Most students in the Steelville School District will be required to wear face coverings beginning on Wednesday, December 2. The new rule will allow more students to continue to attend classes even if they are exposed to a positive case of COVID-19 at school.
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Steelville Schools will go virtual next week
Steelville students will not go to school the week of Thanksgiving or the Monday and Tuesday after the holiday weekend. Steelville School District Superintendent Mike Whittaker announced the calendar change for the school district on November 18.
Students mark opening of new SES gym
Monday was the grand opening of the new Steelville Elementary gymnasium, including the first day for PE classes to be held in the new facility. SES Principal Candice Richter said, “We are beyond ecstatic!” In addition to the classes held in the new gym, four elementary students had the honor of being the first to shoot basketballs into the new buckets.
School has 79 in quarantine
According to numbers released by the Steelville School District on Monday, November 16, there were a total of six positive COVID-19 cases in the district—three students and three staff members. The total quarantined in the district was 79–eight staff members and 71 students.
Pharmacy, phone company make book donations
Students at Steelville Elementary School show off the April (below) and September (bottom) Book Buddy books donated to the school by Country Mart Pharmacy and STE. Pictured with Clayton Earhart, PharmD of Country Mart Pharmacy are Silas Calvillo, Lucy Kreamalmeyer and Gabriel Massey. Pictured with Laura Martin of STE are Braden Richardson, Lawson Campbell and Aiden Mahurin.