The Chapel Hill High School Drama Department will present 1959 Pink Thunderbird tonight (Thursday), Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hanes Theatre at Chapel Hill High.
Category: Schools
School brief: Morris Grove grants
Morris Grove Elementary School teachers recently received four grants from Donors Choose. Mary Alice Lyons, K-2 literacy coach, received three of the awards. She received $382 for “Lovely Letters: Kindergarten ABC Experts.†This grant will fund magnetic alphabet letters and stamps to support letter identification. She received $641 for “Mi Libro, Tu Libro†(“My Book,…
School brief: Innovation Day
Three schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district will take part in a statewide Innovation Day program on Nov. 18.
School brief: Board meet
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. Top items on the agenda include: • School Improvement Plans for schools not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress in math; • the opening-of-school report; • Superintendent Neil Pedersen’s evaluation; • the…
Morris Grove honors history and a new beginning
School brief: Hawbridge open house
The Hawbridge School will host an open house and concert for prospective students and their families on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. The free public charter high school emphasizes environmental sciences and the arts. The school is open to any student in grades 9 through 12 who is a North Carolina resident. Most students…
School brief: Gold star art
Ephesus Elementary School student Antonio Centeno received a Gold Star Award at the North Carolina State Fair. Centeno received the award for a piece of artwork submitted to a state fair contest.
School brief: Middle school fair
The Middle School Career Fair will be held Nov. 13 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at University Mall on Estes Drive. More than 70 careers will be represented. The event is sponsored by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, the Foundation for a Sustainable Community, University Mall and Staples.
School brief: CAFE certificates
Twelve students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools received Project C.A.F.E. (Calling All Future Educators) certificates at the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina conference in Winston-Salem earlier this month.
School brief: Principal award
Smith Middle School Principal Valerie Reinhardt has been selected as the 2009 Wachovia Principal of the Year for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in a program sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the Center for School Leadership Development Principals’ Executive Program and the Wachovia Corporation. Reinhardt will compete with other local award recipients…
Fall Fest at McDougle Elementary
By Mary Lide Parker Staff Writer Catch a dangling donut, visit a haunted house or navigate an inflatable obstacle course – all at the McDougle Elementary School Fall Festival this weekend. The annual festival will take place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school. Carrboro and Chapel Hill families are welcome…
School brief: Postcard award
Ephesus Elementary School fifth-grader Lee Franklin recently won an award from the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina for a World Language Advocacy Postcard.
School brief: Morris Grove dedication
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will dedicate Morris Grove Elementary School on Sunday at 3 p.m. The school, the district’s 10th elementary school, opened Aug. 25 and is attended by 530 students and has a staff of about 90. Descendants of Morris Hogan, a freed slave for whom the school was named, are expected to take…
School brief: Exceptional summit
The Exceptional Children High School Parent Summit will be held on Monday from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Slant room at East Chapel Hill High School Parents from district high schools will share concerns and suggestions on special-education issues at the summit. For more information, email Linda_Varblow@med.unc.edu. Si necesita un interprete para esta noche,…
School brief: Special needs
The Family Advocacy Network will present “Laws & Programs that Impact Families with Special Needs Children†on Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Orange United Methodist Church at 1220 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.