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Superintendent Tom Burnham
We have finally completed the third nine weeks. Hopefully, the inclement weather is over, and we can finish the remainder of this school year on schedule. As of right now, the last day of school is Thursday, May 29. If one more day is missed, Monday, April 21, will become a school day and the last day of school will be May 29. If two more days are missed, April 21 will be a school day and the last day of school will be Friday, May 30.
On January 27, I had the privilege of presenting one of our elementary students with a framed letter and a check for $30. Before the Christmas holidays, Patrick Owens, a student at Hendersonville Elementary, found thirty dollars in the yard outside of our administrative offices. He brought this money inside to the front desk to be returned to the rightful owner. The money went unclaimed. We felt that Patrick should receive the money and recognition for his honesty. His decision to return the money he found demonstrated very strong character and high values. He is definitely an example for all of us to follow.
We are gearing up for ABCs testing. Please help by having your child eat properly and secure rest the night before tests are given. Studies have shown that doing these things contribute to the student’s alertness. Please note that testing dates are listed in this newsletter as well as on our website. However, remember that testing dates are subject to change for various reasons. The schools will always advise students of the correct dates.
The School Board and Senior Staff worked very hard January 31 and February 1 on our Strategic Plan. Each year we meet to discuss the system’s goals and objectives to see what has been accomplished and to set priorities on what needs to be accomplished. We are making excellent progress on meeting the goals we have set for the children of Henderson County Public Schools. We are very fortunate to have an excellent Board, strong leadership in our schools and the support of our County Commissioners.
We continue to make progress with our facilities. The classroom additions at Flat Rock and Rugby Middle Schools will be completed in time for the start of the 2003-2004 school year. Construction at Hendersonville Middle School should be completed by January of 2004.
Good things are continuing in Henderson County Public Schools. You will notice in this newsletter a very long list of students and their achievements that was provided by our principals. We want our parents to know what our students are doing.
Kindergarten registration will take place in April. I am very pleased to announce that this year our kindergarten parents will be presented with a new publication, What Your Child Will Learn In Kindergarten. It is written in an easy to read format and is very informative. Both you and your child will enjoy reading it and will continue to use this resource.
As always, we encourage you to take an active role in the education of your children. You are the first teacher they have – you are their role model. Spend time reading with them on a daily basis, urge them to go that extra step, attend functions with them, ask them about their day, and simply listen to what they have to say. You might be surprised at what you learn. Please feel free to contact us if you have any concerns about your child.
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
2003-2004Atkinson Elementary Fletcher Elementary
Bruce Drysdale Elementary Glenn C. Marlow Elementary
Clear Creek Elementary * Hendersonville Elementary
Dana Elementary Hillandale Elementary
Edneyville Elementary Mills River Elementary
Etowah Elementary Upward Elementary
*Hendersonville Elementary - Flex Quarter:
Enrollment in the Hendersonville Elementary Flex Quarter Kindergarten program is accomplished through an application process on a first come-first served basis that begins April 1, 2003. Parents applying to enroll their child in Kindergarten at Hendersonville Elementary will be notified prior to registration, if their application has been approved or denied.
What to bring: These documents are required at registration.
• Official Birth Certificate (child must be 5 years old on or before October 16,
2003)
• Proof of Residence (utility bill with physical address)
These documents are desired at registration and required by the beginning of school.
• Immunization Record
• Physical Examination (within 12 months prior to the beginning of school)
• Social Security Number (This document is desired but not required.)
THEY MAKE US PROUD
Trey Goode (Rugby Middle), Kalem Lewis (Rugby Middle), Adam Cassada (TEDS), Ann-Marie Harris (Fletcher Elementary), Dominique Thompson (Bruce Drysdale Elementary) and Markell Williams (Bruce Drysdale Elementary) were the winners in the Narnia Studios’ Black History Essay Contest.
Jonathan Rieger, Atkinson Elementary, won first place in the District I Joseph McDowell Chapter NSDAR 2002-2003 American History Month Essay Contest.
Kendrick Benjamin, Bruce Drysdale Elementary, was the second place county winner for the Fifth Grade Tar Wars Poster Contest.
Edneyville Elementary fifth grade students - Joey Maciel, Ulanda Martinez, Brittany Barnwell, Daniela Rodriquez, Enrique Sandoval, Robyn Game, Neerali Patel, Cynthia Carpenter, Chase Phillips, Dakota Fincham, Dennis Zaragoza and Nathan Stenger - will have poems they have written published in the 2003 Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans.
Hendersonville Elementary’s Club of Outstanding Leaders (COOL) raised $1,000 for Eblen Children’s Charities to help children throughout Western North Carolina. They collected over 1,000 pounds of nonperishable food for Inter-Faith Assistance Ministries.
Hendersonville Elementary School raised $1,300 for the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and approximately $5,000 for the family of one of the school’s students who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident.
Billy Hoots, Upward Elementary, was the county winner in the Fifth Grade DARE essay contest.
