Elementary School News January 19-23, 2015


 

VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS

 
 

 

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS

 

Volume 2 Issue 21                          January 19-23, 2015

 
   

The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students

to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.

 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Students return to classes on Wednesday. This day serves as the make-up day for the day missed on January 14 due to icy conditions in our area.

 

Thursday marks the beginning of the second semester of the school year, except at the Early College High School which has already begun its second semester.

 

SCHOOL EVENTS FOR THIS WEEK

 

Aycock Elementary: (Thursday, January 22) – First-grade swimming for Accelerated Reader rewards at the Aycock Recreation Center

 

Carver Elementary: (Thursday, January 22) – Clubs/PLC for grades K-2

 

Zeb Vance Elementary: (Thursday, January 22-Friday, January 23) – PBIS Review

 

Aycock Elementary: (Friday, January 23) – Second-grade swimming for Accelerated Reader rewards at the Aycock Recreation Center

 

New Hope Elementary: (Friday, January 23) – PBIS Dance for kindergarten through third grade

 

L.B. Yancey Elementary: (Friday, January 23) – PBIS Dance

 

UPCOMING SCHOOL EVENTS

 

Monday, January 26: Leadership Team meeting at 3:30 p.m. at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Monday, January 26-Friday, January 30: Benchmark Week in reading, math and science for grades 3-5

 

Tuesday, January 27: The One Step Above Reading Club hosts a special program, “Echoes from the Past and Hope for the Future,” at 1:30 p.m. at Carver Elementary

 

Wednesday, January 28: Principal’s Breakfast at Carver Elementary

 

Thursday, January 29: Report cards are distributed

 

Thursday, January 29: Clubs/PLC for grades 3-5 at Carver Elementary

 

Thursday, January 29: PBIS Parent Summit beginning at 3:30 p.m. at New Hope Elementary

 

Thursday, January 29: Ronald McDonald Assembly on Anti-Bullying at 1:30 p.m. at L.B. Yancey Elementary

 

Thursday, January 29: Awards Day and Block Party at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Friday, January 30: Student recognition programs at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. at New Hope Elementary

 

Friday, January 30: Earn Block 1 for PBIS at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 3: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Aycock Recreation Center at Clarke Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 3: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Henderson Family YMCA at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Thursday, February 5: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Aycock Recreation Center at Clarke Elementary

 

Thursday, February 5: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Henderson Family YMCA at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Friday, February 6: 100th day “Hoe Down” at L.B. Yancey Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 10: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Aycock Recreation Center at Clarke Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 10: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Henderson Family YMCA at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Thursday, February 12: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Aycock Recreation Center at Clarke Elementary

 

Thursday, February 12: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Henderson Family YMCA at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 17: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Aycock Recreation Center at Clarke Elementary

 

Tuesday, February 17: Second graders participate in “Save Our Kids” water safety classes in the afternoon at the Henderson Family YMCA at Zeb Vance Elementary

 

Wednesday, February 18: Early Release Day due to staff development sessions in the afternoon. Elementary and high school students will be dismissed at 12 p.m. and middle school students will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m. The STEM Early High School will dismiss students at 11:45 a.m.

 

Friday, February 20: Interim progress reports are distributed at elementary and middle schools

 

Thursday, February 26: Western Wax Museum at L.B. Yancey Elementary

 

 

 

 

 

If you have a school event and would like to have it added to the Elementary School News email,

send the information to Terri Hedrick, public information officer, at thedrick@vcs.k12.nc.us.