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Sunset Middle School is off to a great start as the school opened their doors to welcoming new and returning students into the hallways as the first full school year as an official IB Middle School gets underway. The school has decided to have a theme this year and it will be Celebration of Humanity. The staff will be teaching and modeling different characteristics from this umbrella theme with a focus on being well-rounded and globally minded students. This week began with staff and students focusing on “gratitude”. Sunset welcomed stu...
Editor’s note: This article highlights just one of the new teachers at Niwot High School. We hope to get more spotlights on great teachers over the coming weeks. If you know a teacher or staff/faculty member that deserves credit, email [email protected]. Sarah Demmel feels like she’s back home now that she and her family have returned to Niwot. After three years in Austin, TX where her husband’s job had relocated them, Demmel and her family are once again enjoying what this small town has to of...
The Washington Post, which recently named Niwot High School to its U.S. Most Challenging School’s list, confirmed what NHS students and staff already know - the school does an excellent job of preparing students for success in college and beyond. But it’s not just the AP and IB classes that make the school great. Four exceptional IB students from the Class of 2017, Vidhya Dev, Eva Kitlen, Tina Mo, and Qing Xia, spoke to the Courier about how a variety of aspects of their four years at Niwot hav...
Sunset Middle School’s 2016-2017 year is closing with a showcase that has something for everyone. Community service projects will be displayed by students, showcasing the school’s authorization as an IB World School. The seventh grade jazz band, a string group and a cappella singers will be performing at the event as well. Eighth-grader Cynthia Ragland focused her service project on helping those in need. She volunteered at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, cooking and serving meals to peopl...
On February 25, 2017 the Regional Northern Colorado Spelling Bee was held at Nevin Platt Middle School. Fifty-one schools were represented and participating students would have to go through 20 rounds of spelling challenging words in order to be named the champion. The task was tough and the competition was too…the winner of this event goes to Washington, DC to compete in the National Spelling Bee. So how do you spell Bolshevik, rutile, sonicate…just ask Sunset Middle School 7th grader Ben Len...
HOCKEY One of the country’s top collegiate hockey players, Andrew Sturtz of Penn State, is the nephew of Niwot residents Brad and Jane Langdon. Sturtz is from Buffalo, NY, and is currently a sophomore forward for the Nittany Lions. As a freshman, he led the team in goals with 18, which was the fifth-most in the country by a freshman. The performance earned him the freshman of the year award. His first goal for Penn State was named the NCAA’s No. 1 Play of the Week on Oct. 23, 2015, coming agains...
On Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 4, Sunset Middle School welcomed its long-awaited Verification Visit from the IB (International Baccalaureate). The purpose of this visit was to celebrate the work done by staff and students to implement the IB’s Programme standards and practices. The staff has collectively spent almost 900 hours training to become IB teachers. During the visit, the IB team met with all Sunset staff, a group of students, a group of parents and the IB Leadership t...
Niwot Community Association (NCA) board members agreed to continue the group’s policy of serving only as an information conduit for the Niwot/Gunbarrel community when St. Vrain Valley School District (SVVSD) officials asked for the group’s endorsement of the district’s proposed mill levy increase on the November ballot. Although several board members expressed individual support for the measure and praised the school district’s student academic achievement and fiscal responsibility, the NCA board agreed that the NCA’s primary function...
If you’ve ever been in the hallways at Sunset Middle School, you’ve likely heard Dr. Macy telling students, “If you can, you must.” This rings true for Sunset Middle School’s Fall Crawl, an all-school walk/run being held at Sunset Middle School on Oct. 21st. Sunset thrives on its support from its PAC, staff and parents. In the coming weeks, students will be asking the community to support them as they raise funds for numerous activities and supplies, such as transportation to field trips, classroom materials and community building incentive...
Maddy McCambridge, Kelsey Webster and Taylor Sunset, who live within a couple of miles of each other in Gunbarrel, went to state in Class 5A girls golf last year as part of Coach John Zerwin’s Fairview High School squad. They hoped to return this season, but Sunset, a junior, fell sick during the regional tournament, and had to withdraw. As a result, it will be up to McCambridge, a senior, and Webster, a sophomore, will represent the school at state again this year. Webster moved into the No. 1...
Some may see broken boxes, empty water bottles and cut up rubber bands as trash, but not Sara Hopp’s 8th grade science students—they see musical instruments. Hopp’s classes recently finished up their sound waves unit by building musical instruments created out of recyclable materials. Working in groups, the students had to choose a country or region their musical instrument would likely come from—such as Mexico, India or Eastern Europe. They worked together, researched and narrowed it down to...
