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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Sept. 18, 2015

Shout Out from Southern High FFA Nick Anders and Tasha Dawson, Advisors

This summer, Southern High FFA students competed in 10 different Career Development Events (CDEs) at

the North Carolina FFA Conference, including: Agricultural Issues, Agricultural Mechanics, Agronomy, Creed

Speaking, Floriculture, Forestry, Introduction to Horticulture, Nursery Landscape, Prepared Public Speaking,

Tool ID. Three CDE teams are headed to compete in national competition in October after earning First Place

in North Carolina competition: Nursery Landscape, Forestry and Agronomy!

In addition, the Introduction to Horticulture team earned first place in the state, but does not advance to

national competition. This is the 8th year in a row that Southern High FFA has earned first place in North

Carolina in this category.

The Floriculture CDE team earned second place in the state, and the Tool ID team earned third place. In

addition, the Southern High FFA Wildlife Hunter Safety Team, coached by Keith Jones and Randy Faulkner

was named the number one FFA team in the state! Congratulations to our Patriots! Our students worked hard

on their knowledge and skills and represented our school and our district well.

Southern High FFA Nursery Landscape Team

Team members include Carly Fuller, Sarah Davis, Davis Kappert, and Nora Ferguson. Advisor is Nick Anders

The team is headed to nationals in October to represent North Carolina!

At right: Southern High FFA Forestry Team

Team members include Victoria Sharpe, Amy Sofferin, Sarah Maddry, and (not pictured) Clay Bost. FFA Advisor is Nick Anders

The team is headed to nationals in October to represent North Carolina!


Southern High FFA Agronomy Team

Team members include Austin Cutter, Charlie Dejournette, Hunter Farlow, and Kayelep Vance with alternate team member Bree Reynolds

FFA Advisor is Nicholas Anders

The team is headed to nationals to represent North Carolina!

Southern High FFA Agricultural Issues Team

Team members include Carli Patterson, Sam Cross, Lindsay Long, Jesse Money and Austin Porter

FFA Advisor is Tasha Dawson

Pictured below: Isaac Knepp competed in the Agricultural Mechanics CDE

FFA Advisor: Keith Jones

At right: Avery Lloyd competed in the Creed Speaking CDE

FFA Advisor: Tasha Dawson


Jonathan Hester competed in the Prepared Public Speaking CDE

FFA Advisor is Tasha Dawson

Pictured below: Southern High FFA Tool ID Team Team members include John Wilson, Hunter O’Donnell, Nick Newlin, and Hunter Lloyd. FFA Advisor: is Keith Jones.

Pictured at left:

Southern High FFA Floriculture

CDE Team

Team members include Jacob Ray,Haley Fogleman, Clair Blackwell, and Prescott Kirkpatrick FFA Advisor is Nick Anders


Southern High FFA Introduction to Horticulture CDE Team

Team members include Evan Brady, Jacob Wall, Hayley Fearrington, and Hannah Maness

FFA Advisor is Nick Anders

Pictured above: Southern High FFA Wildlife Hunter Safety Team

Team members include: Clay Bost, James Testerman, Caleb Smith, Matthew Holt, Victoria Sharpe, Brad

Thompson, Cody Sharpe, Jonathan Ervin and Travis Ingle. Team coaches: Keith Jones and Randy Faulkner

The team was named the first place FFA Hunter Safety team in North Carolina!


Shout Out to Western High

Check out the recent story in the Times-News about a valuable organ that has been donated to Western High Photo courtesy of Sam Roberts/Times-News http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20150913/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150919943/15302/LIFESTYLE

Shout Out to B E Jordan Elementary

Check out the great photo array of several photos from last Friday’s Patriot Day Parade to honor Alamance County First Responders and Military from the Times-News. What a great community event sponsored by the school community! BEJ Heroes Parade photos courtesy of Times-News http://www.thetimesnews.com/photogallery/NC/20150911/PHOTOGALLERY/911009995/PH/629_2877

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20150913/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150919943/15302/LIFESTYLE



http://www.thetimesnews.com/photogallery/NC/20150911/PHOTOGALLERY/911009995/PH/629_2877




Shout Out to Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math at Graham Middle

Check out the recent Times-News article about the STEAM focus at Graham Middle School http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20150913/NEWS/150919550

Shout Out from A-B Early College Bonnie Roane, Principal Wiley Cash, the author of this fall’s Alamance Reads selection, This Dark Road to Mercy, appeared on the Alamance Community College campus for a free writer’s workshop for the public on Thursday, September 10,

from 2-4 p.m. in Patterson Auditorium in the main building. Our Early College students attended this event and participated in the workshop! This was a great opportunity for our students. This Dark Road to Mercy is a profound and poignant story about two sisters who go missing after being kidnapped by their well-intentioned but dysfunctional father. Told from the perspectives of three different characters, the novel is a tale of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, and of an enemy determined to see the father pay for his sins. Wiley Cash holds a B.A. in Literature from the University of North Carolina-Asheville, an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. His stories have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Roanoke Review and The Carolina Quarterly.

