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Published: May 14, 2008 11:07 am
Warsaw team conducts ‘climate audit’ at school
By DEB PETERSON
Correspondent
More than 300 students, 120 staff members and 75 parents were interviewed in small groups as part of a recent Northridge High School project to conduct a “climate audit.”
Northridge hosted a team from Warsaw High School with their goal to seek ways to improve the school.
Participating groups were asked questions concerning Northridge’s strengths and areas needing attention, as well as academic rigor, extracurricular involvement and safety concerns.
Assistant Principal Gerald Rasler organized the event in cooperation with the Indiana Principal’s Leadership Academy.
Results will be tabulated by the Warsaw team and shared with Northridge administrators at a later date.
Middle school VIPs
A VIP Honor Tea recently took place at Heritage Middle School to honor 120 students for their citizenship skills throughout the school year.
Criteria for selecting these students also includes being responsible, considerate, supporting the school in a positive manner, leadership, good attendance, and being respectful of authority and other students’ rights and properties.
John Troyer, youth pastor at Clinton Frame Mennonite Church was the speaker for the group, which included parents of the youth present.
American Legion Post 210 and Dairy Queen sponsor the event, which also honors students throughout the year.
Overall winners for the 2007-2008 school year are Audrey Grewe and Sam Ahonen, sixth grade; Corinne Cominator and Aaron Yoder, seventh-grade; and Jessica Hostetler and Seth Regan, eighth-grade.
Other overall award winners are Kirstin Guerrero, Most Improved, and Doug Jakubowicz, Citizenship.
Shirts needed
The youth of the Middlebury Church of the Brethren are collecting clean used shirts to take with them on a mission trip to Puerto Rico this summer and have set a goal of 300 shirts. These items can be dropped off at the church, 507 W. Bristol Ave., during regular business hours.
For more information, call the Boys & Girls Club at 825-0873.
Club of the Year
The Middlebury Homemakers Club has been named the Elkhart County Extension Homemakers Outstanding Club of the Year.
The club received a traveling gavel, and its name is added to a plaque the hangs in the Home and Family Arts building on the Elkhart County 4-H Fair grounds in Goshen.
Contact Deb Peterson: 534-6861 or ddpete@bnin. net.
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