fairway elementary
In January, students from Fairway Elementary and Wildwood Middle School stepped back in time at a special learning event focused on dinosaur fossils. The items had been brought back from a Montana dig by a group of Rockwood School District teachers (pictured above). During the event, seventh-graders manned stations at the middle school and shared what they had learned with other students while viewing the fossils.
new city school
The fourth-grade team landed a first-place award in the University City Equations Open math skills tournament in late January. More than 300 competitors took part in the event, held at University City High School.
tillman elementary
Last month, students took part in a day of service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Each grade worked on projects for the school’s new outdoor learning space and garden or assembled food donations for the All Among Us and Angels’ Arms nonprofits.
parkway central
Freshman Balaji Vijayakumar won the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance Celebration essay contest at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and freshman Vivian Lacson won the poetry contest. The theme for both was addressing racism and other forms of social injustice.
kirkwood high school
The 2016 Pioneer yearbook took home a gold medal in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s annual yearbook critique, scoring 960 points out of a possible 1,000. The book also earned honors in the contest’s Reference, Verbal and Visual categories. It was headed by student co-editors John Killian and Lucy Rau, pictured.
