When Sunnyvale Middle School P.E. teacher, Sherry Lee, was her students’ age, she didn’t like running. But that all changed when she was in grad school and was inspired by a certain producer/rapper that ran the New York City Marathon….
Healthy Living
Something good’s always cooking at the Sunnyvale School District, and never as literally as this past March when SSD students joined international food company Sodexo’s National Future Chef’s Challenge. Our District’s children joined with hundreds of other students from across…
Joe Gabent, a fifth-grade teacher at Fairwood Elementary, didn’t set out to form a disc golf club at school. It just sort of happened. Earlier in the school year he started bringing discs for kids to throw at recess. The…
A new school garden at Bishop is providing students with the opportunity to go on “garden trips” once a month thanks to parent volunteers. Bishop’s three second-grade classes have been the first groups to go into the garden and help…
We encourage parents and guardians to fill out the district’s free/reduced lunch application. Completing the form not only helps provide our schools with much-needed student meals; it also helps determine the amount of funding our district receives for after school…
Six Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on April 29 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
We are excited to share that our COVID Vaccine Clinic was a huge success. We had a consistent line of students and families down the street (and at times around the corner) during the entire event. The students were brave and…
Winter is almost here which means that flu season is also here. The flu can cause serious illness. Several hundred thousand Americans are hospitalized every year with the flu. Many of the things we are already doing to avoid getting…
Protecting the health, safety, and wellbeing of our school community remains our top priority as we welcome students back to full-time, in-person learning. We have implemented updated COVID-19 safety protocols in alignment with CDPH and SCCPHD mitigation strategies to keep…
Six Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed virtually on March 27th in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen!…
Article written by Sunnyvale Middle School teacher, Dewey Huang. A group of volunteer students called the Public Health Enhancement Project (PHEP), banded together to create an educational video series composed of six videos that cover concepts from how a virus…
While physical activity, good nutrition, and routine medical and dental care all remain fundamentally important to our overall health and well-being, it is just as important that we tend to our emotional health. As we begin to see a “light…
The Sunnyvale School District test rode one of its new all-electric buses for the first time on a route to Lakewood on Dec. 11! The district acquired four new all-electric buses and one new natural gas school bus in the…
Over the upcoming holiday break (and beyond), many of us will be spending more time indoors as the weather gets colder. Although it can be a bit more difficult when warm weather is not inviting us outside to run around,…
It’s cold and flu season and with it comes the spread of germs and viruses. We encourage all students and staff to take common-sense precautions to prevent the spread of all infectious diseases, including common illnesses like colds and flu….