Middle School 7th/8th grade boys soccer team earned the title of champions of the Valley Athletic League, the first time in nine years that the team has won the championships. The Bulldogs were undefeated in the playoffs, downing the Hyde…
Columbia Middle School
Nine students from Columbia and Sunnyvale middle schools were selected to perform in the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Bay Section Winter Conference concert on January 7. The CMEA Winter Conference concert featured the honor choir, honor band, and honor…
Oh là là! If you happen to be scrolling through French public television anytime soon, you may be surprised to come across a story featuring one of our very own CMS Bulldogs, Isabel Perez Dueñas. Isabel is a bright, bubbly…
As the culmination of our Motion & Forces Unit, 8th Grade Science classes participated in a Stomp Rocket Launch on November 9th & 10th! First, students built their rockets in class out of paper and tape. Then they launched the…
Congratulations to Lindsay Choi of Columbia Middle School (CMS) for being recognized as this year’s Educator of the Year at recent city and county events! Ms. Choi is a seventh-grade science teacher and eighth-grade AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) advisor…
Columbia student leadership and staff have been coordinating lunchtime activities to foster community. On Friday, November 18th, the staff took on the eighth-graders in a volleyball game for the second time this year. Students are undefeated! “It was a great…
Acknowledge Alliance recognized San Miguel’s Debbie Wiseth with its Teacher of the Year Award and the Front Office Staff of all 10 SSD schools with its School Community Heroes Award at its 15th annual Forget-me-Not Celebration on May 12. Our Forget-Me-Not…
The Sunnyvale School District is so proud to announce our 2021-2022 Employees of the year! Classified Employee of the Year: Sharmila Velmurugan (District Office) Sharmila Velmurugan is the Student Services Technician for the Student Services and Special Education Department. She…
In January, 7th graders planted beans for our Bean Plant Inquiry Lab, in which they designed their own lab to see what variables affect plant growth! Groups tested different variables, such as water source (filtered, tap, bottled), type of light…
We are very excited to share the opening of our Family Resource Center!!! We had our grand opening on Twos-day, 2/2/22! Our first project is hosting the Community Navigator from Sunnyvale Community Services to start working with our parent volunteers….
Everything was awesome for a brother/sister duo who got to spend the summer as Lego Ambassadors for the new Legoland Discovery Place in Milpitas. Lakewood’s Mikayla Wong and Columbia’s Earnie Wong, are also a part of the inaugural Creative Crew for…
The Sunnyvale School District is so proud to announce our 2020-2021 Employees of the year! Teacher of the Year: Julio Delgado (Vargas) Julio Delgado is a fifth-grade teacher at Vargas Elementary School in the Sunnyvale School District. He has been…
Where there’s a will there’s a way, and between Sunnyvale’s school and city librarians, anything is possible. Having shelter in place due to the pandemic turned everyone’s lives upside and forced many of us to rethink how we go about…
The 2020-2021 school year brings many familiar SSD faces into new administrator roles! Many were highlighted in a story in our June 2020 issue here: http://sesd-district-digest.org/sunnyvale-school-district-welcomes-familiar-faces-into-new-roles/ Since then, we’ve also welcomed Mr. Daniel Poo as the new principal of Columbia…
Breakfast and lunch meal bundles are available for curbside pickup for SSD students at all 10 of our school sites. Free and reduced lunch applications may be filled out online, or picked up at the school sites. Meal service will…