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MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKES A MOUNTAIN OF LOVEStudents in Mrs. Mitchell’s homeroom organized a food drive for the Open Hands Food Pantry. The school made a Mountain of Love in donated the items in honor of the late Marie Garmon. Pictured, from left on left side, are Leslie Mitchell, Noah Medley, Joshua Rousey, Jaclynn Ruble, Jenni Beasley, Casey Hall, Justin Wilhoit, Wesley Ruehrwein, Leawna Isham, River Shackleford, Brianna Tindall, Hunter Curtsinger, Jack Ryan, Canaan Crume, Marley Garmon (Daughter of Marie Garmon), Haley Studler, Tashawn Robinson, Colton Frasier, and Nathan Sallee. Right side, from left to right, Hailey Bernardi, Kendra Wolcott, Allison Hill, Eve Get-tlefinger, Zoe Walker, James Bingham, Madison Wallace, Kayla West, Becky Frederick, Kaitlyn Reed, and Trenton Watson.
Ward ranks sixth in state for arts and humanities
By Meaghan Downs News staff
Emma B. Ward Elementary ranks in the top 10 in Kentucky for its arts and humanities programs, according to data released by the Kentucky Department of Education this fall.
The elementary school achieved an overall score of 2.56 out of 5.0 for its program review of arts and humani-ties, ranking sixth in Kentucky for its overall performance.
Robert B. Turner received a score of 2.05; Saffell Street received a score of 1.89; and Ezra B. Sparrow Early Child-hood Center received a score of 1.39.
According to the Kentucky Depart-ment of Education, the state’s average score was 1.68. The minimum reported average was a 1.00 and the highest average was an elementary school in Fayette County with a score of 2.99.
“The reason I think we did so well is that we value our arts and humanities team,” Ward Principal Amanda Ellis said, adding that the program review was a school-wide initiative.
Last Friday, fourth and fifth graders ran from station to station in Emma B. Ward’s gym, completing tasks like copying rhythms on drums or playing a tune on an electronic keyboard.
The activity stations were imple-mented last year, Ward music instruc-tor Kyle Lee said, involving cross-curriculum content included in the program review.
“Our teachers throughout the build-ing, they contribute to that, “ Lee said of Ward’s overall score. “It’s a whole school thing.”
Activity stations, which students
engage in for about 45 minutes once a week, can be switched out according to the grade level and what students are learning in their arts, writing, music and P.E. classes, Lee said.
“We don’t expect a first grader to do what a fifth grader is doing,” he said.
Stacey Briscoe, a P.E. teacher at Ward, said the activity centers are a reinforce-ment of skill-base lifelong games, and are a treat for students outside of their regular classes.
“They’re learning and reviewing, butthey think of it as more of a free time,” Briscoe said. “Like a game day.”
According to Instructional Supervi-sor Sharon Jackman, the three elemen-tary schools and the early childhood center in the district completed three program reviews last year for practical living/career studies, arts and humani-ties, and writing to identify areas of strength and growth.
Teachers collected surveys and student work samples to help rate the school’s performance for four state standards: curriculum and instruction; formative and summative assessment; professional development and support services; and administrative/leadership support and monitoring.
The schools’ ratings were then approved by a district-wide committee, Jackson said via e-mail, and sent to the Kentucky Department of Education forreview.
After this trial year, program reviews will count in 2012-2013 toward the district and individual school accountability scores through the state’s new assessment program K-PREP, Jackman said.
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CHRISTIAN ACADEMY CELEBRATES
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK‘Smokey’ poses with Christian Academy students during a program in the parking lot cel-ebrating Fire Prevention Week. Pictured, from left, front row: Calvin Weeks, Melody Dezarn, Erica Hickman, Hudson Pittman, Jacob Gaines, Gracie McDonald; back row: Isaiah Black, Evan Peters, Ethan Durham, Taylor Nevins, Colin Charles, ‘Smokey,’ Camdon Henson, Phillip Max-field, Gabe Elliott, Lexi McAnly and Brantley McKinney.
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LAWRENCEBURG STUDENT PERFORMS
IN EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONMatthew Lacefield, right, of Lawrenceburg recently appeared in Eastern Kentucky UniversityTheatre’s production of ‘Butterflies Are Free.’ At left is Natalie Marye of Lexington.
Saffell Street hosts writing celebration
EDUCATION BRIEFSStudent selected for Harding chorusErin Paden of Lawrenceburg has
been selected for the 2012-13 Hard-ing University Chorus, the school announced.
Following auditions at the begin-ning of the fall semester, students were chosen for the 60-member ensemble that performs on and off campus, according the university’s press release.
Paden, a sophomore vocal music education major, performs choral
classics, new works, spirituals, opera, folk songs, novelties and contempo-rary Christian songs.
Chorus also travels throughout the United States and the world to per-form for a variety of audiences.
Taking an extended tour in Janu-ary and shorter trips during the school year, the group holds numer-ous concerts on campus and in the Searcy area.
— from staff reports
From staff reportsSecond graders at Saffell Street
Elementary hosted their first writing celebration on Oct. 11.
According to teacher Stephanie Barnes, students are taking part in a daily writer’s workshop that views writing as ongoing process where stu-dents plan, write, revise, edit and pub-
lish their writing. Each student chose the piece they
wanted to use and they will have sev-eral writing celebrations throughout the school year.
Classrooms participating included Mrs. Drury’s, Mrs. Barnes’, Mrs. Har-ley’s and Mrs. Wilder’s classes at Saf-fell Street.
Christian Bierly of Mrs. Wilder’s second grade class, center, shows classmates his piece during thesecond grade writing celebration last week. Bierly said he wrote about being ‘with his papa ona farm’ for the writing celebration. For more photos of students at the writing celebration, go towww.theandersonnews.com.
Photos by Meaghan Downs
Brendan Chesser, left, and Wyatt Cooper, display their pieces during the Saffell Street writing celebration on Oct. 11.