Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Montgomery County Conservation District invited schools from around the county to participate in an annual competition that brings youth closer to nature.
The Montgomery County Conservation District held its annual Envirothon May 1 – 3, which featured student teams from several of the county’s elementary, middle and high schools; 18 schools in all, including Spring-Ford 7th Grade Center. The Envirothon, which started state-wide in 1976, is designed to expose youth to nature through which they can relate how humans impact the natural world, while providing invaluable lessons for understanding ecosystems and our environment, according to the Envirothon website. Montgomery County’s Conservation District has three versions of the Envirothon, one for each school level. As previously reported on Patch, at the middle school level, which is similar to the high school level Envirothon competitions, …
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Seventh Grade Middle School
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Monday, November 19, 2012
An area middle-schooler competes with her dog - and others! - at the highest levels.
Spring-Ford seventh grader Berkeley Thompson already has a job that she loves, even though she's just twelve years old. Thompson competes regularly as a handler on the dog show circuit, and has won multiple awards and titles for both herself and the dogs she shows. A handler is the person you see showing off dogs in the ring at a dog show. Handlers may or may not own the dogs they show, and many of them show multiple breeds. A handler needs to know all the details about every dog they handle, including how best to present the dog to a judge and how to get the dog to behave in the ring. Thompson got started three years ago at age nine. "We got a Lab, and we went to training," Thompson said. The trainer was Sue Bani, a Limerick resident …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Marion Blumenthal Lazan shared her story of life during and after the Holocaust with students.
Marion Blumenthal Lazan was just four years old in 1939 when she, her parents, and her older brother Albert fled Germany for Holland after Adolf Hitler's government began persecuting Jews. At an assembly this afternoon, she told her story to Spring-Ford's sixth and seventh graders. Blumenthal is the author of "Four Perfect Pebbles," co-written with Lila Perl. "Four Perfect Pebbles" recounts Blumenthal's six and a half years as a Nazi prisoner. Blumenthal spends her days traveling and speaking to community and school groups about her story and its central message: "Be good, be kind and be respectful of one another." Blumenthal strongly believes that people should keep teaching and talking about the Holocaust so that it never happens …
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Seventh Grade Middle School
833 S Lewis Rd, Royersford, PA
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Transformer problems caused fire alarms to go off late this afternoon.
Students at Spring-Ford Area High School were evacuated from the building late this afternoon after a fire alarm sounded. The students were taken to the 8th Grade Center, according to a parent's post on Facebook. The alarm was originally thought to be caused by a generator fire, according to fire and police scanner reports, but the issue was discovered to be with a transformer at the back of the school. The transformer had blown and was leaking oil, according to Linfield Battalion Chief Rick Dunn. "We had this one go, and then another one there [the 7th Grade Center] and then a couple more," Dunn said. "It was like there was an electrical bug jumping around." The problem affected transformers surrounding all four schools in that area of …
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Spring-Ford High School
350 S Lewis Rd, Royersford, PA
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Spring-Ford Middle School Eighth Grade Center
700 Washington St, Royersford, PA
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Seventh Grade Middle School
833 S Lewis Rd, Royersford, PA
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Spring-Ford Ninth Grade Center
400 S Lewis Rd, Royersford, PA
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Diane Moore
11:57 am on Friday, October 19, 2012
My daughter found this presentation very interesting and shared a lot about it with us. more ›