6th Grade Science

Making Animal and Plant cells from food.

Sycamore Web App

Last month Sycamore Education announced a new web application for use with mobile devices! This application is meant to help parents access vital information about their students, while giving parents the flexibility to use pretty much any mobile device available.

Unlike a traditional mobile app, which you would buy in an app store, Sycamore decided to go with a website designed for mobile browsers.  

To get to the login page go to: m.sycamoreeducation.com on your mobile browser. Once you're there you just need to enter the proper credentials.

Want the Icon on your home screen? Both iOS device and Android devices allow you to bookmark a web page (m.sycamoreeducation.com) and create a shortcut for that bookmark on your home screen. They even have a lovely icon that shows up for you. This way, any time you want to view our app, just click the icon and away you go!

Read more about the Sycamore Web App here.

Accreditation and School Improvement

As many of you are aware we have been preparing for our school accreditation visit that will occur on January 22-24. Every five years each school is evaluated by an independent external team referred to as a QAR (Quality Assurance Review) Team.

In preparation for this event we the school prepares two documents for the QAR Team, a Self Assessment and an Executive Summary. We examine all facets of our school to complete these documents including history, demographic data, school/student performance data, and survey data. We have asked for assistance in filling out surveys over the past few years, have solicited your opinions through Sycamore, and held grade level parent meetings for this purpose.

Our final documents were submitted to the QAR Team last month.

You may access our Self Assessment and Executive Summary by clicking on the appropriate links below.

If you have the time please view the documents and send us your comments.

Some of our students, parents, teachers, and community members will be interviewed by the QAR team during the visit.

St. Mary's Executive Summary

St. Mary's Self Assessment 

Congratulations Coach Chvala

St. Mary's head boy's basketball coach Gary Chvala was recently honored for picking up his 500th win, a plateau that few active coaches in Nebraska have reached. A ceremony was held in the St. Mary's commons area on Sunday, January 8 for Chvala, with many former players on hand to speak about their former coach. Some of these speakers included Tom Schommer, Jim Carlson, Cody Eiler, Zach Sibbel, and his son and current player Tom, among others. KBRX congratulates Coach Chvala on reaching an incredible coaching milestone.

Girls BB Defeat Elgin