Jeff Bowland will retire at the end of the 2010 – 2011 school year from teaching at Pattonsburg R-2. Mr. Bowland has served the district for 30 years as a teacher, coach and bus driver.
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In other business at the Dec. 20 meeting of the Board of Education, Mr. Hodge reported attendance rate for the month of November was 96.51% at the high school. The blood drive collected 37 units. First semester ended Dec. 21 and the third quarter begins Jan. 4.
Justin Conover received the DAR Good Citizen Award and has applied for their scholarship. Kyle Taylor entered into and was designated a top 10 finalist for the Missouri Endangered Species postcard contest, sponsored by the Missouri Conservation Department. Dec. 8 was the school Christmas music contest. The K-12 food drive collected 1,400 items for the senior center and ministerial alliance in Pattonsburg. Grades 7-12 attended a Christmas outing at Cameron.
Board approved the destination of the senior trip this year to Branson. They also approved the senior class choice for graduation speaker in Alan McCrary who has been a math and P.E. teacher in the Pattonsburg for almost a decade. The board also approved an update to the High School Handbook regarding tutoring and probation.
Mrs. Cornett gave the elementary report. Ending attendance for November was 96.57%.
Students who were selected for demonstrating "citizenship" were: preschool, Landon Woodward; kindergarten, Hannah Robertson; first grade, Jillian Plymell; second grade, Jaxson Waterbury; third grade, Shelby Snider; fourth grade, Blake Hulett; fifth grade, Jackson Zamora; and sixth grade, Caleb Teel. The "Student of the Month" was Jackson Zamora.
Students in grades K-6 took a field trip on Dec. 9 to the Remington Nature Center in St. Joseph. After visiting the center, the students skated at B & J Skate Center, which was provided at no cost. Third and fourth grade students have been playing basketball and their final game will be at 4:30 on Jan. 7, 2011. The elementary raised $1,426.90 and Modern Woodmen matched $500 for a total of $1,926.90. Students who brought in the most donations in PK-2 were Gage Iddings, Dylan McCrary, and Bessa Hoover. Those students who brought in the most donations from grades 3-6 were Sean Dinwiddie and Carter Crone. Top donation winners received $20 and second place winners received $10, all of which was to be spent at the book fair.
Marilyn Wehrli, NWRPDC, visited the elementary classrooms on Nov. 29 and conducted an Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI). Also, teachers from grades third and fourth attended the HDC conference meeting focusing on CA, IBD reports. Teachers from grades fifth and sixth had a similar meeting with the conference teachers; their focus was on math. Our second quarter Awards Assembly is being planned for Jan. 6, 2011, at 2:30 p.m.
New and updated policies, regulations and forms were approved including the new seclusion and restraint policy and updated 504 regulations.
MSHSAA approved co-op with North Daviess girl’s basketball and softball for next year so we can compete in districts together in each sport.
The board adopted a new policy that is now available for cyber protection.
The Board approved continued participation in ACES through the 2012-2013 school year. The school receives educational diagnostic services, OT, PT, and a part-time social worker from this 22 school co-op.
The next Board meeting will be Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the library.