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Tweet Once the snow has melted for good next week (knock on wood), it will be officially time to get into the spirit of spring. And one young Prairie Village resident is helping spring spirits bloom with her role in a timely Starlight Children’s Theatre production at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts next [...]
Tweet Belinder Elementary students packed the pavement Friday for the school’s 10th annual Belinder Walkathon. The event raises money to support the school and focuses on exercise and health while giving students a sense of accomplishment for helping out. Sporting KC forward Teal Bunbury (sidelined with an injured knee) added a celebrity flair and was [...]
Tweet Apparently it’s going to take some wizardry to make up for recent cuts to state education funding. Around 125 students this weekend hopped on their brooms (or foam pool noodles, as it were) for the inaugural Belinder Elementary Quidditch tournament. The Harry Potter-inspired fun was the idea of Belinder mom Laura Fey, a local [...]
Tweet In more than 20 years at Belinder Elementary, Principal Karen Faucher has seen a few things change. When she started, the card catalog was students’ best reference tool. Today, she says, the amount of resources kids have at their disposal is mind boggling. “They have all the information they need at the tip of [...]
Tweet Belinder third graders on Friday wrapped up an Earth Day recycling project that will keep three tons of paper out of the landfill — and put it back into use within just two weeks. The project was part of the Belinder GIVES (Growth in Volunteer Experience for Students) program, which encourages kids to enhance [...]
Tweet Reading Week at Belinder Elementary got off to an animated start Monday as Miles McMahon from Theatre of the Imagination performed children’s stories and poems for students over the lunch hour: Organizers have the week chock full of reading-centric activities, including a reading rocking chair for parents in the lobby. Each day this week, [...]
Tweet Belinder students and parents packed the school’s halls and classrooms Thursday for the second Health and Science fair. The event featured 39 interactive learning stations for kids — the most popular among them an inflatable planetarium that filled up a big chunk of the library: The first fair was held two years ago, and [...]
Tweet 2012 will mark Belinder Elementary’s 60th anniversary, and the school’s Diamond Jubilee committee is looking for stories, memories, photos and other mementos for a celebratory video. The memorabilia can be place on loan to the Belinder PTA, which is organizing the Diamond Jubilee Gala, to be held Feb. 3, 2012. The items will be [...]
Tweet Belinder Elementary students took to the school’s track Friday to get some exercise and raise funds for the PTA. Sporting KC midfielder Luke Sassano was on hand to kick off the annual Walkathon, for which student secured pledges. They walked around the school’s track for an hour while a DJ kept the crowd entertained. [...]
Tweet Four local schools are receiving significant facility additions or improvements over the summer break. They are: Belinder, which is receiving a four-classroom kindergarten and elevator addition. Crews are also upgrading the kitchen and expanding the multi-purpose room. The project will add approximately 10,000 square feet to the building. The project cost is $1.8 million. [...]
Tweet If you happen to find yourself in Manza, Zambia in the next couple years, don’t be surprised if you come across a soccer team wearing Belinder Braves t-shirts. Grayson Bauers, a former student of Belinder teacher Chitra Gowdamarajan, recent served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. To help support his efforts in [...]
Tweet Liza Clough says bike safety was important to her family before her brother Jake got in a bike accident with a car in 2005. Today, bike safety and proper use of bike helmets are more important than ever to the Cloughs. “A bike helmet saved Jake’s life,” Clough said. “We think it’s really important [...]
Tweet The 13 candidates running for the four Shawnee Mission School Board seats up for election this April face one overarching question: how can the district maintain its reputation for great public education while confronting financial challenges that necessitate closing schools and cutting staff? But sometimes overlooked in the debate about the cuts is an [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet Parents, teachers and students in the Belinder Elementary community are working to provide clothing, food and other essentials to the Crowell family, which lost its home to a severe fire last Thursday. In this week’s school newsletter, the school’s PTA presidents ask members of the school community to help the Crowells through this difficult [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet We’ve had a few people write in with questions about why the district is looking into expanding Belinder Elementary at the same time it’s hoping to cut costs by combining the area’s two middle schools. UPDATED: (We should clarify that the money to pay for the school improvements would come from capital funds raised [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District has submitted a proposal to the Prairie Village planning commission seeking to expand Belinder Elementary School, 7230 Belinder Road. The permit application includes plans for the construction of four new kindergarten classrooms, as well as a kitchen renovation and the installation of an elevator. The application also includes the [...]
