Watch the CES Moving-Up Video
Our CES moving-up ceremony was a terrific celebration. Take a look at the video!
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CES fifth-grade student are moving up to middle school
We are celebrating our Circleville Elementary School fifth-grade students who are moving up to middle school! These students have accomplished so much academically and socially, and have honed their skills in music, band, and athletics. All while getting through a pandemic! Interim Superintendent of Schools Donna Geidel reminded the students of how much they have …
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A glorious day for the CES field day
The students at CES had such a blast on field day, June 10. It was an incredible day for it too. Students soaked in the sun as they jumped rope, did the obstacle course, four square, played on the playground, drew with sidewalk chalk and honed their basketball skills. The students and parents were treated …
Seven years later, CES students live their promise
Back in 2015, Circleville Elementary School’s principal, Amy Brockner, teamed up with her fifth-grade teachers – Sean Healy, Robin Conklin, Heather Walmers, Susan Corcoran, and Andrea Urmston – to encourage the students who were moving up to middle school to sign a promise to graduate high school. Fast forward seven years. Those fifth-grade students are …
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A trip back to colonial times at CES
Fourth-grade students in Ms. Bourke’s, Mrs. Callahan’s, and Mrs. Urmston’s classes at CES finished a social studies unit on the exploration and colonization of New York State, from the early explorers to the Dutch to the English. They learned about what life was like over 300 years ago and celebrated by creating their own toys, …
Combining math and art, we have Pi-lines!
Andrea Urmston’s fourth graders got really creative, combining math and art on Pi Day – March 14. On graph paper, students drew a building as high as each of the first 20 digits of Pi, in order, from left to right. Then they got creative in designing a pi-line (or skyline) at sunrise or sunset. …
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CES is ‘jazzing up’ its music program
Circleville Elementary School music teacher Danielle Hommel wanted to give her music students another option to pique their interest in music. What better than jazz band to do that! Elementary schools have concert band and the district has jazz in both middle and high school so Ms. Hommel thought it was a perfect fit. “I …
Here’s to Pi Day at CES
Happy Pi Day! Yes today, March 14, is the celebration of the mathematical symbol pi, which of course is written as 3.14 for short. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology. It was physicist Larry Shaw, an employee of the museum, who decided Pi Day …
CES celebrates literacy and school spirit for Read Across America
Circleville Elementary School celebrated literacy and school spirit all week long the first week of March. With Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Read Across America Day being March 2, everyone got into the spirit. Wacky Wednesday saw students wearing mismatched or backwards clothes. Reading “Green Eggs and Ham” was a blast, especially with our green egg …
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Celebrating literacy and spirt at CES all week
CES is celebrating literacy and school spirit all week long! March 2 is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and it’s also Read Across America Day. CES has lots on tap for the week, including Wacky Wednesday on March 2. Everyone can be silly and wear their clothes backwards, inside out or mismatched. Thursday is Fox in Sox …
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