Ty Townsend, Upward Elementary, was the 1st place county winner for the Fifth Grade Tar Wars Poster Contest.
Karina Lee and Logan Brackett, Apple Valley Middle, were selected from the Eighth Grade for All District Band.
Michael Harwood and Courtney Jackson, Apple Valley Middle, were selected for the NC MENC Honors Chorus.
Apple Valley Middle won the "Golden Can Award" for donations to the Salvation Army.
Rugby Middle School has been named a "School to Watch" by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. Rugby was one of only four schools across North Carolina to receive this designation.
David Norwood, East High, has received notification of his acceptance at the United States Military Academy, West Point.
Bjorn Langefeld, East High, has received notification of his acceptance to the United States Air Force Academy.
East High winners and their awards in the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition are Matt Collins who received an American Visions Award and a Gold Key in Sculpture and Mixed media; Jennifer Herget, a Gold Key in Drawing; Tim Robison, a Gold Key in Drawing; Jennifer Downing, a Silver Key in Drawing; Tim Handville, a Silver Key in Computer Graphics, a Silver Key in Mixed Media, and two Silver Keys in Painting; Arielle Jones, a Gold Key in Printmaking; and Gwen Saltz, a Silver Key in Painting.
Mark Siak, East High, was the county winner of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition.
Brian Holloway, East High, won 2nd place in the division level American Legion’s Oratorical Contest.
Racheal Stephens, East High, won 2nd place in the Elks’ Club Essay Contest.
Viridiana Guido, Leah Merriweather, Ioana Rus, Jordan Selleck, Emilia Fuentes, Andrew Hill, Shelby Lewis, Lawrence Frost, and Adam King, East High students, have been featured in the Asheville-Citizen Times as Students of the Week.
East High students Monica Byrd, Samantha Walker, Kristin Benson, Heather Bowker, Colby Coren, Adam McCrary, Justin Swayze, Tim Robison, and Lawrence Frost were chosen to participate in the 2003 N.C. High School All-State Chorus.
West High students - Jacob Hudson, Andrew Armstrong, Nick Cordell, Scott Martin, Peter Youngblood, Faith Calvert, Matthew Ellis and Ross Stanley - won the Henderson County library quiz bowl competition.
The West High Boys Swim Team won the state title in 1A/2A Men’s Swimming. Team members are Hunter Ives, Chris Blanton, Andrew Armstrong, Matt Ellis, Nick Ficker, Terry Barbour, Jamison Cannon, and Jerry Brinkley. Mike Rochelle is their coach.
West High’s VICA regional winners are Zack Gonce (1st place-Carpentry Skills), Scott Martin (1st place-Machine Drafting), Hyllari McRorie (1st place-Pledge), Matt Klepp (4th place-Carpentry Skills), David Bradley (4th place-Machine Drafting), and Andrea Owen (2nd place-Job Interview).
Melissa Keppel (1st place-Business Communications), Angela Ems (2nd place-Public Speaking II), Chris Ellis (2nd place-Word Processing I), Bryan Anders (2nd place-Word Processing II), Justin Morrow (3rd place-Accounting I), and Josh Burke (3rd place- Computer Applications) are West High FBLA winners.
Jonathan Brogden and Jonathan Highsmith, West High, won 3rd place in Web Page Design in the N.C. State Fair Competition.
Clear Creek Elementary Principal Mike Pressley and Marlow Elementary Principal Joe Tamer were presented the Physical Education Principal Award at the Physical Education Association meeting at the N.C. Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance State Convention.
Debbie Lunsford and Sherry Miller, Edneyville Elementary, will be presenters at the "Closing the Gap" conference. Their presentation is entitled "They All Want to be Included."
Teresa Barrow, Phyllis Kinsland and Principal Mike Thorpe, Etowah Elementary, will be presenters at the "Closing the Gap" conference. Their presentation is entitled "Taking Reading Recovery Schoolwide."
Fran Shelton, Band Director at Hendersonville High, is a recipient of the Bandworld Legion of Honor which was established to honor, over the course of a year, ten of the best band directors in music throughout the United States and Internationally.
Terry Johnson, Upward Elementary, was accepted for NCCAT.
Jan Stanley, West High Lady Falcon Volleyball coach, celebrated her 500th career victory in the program she founded in 1975.
Rick Wood, West High Boys’ Basketball coach, celebrated his 600th career victory.
The Henderson County Public School System’s 2001-2002 Annual Report, "Here For The Children We Serve," was one of only seven school systems in the state to receive a Blue Ribbon Award for effective communication.
Kerry Shannon, Business Manager of HCPS, recently received the North Carolina State Board of Education Recognition of Achievement in Financial Resource Management for FY 2001-2002 for excellence in managing the State Public School Fund. HCPS scored 10 points, which is the maximum points possible to meet State Board Award Criteria. Out of 117 LEAs, HCPS was one of only 24 to attain a 10.
