Fifth-grader excels in academic game

Sadye Treadway, a fifth-grader at Harold Keller Elementary School in Metairie, is accomplishing great things this school year.

In addition to being elected vice president of the student council, she is involved in the D.A.R.E. program, is a member of her school's volleyball team, which just won the championship, and has been in the gifted program since first grade.

Sadye also received the superintendent's award for receiving all A's every semester since starting school. She is the only student at Harold Keller to have accomplished this feat. And Sadye, the daughter of Tara and David Treadway of Metairie, was recently invited to join the Junior Beta Club, which promotes academic achievement and encourages service and leadership, and the Keller chapter of the Elementary National Honor Society.

And Sadye's brother, Trevor, a first-grader at Harold Keller, is also in on the principal's honor roll.

"I am extremely proud of my children," said Tara Treadway. "Sadye puts a lot of pressure on herself to do well."

Most recently, Sadye received the highest score in the game of Propaganda in Jefferson Parish's Academic Games tournament held at Marie Reviere school. In Propaganda, a question-and-response game, the players learn to recognize techniques of persuasion which helps them to become critical thinkers.

Sadye answered every question correctly.

Competing against about 75 other students in the tournament, Sadye was No. 1 in Propaganda with a score of 32 out of a possible 36, an "amazing achievement" according to Treadway's teacher Julie Dauzat.

She is currently ranked No. 1 in Jefferson Parish.

"Sadye is a wonderful student who gets along well with everyone," Dauzat said. "She loves creative writing and really is an outstanding student."

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