The Pattonville Heights Middle School cross country team won the district’s first intramural cross country meet. The 2-mile race organized by the community programs department was held at Remington Traditional on Wednesday with the course going through Vago Park. The high school cross country team attended to run as the rabbit and to cheer on and mingle with the middle school teams. Every participant received a free treat from Kona Ice after the race.

Team results

1. Pattonville Heights Middle School (25 points)
2. Remington Traditional School (32 points)
3. Holman Middle School (94 points) 

There are many ways to reward students for good behavior. A Remington Traditional teacher dyed her hair blue to reward hers. 

Libby Hilker, a second grade teacher, rewarded her students for earning more marbles than her in August by changing the color of her hair. 

“Every time they do something exceptional or just way above and beyond or if I notice a really great act of kindness, they get a marble,” she said. “Anytime they need to work on something a little bit, I get a marble.”

The class decided they were going to make a challenge out of it and at the end of the first month of school, the students had 208 marbles. Hilker had only 188. 

Remington Traditional sixth grader Stephen Stewart Jr. was given a once-in-a-lifetime behind-the-scenes tour of the Maryland Heights Police Department.

Stewart was the first student selected by Officer Jeff King for the school's new Student School Resource Officer (SRO) Program. He arrived in style riding in King's D.A.R.E. police car and made personal connections with staff members in every department.