The last district middle school track meet was May 10. The four middle schools competed on the West Albany High school track.
The track program is a popular GAPS middle school athletic sport. This season, more than 300 athletes participated from all four GAPS middle schools.
More photos are posted on Facebook.
At the first annual GAPS Student All-Stars Celebration, the School Board honored outstanding students from each school. Students were nominated by school staff and introduced by the school principal.
Memorial Middle School All-Stars are:
Danielle Hernandez
Danielle has been an amazing leader and volunteer for our Green Team. She has helped organize and run our school cleanups, works on the recycling and reusing program, and has volunteered to be an advocate at school board meetings and a city council meeting for better environmental practices.
Sequoia Farnsworth
Sequoia has been a godsend for our garden program. He has volunteered many hours with back-breaking work to help harvest the crop to be put in the school lunches, has fixed broken items, and built many nice planter boxes. He is always ready to go, rain or shine, with a smile on his face.
Tonight, the School Board recognized students from each school in the district for their citizenship and outstanding school and community service. The event was the first annual Recognition of Student All-Stars awards ceremony, held at South Albany High School.
In a move away from student all-star recognition at School Board meetings, the special ceremony was a festive opportunity to praise students for their efforts and character that doesn’t compete with School Board business each month and ensures that families can better celebrate their kids’ achievements.
Students were nominated by school staff. Principals from each school presented the certificates to students, who shook hands with all School Board members and posed for a school photos. In all, 44 students were recognized.
Principal comments and school photos will be posted for each school this week.
Work will start soon on bond-funded projects around the district. Come to a community meeting in May to learn about the plans.
May 2: West Albany High School
May 23: South Albany High School
Both meetings will start at 7 p.m.
Congratulations to Memorial Middle School’s Oregon Battle of the Books team, Dumbleldore’s Army. The team placed 15th out of approximately 250 teams statewide at the state competition in Salem last week.
Pictured (from left) are Dru Huddleston, Tori Thorp, Sachi Wrigley, Maddie Wang and center, Izzy Harwood.