Join us to start summer and ignite reading with FHPS, Kent District Library, and a well-known artist! All families are invited to a super summer reading extravaganza event, Tuesday, June 18, at Meadow Brook Elementary School, 1450 Forest Hill Ave., from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The KDL Bookmobile, a traveling library, will be parked outside of the […]

Story by School News Network – Sixth-grade Knapp Forest Elementary students finished up their school year by creating environmental videos in partnership with Groundswell Michigan. According to teachers Christen Topolinski and Cortney Kittridge-Cook, “We’d done the invasive species pulls, and we’d done the butterfly garden. We were looking for something new that students would really […]

Congratulations to the six Odyssey of the Mind Teams from Forest Hills Public Schools who advanced and competed in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in May at Michigan State University. These six teams finished in the top 20 OM teams in the world. Congratulations to the following teams: Problem 2 (Hide in Plain […]

Story by School News Network – The question “How’s school?” became a vehicle for transformation at Eastern Middle School this year. Prior to school letting out for the summer, students were asked to sound off on topics such as class content, school culture and community, bullying, the transition from elementary school to seventh grade, and […]

This year, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge invited high school students to submit an essay focused on civility. Some ideas were: What does civility mean to you? How might we create a sense of civility in both our social circles and our government? Have you had an experience where, through civility, […]