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Tweet A group of Prairie Elementary sixth graders this past weekend proved that Panthers are as comfortable on the basketball court as in the forest. The team won the YMCA 6th and 7th grade end-of-season basketball tournament at Horizons High School, finishing the double-elimination event undefeated. The team is coached by Prairie Village resident Scott [...]
Tweet Area residents may still be coming to terms with the long-term damage Tuesday’s storm has done to area trees — but the piles of snow are also producing an immediate problem: clogging up the sidewalks that people use to get to and from schools. Prairie Elementary and Indian Hills Middle School both sent messages [...]
Tweet Prairie Elementary mom Meggan Prosser-Gebhardt sent in this note letting us know about a screening tonight of “Race to Nowhere,” a documentary about the effects of standardized testing on the education system: Praire Elementary is hosting the event, thanks to the efforts of many parents concerned about the growing pressure students face to perform [...]
Tweet When Prairie Elementary principal Scott Merfen agreed to spend the night on the school’s roof if his students were able to get 600 people to register for September’s Prairie Pride 5K, he didn’t know he was going to have to do it on the first frosty night of the year. But true to his [...]
Tweet Lee Dixon had a good reason for running fast at Saturday’s second annual Prairie Pride 5K: He had a wedding to get ready for…his own. Dixon and his groomsmen started the big day off with a brisk run on a crisp, picture perfect September morning, with Dixon, 27, taking the overall win at 17:49.1. [...]
Tweet Prairie Elementary principal Scott Merfen has a target on his tennis shoes. More than 100 Prairie students have signed up for the new Prairie Panther Running Club, a training program helping kids prepare for the school’s second annual Prairie Pride 5K Sept. 22. And one of the biggest motivating factors for the kids so [...]
Tweet Patrons at the First Fridays gathering in the Crossroads district earlier this month may have noticed a young energy to the art displayed at Centric Projects. Owners Courntey Kounkel, Steve Swanson and Richard Wetzel opened up their space to host a real-life art show for 40 young art students from Prairie and Corinth. With [...]
Tweet The weather is getting more and more ideal for kids and bikes. And this time of year, Headstrong for Jake founder Otis Clough knows it’s especially important for to kids know the rules of the road. Headstrong for Jake honors the memory of Fairway teen Jake Clough, who was in a serious bike crash [...]
Tweet Your eyes weren’t deceiving you: The average age of workers at many Village Shops stores did dip drastically last Wednesday. Sixty students from Prairie Elementary got the opportunity to see what a day in the working world looks like as part of the school’s annual “Village People” field trip (it’s kind of like Exchange [...]
Tweet Some Prairie students and their parents aren’t letting the change in seasons stop them from the fun of growing things. In fact, they’re starting their own farms over the winter: worm farms. The school’s HiP Club (“i can make a Health Planet”) hosted Eco Troubador Stan Slaughter in the Prairie library a couple weeks [...]
Tweet With the Prairie Pride 5K in the rear view mirror, members of the Prairie PTA and Prairie Fund are looking ahead to their next big fundraising event: the Prairie Auction. The event will be held November 4 in the Crossroads district at the Centrics Project Space. The event will going to have an ’80s [...]
Tweet It was a veritable teeming den of Prairie Panthers at the start of Saturday’s inaugural Prairie Pride 5K, one of three fundraising events the Prairie PTA will be putting on this year. Things got off to a fast start with a number of the shorter-legged Panthers dashing across the start line for the 1 [...]
Tweet School may have started at Prairie Elementary, but one third grade classroom there hasn’t seen any activity yet — because the district is still in the process of hiring its teacher. After seeing that final total enrollment for the two planned third grade sections at Prairie would be 28 and 29 students, respectively, the district [...]
Tweet The Prairie Elementary PTA has decided to take a new approach to fundraising this year, moving away from its traditional battery of sales and toward larger events intended to foster more community spirit. The group is kicking off the new strategy with a run, the Prairie Pride 5K and 1-mile Fun Run, to be [...]
Tweet A Prairie Elementary student’s penchant for reading is paying off for his peers. Jacob Rubesch was selected to participate in the BenBella Young Reviewers Circle, a first-of-its-kind program where young readers take preview copies of unpublished books and give their authors’ notes. Rubesch, who reviewed The Sword of Darrow by the father and son [...]
Tweet The Kansas Green Schools Program recently awarded Prairie Elementary with a Koch Green Schools Grant. Prairie will use the $2,500 grant to create a student run garden market. They will also install an irrigation system and plant buffalo grass and perennials as a means conserve water that will be used in the garden. Prairie [...]
Tweet A group of Prairie Elementary students are the stars of a new video for Johnson County Girls on the Run, an organization whose mission is “to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living.” The video was shot by Prairie Village videographer Maura Coleman-Murray.
