Making the community a better place May 11 2021
Third grade students at Steins Pillar join partnership with Delta Waterfowl to create mallard nests for the Crooked River Wetlands
As the weather becomes more moderate and the sunshine invites young scholars outside, many classes are participating in school projects, while basking in the lambent radiance of a spring day.
Last week, a classroom of third graders were immersed in a project that resulted in the culmination of creating a number of mallard houses. The project was a partnership between Steins Pillar Elementary students, the City of Prineville and Delta Waterfowl.
Delta Waterfowl, which was founded as a research organization, is The Duck Hunters Organization, which is a leading conservation group founded at the famed Delta Marsh in Manitoba, Canada, with its United States headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Fire chiefs renew calls to make sprinklers mandatory in schools
Fire chiefs across the country have renewed calls for mandatory sprinklers in schools as new research estimates that 390,000 teaching hours could be lost in the next year as a result of large fires.
An analysis of Home Office data by the insurer Zurich Municipal has found that school fires have destroyed the equivalent of 1,100 classrooms in the last five years.
It also found that fire crews have been called to tackle 2,300 school blazes in England, which completely gutted 47 primary and secondary schools, and seriously damaged 230 others.
Zurich Municipal – who looked at Home Office data from all 44 fire authorities in England – estimates that 390,000 teaching hours could be lost in the next year as a result of large fires alone, causing disruption for 28,000 children.