Christie M. Ponce, Branch Manager of our local Wells Fargo is shown handing Jan Marholin, Principal of San Cayetano a check for $4100 to cover the costs of the annual Harvest Festival/Fall carnival. This will be the third year that Wells Fargo has partnered with the elementary schools to host this community event. All profits from the event are split among the elementary staff working the event to be used in their classrooms. The date for the October event this year is Thursday night October 28th from 5-8PM. More details will be available at a later date.
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The Fillmore Rotary Sun Risers each year give third grade students a brand new dictionary to keep. The teachers are very appreciative of this as they are a definite asset when the students are working on their academic studies. Pictured are: Scott Olson –third grade teacher at San Cayetano, Rotarians: Ruth and Don Gunderson, Marge Le Bard and Tim Gurrola. Students pictured are Hannah, Dylan and Ivan.
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School is in session and the students are already having fun playing teatherball at San Cayetano.
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Fifth grade students back to school at San Cayetano surround fellow 5th grader, Fernando, who injured his foot playing football.
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San Cayetano’s Young Authors were hosted by Debbie, Cindy and Bea at Santa Paula Hospital when the students presented their “Books By Kids, For Kids”. These authors worked daily with Mrs. Duckett in the computer lab to create an original story that would make another student happy when reading these books. The books will be placed in the waiting rooms at the local county hospitals. The project was funded by Citi National Bank.
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The Perfect Attendance winners from San Cayetano are Ariana Gabriel and Wendy Carrillo-Garcia. There were 20 students who were here each day. Their names were put in a bag and Officer Wareham drew out the winning names and those two students each were given a brand new bicycle.
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5th grade students at San Cayetano were able to visit INTELSAT. INTELSAT is located on the mountain behind San Cayetano school and are involved with satellite applications. INTELSAT is also a sponsor of San Cayetano’s Robotics and NASA program. Randy Hale is our local contact and proud supporter of our NASA projects.
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Paula Phillips from the Dream Fund Outreach Foundation is shown with some San Cayetano students in a “Rewards Store” she set up in the school cafeteria. Students who have been recognized during the year as a Character Counts or Peacebuilder receives an invitation to “Shop” in the store. The school also celebrates with a pizza lunch for all students as San Cayetano is a school of service and each class has given back to our local community.
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