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Each spring, the Education Foundation for the St. Vrain Valley hosts the Tribute to Teachers, which honors and recognizes the excellence of our teachers. Students, parents, colleagues and community members are invited to nominate teachers, and three from each school are selected to attend the event as finalists. During the event, one teacher from each […]

Stapp Inspires Educator Highlight: A Second Chance Welcome back to Stapp Inspires Educator Highlight! This month we headed over to Westview Middle School to meet Dan Cribby. Currently, Dan is an eighth grade science teacher. He is in his ninth year at Westview. Before coming to Westview, he taught 14 years at Longs Peak Middle […]

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math … in the summer? You bet! Summer STEAM Academy is a fun and interactive summer enrichment program. This year we added arts and music to create a richer and more engaging experience. Click on the links below to learn more and register. Come join the fun!  Summer Steam is for […]

For the third summer in a row, the Young Americans Center for Financial Education, a Denver-based pioneering nonprofit, will lead its award-winning, week-long Young Ameritowne on the Road Summer Camp, for students entering third through sixth grade, at Sunset Middle School. The traveling camp is a recent innovation, bringing the camp, which covers financial literacy, local […]

Once again, in the initial school spelling bee, 8th graders Graham Daniel and Aidan Hansell tied with perfect scores.  They went on to a very difficult tie breaker. Graham Daniel won, with Aidan finishing in a close second missing one word more than Graham.  A wonderful effort by all involved!  Congratulations Graham on becoming our […]

Westview Students  Montana ChyatteSadé GutierrezHaily HebertSimone KirkevoldSam KoobLeah PellettLila SansevarinoKloe WilliamsAlex BentleyBrandon FosterSilas NowlinLogan RosebrockRiley TengwallCameron Wessley auditioned and were selected to be part of the SVVSD Honor Choir.   

We will be hosting two informational parent meetings in the coming weeks. On each of the nights high school conselors and/or administrators from one of our feeder high schools will be joining us. All middle schools and high schools in the district have created similar transition plans. Therefore, the information about our transition plan at […]

Our annual Geography Bee was held on January 19. After many rounds of competition we were finally down to our two finalists. Eight grader Mia Novick and seventh grader Eric Testori squared of for the final round. When the dust settled, Eric Testori had won the contest. Eric will now take a test to see […]

On Thursday January 11, a group of science students from South Korea visited Westivew Middle School to learn about STEM education. They visited and collaborated with our students learning about STEM Block programs such as Plains to the Park, Robotics, STEM Explorers, Video Production, Science Olympiad and Environmental Art.  In addition to their school visit, […]

On January 8, all Westview 8th graders had the opportunity to participate in a town hall meeting with Colorado General Assembly representatives Mike Foote and Jonathan Singer. The event started as a question from a group of our students to their teachers. These students worked with their teachers to contact the legislators and put together […]