Members of the U.S. Marine Corps were at Bridgeway Elementary School on Tuesday to conduct a fitness and leadership opportunity with select fifth graders.
“The students' self discipline, ability to work together as a team and just the effort they are putting into the drills is impressive,” PE teacher Steve Jones said. “They are cheering each other on and motivating each other to finish everything they try.”
The Bridgeway Elementary School K-Kids Green Team won first place in the elementary school division of the 2022-2023 Green Schools Quest challenge. There were 50 schools participating this year and the theme was climate change action. A cash award of $600 and a trophy was presented to club sponsors Jeanne Fernandez (reading specialist), Cheryl Sprengel (secretary) and Mary Kay Campbell (Pattonville board of education member) last week during a club meeting in recognition of their work for creating a healthier, greener environment for their school.
K-Kids is a year-long student service club that fourth and fifth graders commit to being a part of and is modeled and developed by Kiwanis International. Bridgeway has sponsored K-Kids Club for many years, but this year they added a Green Team component to it. The 32 club members continued to implement many service-oriented projects as in the past, but this year all of the projects included a sustainability focus, especially ways in which they can reduce waste in order to reduce climate change.
“I'm really proud of them all for sticking with it and working hard all year on the projects," Fernandez said.
Pattonville High School has been recognized as a 2022-2023 Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Distinguished School. It is one of just 262 high schools across the U.S. to receive this honor for providing broad access to transformative learning experiences for students through PLTW (Computer Science, Biomedical Science, Engineering). PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of pre-K through 12th grade students and teachers in more than 12,200 schools across the U.S. This is the fourth time and third straight year Pattonville has received this award.
It’s Staff Appreciation Week 2023. Pattonville School District shared videos of the Teacher and Support Staff of the Year finalists at District Appreciation Night where Drummond Elementary School fourth grade teacher Brittany Garcia was announced as the district’s teacher honoree and Pattonville Early Childhood Center physical therapist Jenny McDowell was named the district support staff recipient.
Students at Rose Acres Elementary School had a school-wide fitness goal of completing 23,600 laps on the PACER test which would cover the distance from the school to the Gateway Arch. The landmark goal before that was to complete 22,400 laps which got them to Busch Stadium. Last week, Fredbird surprised the students and was on hand to celebrate with them at the Pirate PACER Party assembly.
The objective of the PACER is to run as long as possible while keeping a specified pace. Students run back and forth across a 20-meter space at a pace that gets faster each minute. A lap is scored for each 20-meter distance covered and in September, students had a school-wide total of 3,821 laps which got them to Aquaport.
On May 11, four Pattonville High School student-athletes signed letters of intent to attend and play sports in college. These signings come following National Signing Day on Feb. 1, where 17 other Pattonville seniors also signed with colleges. Students who signed on May 11 were:
Kaylee Cofer, Lindenwood University, dance;
Tyler Floyd, Central Methodist University, baseball;
Laura Rockwell, Missouri Western State University, dance; and