Gilbert Schools is excited to share the hiring of new Activities Director for the 2022-2023 school year, Mr. Ian Smith. Ian is replacing Mr. Tim Pezzetti, current Athletic Director at Gilbert Schools who resigned his position earlier this month after accepting a position in Missouri, closer to his family.

Read more about the hiring of Mr. Smith.

On March 5th, 2022 there was a devastating tornado that hit Winterset Iowa. All of the Gilbert Community Schools hosted fundraisers to try to raise money and/or supplies for the citizens of Madison County.

We hosted a hat fundraiser where students could pay $1 to wear a hat for a day. We also held free will donations for supplies for the Winterset community.

We were able to donate a total of $2,394.60 as well as 3 full totes of supplies for the community!

We wanted to share this with you all and thank you for the donations! We could not have done this without your help!

A few teachers around the district had some April fools fun! Mrs. Ostrem has a scientist of the month board that students help her decorate each month. These boys took it over today and made Dr. Doofenshmitrz from Phineas and Ferb the scientist of the day! Mrs. Weber brought the students brownies (brown E’s)!

Angie Bonthuis, a kindergarten teacher here at Gilbert Elementary School has received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST).  Mrs. Bonthuis has been teaching at Gilbert for 21 years and has taken on various roles including, being a model teacher, tech innovator, and being a member of the leadership team in the district.

Read the complete article posted by the Iowa Department of Education Here!