CVS Highlander School students yesterday move to the music of Rachel Maloney, left, and Chris Turner, her partner in the Whompers, part of the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic.

The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman

A meeting will be held Wednesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, 35 Camp St., to review architectural and construction plans for the new Nathan Bishop Middle School.

The architects, Architectural Involutions, will present final plans. The project manager and a representative from the construction company are expected to attend. There will be an opportunity to ask questions about the design, the construction plans and the timetable. A second public meeting is planned in June on the academic program, school leadership and governance at Bishop.

A screening of New Year Baby, a documentary by Socheata Poeuv, will be held on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex, 182 Thurbers Ave., at 6:30 p.m.

A discussion will follow. It is free and open to the public. For information, call (401) 456-9194 between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Elementary schools

Elementary students got a little help from Dominion Energy of New England to celebrate Arbor Day last week. Dominion, headquartered in Richmond, Va., sponsors “Project Plant It!,” a partnership among schools and the Arbor Day Foundation. Dominion gave teachers at all 25 Providence elementary schools curriculum guides on the care and preservation of trees. The company donated more than 3,000 evergreen saplings to be planted at schools or at students’ homes.

Dominion officials and Providence manager Mitchell Croker joined students in planting trees at Vartan Gregorian and Mary Fogarty elementary schools. Second grade students used their math skills, measuring clearances and planting depths to ensure that their trees would thrive.

•To wrap up the recent Reading Week, nearly 300 students from Charles N. Fortes Elementary School orchestrated their own parade. Students from second through sixth grade marched to the nearby Fortes/Lima Annex building, where nearly 150 pre-kindergarten and first grade students cheered and clapped as the older students marched through the cafeteria. The Fortes students wore red shirts for school spirit and carried posters, streamers and signs celebrating books and reading.

•Sixth-grade students at Alfred Lima Elementary School contributed to Earth Day activities on April 22 by cleaning up their community. The students discussed topics such as the importance of recycling and everyone’s role in maintaining a cleaner world. They cleaned up trash in the neighborhood. Teachers Yanaiza Gallant, Joseph Dauray and Maria Vergez collaborated to include all sixth graders.

•Laurel Hill Elementary School celebrated National Poetry Month. Numerous students were chosen to recite a daily poem during morning announcements, and students throughout the school read and wrote poetry. The library and art teachers worked with fifth graders in Room 4 to compose and illustrate haiku, a Japanese poetic form.

Students and faculty were entertained by storyteller Valerie Tutson, whose performance included tales from Africa set in an historical background.

•Kizirian Elementary School is “going green” during May. All students have been asked to help save the planet by choosing an activity to conserve resources for at least one month. The students will keep a log to chart their progress. Activities may include limiting TV or video game time, drinking tap water instead of bottled water, turning the lights off when leaving a room and sharing rides conserve gasoline. Physical education teachers will focus on energy conservation and healthy lifestyles during health classes.

Kizirian Elementary School recently held a Family Math Night. Parents and students participated in math games.

Middle schools

•Nathanael Greene Middle School students and staff pooled their pocket change and raised $1,609.22 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients drive.

High schools

•E³ Academy students are involved in Project 540, a national high school civic initiative designed to encourage civic engagement. Project 540 has selected nearly 250 public high schools across the country to be at the forefront of a national effort to encourage the active citizenship of young people, bringing students, teachers and administrators together to explore how high schools help young people to get involved.

The project includes student-led dialogues about social issues and discussions of how schools can support civic involvement.

Students are conducting an inventory of civic opportunities in the schools and creating school civic action plans, which make recommendations for cultivating and supporting student civic participation.

•Hope High School will host its second annual community engagement and multicultural event on Wednesday, May 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the cafeteria. Members of the school community will join for a festive night of cultural cuisine, performances by professional musicians, student performances from Hope’s theater, music and dance programs, art sharing, access to information from community agencies and an opportunity to make new connections and strengthen relationships with people of diverse backgrounds.

For information, call Laura Travis, Hope Arts visual arts teacher and event coordinator, at (401) 456-9161.

The Providence Public Schools Activities column is compiled by the communications department. For information, contact Kim Rose, senior communications officer, at (401) 453-9350 or kim.rose@ppsd.org.