The first day for kindergarteners at Sleepy Eye Public School was last Friday, and the first day for first through 12th grade students at St. Mary's Catholic School was on Monday.
Only about three out of four Minnesota children are properly vaccinated.
Students at Sleepy Eye Public School and St. John's Lutheran School returned on Monday and Tuesday. St. Mary's Catholic School begins this Monday.
Sleepy Eye Public School board members filled a delay of the start of their monthly meeting last Thursday by touring the elementary school, which is in the throes of the air quality improvement project.
Sleepy Eye Public School honored its teachers and staff on Monday for years of dedicated service to District 84 students.
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Kiefer and South Parks were visited by the ECFE Book Wagon on Thursday.
Based on the monitoring results, EPA found no concern for risk of health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to diisocyanates or other air toxics.
ST. Mary's Catholic School Students of the Month for May included seventh graders Kennedy Pelzel, Brandon Helget and eigth grader Andrea Schwartz.
“All the World’s a Stage!” Especially this weekend when over 40 local children and young people team up with two professional actors to present Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre’s original musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s most enchanting classic, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
As part of the flexible learning year application submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education by 25 southwest Minnesota school districts, a perception survey will be conducted through June 11, 2010. The purpose of this survey is to collect baseline data from teachers, students and parents on overall perception of the Improving Student Achievement Initiative. The survey link is the same for all 25 schools: Adrian, Brewster, Canby, Comfrey, Edgerton, Hendricks, Hills-Beaver Creek, Ivanhoe, Jackson County Central, Lakeview, Luverne, Lynd, Marshall, Milroy, Minneota, Mountain Lake, Redwood Area, Round Lake, RTR, Sleepy Eye, Springfield, Tracy Area, Windom, Westbrook-Walnut Grove, and Worthington.
As a part of St. Mary’s School teacher in-service days, Karen McMaster from the University of Minnesota gave a presentation about a new program entitled Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS).
With Sleepy Eye Public School’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) project set to begin last Friday, staff at the school had less than a week to clear most everything out of the elementary wing of the school and store the items in the elementary gym and cafeteria.
First graders from Mrs. Lax’s class at St. Mary’s Catholic School recently toured the Sleepy Eye Medical Center.
