Second-grade students at Woodfill Elementary work together to plan and plant a garden on school property. A well-loved Charles Dickens quote perfectly described yesterday, the first day of spring: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter […]
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A Mile of Meals: Woodfill Elementary’s Kindergarten Service Learning Project
Woodfill Elementary kindergarteners celebrate Thanksgiving with a service learning project. Spend any time in a young elementary classroom and you’ll quickly learn that academia and life lessons are taught as one. Keeping one’s hands to oneself is taught while sitting in a circle on the classroom rug. A lesson on kindness is made clear in […]
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Woodfill Elementary’s Big Top Festival This Weekend
This Sunday, September 20, noon to 6pm, Fort Thomas Public School’s Woodfill Elementary families, as well as the community at large, will fill the school’s parking lot and first floor for the annual Big Top Festival. Formerly called The Fall Festival, this longtime tradition will feature inflatables, a silent auction, food, a cake walk, games […]
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All Three Fort Thomas Elementary Schools Make “Best” List
Moyer Elementary. FTM file. K12Niche.com recently listed the “Best Public Elementary Schools” in America. In Kentucky, all three Fort Thomas public elementary schools ranked highly. In fact, of the first 11 schools listed, all 11 came from two cities, Fort Thomas included. The list used data sourced from various government and public data sets, Niche’s […]
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Fort Thomas Elementary Schools Raise Hardware at Governor’s Cup
The champs from St. Thomas School. Provided. All five Fort Thomas elementary schools did well in this year’s Kentucky Association for Academic Competition (KAAC) Governor’s Cup, with two schools winning a District Championship. Johnson Elementary won District 91 and St. Thomas School won District 92. The Governor’s Cup was founded in 1986 as a way […]
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BREAKING: Ruth Moyer Elementary Plans Unveiled
Campus site plan. Plans were unveiled for a complete renovation for Ruth Moyer Elementary School, Wednesday night. News broke last September that Moyer would be awarded state money, as one of the top ten schools in the state in most need for a renovation. The scope of the project will be limited to a complete […]
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Elementary Schools Presented Annual Kentucky History Wax Museum
Will Anderson as Samuel Woodfill On Thursday, February 5, fourth grade students at all three Fort Thomas Independent Schools, Johnson, Moyer, and Woodfill, presented their annual Kentucky History Wax Museum as a fundraiser for local charitable organizations, school updates, and in the case of Johnson students, an interactive poetry wall at the school. So, how […]
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Senator Schroder Visits Woodfill Elementary
State Senator Wil Schroder paid a visit to Woodfill 4th graders last week./Provided On Thursday, January 22, Kentucky State Senator Wil Schroder was on campus at Woodfill Elementary School to talk to 4th-grade students about state and national government. This was the senator’s first classroom visit since taking office January 1.
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All Five Fort Thomas Schools Named Kentucky Schools of Distinction
Highlands High School, along with every other FTIS school, was named a 2014 School of Distinction by the state/FTM file Fort Thomas Independent Schools (FTIS) has been named a 2014 District of Distinction by the state of Kentucky, one of only seven school districts in the state to receive such comprehensive recognition this year. FTIS […]
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Big Top Festival, a Cherished Community Tradition
by Kara Gebhart Uhl Sunday, September 21 members of the Fort Thomas community will participate in a festival rich in tradition at Fort Thomas Public School’s Woodfill Elementary. From noon to 6pm everyone from the community is invited to the school’s annual Big Top Festival, featuring inflatables, a major raffle, a silent auction, food, a […]