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Education

  • County 4-H’ers take project to Southport Elementary

    Brunswick County 4-H members Bobbi Jane Lawrence and Owen Bell attended Southport Elementary School’s Nov. 15 PTA meeting and helped facilitate a science-learning experience for other students in attendance.
    By using this year’s National Youth Science Day experiment kit, the Eco Bot Challenge, they engaged in a hands-on activity that allowed students to engineer their own robots and control surfaces.

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  • ATMC awards $30,000 in education grants to area schools

    ATMC has awarded $30,000 in grant funds to 18 programs intended to enhance the educational opportunities of Brunswick County students and residents. The cooperative recently honored the recipients with a reception at ATMC’s corporate headquarters in Shallotte.
    Recipients commented on the programs for which the grant funds are intended and the impact they should have on area students. Those receiving funding were:

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  • Town Creek kindergarten students re-enact pilgrim’s lives

    Is Town Creek Elementary an ideal place to settle? Kindergarten students have been blending past and present by imagining themselves as pilgrims arriving at Town Creek Elementary from England to settle and live. They have been exploring the school and surrounding areas evaluating sources of water, food and shelter to meet their needs.
    What did they discover? Town Creek Elementary is not suitable for the pilgrims; therefore, they constructed their own model settlement.

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  • West Brunswick Interact students travel to New York City

    West Brunswick High School Interact Club members had a weekend to remember Nov. 2-4.

    They flew to New York City and experienced the recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy hit the city a week earlier.

    “The Interact Club of West Brunswick High School was very fortunate to have the chance to attend National Rotary Day at the United Nations,” Millie Venegas, a West Brunswick High School teacher and Interact sponsor, said.

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  • WBHS’s ‘The Giving Tree’ project visits Waccamaw School

    Students in West Brunswick High School’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) class visited third-grade students at Waccamaw School on Nov. 9.
    They brought books students had chosen in AVID’s “The Giving Tree” project, a reading-sponsored book drive for third-graders.
    Waccamaw third-graders thank AVID students and project coordinator, Ashley Hughes, organizers said.
     

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  • Community leaders getting schooled

    Throughout the week of Nov. 11-17, community leaders are shadowing teachers in all levels of Brunswick County Schools.

    “We want to change the dialogue (about education), and what better way to start than to invite you into the schools to see what a public school looks like today,” Laura Hunter, organizer of the Education Engagement Project, said.

    “It is very different than 10 or 20 or 30 years ago.”

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  • Two more portable units added to ease NBHS overcrowding

    School board members voted unanimously Thursday to buy two portable classrooms to ease overcrowding at North Brunswick High School.

    North Brunswick High School was built to house 870 students. 

    But Steve Miley, Brunswick County Schools’ executive director of operations, told the board at the Nov. 8 meeting NBHS was higher than capacity by 120 students. Eleven teachers have to use carts to move around to open classrooms because there is no more teaching space available in the school.

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  • School board selects Meadows as assistant superintendent

    Deanne Meadows has been selected by the Brunswick County school board as the school system’s new assistant superintendent.

    The board made an in-house hire by selecting Meadows, Brunswick County Schools’ current executive director of human resources.

    Meadows was approved at the Nov. 8 school board meeting. Board of education members voted 4-1 to accept the recommendation of a search committee led by Superintendent Edward Pruden.

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  • West Brunswick presents Effort Awards

    On Friday, Nov. 2, West Brunswick High School presented its first Effort Awards for the 2012-2013 school year. Family and friends of students recognized gathered in the school’s cafeteria for the 8 a.m. ceremony.
    After opening remarks by assistant principal Michael Stanley and some refreshments, school counselor Michele Dixon gave an overview of the occasion. She explained students were selected due to hard work.

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  • Red Ribbon week at Cedar Grove Middle School

     “The best me is drug free.”

    That was the message shared last week during National Red Ribbon Week.

    Cedar Grove Middle School in Supply celebrated the national drug prevention campaign with flair of its own. Students and staff wore crazy socks and hair, dressed as nerds, wore red and participated in a school-wide assembly where the Port City Spokesmen wheelchair basketball team performed and shared personal testimonies.

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