Solar Eclipse Awes Sutter Elementary School Community

The Sutter Elementary School community gathered on the blacktop Monday, April 8 to view the partial solar eclipse together.

The energy was palpable at Sutter Elementary School on Monday morning. Kids swarmed onto the blacktop, bouncing and screaming, but it wasn’t your typical recess that caused all the excitement. It was the solar eclipse. “I think it’s very interesting with the glasses because you can’t see anything except that shining bright sun,” said Elsa, … Read more

Shirley Stibbard, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Meet Shirley Stibbard, a much beloved kindergarten teacher at Sutter Elementary, who recently learned just how much she was appreciated.

Sutter Elementary School teacher Shirley Stibbard’s 23 kindergarten students—and their parents—clearly love her. She has the proof. It was about 5 p.m. Friday in the school parking lot. Stibbard had stayed late to turn in report cards, and she was loading her car to head home for the Thanksgiving week school break. She had just … Read more