Each year school ends with a day called recess day. It’s a reward for all the students who work hard and have positive behavior. It takes place on June 4-6 for each grade, at the school’s IM and...
Empty Bowls is an event in which people buy pottery-made bowls and sell them to family and friends. The proceeds go to the Altoona Food Bank and the Mountain Lion Backpack Program.
"I think empty...
Joe McCluan and Scott McIntyre are firefighter paramedics from Orlando, Florida. On May 10, 2013, these two men came to speak to students about being street smart and how to be safe while driving. McCluan...
The drama club students made their way to Pittsburgh on May 10 to have a blast. First the students attended their first play, Huck Finn. After the play, they had a meal provided by the Hard Rock Cafe....
Within these past few years the IM field has been getting really old and out of shape. The school board decided that it was time to improve on the field, and make it look nicer. The workers have been...
3D art is an elective that many students take. They want to have fun in this class, and most students do. What the students like is the "hands on experience." They get to make their own pottery...
Wanda Pletcher took some of her news-writing students on a trip to New York. They went to many places there, but they went there for a newspaper conference. They went for three days so they could...
Julie Good prepares to finish up her first year as a seventh grade reading teacher at Altoona Area Junior High School. She replaced long time reading teacher Paula Stitt. Good came from teaching at...
Community Inspired Arts club students get together each week, on Mondays and Wednesdays, to create empty bowls for their big event coming up on May 2. Sarah O’ Roark and Ann Bickel will hold this...
Ninth grade physical education and seventh grade health teacher Lou Ann Donlan will be retiring at the end of this school year after 36 years of teaching.
“They were all good (teaching years) because...
Altoona graduate and Reptiland worker Natalie Garritano brought a variety of animals to the auditorium for the ninth grade biology classes during fifth and seventh period on April 2.
The ninth grade...
Compared to the previous years, the school’s lunch has changed in many ways, since Michelle Obama’s school lunch plan was created for all the schools throughout the nation. Many students...
