or pay-what-you-can. Raffle tickets will be sold, and by the way – the food is always local and always good!

You can purchase a ticket at the door. They will also  be on sale Tuesday morning at PS 15, 77 Sullivan Street.

The event goes from 6-9 pm. For more information, email celebrateps15@gmail.com

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