Welcome back students. We have a lot of fun, educational, and physically active events planned once again for this school year. The first event will be for the 4th and 5th graders in middle October on a Saturday. The event is the “Bob Cipriano Run” that will be held at Ford Field (Same as Mini-Marian Marathon).

The other big events that we will participate in this year will be “Bowl for Life” K-5 , “Jump Rope for Heart” 2-5, “Mini-Martian Marathon” K-5, “Aces” K-5, and Field Day K-5.

This year in the gym with the addition of 15 more minutes of physical education time per class there will be increased time spent on both fitness and sportsmanship related activities to make our games more enjoyable for all.

I look forward to another successful year at both DuVall and Whitmore-Bolles.

Physical Education teacher,

Bryan Tapp

On Wednesday May 1st both DuVall and Whitmore-Bolles will be participating in thier 6th annual ACES day. At 10 am our students will be part of over 300,000 students being physically. Its both schools tradition now to dance the cha-cha and go for a walk. looking forward to seeing all of you dance next week.

Congratulations to both DuVall and Whitmore-Bolles for raising more than 1,500$ for the American Heart Association during this years Jump Rope for Heart. Adam Klan was the top fundraiser at DuVall collecting 180$. Great work! New banner going up soon.

This year both DuVall and Whitmore-Bolles registered over 50 students to participate in the Martian Marathon that was run on Saturday April 13th. Although a cold day the participants from both schools had a good time and reached a goal. Great work by all involved and a special thank you to Mrs.Rosenau for coaching at DuVall.

Looking for runners. Both DuVall and Whitmore-Bolles are participating in the mini-martian marathon on Saturday April 13th. Both schools are looking for runners to fill our rosters. If your child is interested please have them contact Mr. Tapp or Mrs. Rosenau.

At DuVall congratulations to Mrs. Strez and Mrs.Liepe’s classes for earning the K-3 Sportsmanship Award (trophy) for their teacher.

At Whitmore-Bolles Mrs.Stawara, Mrs.Edick and Mr.May’s classes brought home the award.

Great work by those classes demonstrating outstanding behavior and team work!

The Mini-Martian Kickoff will be held next Wednesday the 30th of January. Our goal is get as many students involved as possible. More information to come after the kickoff.

Both DuVall Elementery and Whitmore-Bolles recently completed the Bowl for Life program in their physical education classes. All the groups had great fun and gained some knowledge about how to bowl. In the next couple of weeks we should be receiving some free bowling passes good for one free game at Ford Lanes in Dearborn Heights.

Bowl for Life officially begins sa Whitmore-Bolles on Monday December 10th. This is an intro to bowling skills and terms that will hopefully motivate our students to become lifelong bowlers.

Monday November 19th- Whitmore-Bolles

Wednesday November 28th- DuVall

Thursday November 29th- Both

If you miss me on those dates and would like to set up a meeting leave your name and number on a piece of paper in my mailbox in the office.

Thanks,

Bryan Tapp    Physical Education Teacher