Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Emmet School News

Students enrolled in Emmet School District's summer school studied animals. They used math, reading and writing skills to solve problems.

The summer school students and those in the ABC program visited the Little Rock Zoo.

Emmet Summer school students attending the Little Rock Zoo were l-r, Tommy Spencer, Hannah Cleveland, Mrs. Kathy Hogen, Rashion Reed, Kylisia Welch, Kelsey Jones, Brent Bobo, Haley Bright, David Oliver, Lauren Dougan, Kristiana Jasper, Hanna Dougan, Alex Marcum and Mrs. Diane Davis.

Fifth and sixth grade students from Emmet Elementary School won the Nevada County Health-O-Rama poster contest. The students were instructed to create a poster that displayed a healthy lifestyle message. These posters were displayed at the Health-O-Rama held in Prescott. In addition to having thier posters displayed the top 5 won cash prizes. The winners were, l-r, Bryant McClellan, who received $40 for first place, Jonathon Miller, $30 for second place, Shay Jones, $20 for third place, Dustin Turner, $15 for fourth place, and Callie Dearinger was awarded $10 for fifth place.

EMMET READERS

Four years ago, Dr. Gene Ross, superintendent of the Emmet School District, wanted to enhance the reading performance in the elementary school children, thus increasing the scores on standardized test.

The Southwest Education Cooperative did not provide such services for training of teachers at the time. Dr. Ross gained access, through teacher leaders and specialist Linda Haynie, to receive services through Dawson Education Cooperative in Arkadelphia, which offered the service.

The new technique Dr. Ross chose for Emmet school was Reading Recovery.

This program was started in New Zealand by Marie Clay. Reading Recovery is targeted for first graders who have the potential for becoming excellent readers.

Over the past three years, reading scores haved improved 42%, as stated at the recent report to the public. These scores are due impart to the close working of Reading Recovery teacher Pat Loe and first grade teachers, Kathy Hooper and Lorrie Quilly.

"Emmet School is very proud of its faculty and administrator on the great jobs they are doing to provide a quality education for thier students," according to a news release from the school.