Thank you to the Pattonville Fire Protection District for its toy drive donation to assist our families in need.
On Monday morning, the Pattonville Early Childhood Center was visited not by Santa’s red sleigh, but by a bright red trailer filled with donated toys that the firefighters quickly unloaded into the school.
The Pattonville Fire Protection District hosts a “Breakfast with Santa” event every year and collects new and unwrapped children’s toys to distribute to families in the community.
In-person classes and after-school activities are canceled tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 22, in the Pattonville School District due to impending weather conditions. All district and school offices will be closed. There will be no board candidate filing tomorrow. Filing will resume on Dec. 27, which is the last day for filing. For filing details, click here.
Tomorrow will be a virtual learning day for students. Students will take part in independent learning activities at home with online teacher support. Teacher’s hours of availability to support student learning will be shared on their student learning platform or via email. Finals scheduled for tomorrow at Pattonville High School are postponed and will be made up after winter break. High school students will receive an update from school administrators tomorrow.
Other school and district staff will work from home unless other arrangements are made with their supervisor. Day custodians and maintenance staff should report to work at their regular time or as instructed by their supervisor. Afternoon and evening custodial staff have the option of reporting to work in the morning. Please work with your supervisor regarding adjustments to your regularly scheduled hours.
As an awareness for family schedules, tomorrow’s virtual learning day will not need to be made up in the future. Winter break begins on Friday, Dec. 23 and students return on Wednesday, Jan. 4.
Margaret Hall’s classroom at Pattonville High School became a makeshift cafe through a project based learning assignment with her fifth hour French 2 students.
“Between Thanksgiving and now, my classes got to decide whatever they wanted to study, and this class wanted to learn more about French food and created a cafe.”
Junior Jasey Rosenkoetter works at Starbucks and said opening up a coffee shop came to her immediately.
“Coffee is always on my mind and I thought it would be really fun,” she said. “Teachers and staff have to order in French and we would bring them their drink and food.”
Students came up with a list of menu items to offer guests and created a Google sites website.
Science came to life in the fourth grade classrooms at Parkwood Elementary School. The students worked to research plants and animals from various biomes and transformed their classrooms to represent what they learned about the ocean, rainforest, savannah and tundra.
On Dec. 21, other grade level classes toured the biomes and listened to presentations from the fourth graders.
The fourth grade teachers are Kristen McGreer, Audrey Masek, Lindsey Schaefer and Greg Stoltz.
Each month during the school year, the Pattonville Board of Education honors students, staff and volunteers who have gained recognition outside of the district or who’ve made a special contribution to Pattonville. Learn more about students and staff who were recognized in December.