Harry Charms Students Into Success – Newser
November 23, 2007
Here is one fun way to raise test scores…
Harry Charms Students Into Success – Newser
Harry Charms Students Into Success
Posted Nov 22, 07 5:42 AM CST in World, Culture & Society Editor’s Choice
Harry Charms Students Into Success
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(newser) – The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry it is not, but a suburban Nottingham school is using Harry Potter’s magic to get results. Primary students chose JK Rowling’s enchanted novels as their curriculum theme, a system school officials launched to raise lagging test scores. Subjects are laced with riffs on the books, and activities plunge students into Harry’s supernatural world. • The theme system, which has also embraced chocolate and the Titanic, worked: The school languished in the lowest quarter of English schools but has surged into the upper echelon, Time says. Officials branded the school “outstanding,” noting its success with students with learning disabilities and behavioral problems. “It’s made school a lot easier and better,” gushed one 10-year-old Hermione-in-training.
Mehlville takes underdog role into title game vs. Rockhurst
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Mehlville takes underdog role into title game vs. Rockhurst
By Brian Jerauld
SUBURBAN JOURNALS
Last year at this time, after a semifinal loss to CBC, Mehlville running back
Joel Fieseler’s head hung in disappointment.
But on Friday, as students, parents and fans mobbed he and his teammates,
Fieseler tilted his head back and flashed a smile up to the heavens.
“We’re going to the Dome,” he yelled at the clouds. “We’re going to the Dome.”
This Friday at 6:30, Fieseler and his fellow Panthers (10-2) will take the
field in the Edward Jones Dome for the 2007 MSHSAA Class 6 Football
Championship game. Mehlville earned its invitation after a 19-13 semifinal win
over Pattonville Friday night, and will face undefeated Kansas City Rockhurst
for the state title. The game will be televised live on FSN Midwest, with
play-by-play by Dan McLaughlin of Cardinals, Blues and Mizzou basketball
announcing fame.
Memory of loss spurs Mehlville
November 23, 2007
Memory of loss spurs Mehlville
Memory of loss spurs Mehlville
By Nate Latsch
SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH
Friday, Nov. 23 2007
The Mehlville football team’s celebration of its 19-13 semifinal playoff
victory against Pattonville was a year in the making.
The Panthers knew how terrible it felt to lose in the same game because the
year before, they had walked off the field and watched CBC celebrate its first
trip to the championship game. They didn’t want to feel like that again.
So last week, when the final seconds ticked off the clock, some players chased
after defensive coordinator Brian Morris with a water bucket. Then, senior wide
receiver Justin Carter said, “We were just running around like some chickens
with the heads cut off.”
