001and a round of applause for our special guests very honored to have Miss Andrea and Miss railan help me with a presentation tonight um in helping all of our elementary schools reach uh District goal number one we're going to talk a little bit about student leaders leadership opportunities at the elementary level all seven of our buildings have fifth grade safety patrol members would help out with kindergarten the library the PE teachers the art room etc etc uh many of our buildings also have what's called care ambassadors think of an elementary version of student government without the president the vice president and other hierarch to help give some leadersh opportunities and then at plank nor going to take a little bit of time thank you Mr Conley all right of talking about something spe specifically that
002we learned at state road back in the day when I was an AP and then we carried over at plank North which is our student run post office at plank North called the Pioneer Express post office play you didn't even know that was coming so real quick um there are some bullet points up there but again I'm not sure honestly who enjoys the post office more and what I mean by that receiving a letter either the students or the adults so we have siblings write each other we have kids write their former teachers kids within their class it's a way of kids staying connected at their grade levels and even not at their grade levels they don't see just because they're on the same bus uh as an example so those are some of the
003former reasons why in a more politically correct version of why we do that from educational point of view we have four wings at plank North and each one think of his neighborhood so we have Pioneer Park career height story villain Warrior way and every student and adult in the building has addresses that helps them their stationary that's created and the amount of work that is put in by their staff and I'm going to highlight the staff that really puts this all together for us for our students and our staff doing amazing work we've come a long way we've become Google ties along with everything else so instead of having binders in each room that has all the kids addresses when I write somewhere it's a Google file and obviously our intermediate friends know how to
004access it with a little bit more TLC for my primary art teachers as well to help them out with that it's an example of how they would address um either an adult or a child in our school um the hallway the community and then address that's on there and to help encourage and promote this we have a stamp contest so we have two sets of stamp so for prek through second grade and then for grades three through five uh Miss Jordan loves this she's our art teacher at plank North because the art talent that we have in our building is amazing so kids will design it um I think this year was We got Pride or moose involved in the stamps did we not yeah moose yeah Pride all right um and the adults there
005was a committee of adults that looked at the stamps there is one of our former stamps that actually up there back in the past that uh was a theme that we had had as well now the important people that are in the room no disrespect to the Board of Education Mr n of course I'm going to turn it over to first Miss Andrea who's going to walk us through what our fourth graders have to do both for the application and the interview process hi my name is Andrea and being a member of the plank North Fourth Grade Pion Express post office is really fun and so basically when I heard about it I figured out that I wanted to straight away be postmaster and and I so I grab so when I they passed out
006the application I signed everything on it it asked me on a piece of paper what would make a good postmaster in my top three favorite jobs and so I did everything on the application and the next day I turned it in and I was excited for the next thing which was soon to be my interview and so I got interviewed when I got called up for interview I got nervous and excited at the same time it's like I had butterflies in my stomach and then I got interviewed with Mrs dirt iner she asked me my favorite hobbies and stuff and so I was excited when they finished and about a week or so later I got called up with Mr your darling and Ray and he took us to the lunch room the room like
007where the Pioneer Express happens and he explained a lot of things and then finally he told me I got postmaster and I was really happy for me and Ray and I think a lot of people would also be happy to see their job and I wish it could happen all over again and now I'm going to pass it over to my good friend the other postmaster Ray got this I'm going to talk about the five jobs in the post the first job is the postmaster the postmaster has a key to unlock the mailbox the mail the postmaster collects and counts the mail to keep track of the ma mail every day the mail is then given to the facer canselor next job is the faer canselor the facer canselor flips the mail the right way
008then they stamp the letter with a green stamp and shows that the letter went through the post office next job is the Nixie clerk the nexie clerk checks the stamp for proper mail format to make sure that the carrier can deliver the mail if the mail is then is missing something or something is wrong then the nixy clerk stamps the letter with Return to Sender next job is the sorter the sorter sorts the mail into a wooden mail sorder that is labeled with hallway and classroom the last job is the carrier the carrier gets the mail from the wooden mail sorder then they deliver the mail to the classroom mailbox now I'm can turn it back over to Mr B thank you ladies and I have you know they take their job very seriously and
009even if the principal had one number off in the zip code it gets returned to Sund as it should thank you Mr Dean so we have 58 fourth graders that went through the interview process that M Andrea uh chatted about and the interview application as well so we have currently have 58 of our fourth graders that are working in the post office and we have four sections of fourth grade and they each have it on for a month and right now our postmasters right now are in the process of training the next classes and they'll just pay it for for the next three groups that come out and and and work that way through that and those are the five culprits and the victims and crime Mrs provano Mrs CER Mr darling Miss King and
010Mr Gorski that really are instrumental in putting this all together for our students and staff at plank North you guys were awesome any questions for the ladies not for the principal all right any questions so proud of you what a great opportunity for kids so thank you guys for making this opportunity for them but great job we're so so happy that you're doing it and proud of you what your favorite part oo that's hard one of your favorite Parts well one of my favorite Parts is like seeing everyone doing the work and it's kind of like fun all together and like I think I think it would be like if if if I had like a better time doing it or like no wait I wouldn't have I had a great time doing it and
011I'm happy that like I'm sad that we're not doing it much anymore cuz like you only get a month to until you train the other class but I'm also happy that they get the opportunity it's great well said well said that's awesome that's awesome all right thank you very much [Applause]