Spring-like weather in the area can get students pretty excited and they can easily lose focus on what is going on in school. Principal Stacy Basinger wants students and parents to know that this is still a critical time with the fourth and final quarter beginning.

“One thing that we want to make sure is yes, everything outside is changing but our expectations inside the building don’t change. This is the time when spring fever kicks in and it can be a little hard to do what we need to do but we’re really going to be emphasizing and we still are emphasizing that you know we need our kids to get a good enough sleep at night, we want them to come to school ready to learn, we need effort – effort in their learning, effort in their behavior and we still have a couple of months left,” stated Principal Basinger. It’s important that parents help their students to understand that this is the last and final push of the school year.

The school PTA held a movie night and their concession stand incorporated a fundraiser for the Los Jilberto’s family. In January a semi-truck crashed and demolished the building that the family’ restaurant was located in leaving them to close their business until they are able to relocate to a new site. “Our PTA recognized that we can do something, our school needs to come together. Just after that accident happened, we had a movie night and we had a little concession stand we donate the proceeds, it’s not a big money maker but we got the word out that we wanted to help this family let’s get what every we can off concessions in a two-hour period we had just under $600.00,” explained Principal Basinger. It was through the donations from students, their families, faculty, staff and community members that allowed the concession stand to make the spontaneous fundraiser a huge success.

Students are busy concentrating on improving their reading as the entire district was challenged at the beginning of the school year by Superintendent Lance Hatch. “It’s exciting – we get the numbers back as far as seeing the progress that is happening, the reading levels that are improving, the accuracy, the comprehension I mean it’s just a big package deal and it will always be the number one focus because we can not be successful in any real setting unless you can read,” said Principal Basinger. This reading challenge has been a great way for the school to promote the love of literature and showing that reading is an enjoyable activity.

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