Dr. Cash teaches fiction at UNC-Chapel Hill and in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Fiction and Nonfiction Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. A native of North Carolina, he lives in Wilmington, NC with his family. Pictured with the author are Early College students Oscar Perez-Lopez and John Thomas

http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/20150913/NEWS/150919550


Shout Out from Williams High DeShannon Williamson, OCS Job Coach

Williams High School’s Occupational Course of Study (OCS) students have begun going off campus for Community Based Training for the 2015-16 school year! Community Based Training provides opportunities for students to learn about their personal job/career interests and to develop work skills, attitudes, and behaviors that are necessary to succeed in today’s workplace. This school year the students were given the opportunity

to work at Kmart for the first time!

Manager Pam Best was quite impressed with our students’ work ethics and manners, “They have started off on the right track. They are doing exceptionally well and demonstrate extraordinary integrity in all work assignments. I look forward to a long term relationship with the program.” Our students, dressed in their work attire, are always eager to go to work three days a week. A BIG ‘thank you’ to Kmart for

allowing our Bulldogs to come! What a great way to start the year!


Shout Out from Williams High OCS School Enterprise DeShannon Williamson

The Williams High OCS students’ school enterprise is back in business!

Our crafty Bulldogs are making Bea-U-Ti-Ful duct tape flower pens,

wallets, coasters, and lanyards. A School-based enterprise is an effective

educational tool in helping to prepare students for the transition from

school to work; for many students it provides their first work experience.

The income generated from the business will be used for a Christmas

luncheon, a special-fun-filled-end-of- the-year field trip, and to purchase

supplies the students will

need to keep the

enterprise running.

If you did not get a

chance to buy a pen or

two last school year from

‘Bulldog Industries’ have

no fear, we have a flower

pen or product especially

for you! For those who

did make a purchase,

“THANK YOU” and we

look forward to your

business again. For more

information or to make a

purchase, please contact

OCS Prep teacher Geanna Warren-Summers at

[email protected] or myself (Job Coach) at

[email protected].

Go Williams Bulldogs!!!

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Shout Out to Eastern High Drafting Robin Bowers, CTE Director

Eastern Alamance High School Drafting Department teacher Michael Brumble has been selected to participate in the BauHow Project this year! The support of Kramden Institute develops the North Carolina Modernist Houses' Project BauHow to provide high school education with desktop CAD computers and software to selected ninth and tenth graders in rural North Carolina. Students then have an opportunity

to practice CAD all they want at home. Later, with class instruction, they can test

their learning through a North Carolina Modernist Housing (NCMH) design competition featuring a Modernist house. Winners at each BauHow school will receive a scholarship to North Carolina State University Design Camp.

Project BauHow provides the equipment, means, and motivation for young people to explore architecture with the intensity it requires. Project BauHowinspires and

accelerates learning through increasing student computer access, expanding the ability of drafting teachers to give meaningful assignments, and encouraging and rewarding the study and creation of Modernist residential design.

Schools were selected based on criteria including location, availability of drafting to 9th and 10th grade students, need, and drafting teacher initiative. The drafting teacher determines student need and allocation of CAD systems for home use. Assignments are submitted on USB sticks which all students have. Internet

access is not required at student homes. In exchange for the systems, teachers agree to assign all class students to design a Modernist house then submit to a student category of the NCMH Matsumoto Prize juried by residential architects. The winner at each BauHow school will receive a scholarship to the North Carolina State University Design Day Camp in July 2015. NCSU Design Camp has introduced more than 3,300 high school students to the exciting world of design in architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, art + design, graphic design, and design studies.

Representatives from NCMH delivered equipment and software to Eastern Alamance HS on Sept 15, 2015 to be used in the project. 20

computers in all were delivered! They will go to 10 students 1st semester and 10 students in 2nd semester. All 9-11th grade students of Mr Brumble are able to submit projects to be judged to win the NC State Design Camp experience (not just those who get the computers). There will be one winner selected.


Good luck Eagles! Can’t wait to see the modernist house designs created by Mr. Brumble’s students!


Shout Out to Alamance County Libraries Grace Cole, Pleasant Grove Media & Technology On Thursday, September 17, the Alamance County Public Libraries and the Friends of the Library hosted author Sue Corbett! Sue Corbett is the author of 12 Again, The Last Newspaper Boy in America, The Twelve Days of Christmas in Virginia, and Free Baseball (a 2014-2015 Elementary Battle of the Books book). Ms. Corbett spoke with the public about the inspirations behind Free Baseball. She shared that the one thing that will help you most in life is reading. She also stated that in order to be a writer, you first need to be a reader. There were awards presented to our ABSS students who took part in the Book Trailer and Book Jacket competition!

