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Show ht Grove Review New Utah! - Wednesday, August 23, 2000 - Page 8 ron i vvu w uLiiH.H"...ti-H-.' ; ' ' - irsn Six new classrooms added on to high school , , by Linda Butler Many students at Pleasant : , rove High School will be learning in one 0f the six new ! Sssrooms at the high school. : 'f16 1 addition, being built much oi year, includes two large , art rooms, two modern biology classrooms, two high-tech classrooms for distance learn-! learn-! mg an addition to the comput- er writing lab, and expansion of the counseling center. The high school was built in 1959, and this upgrade was necessary, according to princi- - pal Eris Waymire. The school "as the equipment for teaching I art and biology, but these larg-l larg-l er, newer classrooms will allow - better and more efficient use of . the equipment. The addition . increases the high school's capacity by about 200 students, said Waymire. The writing lab will double in size, housing 90 computers for students' use. This will allow for more computer time for students, according to .Rachel Thompson, head of the PGHS English department. The additional space in the .counseling center will include two offices for counselors and a meeting room for large groups of students. The distance learning class- iiJlllllIM PGHS Back to School night scheduled for Tuesday, Aug By Kalyn Secretan The Pleasant Grove High School Back to School Night will be held Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove High Auditorium. The PTSA is encouraging parents, teachers and students to come early and participate in the opening event. The theme for the evening is "We were once children, chil-dren, someone took care of us, Now it is our turn." Featured speakers are Geret N. Giles, and Robert Hunt. The Pleasant Grove High School Ball Room Dance Team will also perform. Geret Giles is a Ph.d. at A. Lynn Scoresby & Associates, he iS alsn tha t. 1S a licensed child Psychologist. Ru ulptor who Sonars So-nars throughout? on ''Making Ltjht The PTSA p S ingand present the ft : year. The PTSA ha for 800 member I"' PTSA. Themembe? $5-00 for each p K: dent. They wiUogf. how parents can J involved m their hi students' life. " ! Lindon Elementary wecomes new principal Karen Slife Photo by Linda Butler Gordon Moses and Rachel Thompson bring computers into the new computer writing lab. rooms are a cooperative effort between Alpine School District and UVSC. Students are able to concurrently enroll in college classes, which are taught by professors at UVSC and sent over fiber optic cable to PGHS. Students receive both high school and college credit for these classes. Teachers are spending the week before school opens to prepare these new classrooms for the students. . Desks are being arranged, equipment is moved, computers are installed. These new classrooms class-rooms and counseling rooms are scheduled to be ready for use by the first clay of school, August 28. Lindon Elementary is pleased to welcome Karen Slife as its new principal. She has been in education for over 21 years, serving in four states Indiana, California, Texas, and Utah. Slife comes to Lindon Elementary with a wide range of experience. She has worked with . all types of students including those with t-disabilities t-disabilities and behavior ders. She holds two it-degrees, it-degrees, one in Admmi and the other in t. Education. She has been married-years married-years and is the mo;, three sons, ages 21, 19. a Principal says new Mt. Mahogony Elementary almost ready for students By Kalyn Secretan , Mt. Mahogany Elementary School will open its doors and welcome students and parents to an open house tomorrow night, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ; Each student will have a chance to see their classroom, meet their teacher and tour the building. School will begin on Monday, Aug. 28. Principal Scott Westover is crossing his fingers that everything will go all right, that they will be able to make adjustments and get the wrinkles worked out quick- ly. The beautiful new building located on 1300 West, just North of the State Street is very nice and roomy. Principal Westover hopes the students and everyone in the community will appreciate the building and the beautiful location. "Everything is state-of the-art," he noted. i 1 ' ; Y Principal Scott Westover Mr. Westover spent hours interviewing teachers, about 150 to 204 were interviewed to fill the positions of the teachers, teach-ers, to staff the media center, custodial and all other staff positions. "It is very demanding to open a new school. There are a lot of challenges, and it has been a lot of work on everyone's part." Everyone was scurrying around on Monday trying to get everything in order for school to begin next week. The new principal estimates there will be close to 700 students stu-dents entering the new school. They are coming from Manila, Central, Valley View and Cedar Ridge Elementary Schools. There will, not be any, .students .stu-dents coming from Grovecrest where Westover had