William Spagnardi, principal fellows intern at Seawell Elementary School, has been named assistant principal of Morris Grove Elementary.
Category: Schools
School Brief: Woods Charter benefit
Cat’s Cradle will host a benefit for the Woods Charter School on March 14, featuring performances by Hobex, Great Big Gone and Lynn Blakey and Ecki Heins. Tickets are $10. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show.
School Brief: Emerson benefit
Emerson Waldorf School will hold a benefit auction and dance for the school’s annual fund on March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Barn at Valhalla on Charles Lane in Chapel Hill.
School Brief: Teen workshops
The Drug and Alcohol Awareness Team and the Chapel Hill Police Department will sponsor workshops on parent education awareness of teen alcohol and drug issues.
School Brief: District takes awards
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools received several awards at the North Carolina School Public Relations Association’s annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Excellence in Communication celebration in January.
School Brief: Special education night
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will host an Exceptional Children District Parent Night, “Navigating the Special Education Process,†on March 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence on the Smith Middle School campus.
School Brief: Tiger Open
The Chapel Hill High School annual Tiger Open Golf Classic fundraiser will be held April 5 at the Challenge Golf Club in Graham. The 18-hole scramble tournament will include novelty contests, a raffle, prizes and food.
School Brief: New kindergartners
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is now accepting registrations for kindergarten students for fall 2008. Incoming kindergartners must turn five years old on or before October 16. All students entering kindergarten in the fall must have a physical exam prior to the first day of school. A physical exam any time during the year preceding the…
McDougle Middle School honors
6th Grade A Honor Roll List: Alexander Adams, Kathryn Alexander, Emma Anderson, Cameron Baker Anna Baynes, Casey Briggs, Brett Buchman, Anna Cable, Jason Cohn Megan Dell, Torri Derby, Grant DeSelm, Justin Doble, Riley Foster, Camille Gossett,
Sock hop celebrates elementary’s 50-year anniversary
By Emily Burns Staff Writer Carrboro Elementary School students got a taste of what it would have been like to grow up in the 1950s at a sock hop Friday afternoon. The school’s auditorium was packed with hundreds of smiling students clad in poodle skirts and colorful scarves, saddle shoes and bobby socks, and leather…
School Brief: Best class website
Courtney Mills of Ephesus Elementary has been named the winner of the best classroom website by the North Carolina Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Mills will receive her award March 14 at the NCAECT conference in Concord. To view Mills’ website, visit www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/cmills.
School Brief: Night of One-Acts
Students in the Chapel Hill High School Theater Arts program will present “A Night of One-Acts†tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 in Hanes Theater at Chapel Hill High.
School Brief: Battle of the Books
The 2008 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Battle of the Books will be held March 7 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Culbreth Middle School auditorium. The district’s four middle schools will compete for the right to represent the district at the Piedmont Regional competition later this spring. Battle of the Books is an exciting…
School Brief: Megaconference Jr.
Students from Smith Middle School participated today (Thursday) in the fifth annual Megaconference Jr. global event. Megaconference Jr. is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other’s learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology.
School Brief: ToH silent auction
J.P.’s Caps for Courage and the Johanna Minta Yearbook Fund will sponsor a silent auction at Top of the Hill on Tuesday, from 5 to 9:30 p.m. In addition, Top of the Hill will donate $1 for each of the daily special beers sold that day.