Congratulations to: Christian Scott- Smith Elementary Book Trailer

Alexa Castillo-Jasso- South Graham Elementary Book Jacket Juliana Lara- Highland Elementary Book Art


It was a wonderful night for all, and an amazing opportunity to meet an author. Thank you Alamance County Public Libraries!

Shout Out to B E Jordan Elementary Eva Sodano, Academic Coach

B. Everett Jordan Celebrates Grandparent's Day! Sunday, September 13th was Grandparent's Day, and to celebrate this week BEJ invited

grandparents to join us for lunch. Grandparents for Kindergarten students were invited on Monday followed by 1st grade students on Tuesday, 2nd grade students on Wednesday, 3rd grade students on Thursday and 4th & 5th grade students on Friday. BEJ students and staff really enjoyed hosting and celebrating these important people.


Thanks grandparents for all that you do for our BEJ kids!


Shout Out to Graham Middle Lisa Cates, 6th Grade English Language Arts

McTeacher Night at Graham McDonald’s

restaurant

Faculty students & parents gather for a night of

fun, food, and festivities while coming out to

support Graham Middle Students!


Shout Out to South Graham Elementary Elizabeth Price, Principal

These are pictures from our 5th

grade Spanish spelling bee! These

students are from our 5th grade

classes (Senorita Mora and Mrs.

Britt) and they competed in front of

the fourth grade Splash! Spanish

Immersion classes!

What can you spell in Spanish?

Gators LOVE their Grandparents!


Shout Out to Garrett Elementary Susan Godlewski, Parent Involvement Coordinator

Audrey Garrett Elementary had our 2nd Annual Grandparent's Day luncheon. All of our Grand-gators were invited to have lunch with their grandchild on either the K-2 or 3-5 day, or BOTH! We had 325 grandparents attend this event! The weather was beautiful and we had grandparents enjoying lunch in our cafe as well as outside in our picnic area.

We are thankful for all of our grandparents and the important role they play in each student’s life. This is just a small way for us to say, "THANK YOU!"

Garrett Gators Love Their Grands!


Shout Out to ABSS United Way Coordinators

ABSS is pleased to announce that we have officially kicked off our

2015-2016 United Way Campaign! On Friday, September 18, Barrett

Thompson from the United Way of Alamance office visited with

campaign coordinators across our district to share the work that UW

staff and volunteers do to support our community. Barrett shared this

year’s UW campaign video and the new UW website filled with useful

information about volunteer opportunities and ways that our Alamance

United Way uses funds locally to help support families, children and

adults with a

variety of

needs.

We wanted

to give a

Shout Out to

our new

ABSS

Campaign

Coordinators

frt row...Loma Shibata-Williams High and Candice Lewis-Smith Elementary back row.... Mindy Bacchus-AO Elementary, Rachel Holoman-Eastlawn Elementary, Yvette Bethea-Newlin Elementary, Jeri Jackson-Hillcrest Elementary and Will Price-Broadview Middle

And a Shout Out to our entire UW crew—THANK

YOU for helping ABSS to help Alamance County! We hope you will join our campaign in donating $52 (only

$5.20 each for 10 pay periods) in the easy payroll deduction program. That will get you entered into the 9 auto

dealer car rally giveaway so you might drive away with a new car and help someone in need in our community.


Shout Out to Marvin B. Smith Elementary Julie Hancock, Principal

This year Smith is a Global School and we are excited about the opportunity to offer our students a global perspective. Our teachers have started the year creating a global environment in their classroom, and we wanted to extend that global environment in our school building too. Knowing we would be implementing this initiative, at the end of the school year, last year's fifth grade class gave money towards developing a mural that would help create the school's global atmosphere. Meredith Parker, a local artist and business owner of Meredith Parker's Fine Art, was hired to begin the work. Over the summer she created the design and began laying the groundwork for the mural. Now that students have returned, each student in third through fifth grades is getting an opportunity to paint and finish the mural.

The mural consists of a flag from each of the geographical areas of study. In addition to the flags, our artist has added a landmark from each of the countries. We are excited to see it when it is finished, and we hope it will be an instructional tool teachers can use as they are teaching our students about the different continents of study! Also, Meredith Parker is local girl and product of ABSS. She works part time at Western Middle. Her mom is also the media specialist at EM Holt.

Here is a photo shared in a recent Times-News edition about students helping to work on the mural. Stay tuned for an update with more pictures when the mural is completed!

Photo courtesy of Times-News

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