served as principal for 15 years. There will be one bus bringing students stu-dents west of State Street. Mt. Mahogany will have 30 teachers on staff. There will be five sessions of kindergarten, first and second grades. There will be four sessions of third and fourth grades and then three sessions for the fifth and sixth grades. Principal Westover will miss the parents, the staff and the kids from Grovecrest, he said. Seven of the teachers have transferred from the school along with the secretaries, Barbara Beck and Sharlene Johansson. Johansson said she and Barbara have had a blast decorating deco-rating the office, the faculty room, the teacher's work room and the staff bathroom. A third grade teacher, Polly Broughton and her sister, Kim have helped with the project. The office has a cheerful setting ' with a lot of wooden apples seen among the plants, the wreaths and little red wagons. The new school is one of three elementary schools opening in the area this fall. West Field will open in Alpine and Snow Springs will open in Lehi. MP rt3! wavRt ifiuji rKitiiioioitt The new Mount Mahogany Elementary in Pleasant Grove. The new school will dents from four different schools. Photo by Die: is located on 1300 take inarouundl Aspen Elementary Aug. 25 Open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Aug. 28 First day of school track 1 attends from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and track 2 is from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 5 First day of Kindergarten Sept. 5-1 5 Gold C Book fund raiser Sept. 5-8 Bus Safety week Sept. 26 School pictures Cedar Ridge Elementary Aug. 23 Open house from 3 to 4 p.m. Aug. 24 First day of school Aug. 24-30 Kindergarten assessment testing by appointment Aug. 30 Back to school night, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 31 First day of kindergarten Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Central Elementary Aug. 23 Class lists will be posted at the front of the school Aug. 25 Open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 28 First day of school Aug. 28 - Sept 1 Kindergarten assessment testing by appointment Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 5 First day of Kindergarten Sept. 6 Back to school night from 7 to 9 p.m. Grovecrest Elementary Aug. 24 Open house from 4 to 6 p.m.; General PTA meeting at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 28 First day of school Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Lindon Elementary All classes including kindergarten will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. Mount Mahogany Aug. 24 Aug. 28 Open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. First day of school; school hours are from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Aug. 28 - Sept. 1 Kindergarten assessment testing by appointment Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 5 First day of kindergarten Rocky Mountain Elementary Aug. 24 Open house from 5 to 6 p.m. Aug. 28 First day of school Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 7 Back to school night from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Valley View Elementary Aug. 28 First day of school at 8:40 a.m. Aug. 30 Back to school night from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 5 First day of Kindergarten Oak Canyon Junior High School Aug. 23 Aug. 25 Aug. 28 Sept. 4 Sept. 5 Sept. 5-8 Sept. 8 Open house from 5 to 7 p.m. 7th grade first day of school 8th and 9th grade first day of school; 7th grade does not attend Labor Dayno school Pictures Hello week After school dance Aug. 24 Aug. 28 Aug. 31 Sept. 4 Sept. 12 Open house from 6 to 7 p.m. First day of school from 9:05 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Back to School night from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Labor Dayno school PTA Board meeting Pleasant Grove Junior High School Manila Elementary Aug. 24 Aug. 28 Back to school niaht from 5 to 7:30 D.m. First day of school; school is held from 8:50 a m. to 3:30 D.m. Aug. 28-Sept. 2 Kindergarten assessment testing Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Sept. 5 First day of Kindergarten; morning session is from 8:50 to 1 1 :40 a.m. and afternoon session is from 12:20 to 3:30 p.m. What's New: We will have a shortened school day every Friday. Aug. 24 Aug. 25 Aug. 28 Sept. 1 Sept. 4 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 8 Open house from 6 to 8 D.m. First day of school for 7th grade; school begins at 8:10 a.m. First day of school for 8th and 9th grade; no 7th graders attend Back to school dance from 3 to 4 p.m. Labor Day'no school School pictures Magazine Drive begins Freshman dress-up day Pleasant Grove High School Aug. 24 Sophomore day from 9 a.m. to noon: lunch will be provided Aug. 28 First day of school Aug. 29 Back to school night from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 4 Labor Dayno school Anyone with school news tips can call the Pleasant Grove City Editor at 756-7669, ext. WE'VS MOVE! 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