Creekview Elementary was highlighted on this week’s Carbon School District weekly update so third grade teacher, Jimmy Parker stopped by Castle Country Radio to discuss the school’s reading and archery programs.

Reading is an important skill to have to help develop minds and the school has been pushing reading with their students since school started. “We were a little concerned coming back from the pandemic but we did some testing just before Christmas break and we are at 32 percent of our students were at the end of the year levels, which was a little bit down from the year prior. But we were staying positive and we’ve put some things into place. Since then, in January, we had over 279 students level up, the whole goal is to get to their reading level and then in February we had 379 students level up and getting to that goal of third grade level or higher. It’s just great to see the kids wanting to read and find the love for reading and that’s really the goal,” said Mr. Parker. The school will continue to push their students to improve reading skills everyday and they appreciate the cooperation of parents who encourage reading at home.

The archery program over the years has grown in the district and Creekview is no different as they had over 100 students try out for the team.  “We took 61 kids. We will be taking 48 of our archers to our state tournament this year, will talk about that, just the interest and the actual, some kids haven’t even seen a bow and its great. Personally, I’m not an archer, its not something I grew up doing, but I enjoy being around the kids and learning with them,” said Mr. Parker. The sport teaches students to focus, have self-control, discipline and patience.

This year due to the COVID pandemic the state tournament will not be held up north but will be held here in Price. “That will be March 20. We have to separate, so we’re not all going to be there at the same time. So certain schools will have their times that they will be shooting and if you need information about that you can contact me or even Kyle Hansen at Castle Heights, we can get you more information. We are limiting who can watch, we’re limiting it to four people, parents and maybe grandparents per student so that we can keep the COVID restrictions and we’re social distancing and all that good stuff,” explained Mr. Parker. One good thing about having the state tournament locally is that students will be able to have family members watch them compete. Further information about the tournament will be sent home with the participants as the event gets closer.

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