It has been another exciting week in the lives the students and staff at Stettler Elementary School.
On Saturday, Sept 19, 61 of our students participated in the cross-country run held in Wetaskiwin. The Peace Hills Cross Country Run is an annual event that our students have become accustom to taking part in. It was an incredible day, and we are very proud of our students and how they did. We would also like to acknowledge Mrs. Kim Poapst and Ms. Jodie Limpert for all of the time and effort they have put into working with our students to prepare them for this run. Our students won the Grade 2-3 girls overall trophy with top honours in this category going to Kadence Fisher and Sienna Elliot. Other runners included Addison and Abigail Skuce, Hayden Wiebe, Isabella Schlender, Alec Oprea, Kylar Cornelssen, Samantha Hollett, Amy Kirby, Jayden Olafson, Mya Prehn, and Kayleigh Zimmer. The Grade 2-3 boys were also very competitive, finishing in the top 20-30 out of more than 60 runners. The boys included on this team were Cooper Eddy, Bo Kranzler, Jayden Northrop, Daniel Enyedy, Jordan Sernecky, Dillon Latham, Reese Cheater, Chasen Radford, Josh Tatton, Seth Baird, and Nathan Deaver.
The Grade 4-5 girls team captured the best combined team award with Kate Bradford finishing 5th and Mackenzie Miller coming in 9th. O As well, the following boys helped SES capture the Grade 4-5 boys team award: Rhys Pederson, Brennan Konschuh, Colby Frank, Hayden Arndt, Colby Wiebe, Hayden Baker, Zachary Zimmer, Levi Martin, Liam Latham, Quinton Hansel, Carter Kranzler, and Aedyn Skuce. Congratulations to all of our representatives and we are very proud that all of our students were so positive and such great listeners. Great job practicing The Seven Habits even away from the school.
In other news, our grade 4 students have been diligently learning and practicing the game of crib, in preparation for their visits to our senior centres, where they can play crib with some of our local senior citizens.
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, our kindergarten students were bussed to the public library where they were able to visit the COW bus. While there, they also had the opportunity to take part in centre type activities set up by the public library.
Also coming up this week, we have declared Thursday, Sept. 24, to be “Light It Up Gold” day. On this day, we are asking all of our students and staff to wear gold or yellow in support of childhood cancers. This campaign was brought to us through Tenielle Day Chief, and we are happy to be able to support such a great cause. Also, on the topic of supporting cancer research, we will be hosting our annual Terry Fox Run this Friday, September 25, beginning at 1:05 p.m. Please remember to join us for the run if you are able to.