The Cache County School Board will hold their study session meeting Thursday evening. On the agenda: bullying policy, retirement benefit, 2010-11 school fees, legislative report, budget discussion, CEA negotiated termination / retirement benefit, joint use agreement with Nibley, school board convention report.
Seniors Shawn Chen, Corey Warren, Wendy Howells; juniors Rebecca Sharp, Cheyanne Petersen, Manuel Garcia; and sophomores Parker Bradford, Robert Merritt, Regina Ward were honored as March 2010’s students of the month at Sky View High School.
Saturday evening the Sky View Booster Club held a luau at the Castle Manner Reception and Events Center in Hyde Park. The well attended event was enjoyed by all participants and provided excellent food, splendid atmosphere, and great entertainment.
The Cache County School Board’s regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 5:30 p.m. On the agenda for consideration: Superintendent and business administrator salaries, 6-8 and 10-12 grade graduation requirements, student mental health policy. The school board will also recognize the School Teacher of the Year for Sky View, Mtn. Crest, Cache High, South Cache, North Cache and Spring Creek.
SMITHFIELD—Allison Pope from Sky View High School learned good grades pay off when she won the Cache Valley-area drawing for a $100 scholarship savings account from Zions Bank’s Pays for A’s program. Pope received the surprise news about the scholarship during the morning school announcements from Zions Bank’s Smithfield branch manager Lynn Godderidge last Wednesday.
The Sky View high school honor roll for the second trimester of 2009-2010.
Sixteen area high school students will be competing along with 179 of their peers from throughout the state of Utah Wednesday. They are competing to be considered the best in their field of study in the Deseret News-sponsored Sterling Scholar competition.
Nine SVHS students were honored on Tuesday, Feb 16 at a Student of the Month luncheon. The luncheon was held in the Presentation room at Sky View and was catered by Ann Lusk. Students recognized this month were: Seniors: Luis Patino, Brooke Lindhardt and Boone Hansen, Juniors: Blake McKinley, AJ Vande Merwe and Jordan C. Nielsen, Sophomores: Natalia Chaparro, Jared Walker and Joshua Smith.
Sky View high school’s Sterling Scholars competed at the preliminary regions level earlier this week, and four are continuing onto the State level.
Eleven Sky View students are in Salt Lake City as part of the Sterling Scholar program. According to a Deseret News story Utah Sterling Scholar awards: Class of 2010
SALT LAKE CITY—By a mere three points, Sky View high school’s “We the People” team took home the gold for the fourth year in a row. On February eighth, not only did they earn themselves a trip to Washington, D.C. and the title of State Champion, they defied all expectations.
Sky View principal David Swenson and assistant principal Joel Allred met with parents and students Thursday night at the Newtown town hall. It was the fourth of five cottage meetings — an informal get together where everyone could talk about Sky View high school, it’s future and how it could be improved.
It’s a Saturday morning, and thirty high school students are gathered in a Sky View classroom. Half of them are sprawled across desks, their noses buried in books. The other half are animatedly discussing free speech, federalism, healthcare, and a variety of other government related issues. Any outsider stumbling upon such a scene would scratch their head and ask, “What kind of teenagers are these?” Meet Sky View’s 2010 “We the People” team.
Sky View high school administration are holding Cottage Meetings throughout the community. Cottage meetings are informal get togethers with no planned agenda. Come and chat with Sky View administrators about your thoughts, ideas, concerns. Their plan is to simply listen and keep their ears close to the ground and hear from the community. They are looking forward to meeting with parents in the community.
New boundaries for north and south elementary schools were approved Thursday night by the Cache County school board. The boundaries — labeled “Option 1” on the CCSD website — will go into effect starting this fall for the 2010-2011 school year.
The Cache County School Board is planning to finalize the boundaries of Greenville, North Park, Summit, Sunrise and the new Smithfield elementary school tonight. According to posted agenda the board will meet at 4:30 p.m. in a study session to discuss the school boundaries. Then at 5:30 p.m. during their regular meeting it is expected they will act on the boundary changes.
On Thursday, school board Superintendent Steve Norton met again with parents and community members regarding the proposed boundaries for the five northern Cache Valley school district elementary schools. This time they met at Greenville Elementary to focus on Hyde Park and North Logan’s schools. The superintendent opened the meeting with the same explanations on school boundaries that he gave to the Smithfield community at Tuesday’s meeting. The school board tries to make neighborhood schools available to the children, but with an area the size of our district, that’s not always possible.
