SALEM — Families of Salem school students can expect some game-playing in their future.
Superintendent Sean Kirkland said the board games being sent home with students are for family engagement nights. He reported on the games during the school board meeting Monday night.
With families spending more time together, some in quarantine due to COVID-19 and in some cases with both kids and parents working remotely, the idea is for them to have some fun. The project was the idea of Jamie Kemats, who serves as director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the school district.
“What we’re hoping is families will sit down and play some of these games and spend time with the kids,” Kirkland said.
There’s an educational element because games can help students develop skills in reading, math and strategy, he explained.
Also in his report, Kirkland said he was on the receiving end of thank-you letters from Southeast School students who waged a letter-writing campaign for Heroes of the Salem community. Letters were sent throughout the community to people the students considered heroes who they wanted to thank. He thanked the teachers and principal for coming up with such a thoughtful project.
He also thanked Bob and Linda Sebo for their generosity for donating an additional $32,125 for stadium renovations. The money was used for the demolition of a house at the corner of Ohio and Pershing and then preparing the lot with gravel for a parking lot, along with new lighting for that parking lot and the lot next to the stadium near the home stands.
In another matter, Kirkland mentioned how junior high intervention specialist Daryl Kurtz was injured in a horrific traffic crash, but is on the mend with a long road of recovery ahead, adding “he has a whole nation of Quakers praying for him.”
During the meeting Reilly School Principal Cindy Viscounte was joined by fourth graders Jaxson Douglas, Macy Pieniazek and Addison Hopple who told the board about their service project to gather food, supplies and monetary donations to deliver to the Columbiana County Humane Society, a non-profit organization helping animals in need. Viscounte said they do at least one service project per year, usually in November, but they extended this one since they were off school for a while. With these projects, the students learn they can have an impact, even at their young age.
This week, they’re selling cut-out paw prints and bones for $1, with the donor’s name written on the cut-outs to be hung in the school. Last month, the students wrote letters to area businesses for help with the service project. Thanks to the generosity of the businesses, the students collected needed items, with students and school staff also donating.
In other business, the board approved an agreement between the Columbiana County Health District and the school district for contact tracing. The county is paying the district $10,000 from Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds for school personnel to do the contact tracing for positive COVID-19 cases in the schools.
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