During our monthly leadership rally the first week of February, our 4th-grade student leaders led us in celebrating Black History Month. During this time our school learned about the story of Ruby Bridges and how all people should be treated…
School Spotlight
Twenty-eight students at San Miguel were honored with Biliteracy Attainment Recognition for achieving proficiency in both English and Spanish. To meet the English benchmark, students earned qualifying scores on NWEA exams. To measure proficiency in Spanish, students wrote informative and…
Columbia Middle School students are learning productive ways to deal with conflict and resolve it peacefully through a class called The Peaceful Bulldogs. Since last year, The Peaceful Bulldogs have been meeting during FLEX time to learn about restorative justice…
At Cherry Chase Elementary, we transformed a vacant classroom into a science classroom to provide every K-5 student the opportunity to experience science through hands-on experiments and exploration on a regular basis. All students will have access to apply what they…
Last spring, students in Ms. Hostetler’s 4th-grade class at San Miguel Elementary School participated in a literacy unit called “Taking Action.” The goal of this unit was to develop persuasive writing skills in a business letter while simultaneously learning to…
During National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month in April, the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) recognized the Sunnyvale School District (SSD) and an SSD student for their work and achievement in bilingual/multilingual education. Ella, a seventh grader from Sunnyvale…
San Miguel Elementary School’s Juntos program was recently recognized for its positive impact on student success with the Santa Clara County School Board Association’s Hoffman Award. Juntos is Sunnyvale School District’s Spanish-English dual-immersion learning program. In Juntos, children study both…
The first full week of May is National Teacher Appreciation Week. Acknowledge Alliance, a non-profit focused on education and mental health, values the partnership of all the teachers it works with who support students with an understanding of their social…
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…
At Vargas, we kicked off the school year with Dolphin Pride Expectation Rotations! Students visited different areas of the school to learn about how to be safe, how to be respectful, and how to be responsible. These rotations set our…
This year, our second grade conducted multiple classroom transformations for students to apply what they learned in a given math unit. The transformations targeted grade-level standards, academics, and social-emotional learning. Teachers reported the following impacts on social-emotional and academic learning: Promotes…
It all started with a brilliant idea from students. Back in the fall, Vargas Principal Armstrong and Assistant Principal Matsuyama received a letter from Ms. Alvarado’s 3rd graders. Their windows face a large shed and they thought, “Wouldn’t it be…
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…
These are the finished products from Gretchen Gabriel’s fifth-grade class’s FAME presentation on Feb. 10 featuring the art of Georgia O’Keeffe. The students used watercolors, tissue paper, construction paper, and oil pastels modeled after the famous red poppies of O’Keeffe….
Open Enrollment, the time frame during which students may request a transfer from their school of residence to another school within the Sunnyvale School District, will take place February 1-14, 2022. For details about Open Enrollment, visit http://sesd.schoolwires.net/Page/241. Sign up for…