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Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Aussie reality TV star issues desperate plea after home is ransacked and graffitied with chilling message
Love Island Australia star Lexy Thornberry has issued a plea for help after her brand new home in Queensland was ransacked and graffitied by a group of local teenagers. The 24-year-old, who lives in Gatton with her professional boxer fiancé David Nyika, was left shaken after she arrived home at the weekend to find holes in her walls and the bedrooms trashed. The living room had been graffitied with a brazen warning: 'Ethan was here,' and 'Hunter was here.' Lexy turned to social media for help after the distressing incident. 'Gatton locals, swipe up if you know the teenagers who broke into our house a few days ago,' she wrote alongside several photos of the incident. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'Very upsetting...' Lexy wrote as she photographed some of the damage. Lexy said that her neighbours had seen six teenagers on bicycles hanging around her property on the day of the incident. 'Keep a close eye on your kids please,' she added, before asking locals to help her identify the perpetrators. Gatton is a small town in the Lockyer Valley Region of Queensland, with a population of less than 8,000. Making matters worse, Lexi and her NZ-born fiancé appear to have only recently purchased the property. In a carousel of photos that Lexi posted to social media last week, the happy couple posed together in front of a Gatton Real Estate 'Sold' sign and proudly held up the keys to their first home. 'Your Home. Our community,' the slogan on the real estate sign reads. Lexy and David are also recently engaged, after the Kiwi boxer got down on one knee during a holiday to Mexico. David popped the question with a Tiffany ring at sunset in the Isla Mujeres. 'It's easy with Lexy. I spent almost eight years with the wrong people, I wanted to nail this one,' he told Woman's Day. Although the Kiwi boxer moved from England to Australia to train with Lexy's father and boxing trainer Noel Thornberry in 2022, it was the former Love Islander that made the first move. After watching David win bronze in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, she slid into his Instagram DMs. And as fate would have it, David soon moved to Queensland to train with her dad on the family farm the following year.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Gatton selected as member of Numeracy Counts Administrator Academy Design Team
Kim Gatton, the principal at Calhoun Elementary School in McLean County, has been selected to be a member of the Numeracy Counts Administrator Academy Design Team, a team of educators across Kentucky who will be designing professional development curriculum focusing on improving math literacy in early elementary school classes. Gatton was one of six principals across the state to be selected for the team. 'I'm excited for the opportunity to be selected for the team,' Gatton said. 'As a team member, I will play a first-hand role in designing some of the professional development curriculum for teachers across the state which puts me in a great position to utilize these trainings for my own staff members during the first limited cohort of teachers and educators.' Gatton said that, because she's a member of the design team, elementary school teachers and principals across McLean County will be eligible to attend the training sessions that will take place this summer. Gatton, a former high school chemistry teacher, said that she understands how valuable math literacy is for students. 'The state has already made a big push for reading literacy in younger elementary school students, so now it's time to also focus on math literacy,' she said. The push for improved math literacy in grades kindergarten through third is because of Kentucky House Bill 162, which passed in 2024. The bill's goal is that 'all students have the skills necessary to demonstrate procedural skill and fluency, building from conceptual understanding to application, in order to solve real-world problems.' The focus on numeracy, the ability and confidence to understand, reason with and apply mathematical concepts in real-world situations, according to the Kentucky Department of Education, 'is not just about performing calculations, but also about understanding the context and meaning of those numbers.' As a member of the design team, Gatton will be working with educational leaders from the University of Louisville, Northern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University, the Kentucky Center for Mathematics and regional educational cooperatives. The initial cohort of educators participating in the new math literacy focused curriculum trainers are limited to 125 participants at each of eight training sites. The Kentucky Department of Education states that 'understanding the nature of high-quality mathematics instruction, and what teachers and students should be doing in the classroom is essential for an instructional leader of a school.' That's why Gatton said she is honored to be a part of the design team and to extend her knowledge to her other team members. 'As a former chemistry teacher, I understand how important math literacy is for students as they pursue more education or enter into a career,' Gatton said. 'So, by focusing on math literary while the students are still in early elementary school, we will be able to show students why math is important for practical uses and real-world applications.' The design team met for the first time in Lexington in February and will continue to meet until the training sessions begin this summer. Teachers will use the information and curriculum training received in these classes beginning during the 2025-2026 school year.
