DWSA students attend prom

The sounds of rhyming and snapping emanated from the Phylicia Rashad Auditorium, as Denzel Washington School of the Arts hosted their annual DWSA Poetry Slam on Friday, April 19, 2024.The event was held as a celebration of April’s National Poetry Month. 

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On April 13, 2024, the Denzel Washington School of the Arts middle school drumline emerged victorious in the novice class at the Musical Arts Conference National Championship, securing their place in history.  The highly regulated and extremely organized competition took place at Westhill High School in Connecticut on a rainy Saturday. 

After a year of communications with students from Jingling Primary School in China, Denzel Washington School of the Arts sixth graders finally met their Chinese counterparts via Zoom on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.  

Middle school chemistry scholars at Denzel Washington School of the Arts completed their solar eclipse projects on Friday, April 5, 2024. Students created solar eclipse viewers out of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil to view today’s natural phenomenon. Students will pick up their viewers before they leave school. 

On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, the English language arts (ELA) and social studies teachers at Denzel Washington School of the Arts spent their morning collaborating with Lisa Yokana from One World. Ms. Yokana taught the teachers about “design thinking”, a problem-solving process, and shared the best practices for teaching it to students.

Music filled the room as the jazz band from Denzel Washington School of the Arts performed at the Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Mansa Gory, music teacher at DWSA, served as the conductor. Students played drums, guitars and a variety of brass and woodwind instruments.

Performers at Denzel Washington School of the Arts danced, acted and sang, telling the story of Black History through music and theater on Thursday, February 15, 2024, in the Phylicia Rashad Auditorium. 

Robots scrambled across challenge mats, attempting to complete as many missions as possible, as Denzel Washington School of the Arts’s robotics team, ArtSonics, competed in the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Robotics Qualifying Tournament at the French American School of New York on Saturday, January 20, 2024.