The rest of the world is learning what we already know—that SVHS is an AWESOME school! US News and World Report in their January special report on US High Schools ranked Sky View High School as a Silver school.
Superintendent Steve Norton began Tuesday evening with an explanation of how the district goes about setting boundaries. “The first thing you need to understand is we are a district that does not have neighborhood schools,” said Dr. Norton to the roughly forty attending the public meeting over proposed boundaries for five north Cache elementary schools. “We have schools located in some neighborhoods, but we are a community of so many different communities that we can’t have a school in every neighborhood.”
Two public hearings are scheduled over proposed boundaries for north Cache elementary schools. With a new school opening next year and the change of all elementary schools to K-5, boundaries will be set for Sunrise, Summit, Greenville, and North Park. Two options are currently presented on the the district website.
The Sky View High School parent/teacher conference will be held on Monday, Jan. 11 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and on Tuesday, Jan. 12 from 8 to 11 a.m. All parents are encouraged to come with their student and meet with their student’s teachers.
The Cache County School District has updated the proposed boundary maps for North Park, Greenville, Sunrise, and Summit elementary schools as well as the new Smithfield school expected to be in use next year. With the school board decision to switch all elementary schools to K-5, the new boundaries are per school instead of an overlay.
The Cache school board let their original decision stand to switch Sunrise, Summit, North Park and Greenville elementary schools to K-5. Two weeks ago the school board listened to a room full of citizens express their opinion over the change. Many were for it. More were against it. Thursday evening the board discussed delaying the change however it never came to a vote.
Final action over grade configuration at northern Cache elementary schools is expected Thursday evening. The Cache school board will discuss whether to keep their original decision to switch Sunrise, Summit, North Park and Greenville elementary schools to K-5 or whether to switch back to split schedules of K-2 and 3-5.
The Sky View high school honor roll for the first trimester of 2009-2010.
A crowd of parents and community members living within the Cache County School District boundaries joined the school board’s study session on Thursday evening to voice opinions on the potential impending elementary school configuration change. At the last school board meeting, the vote to change all of the Smithfield elementary schools to a Kindergarten through 5th grade configuration passed, but because of outcry from some community members, the board is revisiting the issue.
The Cache County School District board of education meets this evening to discuss the elementary school grade configurations and new boundaries. The board had previously decided to change all north valley elementary schools to K-5. This was against the recommendation by Superintendent Norton and the a opinion ballot sent to parents for the affected schools. Tonight will only be a discussion of the matter. No action will be taken until the next school board meeting later this month.
NORTH LOGAN—The Cache County School Board heard from three members of the community tonight to speak regarding the configuration of the elementary schools that serve Smithfield (Summit, Sunrise, Greenville and North Park). Two of the community representatives were parents of affected students, one was a former teacher in Logan School District, and all three presented strong opinions toward configuring all of the elementary schools for Smithfield to contain Kindergarten through 5th grades.
The grade configuration for northern elementary schools should be approved tomorrow night by the CCSD Board of Education. Currently Sunrise and North Park elementary schools serve grades K-2 while Summit and Greenville elementary schools serve grades 3-5. The new elementary school under construction in Smithfield will have to be a k-5 school. The school district administration sent ballots to parents asking if they would prefer changing all elementary schools to K-5. The overwhelming majority of those who responded want to keep the current arrangement. The school board will make the final decision tomorrow night during their regular school board meeting.
The Sky View administration will be holding Cottage Meetings throughout the community. A Cottage Meeting is an informal get together with no formal agenda. It’s a chance to meet the Sky View administrators and to chat about your thoughts, ideas, concerns.
The Cache County School Board met for a study session last night. The meeting was well attended by patrons and members of the school district. Each member of the school board was in attendance, as well as the business administrator and the superintendant.
Summit Elementary’s first ever ‘Race for the Summit’ run-a-thon turned out to be a successful fundraiser, raising $10,000 for the school. Becky Neilson, head of fundraising for the PTA, came up with the idea. Neilson said she decided to try it after her niece in Alabama told her of her success with it.
