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Englewood gets good report on schools School district’s progress reflected in state’s ratings By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Isabella Jeffery, a third-grader, took advantage of the opportunity to decorate a pumpkin as she and her family attended the Oct. 13 Charles Hay World School Harvest Festival. Students, faculty members and parents tend a large community garden, and the school celebrates the harvest with the annual festival. Photos by Tom Munds
Festival celebrates harvest Food and music focus on bounty from the gardens
By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The Charles Hay World School’s Oct. 13 Harvest Festival lived up to its name with decorations, festival music and tables groaning under the weight of all the food parents and students prepared from items harvested from gardens. People picked up plates and bowls and moved down the length of the food tables. There was a wide variety of raw vegetables, about 20 choices of hot dishes, plus an array of dessert food. Diners could choose from familiar items like the big pot of tomato soup and large crock pots of chili or potato soup. But some of the dishes were also different — like the Asian pumpkin spice soup made by Angel Forester, mother of a Hay second-grader. “I have an Asian cookbook and the recipe looked interesting,” she said. “My mother had pumpkins in her garden that were just the right size for our soup, that my daughter helped me make. I really like the taste. It is a little different but it is really good.” Not far away, Heather Anderson was stirring her organic garden vegie soup. “We have 10 or 12 different vegetables, plus some herbs and spices in the soup, and all those vegetables either came from the Hay garden or from our garden at home,” she said. “This was a team effort as just about every thirdgrader helped make it happen. Some of the children chopped vegetables, some
Charles Hay World School first-graders sing John Denver’s “Garden Song” as part of the entertainment during the school’s Oct 13 harvest festival. peeled vegetables and some snapped beans. It was a ton of fun for me and I think it was fun for the kids. They can be proud because we made a really good soup.” Second-grader Jackson Bruyere chopped potatoes for the soup. “It was fun because I like to cook,” he said. “My favorite thing to cook is chicken and noodles.” There were desserts, too, like the apple pie Christie McNeill made. “All my apples came from my neighbor’s tree,” she said. “It was so much fun to make this dish for tonight because this is such an awesome event.” The tables around the gymnasium quickly filled. Keri Brockenstette said the tomato soup was delicious. She smiled and said her son helped make the soup and that probably made it taste a little better. “This is such a fun event,” she said.
The Englewood School District received encouraging news when the state released its preliminary school performance framework report. “We feel the report shows we are moving in the right direction,” Superintendent Wendy Rubin said at an Oct. 6 town hall meeting. “The district was not in good shape in 2010, but five years of focused work has helped us improve. Of course, there is still work to do so we want to stay focused.” The state’s school performance framework is described as a way to provide a snapshot of a district’s or a school’s level of academic achievement, growth, growth gaps and post-secondary readiness. Four ratings are possible. A district rated turnaround or priority improvement is on the clock with five years to move up to an improvement rating. Two other possible ratings are improvement and performance. In the recent report, the framework listed the Englewood School District as improvement, a rating that could possibly move to performance in January’s final framework. Charles Hay and Clayton elementaries were rated as improvement. Cherrelyn moved up from priority improvement to improvement, but was only nine-tenths of a point away from the score necessary to receive performance. The district is asking reconsideration to move the rating to performance based on the growth of students in kindergarten, first and second grades in reading. Bishop was rated as performance and Grades continues on Page 9
Heather Anderson stirs organic garden vegetable soup that she and students made for the festival. “I am happy the Hay Harvest Festival is so popular with the families. I will say I was a little surprised so many people cooked food for tonight. It is great.”
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