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Weston High School (Arlington)
“We are getting ready for the holiday dinner on Wednesday. Everybody brings a dish. It’s a huge potluck celebrating the holidays. We are also going on a schoolwide field trip to (Seattle’s) Pike Place Market on Friday.”
Samantha Marion
11th grade
Marysville-Pilchuck offers holiday concert
Marysville-Pilchuck High School’s instrumental music department performs a free holiday music concert Thursday with such selections as Leroy Anderson’s “Christmas Festival” and J. S. Bach’s “Little Fugue in G Minor.”
The evening concludes with a performance from the school’s jazz ensemble.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. concert at the school, 5611 108th St. NE.
Mill Creek PTA pays for field trips
The Mill Creek Elementary School Parent Teacher Association recently donated $8,500 to the school to cover the costs of field trips.
It’s enough for one regular and one extended field trip for each teacher.
Edmonds boundary changes approved
Edmonds recently approved boundary changes aimed at balancing enrollment needs at its elementary schools.
Schools with the highest enrollments, including Oak Heights, Martha Lake, Hilltop, Spruce and Lynnwood Intermediate, will lose some students to schools with lower enrollments. Brier, Cedar Way, Lynndale and Meadowdale will welcome the transferred students.
Spruce Primary and Lynnwood Intermediate also will convert to kindergarten through sixth-grade campuses next fall.
The changes were made to reduce overcrowding and slow enrollment in rapidly growing areas, including Oak Heights and Hilltop, said Ellen Kahan, an assistant superintendent.
The redistricting drew criticism from some parents whose children will be moved to schools that are further from their homes than their current schools.
Each school will have a different “grandfathering” policy. Current fifth-grade students and their siblings at Martha Lake and Oak Heights can remain there, for example, while fourth- and fifth-graders and their siblings already in attendance at Hilltop can remain there.
One change was made to the plan: Students being moved from Hilltop will all attend Brier. Under the original proposal, some of the departing students would have been sent to Cedar Way.
For more information, visit www.edmonds.wednet.edu or call 425-670-7000.
Former teacher’s estate includes school
The generosity of a former Snohomish teacher lives on after his death last spring following a five-year battle with cancer.
Mark Cowgill’s estate, arranged by his mother, donated $30,000 to Valley View Middle School, where he last taught.
Half of the money is for meeting student needs and emergency building needs, while the other half is for helping school staff with personal needs.
Cowgill was known for seeing and meeting the needs of his colleagues and students during his 31 years as a junior high and middle school history teacher in the Snohomish School District.
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