The Pattonville Heights Middle School cross country team won the district’s first intramural cross country meet. The 2-mile race organized by the community programs department was held at Remington Traditional on Wednesday with the course going through Vago Park. The high school cross country team attended to run as the rabbit and to cheer on and mingle with the middle school teams. Every participant received a free treat from Kona Ice after the race.

Team results

1. Pattonville Heights Middle School (25 points)
2. Remington Traditional School (32 points)
3. Holman Middle School (94 points) 

Fourth graders at Rose Acres Elementary are holding their own version of Shark Week and every classroom is decorated with an underwater theme. 

"We've been studying nonfiction text features and learning how to use expository nonfiction," fourth grade teacher Mary Spitzmiller said. "We integrated nonfiction into our science unit that is on animal structures and behaviors."

Read about actions taken at the Oct. 12 school board meeting. Find out more by visiting Pattonville's BoardDocs website.

When preparing for a unit on the classical period of Greece, Holman Middle School Pirate Academy English and social studies teacher Maegan Bowersox watched a video on National Geographic about the Greeks. 

“I was watching ‘From Cavemen to Kings’ and Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos was speaking with a lot of authority about this topic and I noticed on the video that he was attached to UMSL here in St. Louis, so I sent him an email,” she said. “I asked if he’d be willing to talk to our students about his experiences and he agreed to do it.”