Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Local community members read aloud to students to promote reading.
A group of community members recently volunteered their time to help inspire students from Null Elementary School to love reading. A local police officer, an author and a pilot attended the inaugural family reading night at the school and read stories aloud to the children about their careers while in "uniform." The guest speakers included Partners in Education Police Officer Charlie Hayes, Angela Sage Larsen, author of "Petalwink Learns to Fly", and Bill Jagust, a pilot. The children also got to do a number of book-related activities from book bingo to making their own bookmark, said Principal Gina Piccinni in a news release. Piccinni said she hopes to make the reading night an annual event. The event was organized by the Null Parent …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Some district schools will have to offer students additional tutoring starting this year.
Elementary and middle schools in the St. Charles School District saw some improvement on state math and reading tests this year. About half of the schools had a higher percentage of students scoring at grade level in either the math or reading tests this year. But in several schools, the percent of students who scored at grade level on the tests decreased or remained flat. Just one school, Lincoln Elementary, made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in both reading and math tests. Three schools, Coverdell, Null and Harris, achieved AYP on the math test, but not the reading test. Five of the district schools failed to make AYP in either test. "Overall in the district we've been very focused on student achievement," Danielle Tormala, assistant …
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Exercise balls let kindergartners move while working.
A class of kindergarteners at Null Elementary School glued squares of blue and green tissue paper to larger piece of paper during an art lesson in the classroom last week. As they dabbed the glue, the 20 students wiggled and bounced atop purple exercise balls. And for the most part, they stayed seated during the 45 minute class—no small feat for a group of 6-year-olds. Margaret Blackburn’s class is the first at Null--and perhaps in the whole St. Charles School District--to swap traditional chairs for exercise balls. Blackburn, a second-year teacher, said the balls are a way for the kids to stay focused on the task at hand. The kids are able to wiggle while staying in their seats, rather than running around the classroom. On a snow day …
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Null Elementary School
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Parents won't find out where students will go to school next year until after the St. Charles Board of Education approves a new plan.
Parents raised questions about the changes coming to the St. Charles School District next year during a community forum Jan. 18. St. Charles School District administrators presented a plan for new school boundaries to a group of about 30 people at Monroe Elementary School. They’ll make a similar presentation at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at Coverdell Elementary School. More than 450 students will have to switch schools under the plan. Officials wanted feedback from the community before the Board of Education considers the plan Feb. 10. “We can’t promise that things will end up looking any different here,” said Jeff Marion, assistant superintendent of human resources. “You may find something we had not considered.” Parents seemed less worried …
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Monroe Elementary School
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Lincoln Elementary School
625 S 6th St, Saint Charles, MO
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Null Elementary School
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Coverdell Elementary School
2475 W Randolph St, Saint Charles, MO
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Time Centre Apartments
901 Time Centre Dr, Saint Charles, MO
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
More than 200 students will have to switch elementary schools next year.
Parents, teachers and St. Charles School District administrators will start redrawing boundary lines for the district's elementary schools on Thursday. The 20 members of the boundary committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the district's Administrative Center, 400 North 6th Street. The district expects to have the bus routing software which will allow the committee to see how many students would be affected by moving around the boundary lines. The boundaries must be redrawn because the district plans to reopen Blackhurst Elementary School starting next fall to accommodate growing elementary school enrollment. Hundreds of elementary school students will be affected by the boundary line changes. The committee has to move 60 students …
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Monday, December 6, 2010
A district committee will make recommendations on changes to each school's attendance area.
Hundreds of elementary school students in the St. Charles School District will have to transfer to new elementary schools next year after school boundaries are changed. The boundary lines must be redrawn because the district plans to reopen Blackhurst Elementary School to accommodate growing elementary school enrollment. The Board of Education closed the school in 2007 and it has been used for storage or rented by various groups since then. A group of parents, teachers and administrators will meet for the next few months to discuss the issue and is expected to make a recommendation about the new boundary lines to the Board of education by late January, Superintendent Randy Charles said. The committee is tasked with moving 60 students …
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Blackhurst Elementary School
2000 Elm St, Saint Charles, MO
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Fourth-grade teacher at Null Elementary said he enjoys the challenge of teaching.
Greg Lauter represents a unique experience for his fourth-grade students at Null Elementary School in St. Charles. For most of them, he is the first male classroom teacher they have had outside of music, art and physical education class. "It's an adjustment for some kids," Lauter said. "I just let them know I'm a real person. I'm a dad, and I'm probably not that much different than some of their dads." Now in his 13th year of teaching—his fourth year at Null—Lauter said he shares his love of the outdoors with his students. He was awarded a grant from the Missouri Dept of Conservation and hopes to use some funds for a field trip and to develop a unit on ecosystems. "I like to get the kids outside," he said. "Textbooks are good resources to…
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Myra Lopez
12:55 pm on Thursday, April 21, 2011
interesting idea. more ›