Win Money for Your School,

Free Admission to the Knoxville Zoo,

Run a Marathon...

Sound Like Fun?

Then Join the Fittest School Challenge!

 

Fittest School Challenge

The Fittest School Challenge is a friendly competition between elementary schools to promote healthy lifestyles and encourage participation in the Covenant Kids Run.  All elementary school children age 12 and under can participate. After registering for the Covenant Kids Run, participants will run a total of 25.2 miles between registration and Kids Run day and track their progress in a log book. On Kids Run day, participants will run the last mile for a total of 26.2 miles, the distance of a full marathon.

The school in Loudon County with the greatest participation of students completing the Kids Run will win the Fittest School Challenge and will win money for their Physical Education program! Because schools have varying student populations, participation will be based on percentage of the school’s total enrollment. 

 

Will your school win the Fittest School Challenge?

 

Kickoff Event

Covenant Health will host a kickoff event at the Knoxville Zoo February 4, 2012 at which kids can register for the Kids Run and log miles toward their 26.2-mile goal. Each child who registers for the fun run and one accompanying guest also get free admission to the Zoo for the day! Additional guests get half-price admission to the zoo.

 

For additional information or if you are interested in starting a running club at your school please contact Melisa Fuhrmeister at (865) 986-2036 ext. 4610 or fuhrmeisterm@loudoncounty.org.  

 

Visit: http://www.knoxvillemarathon.com/Participant_Info/raceinfo/kidsrun.htm for registration forms and additional information.

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 We at SES would like to give a fond and sad farewell to Mrs. Tammy Webb as she embarks on her other career in medicine.  We were blessed to have her here for six years.  Tammy is a very gifted teacher and clinician.  We wish her well and will miss her very much.

We welcome Mrs. Jessica Barham as she will take over Mrs. Webb's second grade class.  Mrs. Barham comes to us from Fort Craig Elementary School in Maryville.  We are so happy to have her on board! Welcome Mrs. Barham!

Steekee Elementary School would like to welcome several new members to an already extraordinary team...

Welcome aboard to:

Mrs. Elise Dubes in Pre-K,
Mrs. Amy Bennett as Secretary/Bookkeeper,
Mrs. Tina Nash in Special Education,
Mr. Scott Blanton as Guidance Counselor,
Miss Robyn Doane in Kindergarten

We, at Steekee, are blessed to have such a gifted group of educators joining us this year.  What an amazing place to be!!!

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TCAP results for the state of Tennessee have been released by Commissioner Kevin Huffman, and your child (grades 3-8) should bring home a copy of his/her individual results.  You may wonder how Loudon County stacks up against the state results, so here is some information for comparison.  While there is still great work to be done, we are proud that Loudon County students outperformed their peers across the state in both percentage proficient/advanced and in growth. 

2011 TCAP Results	State Proficient/Advanced	Loudon County Proficient/Advanced
Math	41	44.4
Reading/Language	48.5	57.8
Science	55.3	62.9
Social Studies	81.5	87

2011 TCAP Growth over last year	State Growth	Loudon Growth
Math	7	11.3
Reading	3.7	8
Science	3.5	3
Social Studies	1.4	6.5

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