Jada Barry has been tinkering with engines as long as she can remember. 

“My uncle and I have worked on cars my whole life,” the Poudre High School senior said from inside the automotive shop at Front Range Community College. “I just really want to know what’s going on inside certain cars.”

Poudre School District is offering two QPR suicide prevention trainings for parents this fall.

QPR is a 1 ½ hour training that teaches warning signs for suicide and the three-step QPR (Question, Persuade and Refer) method, including how to listen and ask someone about their potential suicide intent.

First-grader Isabella Sabia was on a mission when she marched up to the neatly organized bookshelves at Lopez Elementary School.

“I like princess books, fairy books and mermaids,” she said as she perused the shelves for something she might want to take home. 

Suron Alton plopped a blob of blue paint into a puddle of yellow paint in front of him and watched in amazement as he created a new hue.

“Oh, the blue makes the green color,” the first-grader exclaimed, as he excitedly swirled the paint together. “I get it!”

Sixth-grader Jacob Burczyk hunched over a soldering tool and toggled with the intricate wires dangling from a small lantern that he helped build – a lantern that would soon be helping children thousands of miles away. 

Students may check out books to read and attend fun, interesting presentations at PSD LINC libraries this summer.

PSD LINC libraries will be open Tuesday and Thursday mornings, from 9 a.m. to noon, June 5 - July 19. Programs begin at 10 a.m.

The Poudre School District Summer Music Program offers classes to any student, currently in fifth grade through graduating seniors.
 

Visit the PSD Summer Music Program website to register or for more information.

Becky Ann Sammons knew exactly what she was doing when she planted the courtyard garden at Putnam Elementary School. 

She chose flowers she thought were beautiful, of course, but she also picked plants with fun names – Butterfly Bush, Scabiosa and Spilled Milk, for example – so kids might be excited to learn different plant varieties and read the labels she carefully put in front of each one. 

Students at Harris Bilingual Elementary School recently got their hands dirty (literally!) when they spent a day working in the school’s new learning garden. Kids from all grades spent part of their day outside in the sunshine planting seeds and learning about plant life and food waste. As part of the garden day activities, the students visited different stations around the garden to learn how plants grow and how they can use food scraps to make compost.