Project Graduation, the parent-funded celebration for all Chapel Hill-Carrboro graduating seniors, needs donations. Project Graduation is still $12,000 short of its fundraising goal. The annual celebration has helped keep local high school students together and safe on graduation night since 1993. To donate, visit projectgraduationchccs.org/contributions.htm or mail a check payable to Project Graduation to: Project…
Category: Schools
Student wins national contest
Phillips Middle School seventh-grader Kathy Dai recently won the national Listen to a Life Essay Contest for her essay about her 72-year-old neighbor, Helen Simms. For the contest, students aged 8 to 18 interview a grandparent or friend 50 or older and then write 300-word essays. Dai wrote about Simms’ experiences in the Civil Rights…
Exhibit to showcase newcomer art
Students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Newcomer Center will exhibit their artwork at University Mall, June 2 to 14. The exhibit, “Journeys to a Different Landscape,†will showcase visual expression through art therapy by students from Burma. An opening reception will be held on June 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the mall.
Students perform at state festival
Students from the Phillips and McDougle middle schools chorus programs were selected to participate in the N.C. Middle School All State Festival in Greensboro, May 15 and 16. Selected McDougle students are Sadie Frank and Sofia Doerfer, sixth grade; Naalamiley Kwakye and Rachel Van Aalst, seventh grade; and Broneyn Kircher and Meredith Bailey, eighth grade….
Rashkis students win math awards
Rashkis Elementary School student Albert Kim received the George Lenchner Medallion from the Math Olympiads, a nonprofit public foundation devoted to engaging children in creative problem-solving activities. Kim, a fifth-grade student, received the award for his perfect score on all Math Olympiad contests this year. He was one of only 46 children out of 90,000…
Students represent AVID
Students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools recently represented the Chapel Hill-Carrboro AVID Program at the first annual AVID Day at the General Assembly in Raleigh. Chapel Hill High senior Lateshea Farrington, East Chapel Hill High senior Jonathan Smith, Carrboro High sophomore Ben Rose and Culbreth MIddle eighth-grader Arianna Jacobs met with members of the General Assembly…
Dual-language info session
Frank Porter Graham Elementary School will host an information session about their Spanish-English Dual-Language Program on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Participants will learn about the curriculum and daily schedule, meet the teachers, meet parents of other students in the program and register for the program. Translation and childcare will be provided.
ECHHS Rising Senior Parent Night
East Chapel Hill High School will hold Rising Senior Parent Night on Monday at 7 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High Media Center. The counseling department will discuss the college-application process, specifically how counselors deal with recommendations and forms, match schools, the college admissions process and managing the process and anxiety.
Phillips nurse receives award
Edwina Zagami, school nurse at Phillips Middle School, has been named Preceptor of the Year for 2008-09 for the UNC School of Nursing Undergraduate Program. The award recognizes her “years and hours of clinical preceptor work.†She will receive a certificate and a $200 professional development award.
School Lunch menus
Elementary Friday — Spaghetti & Meat Sauce w/Garlic Bread; Corn Dog; California Mixed Vegetables; Corn on the Cobb; Banana Pudding Monday — Hamburger on a Bun; Fish Nuggets w/Wheat Roll; Lettuce & Tomato Salad; Tater Tots; Peas & Carrots; Apple Halves Tuesday — Three-Cheese Baked Rotini w/Garlic Bread; Chicken Fajitas w/Salsa & Sour Cream; “Fun…
Education Matters: From gap to chasm
By Steve Peha I’ve lived in Carrboro for six years now and each year there’s been discussion of the achievement gap issue in our local schools. But this year, the gap has reached an unprecedented and, frankly, shocking level. Currently, we have almost a 60-point difference in the achievement levels of white and black students….
LHS/CHS Hall of Fame
The 2009 inductees to the Chapel Hill High School and Lincoln High School Hall of Fame gathered Saturday at Chapel Hill High for a meal and a hearty round of applause. From left, the inductees are: • Woody Burns (1982) — Burns was named All-Conference in wrestling his junior and senior years and had a…
Teachers of the Year
Schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district have selected their 2009-10 Teachers of the Year. Elementary school Teachers of the Year are: Myriam Casimir, Carrboro Elementary; Gretchen Capps, Ephesus Elementary; Gina Pace, Estes Hills Elementary; Leigh Ann Cardman, Frank Porter Graham Elementary; LaWanda Rainey-Hall, Glenwood Elementary; Janet Davis-Castra, McDougle Elementary; Karen Reid, Morris Grove…
School board meeting
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Items on the agenda include: • a recommendation to delay dual-language implementation at McDougle Elementary School; • action steps in preparation of the 2009-10 school year; • position exchange requests…
Business conference
Smith Middle School students recently competed in the 55th annual North Carolina Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Conference. Robert Byerly won second place in business math for students in middle grades and was a top 10 finisher in financial mathematics. Ranjitha Ananthan finished in the top 10 for middle grades public speaking. In addition,…