Old River Elementary School students were greeted with messages of encouragement as they walked to class on the first day of school, with staff members holding signs that read, \u201cYou are loved.\u201d and \u201cBelieve in Yourself,\u201d<\/p>\n
Stacy Beeney, the school nurse at Old River, said she was excited for the start of the school year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that everybody enjoys themselves and just has a very memorable moment,\u201d Beeney said. \u201cWe have a lot of different things happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beeney, who is in her fourth year at the school, said she loves the first day of school and the sense of community it brings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see a lot of smiling faces, so I love that,\u201d she said. \u201cI see all the staff out here welcoming these students and calling them by name. And it’s just such a community family feeling that we have here. And then, like I said, most of all, I just love seeing the smiling kids’ faces walking in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beeney said she enjoys her role at Old River and the school\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the family atmosphere like I was referencing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then just we’re such a community in helping develop these growing minds.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said teachers planned special activities for students in their classrooms as the school year began.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe teachers have special things planned in each class,\u201d Beeney said. \u201cBut we’re just here to support those students and welcome them and give them a friendly face to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old River Elementary School students were greeted with messages of encouragement as they walked to class on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-431047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}