Thursday, February 21, 2013
Police will patrol Shore Middle School Friday
Mentor Police and school officials began investigating a gun rumor at Shore Middle School just a few hours after they declared Ridge Middle School safe from a bomb threat. According to the district's website, a phone notification system began contacting parents around 6 p.m. Thursday evening with a message from Shore Principal Doug Baker. Here is the text of the message: We have been made aware by students and parents that there are some rumors circulating around social media that claim a student made a threat about bringing a gun to school. The Mentor Police department is investigating right now and working to track down this rumor. As of right now, there have been no credible leads in tracking down where this rumor originated. As a …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The newsletters contain information on school events, fundraisers, PTA and more
All of the middle and elementary schools in the Mentor Public Schools district have released their free newsletters online. The newsletters contain information on each schools' parent-teacher conference schedule, local PTA, upcoming fundraisers, spelling bee winners, as well as a calendar of events. The winter newsletters also explain how to tell if your child has the cold or flu and what to do in either instance. Additionally, depending on the school, the newsletters may have information on kindergarten registration, local reading programs, Internet safety tips or even a free student ticket to a Mentor High boys basketball game. Here are links to the newsletters, which are available as PDFs:
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The grade-level winners will compete to be the school district's spelling champion later this month
The Mentor School District's top middle school spellers competed Wednesday to find its sixth, seventh and eighth grade champions. It took 38 words, 15 rounds and two near eliminations before Devon Messner won the seventh grade spelling bee Wednesday at Memorial Middle School. He and runners-up Noah Rolfes and Diana Brnjic stormed through head-scratchers like depilatory, miasma, polymathic and incandescence. After Diana was eliminated by "paucity," Devon almost won when Noah misspelled "diaphonous." However, Devon cost himself a quicker win by also missing "malachite." Four rounds later, Devon was nearly eliminated after he misspelled "gelato," but he received a second chance when Noah missed "jitney." Finally, after 15 rounds of spelling …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Check out all of the fun stuff that is happening in and around Mentor
1. SHORE PTSA MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY FOOD DRIVE Where/When: Shore Middle School, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday Why Go: The Shore Middle School PTSA is conducting a Food Drive to benefit St. Bede's Food Pantry this Saturday. All proceeds will directly benefit Lake County families. Members of the Shore PTSA, including staff, parents and students, will be on hand from 9:00 am to 2:00 p.m. (rain or shine) to collect food and donations from anyone wishing to join in and support this effort. Most needed now are healthy foods to build balanced meals for families. All types of canned or boxed dry food and paper products will be graciously accepted along with monetary donations of any size. Pricing: Free 2. AN EVENING WITH THE GHOST WHISPERER …
Friday, June 8, 2012
The Mentor spelling champ talks about the Scripps National Spelling Bee, including how it felt to compete the same week he lost his grandmother
Vishnu Nistala made it all the way to the fifth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He outlasted more than 200 of the best spellers in the country and survived a difficult written test and two nerve-wracking rounds of live spelling on national television. He was the final Ohioan to be eliminated from the bee. And he did all of this the same week he lost his grandmother, the woman who taught him to read. Vishnu -- who just graduated from eighth grade at Shore Middle School -- talks about this in an interview with Mentor Patch, as well as: Vishnu and his family also wanted to extend their thanks and appreciation to Mentor Schools and the community as a whole for all of their support.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Shore Middle School held a "Stump Vishnu" contest before the Mentor Schools' spelling champion left for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Mentor's spelling champion -- Vishnu Nistala, an eighth grader at Shore Middle School -- was sent off in style to participate in the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Shore students and staff made Friday Vishnu Day in recognition of him. His classmates quizzed him during their lunch periods as part of a Stump Vishnu game. To make it to the national compeition in Washington D.C., Vishnu won the district- and county-wide bees before beating the best of Geauga and Ashtabula counties in a 40-round marathon tri-county bee. This week, spellers in the national competition will begin by taking a computerized test before advancing to the Spelling Bee preliminaries. From those, the semifinalists will be determined. Next, the 2012 Scripps National …
Monday, April 30, 2012
Three Mentor Schools' teams ranked seventh or higher in their division at state
The Mentor High, Shore and Memorial Middle School Science Olympiad teams all competed this weekend at the state competition at Ohio State University. Mentor High was third in the state in the high school division -- trailing only Centerville and Solon Schools. Memorial came in fifth place overall in the middle school division; Shore, in seventh place against more than 40 other teams. Ridge Middle School's team narrowly missed qualifying for states during the regional competition at Case Western Reserve University. (Ninth graders compete with their respective middle school teams.) Memorial brought home medals in 11 events and 1 trial event. Shore received medals in 5 events. Meanwhile, the Mentor High team came just one place short of …
Monday, February 27, 2012
Learn What Some Mentor Middle-schoolers Already Know: "Warm Glow" or Rock 'n' Roll, There's Always Payback
Psychologists credit several theories for why human beings like to give. One: they feel satisfaction for helping a public good. Two: they derive pleasure from making the decision to give. Three: it feels nice to be regarded as generous. One group of students at Shore Middle School should be feeling pretty good about now. In this inaugural year for Mentor Schools' Response to Intervention program (known to students as “2.5,”) middle-schoolers get a 25-minute period set aside in the school day to receive extra help in math and reading or to explore new interests by participating in choice activities. Students who selected the 3-H community service project this year empowered themselves to bake dog biscuits and sell them for the animals of …
Monday, February 20, 2012
More than 1,100 students from 79 teams gathered Saturday at Mentor High for the school's 12th annual Science Olympiad Invitational
Dennis Pranjic -- a sixth grader from Ridge Middle School -- needed to pick his rocket. He was one of the almost 1,200 kids from 79 teams competing at Mentor High's 12th annual Science Olympiad Invitational Saturday. For his second event of the day, he needed to shoot a homemade rocket into the atmosphere using air pressure. (Earlier, he and his partner Alex Gonia, had used a homemade trebuchet to fling stones at a cardboard castle.) The rocket with the best hang time wins the event. But it was windy and that was throwing an unwanted invariable into an already complicated game. It was, after all, rocket science. Fortunately, Pranjic had been preparing for this for most of the year (as had many of the scientist-students who competed …
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Memorial Minutemen won the annual academic challenge between Mentor middle schools by 10 points
Memorial Middle School's team lagged 60 points behind Shore going into the final round of the Cardinal Challenge -- an annual academic challenge between the Mentor middle schools. However, the Middlemen's knowledge of everything from igneous rocks to Euclid's geometry spurred them to a slim 10-point win over Shore and Ridge's teams. Memorial's coach wouldn't take any credit for her team's win afterward. "I have a very, very smart team," Danielle Sherritt said. "It's really all of them." This is the second year in a row Memorial has won. The year before they lost by only 10 points. Memorial will go on to a regional competition in March at John Carroll University. Sherritt complimented the other teams, as well, noting "a lot of who wins …
Frank Smith
11:17 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Wtf is wrong with these kids I think at this point bring the Feds in and let them start to investigate more ›