The Worth County School Board named Amber Hawk its new Elementary Principal for the 2025-26 school year. She will replace Chuck Borey, who will retire after the current school year. Hawk will also serve as the Special Education Director.
The school board learned that the school scored an 85.6% score on the Missouri Department of Education Annual Performance Report. That was 9% higher than last year.
Rebecca New shared what students were doing on her Family and Consumer Science classes. They recently sewed pillow cases for the nursing home and she gave an update on the Tiger Designs business.
The Transportation program was rated "Above Average." Strengths listed include the driver training program; all drivers have the School Bus endorsement and have had eight hours of training in Maryville. The school purchased a 10 passenger van and added five electric buses to the fleet along with five charging stations to eventually replace 2002, 2006, and 2009 buses. The school constructed a new bus parking lot. Bus routes are fully staffed.
Concerns listed include the age and condition of school vehicles, the unknown of electric bus challenges, and the need for more drivers.
Recommendations include updating school vehicles when financially feasible, training and researching on electric buses, accept applications throughout the year, and look for an opportunity to build a maintenance facility.
The board voted to declare some property as surplus. Items include a 3D printer, nine Windows 10 desktop computers, two printers, and six sewing machines. Items are sold as is. If interested, submit sealed bids no later than January 8th at 3 pm to the school.
Elementary Principal Chuck Borey reported that a staff Christmas lunch was held at the Activity Center. Mrs. Stull's second grade won the attendance challenge for November with a 97.37% attendance rate. All classes had a rate of at least 95.34%. The Worth County PTO and Parents as Teachers held a Cozy Night December 4th. Families went to different classrooms and participated in different fun activities. 16 kids were picked to shop with a cop on December 17th. A reading incentive garage sale was held December 12th for PK through 3rd grade, and they were all able to go through the sale a second time and pick out an extra gift.
Mrs. Rush did a fundraiser with Tiger Designs for the Kindness Club. Tiger Designs designed a t-shirt for the club and sold them. In November, students created gobble grams for teachers that included each elementary staff member's favorite drink and snack. In December, the students took the woot woot wagon to elementary staff and held a Christmas party.
High School Principal Josh Smith reported on classroom activities. English II students are practicing sentence structure and placement of subordinate clauses playing a game called "What do you MEME?" where they write their own memes for the pictures on the board. They discovered that most memes are technically subordinate clauses that do not express a complete thought, but rely on the visual image to complete the meaning.
American Literature students are utilizing critical thinking activities to analyze theme, symbolism, conflict, tone, character, and setting in the novel, “The Scarlet Letter.” Graphic Design students are working in Adobe Photoshop to create custom text effects of their choice by manipulating text layers and adding advanced effects. After the initial design, they will then walk through their text effects tutorial.
The sophomores won the November attendance challenge with a 93.78% attendance rate.
Junior High English/Language Arts students delivered Christmas ornaments and treats to the nursing homes.
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