Bluff View Elementary School

Donors pledge over $33,000 at Bluff View fundraiser

Apr 10, 2024

Bluff View Elementary held their annual fundraiser March 1-8, with a culminating Glow Run Event. This year, donors pledged over $33,000 for Bluff View Students to run laps at the Glow Run held on Friday, March 8th. Throughout the week students worked to get donations from family and friends with...

Heise’s message to Bluff View students: ‘Try new things, work hard, be kind’

Mar 27, 2024

Professional hockey player Taylor Heise was back at her former school, Bluff View Elementary School in Lake City, on March 21. Students and teachers wore hockey jerseys and other clothing promoting teams Heise has played on over the years, including Team USA and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Heise...

Bluff View coders compete nationally

Mar 20, 2024

Bluff View Elementary School coders are competing in the 5th and 6th grade Division with 42 Teams and 381 Coders across 9 states. Coach Chelsea Kerwin has been working with students individually through 8 weeks of sprints. Now they are working in teams as they head into the Preliminary Post...

Ag parade kicks off ‘I Love to Read Month’ at Bluff View Elementary School

Feb 7, 2024

“Growing Readers” is the theme for “I Love to Read Month” at Bluff View Elementary School this year, and to kick off a month of agriculture-related activities, the school hosted an agriculture parade on Friday, Feb. 2. “Jeremy Holst from Holst Dairy Farms and Mark Ryan from Ag Partners shared the...

Young coders speak at Kiwanis meeting

Jan 17, 2024

Members and the coach of Youth Coding League at Bluff View Elementary School were the guest speakers at a recent Lake City Kiwanis Club meeting. The boys demonstrated to Kiwanis members an award-winning computer program that they wrote that became a computer game. The boys did a wonderful...

Grant helps students learn about agriculture through play

Jan 10, 2024

Students in Marie Kruse’s kindergarten class at Bluff View Elementary School have been learning about agriculture during playtime thanks to a grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Thrivent Financial, contributions from Kruse’s aunt and uncle, and Kruse herself. Kruse was one of...

Legion Auxiliary donates for clothing, winter gear

Nov 22, 2023

Joyce Moechnig representing the American Legion Auxiliary presents a check to Lake City Public Schools school nurse Erica Hoops. The $250 donation will be used to purchase clothing and winter gear for the nurses office at Bluff View Elementary School. The clothing and winter wear will be used by...

Fire department presents coloring and poster contest awards at Bluff View Elementary School

Nov 15, 2023

As part of its Fire Prevention Week activities in October, the Lake City Fire Department sponsored a coloring contest for Bluff View Elementary School third graders and a poster contest for fifth graders. Pictured above, from left, are Lake City firefighter Jack Weyer, poster contest winners Mali...

Eye clinic and church youth raise $2,300 for school supplies

Sep 13, 2023

During the month of August, Ackermann Total Eye Care collected donations from customers during their annual Back-to-School promotion. Donations were triple-matched by Dr. Michael Ackermann. At the same time, additional funds were collected by the Youth Program at First Lutheran Church. Over $2,300...

Glander collects school supplies in honor of friend Blaze Himle

Sep 6, 2023

Landan Glander, a seventh grade student at Lincoln High School, collected school supply donations for kindergarten through sixth grade students in need, in memory of former Bluff View Elementary School student and friend, Blaze Himle. “Lake City Schools want to thank Landan for continuing to...