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Preschool-age children are still learning important skills, techniques and more despite restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic with help from two local preschool teachers.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing students and staff to be working and learning from home, students at Union Ridge Elementary School got together to have fun in a socially distant way with a school-sized virtual dance party.
Using a combination of teamwork and holiday magic, teachers and administrative staff at Woodland Public Schools spread holiday cheer to kindergarten through fourth grade students at the district’s three elementary schools with Operation Santa. The event was created to provide students and st…
As remote learning is in full swing throughout Battle Ground Public Schools, maintenance and operations crews in the district have been completing multiple projects paid for through levy funds. Part of the district’s five-year plan for improvements, the projects preserve district assets, enh…
On Tuesday, Dec. 8, officials of the Ridgefield School District recognized one employee of the month and six students of the month at the regular board of directors meeting.
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Sawyer Hahn, 10, of Battle Ground is the newest reporter in town after starting his own neighborhood newspaper, The Neighborhood Gazette.
On Wednesday, Dec. 9, the Ridgefield School District announced that View Ridge Middle School seventh grader Amelia Natterstad is the first-place winner in the 2020 Superintendent’s Holiday Greeting Card Art Contest.
Band students at Battle Ground Public Schools recently had the opportunity to learn from seven world-class musicians though a series of virtual “master classes” online. Featuring two Grammy award winners and a pair of college music professors, the lineup of guest musicians worked with middle…
In the age of distance learning, many teachers are finding new ways to teach children in many different subjects of curricula. It wasn’t long ago that culinary arts teachers in Battle Ground Public Schools prepared class with physical ingredients, ensuring each student had enough to make a d…
As October comes to a close, it is time for the third annual SOCKtober sock drive. Students in the RISE (Reaching Independence through Structured Education) class at Union Ridge Elementary School are holding a sock drive for the Ridgefield Family Resource Center and the community can help.
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As schools were shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic last March, Solina Adelson-Journey began to see the difficulties students, families and faculty were having in regards to dealing with the crisis. As the assistant principal at Daybreak Primary School in Battle Ground, Adelson-Journe…
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The art, music and physical education teachers at elementary schools in the Woodland Public Schools District have worked together to create innovative cross-curricular lessons for students and their families to take part in to stay in shape, exercise creativity and enhance their studies duri…
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Back in March when schools in the Ridgefield School District transitioned to remote learning, district librarians Emily Crawford, Jill Guccini and Jubilee Roth wanted to continue putting actual books in the hands of students, even while school buildings were closed. Thus, the Ridgefield Scho…
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