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Oak Grove recycling project inspires creativity
About 40 elementary students at Oak Grove recently participated in a home project, creating a piece of art using nothing but recyclables, besides adhesive material.
This year’s building-wide winner
November 23, 2020
Veterans Day Parade hosted in lieu of assembly
The Poplar Bluff Middle School may have reinvented the way its student body observes Veterans Day, having hosted a parade in place of its longstanding assembly for the first time.
Veterans looped
November 17, 2020
Kindergarten Center nearly doubles fundraising goal
The campus community rallied around Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center to make its annual Stonie’s Sausage fundraiser by far the most successful in its several-year history.
A total of $44,255 in
November 10, 2020
Dinner offered for free to students at all school sites
Free dinner meals are being served either to go or on-site after school beginning today, in a district-led food service effort to reach more students.
Poplar Bluff’s food service director, Dixie
October 23, 2020
Pink-Out Day celebrates 10th anniversary, $200K raised
Pink-Out Day, which started at Poplar Bluff Schools and soon expanded city-wide, has reportedly raised over $200,000 for the United Cancer Assistance Network over the past decade.
The 10th annual
October 13, 2020
Tennis courts resurfaced through partnership with Parks Department
The tennis courts at the Poplar Bluff Middle School were resurfaced over the summer for students and patrons to use through an ongoing partnership forged with Parks & Recreation.
Lanny Corcimiglia
September 29, 2020
PBMS Giving Closet opens for students in need
A sixth grade teacher working toward a counseling degree has realized her vision at the Poplar Bluff Middle School this school year, having opened a Giving Closet free for students in need.
With
September 29, 2020
$5K awarded toward remodel of 80+ year-old gym
The final touches of a facelift have been placed on the Poplar Bluff Junior High gymnasium, the very oldest building in the district, with its construction dating back to 1937.
Custom window
September 22, 2020
Therapy dogs continue to be utilized by school system
A chocolate Lab, certified as a professional therapy dog, recently served to help get apprehensive new students through the classroom door during the first day of school at the Poplar Bluff Early
September 22, 2020
Free school meals for children through fall
Free school meals for children through fall
The Poplar Bluff R-I School District, in partnership with Chartwells, is excited to announce that school meals will be free to all students through the
September 15, 2020
First ever virtual back-to-school convocation held
The Poplar Bluff School District’s annual back-to-school convocation, a tradition in which the entire staff normally assembles in advance of the new year, was held virtually for the first time on
September 1, 2020
Teacher of the Year promoted internally to lead Lake Road
Distinguished elementary educator Rondi Vaughn has been hired to succeed Erica Weadon as principal of Lake Road Elementary.
Having split her career between Eugene Field and Oak Grove over the
August 23, 2020
Mark Twain School set to open with administrative recruit at the helm
The Poplar Bluff School District will open its first comprehensive alternative school for the 2020/21 academic year in the former Early Childhood Center facility centrally located on North Main
August 23, 2020
Ribbon cutting held for state-of-the-art Early Childhood Center
Poplar Bluff Early Childhood Center students will have the privilege of starting the school year in one of the finest preschool facilities in Missouri, local educators believe.
A well-attended
August 23, 2020
Poplar Bluff serves almost 500K meals during pandemic
Nearly half a million free meals were served by school partners to students over the course of 100 days.
Immediately following spring break, Chartwells began to feed thousands of children regularly
August 23, 2020
Dr. Teeter advances as principal of Poplar Bluff Middle School
Dr. Josh Teeter joined the Poplar Bluff School District so he can be a part of an active professional learning community, he reflected.
Now, two years after serving as assistant principal at Junior
August 23, 2020