Add some excitement to the holidays by attending the first annual Metro Holiday Classic Basketball competition on December 22 and December 23 at Gill St. Bernard’s School in Gladstone. This year’s charitable beneficiary will be the New Jersey Police Surgeons. The 2017 Metro Holiday Classic includes two nationally-ranked teams and six of the top 15 teams in New Jersey. General admission tickets are $15 and can be purchased at metroclassicbasketball.com. Gill St. Bernard’s School is located at Saint Bernard’s Road in Gladstone. Elite matchups on the schedule include: Friday, December 22 Newark Westside vs St. Mary’s, Elizabeth, 4:30pm Rutgers Prep Girls vs Gill St. Bernard’s Girls, 6:00pm Imhotep (Philadelphia) vs Gill St. Bernard’s, 7:30pm Saturday, December 23 North Bergen vs Newark Westside, 12:30pm Newark East Side vs St. Peter’s Prep, 2:00pm Roselle Catholic vs Gill St. Bernard’s, 3:30pm The Metro Holiday Classic will benefit the New Jersey Police Surgeons, a non-profit organization that is a liaison between police departments and law enforcement personnel who are injured or may require medical attention during a crisis or emergency situation. Established in 1900, Gill St. Bernard’s School is an independent, non-sectarian day school for students ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to grade 12. Pupils from a 40-mile radius attend, and enrollment totals about 700. The bucolic 72-acre campus is located on St. Bernard’s Road in Gladstone. Its 17 buildings are arranged in a collegiate-style setting with separate facilities for the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. The campus has a new environmentally-friendly library and humanities building as well as an athletic center, theater/art gallery and administrative buildings. An extensive array of sports and extracurricular activities are offered for middle and upper school students. A mainstay in the local community for well over 100 years, Gill St. Bernard’s is one of the area’s most-respected schools. Attracting students from ten surrounding counties in New Jersey, the school has influenced generations of learners. Visit one of our offices in Far Hills, Mendham, Oldwick, Bernardsville or Chatham for more information about schools in the region, or call us at 877-788-7746.