Wardlaw-Hartridge Lower School students meet their "senior buddies."
Kindergarten students in Kelly Marikakis' class at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School, front row, Vihaan Singh of Edison, Shweta Saravanan of Edison, Declan Molloy of Belford, Josslyn Dugenio of Branchburg and Devinder Virdi of Metuchen, and their new senior buddies, back row, Randon Lyu of Warren, Claire Greaney of Scotch Plains, Abdur Sajid of Carteret, Laura Arriaza of Plainfield and Joseph Bacalhau of Woodbridge.EDISON -- On Oct. 7 students in the Lower School at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School were introduced to their new "senior buddies" at the Senior Buddies Assembly.
For the remainder of the school year, the seniors will visit their younger counterparts in grades pre-K through 5 in their classrooms on special occasions such as Halloween and Valentine's Day and interact with them at other school events to help build camaraderie and unity between the school's oldest and youngest students.
The senior buddies are a long-standing tradition at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School. At the assembly, senior Charlotte Sweeney of Cranford, who represented the senior class, talked about her days in Lower School before the senior buddies accompanied the Lower School students back to their classrooms to begin getting acquainted.
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