North Rowan Middle School will host a Curriculum Night on April 15 from 6:30-8 p.m. The focus is to prepare parents for the upcoming sixth, seventh and eighth grade End of Grade test. There will be a Southern-style supper served after the information sessions. Please contact Darrell McDowell at 704-639-3018 for more information.
Oratorical contest
On March 19, the Landis-South Rowan Optimist Club sponsored a schoolwide Oratorical Contest at Corriher-Lipe Middle School.
All students wrote and performed a five-minute speech with the theme of “Optimism is…” in their classrooms.
Eight students per grade level then competed for the top three boys’ awards and top girls girls’ awards.
Students shared their hopes, their triumphs over tragedies and their dreams for the future. The top three girl winners were, Maria Gaddy, first; Lauren Register, second; and Miranda Raymond, third. The top three boy winners were Jordan Wise, first; Zachary Bare, second; and Jeremiah Bradshaw, third.
The first-place winners, Maria Gaddy and Jordan Wise, competed April 2 at the Optimist Club Zone 10 Oratorical Contest at Stanly Community College. Winners of the Zone 10 contest will move forward to district competition.
Gaddy’s speech was about President Barack Obama, detailing what he has overcome to become president and how he had the audacity to be optimistic through it all. Wise spoke on how current events have touched his life and how he tried to be optimistic. He shared his dreams for the future and how all people need to carry optimism into their professions as adults.
WSSU graduates
The following students received degrees from Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem after completing the fall 2008 semester:
Cleveland: Donovan Gray, business administration.
Salisbury: Andrew Hamm, business administration; Nakesha Heaggins, psychology; Tomeca Jackson, sociology; Jessica Rivera, physical therapy; Deborah Clayton, nursing; Kari Schenk, physical therapy.
Grant for Southeast
The sixth-grade Troubadour Team at Southeast Middle School received an $800 Target Field Trip Grant recently.
Teachers Candy Frye, Karen McCoy and Tim Boyd used the grant to take 93 students to Discovery Place on April 3, for the program “Science Under the Big Top.”
The Target grant gives money to educators for field trips, often the victim of budget cuts. They were judged on the description of the field trip and its objectives, the benefit to students, the tie-in to school curriculum and the number of students who will benefit.
Earns certificate
Marilyn L. Moore, administrative assistant at Elizabeth Duncan Koontz Elementary, recently received her Professional Standard Program Advance Associate III from the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Professionals Annual State Conference in Greensboro.
To receive this certificate, one must be a voting member with current membership, meet certificate requirements for education, in-service workshops, association responsibility and work experience. She is District 5 president for Lexington, Cabarrus-Kannapolis, Mooresville, Iredell-Statesville, Davie, Davidson and Rowan counties.
This association is commited to learning and self-mprovement. Moore was recently recognized with the Customer Service Award from Rowan-Salisbury Schools.