At River City High School (RCHS), Judy Tan won the CSTEM Teacher of the Year Award. Toni Marvelli and the Wind Ensemble have received recognition and been selected to perform at the CMEA State Band and Orchestra Festival. RCHS girls’ tennis has made it to the section championship. Canine detectors have come to the RCHS campus twice in November and, between the two visits, there was only a single hit. A female student ran when the dogs showed up, but she had already been identified.

At Westfield Village Elementary, Westfield Village welcomed their new principal, Roxanna Villaseñoras. On November 16^th, there was an ALL/CVF leadership meeting, and on November 18^th there was a District Grade Level Collaboration. Upcoming activities at Westfield Village are a visit from Officer Bowers of the West Sacramento Police Department on December 2^nd, a visit from the Fire Department on December 4^th, and a field trip to Safeway on December 8^th that will cause classes to start at different times.

At Southport Elementary, the students of Westport write poetry for the World Peace Rose Garden Poetry Contest every fall. A committee chose 12 winners and those authors were given the opportunity to read their poem on an outdoor stage to the entire student body and guests. This contest, held each spring, has over 2,000 entries from six countries.

At Stonegate Elementary, the fifth grade class at Stonegate went to the “Mission to Mars” at the Discovery Museum. The second grade class went to the Explorit Science Museum. Upcoming events at Stonegate are the CHIPS for Kids Toy Drive 2015, where students will collect toys and stuff a patrol car full on December 11^th, and canned food donations, where students will collect donations to send with the sixth grade AVID students as they volunteer at the Food Bank on December 8^th.

At Elkhorn Elementary, temporary fencing has been erected around classrooms 1-19 and the cafeteria while a roofing project is underway.

At Riverbank Elementary, first grade students at Riverbank took a walking field trip to the Fire Station. Riverbank held an awards assembly for students in the sixth through eighth grade. Students in every grade level now have access to Chromebook (Google laptop) carts and teachers are teaching students to work within the Google environment.

Sources: Giorgos Kazanis