Apr 24th, 2012
LAKE WALES – Students, staff and volunteers pose for a group photo at Lake Kissimmee State Park recently (April 12) during a community-wide picnic for special needs students from Lake Wales.
The picnic was a combined effort by the Lake Wales Charter Schools, Club Joy, Our Children’s Academy, and area schools in the Polk County Public Schools system.
“It is so nice to get to know students from our feeder schools,” said Jane Jackson, a teacher at Lake Wales High. “It really helps when our new students have met their teachers and future classmates, and like us!”
LAKE WALES – Lake Wales High’s Special Olympic track and field relay team qualified and participated in the State Summer Games May 17-18 at ESPN Wide World of Sports.
LAKE WALES –– Hillcrest Elementary kindergarten students are celebrating the end of school by reading their own copies of “Change The World Before Bedtime” by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh Chalmers and Karen Good.
LAKE WALES – Age and experience triumphed over youth and energy when Janie Howard Wilson staff faced fifth graders in the elementary school’s annual spring softball game last week. The adults won the game 22-8.
