Top left: Kathleen Cloney-Gardiner, Principal at the newly re-opened Winship Middle School. Bottom left: Some of the new handpicked staff. Right: The beautiful campus of Winship Middle School.
Murphy’s Welcomes Back Winship! Winship Middle School, Principal Kathleen Cloney-Gardiner Cutten’s Winship Middle School has come full circle. In 1897 the initial school, named in honor a merchant seaman, Captain Jonathan Winship, was temporarily housed in Eureka at the “E and 11th Building.” It continued as a high school until 1915, then as an intermediate school for seventh and eighth grades. In 1926 that building was torn down and replaced with the Eureka Municipal Auditorium. Captain Winship was again honored in the christening of a new Cutten school built in 1964: Winship Junior High School. Two programs, Zoe Barnum High School and adult-learning classes were recently housed at Winship and this year will inhabit Eureka’s revamped Lincoln School. Kathleen is very excited to be the new
principal with the opportunity to hand-pick the initial school staff dedicated to Common Core Standards and Project Based teaching. Common Core Standards is an approach to education emphasizing analytical and critical thinking skills. Project Based teaching is a bit like on the job training. Student groups may be asked to complete a specific project that requires thinking, planning and acting together as a team then presenting the finished product as an assignment, just like in the “real world.” Kathleen is a 5th generation Humboldt native who attended Grant Elementary, Winship and Eureka High School and received her B.A. degree from Sacramento State University. She returned to Humboldt County and after teaching elementary school for
16 years at Washington and Zane schools, she went back to college at Humboldt State University for the administrative credential that qualified her to be the principal at Washington Elementary School. The circle is now complete. Kathleen is the new principal at Winship as it reopens as a middle school in Cutten. “Winship will have student clubs, music and art programs as well as orchestra and band,” says Kathleen. “I am very proud to work for Eureka City Schools.” Murphy’s Market is proud to play a part in sustaining the Cutten and Eureka neighborhoods with healthful and fresh foods for growing families. Welcome back to the neighborhood Winship Middle School! By Colleen Hole, Advertising, North Coast Journal
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