St. Louis Rams Player to Present Recognitions To Ladue Middle School Students

Information was provided by the St. Louis Rams and the Ladue School District.

St. Louis Rams tackle, Rodger Saffold will be at Ladue Middle School at 2:15 p.m. on Monday, May 6 to present Ladue Middle School students with not one, but two achievement awards.

First, Ladue Middle School sixth-grade students have won the PLAY 60 Challenge, a program designed to encourage kids to become and remain physically active.

Ladue Middle School’s sixth-grade physical education teachers coordinated the school’s participation, with help from all the sixth-grade classroom teachers, and won with more minutes logged by these Ladue Middle School students than any other group.  The program is co-sponsored by the National Football League and the American Heart Association.

Secondly, all students of Ladue Middle School have taken part in the school being named a Character Fitness Model School.  This program, co-sponsored by the St. Louis Rams and CHARACTERplus, recognizes schools that have effectively implemented character fitness throughout the school year in a way that engages students, staff and the school community as a whole.

Character fitness combines health and nutrition efforts, character development and physical exercise. Schools that have achieved a mastery rating in those categories, as determined by a panel of judges, are recognized with the honor of being named a Model School. 

Ladue Middle School and only two other schools in the area were selected as 2013 Character Fitness Model Schools.