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Your child's NYS As*essment results and STAR Reading results are now available on our eSchool parent portal. The directions are below: The Wantagh Social Studies Department presents the docu*entary Screenagers on Monday, December 17th at 7:00 PM in the Wantagh High School auditorium. Please register using the link below.    Our Capital Reserve Expenditure vote pas*ed 249-33. Thank you Wantagh community! In addition to the bell that starts the school day, the sound of a train whistle called for Wantagh Elementary School kindergarten students to take a proverbial ride on the Polar Express. Polar Express Day relates to Chris Van Allsburg’s popular tale “The Polar Express” about an old-fashioned steam train that takes children to the North Pole for Santa’s departure. he Wantagh school community gathered for a Dec. 17 screening of the docu*entary “Screenagers” in the high school auditorium to learn more about the effects of screen time on children and family life. Written by physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston, the award-winning docu*entary explores struggles over social media, video games and internet addiction and provides insights from authors, psychologists and brain scientists, while offering solutions on how parents can empower their children to find balance in the digital world. The kindergarten clas*rooms at Mandalay wafted with the sweet smell of candy and icing as students decorated gingerbread houses alongside parents and caregivers. The annual activity was a culmination of an English language arts unit on the fictional Gingerbread Man. The varsity gi*ls volleyball was officially congratulated for their New York State Clas* A Championship title by the board of education and central administration during the Dec. 13 public meeting. Members of the high school’s jazz ensemble and chamber orchestra shared the gift of music during a holiday performance for retired teachers who attended December’s Wantagh Retired Teachers holiday meeting at the public library. The student-musicians, under the