Southern Boone School District

SAVE THE DATE: Southern Boone PTA presents the SoBoCo Talent Show on Saturday, May 6th at 5PM in the high school auditorium.

The Middle School Family and Community Partnership Committee is teaming up with the Southern Boone YMCA and Ashland Parks and Rec Department for an Earth Day Community Clean-up Day at 8AM this Saturday morning.

Ms. Engemann, Ms. Fredrick, Ms. Conley, Ms. Holzschuh and Mrs. Rouse's 4th grade classes went on a field trip today to Ha Ha Tonka State Park at the Lake of the Ozarks.

JOIN OUR TEAM! The Southern Boone School District is hiring the following certified positions for the 2023-2024 school year. Learn more and apply online at sbschools.us/employment.

Registration is open for 2023 Summer School for students that will be in Kindergarten-8th grade during the 2023-2024 school year. Summer school will take place June 5th-29th. Registration deadline is Friday, April 28th. MORE INFO: www.sbschools.us/article/1014519

Students in Mrs. Dooley's 5th grade science class recently worked on a project to gather evidence to support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun is dependent upon an observer's distance from the sun. In this activity, students constructed a model solar system and gathered observations of the sun's apparent brightness (using a flashlight) from each planet within their model. They used those observations as evidence to support a claim about which planet is best suited to explore with a solar-powered planetary rover.

Some of our building administrators attended the Missouri Job Opportunities in Education Career Fair on Saturday in Columbia to share job opportunities available at our school district. Thank you to Mrs. Clark, Dr. James and Mr. Beaudoin for representing Southern Boone!

Congratulations to the High School Quiz Bowl team on their 2nd place finish in districts! They competed in the Class 4 District 7 Tournament on Saturday at Oak Grove. The quiz bowl team will compete in the NAQT Small Schools National Tournament in Chicago later this month.

The Southern Boone School Board of Education will meet for its monthly board meeting on Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. in the central office boardroom. The meeting is open to the public. MEETING AGENDA: https://bit.ly/3GOt4pg WATCH IT LIVE HERE: https://bit.ly/3qDXAe8

Sixth grade students are having a great time this evening at their dance in the middle school gym!

What happens when you put Mentos candy in a soda bottle? Students in Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Breece's 2nd grade classes found out during today's outdoor science experiment.

On Thursday, several 3rd grade classes went on a field trip to visit the Missouri State Capitol and spent time at Community Park in Jefferson City. The rest of the 3rd grade classes will go on the field trip next week.

The 1st grade classes at the primary school welcomed parents and special guests to the classrooms this morning. Everyone enjoyed breakfast and students shared their reading and writing skills. It was a great way to celebrate our students' hard work!

Earlier this week, Mrs. Kennedy’s middle school social studies classes participated in a Government Word Wall Scavenger Hunt. The students will be spending 4th quarter learning about government systems and their rights as U.S. citizens.

Thank you to Boone Electric Cooperative for coming to the Southern Boone Learning Garden on Wednesday for their Right-of-Way Department's Arbor Day visit. Second grade students helped plant a Dogwood tree and were given a Holly tree to plant at home.

The Southern Boone County R-I School District is pleased to announce William Beaudoin as the new principal at Southern Boone Middle School. READ MORE HERE: https://www.sbschools.us/article/1074400

The Missouri State Highway Patrol conducted its annual School Bus Safety Inspection today. The Southern Boone School District's fleet of buses passed the inspection with a perfect approval rating of 100%. This qualifies the school district for an Exemplary Fleet Award from the highway patrol. This award is given to school districts whose fleets achieve a 90% or higher approval rating on the inspection. The Southern Boone School District is proud of this achievement and of the district's transportation department, including Bus Mechanic Dennis Sapp and all the bus drivers for their hard work to safely transport our students to and from school each day.

The school district held a pre-construction meeting today for the outdoor stadium and track construction project at the high school. The project includes installing a new track, field turf, video scoreboard, sound system and additional bleachers to the north of the existing home bleachers. Construction will begin on May 15th, with a majority of the project anticipated to be completed by the end of August. This construction project was made possible by voters in the school district approving the $3 million no-tax-increase bond issue during the April 2022 election.

Earlier this week, Dr. Miller's high school minority history class went on a field trip to visit the Cahokia Mounds and went on the St. Louis Women Tour at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis.

Mrs. Golightly's high school chemistry class worked on an Oreo percent composition lab today. The students tried to figure out if Double Stuf Oreo cookies really do have twice the amount of filling by using the percent composition formula.