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Connetquot Central School District

Academic Excellence, Creativity, Mutual Respect And Self-Reliance

September 28, 2026

Students are growing their independence at Duffield with the Let Grow Project

Students on their bicycles outside Duffield Elementary.

Duffield Elementary kicked off the Let Grow Project, encouraging students to build confidence and self-reliance by taking on developmentally appropriate challenges on their own.

That might mean a kindergartener learning to tie their shoes, a second grader making their own cereal or a fourth grader riding their bike to school. As students complete their challenges, families fill out a leaf to add to Duffield’s “Let Grow” tree, creating a growing display of all the new things students are learning to do on their own.

 

Five children gather around a kitchen island, smiling and preparing food together.   A colorful classroom bulletin board displays a paper tree with large leaves on a blue background.

A paper cutout shaped like a leaf with handwritten text on it rests on a dark wooden surface.   A smiling child leans on a wooden table beside a red lacing shoe toy.