Three Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools freshmen will comprise the first North Carolina team to participate in the Euro-Challenge in New York, April 28-30. Eva Archer and Nathalie Reilly of Chapel Hill High School and Emer O’Reilly of East Chapel Hill High will participate in the event, which is sponsored by the Delegation of the European…
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School Brief: Open house
The Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College will hold an open house on Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. The Middle College program allows 11th- and 12th-grade students to earn honors-level high school credit while taking college courses. Students considering enrollment and their parents are encouraged to attend the events.
School Brief: PTA tax session
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools PTA Council will hold an informational session on the transfer tax ballot issue on April 23 at 7 p.m. in the media center at Smith Middle School. The session will include a presentation by county representatives, a question-and-answer session, information regarding how the tax might benefit schools and discussion among…
School Brief: Faust in marionette
The Emerson Waldorf School String-Pullers will present a marionette show, Doctor Faust, on Saturday at 1:15 and 3:15 p.m. in front of the post office on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The high school marionette troupe has been building marionettes, costumes and sets, learning lines and staging a performance to prepare for the show. Faust…
School Brief: New Waldorf director
Emerson Waldorf School recently selected Joanne Andruscavage as its new director of administration. Andruscavage serves as director of administration at the Austin Waldorf School in Texas, and will begin her work at Emerson Waldorf School on July 1. She has also served as principal of St. Theresa’s School in Austin and of St. Ambrose School…
School Brief: Peace trip
The Chapel Hill High School Ambassadors for Peace Club traveled to Chicago last week. Students who went on the trip include Sarah Kerwin, Pasangi Perera, Philip Daniels, Ahna Weeks, Allison Press, Kaela Cogswell, Rachel Harrison, Kali Xu, Giberto Sibrian, Brittany Thompson, Jolisa Mercer, James Senter, Elysia Su, Kayley Abell-Hart, Wendy Avendano, Ariel White, Nicholas Speaker…
School Brief: Orchestra picks
Ten students from Phillips Middle School were selected to the Eastern Regional Junior All-State Orchestra on March 1. Selected students include violinists Alice Huang, Cissy Yu, Tsai-Wei Cheng, Eric Chiou, Angie Edwards, Sandya Mahadevan and Sirui Wang; cellist Lewis Peel; and bassist Kyle Jordan. William Heine was named an alternate on bass.
School Brief: National Technical Honor Society
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools high school students will be inducted into the National Technical Honor Society on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Slant Room of East Chapel Hill High School. Students who will be inducted have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, as well as citizenship and leadership within career and technical education.
School Brief: Fashion show
East Chapel Hill High School students will host an Avenue of Stars Fashion show on Friday at 7 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High auditorium. The students are in Beth Bell’s Apparel Development II and Fashion Merchandising course. The show will feature prom dresses designed and created by apparel development students, outfits from the…
School Brief: Graduating clean
The 15th annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Project Graduation needs volunteers and donations. Project Graduation, an all-night, alcohol-and-drug-free party for graduates, will be held graduation night, June 14, at the UNC Student Union. The event is free of charge to participants to reward seniors for a job well done and to encourage maximum participation.
School Brief: Performer info
The Chapel Hill High School Performing Arts Programs and PALS Information Night will be held April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel Hill High Chorus Room, C Building. Parents are invited to learn about Chapel Hill High’s performing arts programs as well as the performing arts volunteer organization, Performing Arts Lovers (PALs). PALs welcomes…
School Brief: Treasure winner
Phillips Middle School student Sidney Karesh recently won the junior story division of the Treasured Objects Contest sponsored by Weekly Reader. Sidney’s story, “Here Lies My Struggle,†was published in the April/May edition of the magazine. She wrote about a journal that was given to her by her sixth-grade English teacher.
School Brief: Rock and Read
Students at Ephesus Elementary School recently met their goal of reading 5,000 hours of books this year during their Rock and Read-a-thon. Local rock band Hot Rooster played a short concert for the students on Friday to reward the students for reaching their goal.
School Brief: Job fair
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro High School Job Fair will be held April 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at East Chapel Hill High School. The fair is organized by the Foundation for a Sustainable Community and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the three Chapel Hill-Carrboro high schools and is intended to…
Refugee families plant food, new roots
By Morgan Siem Carrboro Commons Writer The stillness that characterizes most elementary schools on Saturday mornings is missing at Frank Porter Graham Elementary. Julie Spomer makes sure of that. Saturday has become her favorite day of the week since the inception of the gardening club with the Karen refugees, she said.