Students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro dual-language program swept the Under 13 native speakers category of N.C. State’s Confucius Institute 2010 N.C. Chinese Writing Contest.
Category: Schools
Local students’ art honored
Alexandra Kanarski, a senior at East Chapel Hill High School, and Maryanna Holmes Parker, a sophomore at Orange High School, were honored as participants from Orange County in the Fourth District Congressional High School Arts Competition, sponsored annually by the U.S. House of Representatives …
Golf-o-Rama at Chapel Hill High
The work of Chapel Hill High School honors geometry students will be on display May 13 at Golf-o-Rama. Eighteen holes of mini-golf, designed and built by the Honors Geometry students of CHHS, will be open from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the school gym.
UNC student named Phillips Ambassador
Tiffany Yonts, daughter of Kimberlee and Richard Yonts of Carrboro, has been awarded a Phillips Ambassadors scholarship for study in Asia.
Lunch Menus
FRI 5/14 — Spaghetti & Meat Sauce w/Garlic Breadstick; Corn Dog; California Mixed Vegetables; Sweet Yellow Corn; Banana Pudding. MORE
Estes Hills wins Battle of Books
The “Courageous Carrots†in Stefanie Janke’s fourth-grade class at Estes Hills Elementary won the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Battle of the Books district championship. Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading-enjoyment program. Students read the same books and practice creating and answering recall questions about the books. For the first time in the history…
Exhibit highlights refugees
The Art Therapy Institute is presenting an exhibit titled “Journey to a Different Landscape: Visual Expression through Art Therapy,†featuring the artwork of children who are recent arrivals to our community as refugees from Burma. This artwork was created during their art-therapy sessions intended to help these children heal from past trauma and express their…
Forty computers awarded
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s Community Connection program awarded 40 student households with free computers and Internet access. Eighty-nine students will benefit from the award, which is part of the district’s efforts to eliminate the digital divide among its students. The computers were made available through partnerships with Kramden Institute Inc. of Durham, the Human Rights…
Trading the carpool for walking shoes
The days of walking and riding your bike to and from school may soon be returning to Carrboro.
Estes Hills goes green
Estes Hills Elementary School might be celebrating its 50-year anniversary this year – but even an old school can go fashionably “green†in celebrating Earth Day and reviving their Read-A-Thon program.
Science team takes third
The Phillips Middle School Science Olympiad team of 18 seventh- and eighth-grade students placed third among 46 middle school teams in the 35th North Carolina Science
Schools unlikely to receive full funding
Several commissioners urged school board members to dip into their capital funds, which are allocated for facilities, for operations costs.
BRMA to host improv night
The Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate program will host an Improv Comedy Fundraiser on May 6 at DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro. Featuring program director Graig Meyer as “Mr. Diplomat,†the show will also include members of the DSI Comedy Actors. Tickets are $20 and proceeds go to help send BRMA students to summer camp. The show…
Carrboro teacher honored
VIF International Education is proud to honor five of its visiting exchange teachers in the 2010 International Educator of the Year awards program, including Carrboro Elementary School teacher Luz Mery Suárez. Suárez, who is a first-grade Spanish instructor in the school’s dual-language program, has been teaching in the U.S. for two years through VIF, an…
Board of education hosts legislative breakfast
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members met with state legislators for the annual legislative breakfast on Monday. Guests included Speaker of the House Joe Hackney, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Rep. Verla Insko and chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners Valerie Foushee. Board members, guests and administrators discussed the state budget situation and…