Mrs. Hancey Leaves La Verkin

Our principal, Nadine Hancey has accepted the position of Principal at Santa Clara Elementary. We have grown to love and respect Mrs. Hancey and we will miss her. We wish her success and happiness in her new position. Thanks for all you have done for La Verkin Elementary!

District Memo:
The District is pleased to announce the selection of Nadine Hancey as the Principal of Santa Clara Elementary School, replacing Kathy Petersen who accepted the position of Title I Director. Nadine is currently the Principal at LaVerkin Elementary School.

Nadine Hancey earned her Bachelors Degree from the University of Utah. Shortly after graduation she and her husband moved to St. George where she began her teaching career in 1979. She has been a classroom teacher at Washington Elementary and Sunset Elementary, a Staff Developer and Reading Recovery teacher at Red Mountain Elementary, and most recently the principal of LaVerkin Elementary. She earned her Masters Degree and her Administrative Endorsement from SUU. Nadine currently lives in Ivins. She is married to Kevin who works at Dixie Stake College. They have three daughters (all married), two grandsons, and one more on the way any day. She is excited to join the faculty and staff at Santa Clara but will deeply miss the wonderful friendships she has made at LaVerkin Elementary.

School will start again on Thursday August 13.
Monday through Thursday 9:00 to 3:30
Friday 9:00 to 1:15
Start the year out right and be on time!!

Here are some photos of our end of year activities.

Last Day of School! Thanks to all those parents who have been so supportive. This has been a great class of students and a great year. Best wishes to all the students as they go to fifth grade!
Keep reading, do your best and remember you can be anything you want to be! RPH

Here we are! Our whole grade level, practicing our songs for our production! We will be putting on the Utah play on Tuesday May 19 at 9:45 and 1:45. Come learn all about Utah! Families welcome.

We learned about surface tension. Our bubbles were judged on biggest, highest, and last the longest. We had a fun day! We went to classes to learn about water and water conservancy. We won our Jeopardy Contest.

The students made presentations in small groups to review concepts in Science.

Hooray!!! We have finished all of our testing. The students worked hard and I know they did their very best! Great job 4th graders!!

Thursday, May 7, 2009 @ 9:00 A.M. we will be leaving for the Washington County Water Fair at Dixie College. We should return by noon so we will be back for lunch. Don't be late! The bus leaves at 9:00 A. M. sharp!!! Permission slips are due Wednesday May 6!

We have been testing all this week. Monday is our last test. We will be taking our last Math test on Monday May 4. We have had some great brain food that parents have sent in for us to enjoy before our tests. Thanks to Meyer's, Randall's, Jaggi's, Sanders', Hill's Johansen's, Barnard's for sending those snacks!

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