MARCH
American Red Cross, Music in Our Schools (www.menc.org), National Middle Level Education (www.principals.org), National Nutrition (www.eatright.org), National Women’s History (www.nwhp.org), Social Work (www.socialworkers.org), and Youth Art Month (www.acminet.org)
2 NEA’s Read Across America, www.nea.org
3-7 National School Breakfast Week, www.asfsa.org
3-7 Newspaper in Education Week, www.naa.org/foundation
3 Adoption of U.S. National Anthem
4-Apr 19 Lent
5 Ash Wednesday
7 End of third nine weeks for Traditional Schedule
7 HCBPE School Visit, Atkinson Elementary, 12 noon
9-15 Girl Scout Week, www.girlscouts.org
10 HCBPE Regular Business Meeting, Boardroom, 6:30 pm
10 No school for Traditional Schedule students
11 Johnny Appleseed Day
11 Begin fourth nine weeks for Traditional Schedule
12 Report cards go home with Traditional Schedule students
16-22 Camp Fire USA Birthday Week, www.campfire.org
16-22 National Agriculture Week, www.agday.org
16-22 National Poison Prevention Week , www.poisonprevention.org
16 First Black Newspaper in US Published
17 End of third nine weeks for Flex Schedule
17 St. Patrick’s Day
17-21 National Energy Education Week, www.need.org
18 Superintendent’s Parent Advisory Council Meeting, 1A, 5:30 pm
18-21 No school for Flex Schedule students
20 First Day of Spring
20 Camp Fire USA Absolutely Incredible Kid Day, www.campfire.org
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
24 Begin fourth nine weeks for Flex Schedule
APRIL
Keep America Beautiful and Mathematics Education Month
1 Reassignment requests for the first semester of 2003-2004 will be accepted until May
30
1 April Fool’s Day
2 International Children’s Book Day, www.usbby.org and www.ibby.org
4 HCBPE School Visit, Bruce Drysdale Elementary School, 12 noon
6 Daylight Savings Time begins
6-12 National Library Week, www.ala.org/pio/nlw
6-12 Week of the Young Child, www.naeyc.org/woyc/default.asp
7 HCBPE Regular Business Meeting, Boardroom, 6:30 pm
11 Midterm reports go home with Traditional Schedule
14-20 Young People’s Poetry Week, www.cbcbooks.org
14-21 Spring Break for Traditional and Flex Schedule students
17-18 Passover (Pesach), First Days
18 Good Friday
20 Easter
20-26 Administrative Professionals Week, www.iaap-hq.org
20-26 National Student Leadership Week, www.principals.org
20-26 Public School Volunteer Week, www.projectappleseed.org
22 Earth Day U.S.A.
23-24 Passover (Pesach), Concluding Days
24 Take Our Daughters to Work Day, www.ms.fundation.org
25 Midterm reports go home with Flex Schedule students
25 National Arbor Day, www.arborday.org
25 The World’s Largest Math Event, www.nctm.org/wlme
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), www.ushmm.org/remembrance/organizeaday
MAY
Better Hearing and Speech and National Sight-Saving Month
1-7 National Physical Education & Sports Week, www.aahperd.org
4-11 National Music Week, www.nfmc-music.org/NatlMusicWeek
4-10 Be Kind to Animals Week, www.americanhumane.org
4-10 Reading Is Fun Week, www.rif.org/about/rifweek.html
4-10 Teacher Appreciation Week, www.nea.org
5 Cinco de Mayo
6 National Teacher Day
8 World Red Cross Day, www.redcross.org
10 Day of Non-Violence, www.optimist.org
11 Mother’s Day
12 HCBPE Regular Business Meeting, Boardroom, 6:30 pm
17 Armed Forces Day
18-24 National Educational Bosses’ Week, www.naeop.org
26 Memorial Day
29 Last day of school for Traditional Schedule
30 Last day of school for Flex Schedule
30 Last day Reassignment requests for the 2003-2004 school year will be accepted
Testing Dates for the
Remainder of the School Year
Please note that the following dates are subject to change.
Always check with your school about testing dates.
March 4 Writing Assessment (grades 4, 7, 10)
March 24, 25, 26,
27, 28, 31 NCCATS field test (grade 10)
March 25, 26, 27 High School Comprehensive Test field test (North, West)
April 1, 2, 3, 4 NCCATS field test (grade 10)
April 1, 2, 3, 4 NCCATS field test (grades 3-8)
April 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 NCCATS field test (grades 3-8)
April 8, 9 Competency Test (grades 9-12)
April 23, 24, 25 High School Comprehensive Test (grade 10)
April 29 EOC (end of course) field tests (Flat Rock Middle, Hendersonville Middle, North, Hendersonville High)
May 5, 6, 7, 8 Last Month Competency (grade 12)
May 5, 6, 7, 8 Last Month Computer Skills (grade 12)
May 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 EOG (end of grade) (grades 3-8)
May 19, 20, 21 EOG Retest (grades 3-8)
22, 23
May 27 EOC (grades 8-12) - always given the last two days of school
May 28 EOC (grades 8-12) - always given the last two days of school