Thursday, May 10, 2012
Autopsy results show Ainsley Freeman and her mother, Amy Freeman Burton, were shot in the head. Both previously attended the Parkway School District.
Police said former Parkway School District student, 13-year-old Ainsley Freeman most likely did not shoot herself. Initial autopsy results show that Ainsley and her mom, 37-year-old Amy Freeman Burton, each died from one gunshot to the head. Although the official report is not yet available, and results are not yet conclusive, "evidence does suggest that Ainsley did not likely shoot herself," Lt. Jeff Bretzing said in a press release. (Read Previous Story: Two Ex-Parkway Students Shot to Death) Both Freeman Burton and her daughter Ainsley were found shot to death in their San Francisco area home Monday. They had reportedly moved there from the St. Louis area in December. Parkway School District spokesperson Cathy Kelly confirms both mother…
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Chesterfield Montessori also added upper grade classrooms in 2011.
Chesterfield's Montessori School students put shovels in the ground May 1 to begin construction on their new certified "Green" gym/performing stage, designed by a recognized architecture professor at Washington University. The architectural firm of Adrian Luchini—a chaired professor—is responsible for the look of the new gym, new classrooms in 2011, and the overall campus, school officials said. Patrick Brown is the architect of record. Offices are in Clayton. The Montessori students were part of the groundbreaking ceremony for the 4,200-square-foot gym at the Chesterfield campus, 14000 Ladue Road. The school's Capital Campaign raised significant funding for the new facility, which conforms to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Chesterfield grandmother blames texts in mother-daughter deaths.
UPDATED 2:45 p.m., Wednesday Chesterfield native Amy Freeman Burton, 37, and her daughter Ainsley Freeman, 13, were found shot to death in their San Francisco Bay Area home Monday evening. They had reportedly moved from the St. Louis area in December. A Parkway School District spokesperson said both mother and daughter attended Parkway schools. Mother Amy Freeman Burton graduated from Parkway West High School in 1993. Daughter Ainsley Freeman attended Claymont Elementary School in Ballwin "on and off from kindergarten through fifth grade." According to the Pleasanton, CA Patch, Burton's husband, Christopher Burton, reportedly found the victims and called police. Investigators said Christopher Burton is not a suspect, but a "person of …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Check out their winning video here.
Parkway's Pierremont Elementary School students got an out-of-this-world visit Monday by astronaut Linda Godwin and a team from NASA who congratulated students who won a nationwide contest for designing a game for the International Space Station. Godwin, a professor at University of Missouri whose hometown is Jackson, MO, met with the Parkway fifth grade students who belong to the "MOSAICS Academy" which is a program for "exceptionally gifted" students. Parkway's fifth-graders competed in a nationwide contest against students in grades 5-8. The “Spaced Out Sports Design Challenge” tasked Parkway's 15 students with designing a game for astronauts to use for physical exercise while in space. The MOSAICS students devised a floating web with …
Monday, May 7, 2012
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
The configuration would be the largest statewide.
Thirty-three buildings, including every school in Chesterfield's Parkway district, would be outfitted with solar panels to generate energy for electricity, after a unanimous school board vote Wednesday night on a bid. "It's a win-win-win," Board President Beth Feldman said just prior to the vote. The Parkway District would lease the solar energy—or photovoltaic—system from Brightergy for $72,300 a year, over 20 years. The energy generated and converted would be 2.2 percent of the district's total annual electric use, according to Erik Lueders, the district's manager of sustainability and purchasing. According to district information, each of the 25 kilowatt systems atop the building would have a monitoring system, and could potentially be …
Rachel Staum honored by Peabody Energy with teaching award.
Raising six young children, third-grade teacher Rachel Staum could always use a little extra cash. This 32-year-old third-grade teacher at H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy in Olivette, and a resident of Chesterfield is this week’s winner of the Peabody Logos Leader in Education award. For her efforts to guide young children through the interactive world of learning, she receives a $1,000 check and a flip camera and other items from Peabody Energy, the largest producer of coal on six continents. Staum is one of 31 winners to be recognized in the St. Louis metro this year. The award goes to teachers, administrators, nurses and other professionals attached to education. Peabody is giving awards in other states where it does business such as …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Middle school bands' concert Tuesday packed; two more concerts May 8 and 10.
Tuesday's band concert brought sounds much richer than the storied Music Man band to parents and siblings' ears in Parkway Central Middle School. The five bands of some 90 sixth-grade beginners performed in combinations of all-brass, flutes and percussion, all-clarinets, all-saxophones, and altogether. Paul Holzen and Jeff Pottinger share the duties of conducting, teaching, directing, auditioning, arranging and more. "I love it," Holzen said afterward in the lobby, where familes ate Ted Drewes famous frozen custard. Holzen said he's in his 22nd year with Parkway. Holzen and his young muscians just came off a big win—being the only Parkway Middle School band ever to perform at the State Music Teaches Conference, in Lake of the Ozarks. They…
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The ruling came down Tuesday.
A judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the School District of Clayton in a widely watched case that deals with the transfer of students from unaccredited schools to accredited ones, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Quoting from the Post-Dispatch article: "Under the ruling, students from unaccredited school districts would not have the right to transfer to better school districts for free." (Read the complete Turner v. Clayton ruling issued Tuesday.) While Chesterfield's Parkway School District did not expect to be impacted much by students transferring to Parkway from poor-performing schools, a spokesman had this to say about the ruling: "We are pleased with the court's decision. Missouri needs to continue looking for ways to help …
It's Red Carpet jitters for high school stage and actors.
Stage actors and productions of Parkway Central High School scored their share of nominations for the annual Cappies Awards—the high school equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards in theater. The nominations revealed Monday pit school plays, musicals, actors, and all the rest against each other throughout St. Louis and St. Charles counties. Red Carpet night for the Cappie Awards will be May 19, at 6 p.m., at the Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center on the campus of Missouri Baptist University. Parkway productions The Diary of Anne Frank and Don't Drink the Water garnered a majority of nominations for students. Rockwood district's Marquette High School also scored nomination honors for Grease. Sign up for Chesterfield Patch free…
Jean Whitney
3:09 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
Thanks for that great question M.A. So I found out: The school built the classrooms and had them ready by 2011. This gym project will have no classrooms. They offer a tour of the school facility from time to time, and I'm adding a few photos to this article of the classrooms. more ›