"Kirbyville's Got Talent"

Kirbyville School District is a partner in the First Place Character Initiative in Stone and Taney County. The character initiative includes the College of the Ozarks, all the schools in Stone and Taney Counties and many local businesses and individuals.

KES kicked off our character program today with an assembly called "Kirbyville's Got Talent." The premise was a talent competition featuring performers, judges and audience members that displayed examples and non-examples of our first two character words, "respect" and "responsibility." The skit was performed by KES faculty members. Subsequent quarterly character assemblies will be written and performed by groups of third grade students.

Character is visible in various places throughout the building including the cafeteria and lobby bulletin board. Classes will use the character words as a basis various projects throughout the year. KES students will soon have new character t-shirts featuring our theme, "Dreams come true when your character shines through." But, most importantly, throughout the year, character is visible in the words and actions of our students, faculty and staff.

Splash Bash celebrates summer reading

You can tell from this student's "thumbs up" that the Splash Into Summer Reading Program was a hit for the fourth year in a row. 98 K-5 students read at least 1000 minutes during summer vacation and celebrated at the Splash Bash on Thursday, August 21. Read more about it in the Branson Daily News. Our sponsors this year were Ozark Mtn. Bank, The Track Family Fun Parks, Wal-Mart Volunteerism Always Pays program, The Presleys and a Target Store Grant. We are also grateful to JJ Marketing (Star-Walk Entertainment) for providing the equipment at a discount and for the Scholastic Literacy Partners program which allows us to purchase the books for the student packets at a large discount with free shipping.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Kirbyville Elementary students were featured in a Branson Daily News Article about the first day of school:
http://bransondailynews.com/story.php?storyID=8385

Welcome back!!!

We had a great turn out at Open House. Thank-you to all the families who attended! Click here to a link to the KES Open House PowerPoint: http://kirbyville.k12.mo.us/gaines then click the link at the top of the page.

The first day of school is Monday, August 18! We are looking forward to a great year!


These two students were very excited to visit the school and return their Splash Into Summer Reading folders! They each read at least 1000 minutes during summer vacation. Students may return their folders on the first day of school if they forgot them on Open House.

Open House

The Kirbyville R-VI School District would like to invite all our students and families to Open House on Thursday, August 14. The hours at the middle school are 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. and the hours at the elementary school are 6:30 to 8:00. We hope to see you there!

New student enrollment

August has arrived and although the kids still have a few weeks of summer left, if you are new to the Kirbyville district our enrollment dates are coming up! Enrollment at both schools will be on Thursday, August 7 and Friday, August 8 from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. K-3 students enroll at the elementary school and 4-8 students enroll at the middle school. Students in all grades will need to bring a current immunization record and proof of residency (lease or purchase agreement for your residence or a current electric bill). Students enrolling in kindergarten must have turned five before August 1, 2008 and students enrolling in first grade must have turned six before August 1, 2008. Students enrolling in these two grades must bring a birth certificate as proof of age-eligibility. The offices in both buildings will open on Monday, August 4. Call the elementary school at 334-2757 or the middle school at 348-0444 if you have questions.