8/2 School briefs

BRADENTON — Bayshore High School marching band camp starts Aug. 9 and runs through Aug. 19.

Tryouts will be the first week of camp. A parent registration meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 16 in the band room at the school.

For more information, call (941) 737-1727.

Immunizations available beginning Monday

BRADENTON — Starting Monday, extended hours begin at the Manatee County Health Department for back-to-school immunizations.

The hours run through Sept. 17 at 410 Sixth Ave. E., Bradenton.

No appointment is necessary. All school-age children can receive the immunizations from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The office is closed the third Wednesday afternoon of every month.

For more information, call (941) 748-0747, ext. 1269.

Back to School wellness rally set for Aug. 14

BRADENTON — Redeemed Christian Center, Just for Girls, Bradenton Housing Authority and Bradenton CCRA are hosting the seventh annual Back to School resource and wellness rally.

The free event, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 14, will address the physical, social, emotional, spiritual, vocational, intellectual and nutritional needs of the community. It will take place at the East Bradenton Center Just for Girls, 1011 21st St. E., Bradenton.

Free backpacks filled with school supplies will be given to school-age children who attend with a parent.

Food, games, physicals, immunizations and screenings also will be free to residents. For more information, call (941) 238-7235 or visit www.redeemed christiancenter.net.

Harbor Vista Hotel gallery set to open Tuesday

SARASOTA — The grand opening of the Vista Gallery at Harbor Vista Hotel and Marina is set from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at 7150 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.

Heide Parson and Brenda Cook, recent graduates of the welding program at Manatee Technical Institute, are the featured artists. Their work, Women Welders Working Wonders, will be on display through September.

Local teacher earns recognition

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Emily Moss recently received the Outstanding Runner-Up for Imagine Schools’ Teacher of the Year.

Since August 2008, she has taught writing for Imagine School at Lakewood Ranch.

Moss was selected from a group of 20 regional winners.

New Gate-Field School on the horizon

SARASOTA — The New Gate School Board of Trustees has voted to enter into a long-term partnership with The Montessori Foundation, merging New Gate with the foundation’s newly established Field School.

The New Gate-Field School will serve as an international model school and center for curriculum development for Montessori schools and teachers around the world, said Tim Seldin, who has served as the Montessori Foundation’s president, and who now will be head of school for the New Gate-Field School and the senior program director of the foundation.

The new school will offer Montessori classes for toddlers through high school students at its 100-acre campus on Clark Road and plans to seek additional accreditation through the International Baccalaureate organization for its Montessori middle and high school programs, Seldin said. The board also is exploring the possibility of a satellite campus for students younger than age 6, potentially by re-opening New Gate’s campus on Ashton Road.