School News

Before heading off to their summer adventures, a group of Surprise Lake Middle School (SLMS) students were recognized for their creative talents in this year’s writing contest. Ten winners were selected from more than 60 entries in three categories: short story, poetry and persuasive essay. Read more...

Students interested in military futures attend Academy Night

Local high school students interested in obtaining more information about possible futures in a U.S. service academy were invited to an orientation session May 19 to see where their futures could take them. Read more...

Student actors pull out all the stops

You don’t find much in the way of entertainment for just $6 anymore, but for this very low ticket price you can see a wonderful play in the Columbia Junior High Performing Arts Center that will charm your socks off. Opening May 8, students from Fife High School and Columbia Junior High involved in the Fife High School Drama program will be performing “The Wizard of Oz.” If this week’s dress rehearsals were any indication, audiences are sure to be thoroughly enchanted by the cast of incredibly talented young actors. Read more...

Edgewoood home to first probable swine flu case

As worldwide attention has been focused on the recent outbreaks of swine flu, Pierce County residents are still faring fairly well. Read more...

Parents seek help planning safe night for graduates

For high school seniors, their families and friends, graduation night can be a time of joy and memories made to last a lifetime. It can also quickly turn into a time of tragedy if celebrations are marred by the use of alcohol and/or drugs. That is why Fife High School mom Shirley Carlson and a group of other caring parents are working hard now to organize an all-night senior grad party where Fife students can have fun and be free from the consequences of driving under the influence. Read more...

SLMS students stage medley of Dr. Seuss

The Surprise Lake Middle School Saber Drama Club will bring a bundle of Dr. Seuss books to at their spring play titled “SEUSSAPALOOZA,” May 1 and 2. The show starts at 7 p.m. in the Surprise Lake Middle School cafeteria. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for students. Read more...

Community works to combat rare disease

For the third year in a row, the Mountain View Elementary School community is banding together for the cause. Read more...

Kids for Kenya Club learn that their principal is no chicken

Endeavour Intermediate School Principal Kevin Alfano showed the little students what it means to both be a good sport and keep a promise when he wore a chicken suit to school all day March 12. Weeks earlier he had vowed to don the costume if students helped the Kids for Kenya Club meet a fundraising goal of $500 through a coin drive. They not only met that goal, they more than doubled it by raising $1, 069.47 in two weeks, all in loose change. Read more...

Booster Club event offers great food, auction items

The Fife High Booster Club has some exciting things on tap for this year’s dinner and auction. A popular community fundraiser for both the club and the Fife High School Scholarship Foundation, the March 21 event will be held in a new venue this year, the Celebration Park Community Center in Federal Way. Fife High School Principal Mark Knight will be the master of ceremonies. Read more...

Inventive teaching methods benefit students

In the Fife School District teachers do not instruct their students simply by standing in front of the classroom lecturing from conventional textbooks. Rather, teachers reach out to one another, to their students and to the community at large to create oftentimes-ingenious methods to engage students in high quality, challenging lessons the young learners will find interesting and persist in even when the work gets difficult. Read more...