BOARD NOTES

In This Issue

2014-2015 BCS Calendar Approved

Character Education Winners Honored

Clean School Award

Capital Project Discussion

Doris Moore and Gary Burgess of the Beaufort County Ed Tech Center repeat as Clean School Award winners for January!

Updates from the Beaufort County Board of Education Meeting January 2014

2014-2015 BCS Calendar Approved The Beaufort County Board of Education approved the 2014-2015 district calendar and the

Beaufort County Early College High School calendar as submitted during the January regular

meeting. Calendars included inside.

First Day of School for Students August 11

First Day of School for Students August 25

Perseverance in the Spotlight The Character Education Trait celebrated for January was Perseverance.

Amani Smallwood, a kindergartener at Eastern Elementary School, was

the youngest winner for the month. Michelle Rocha, 6th grader at

Chocowinity Middle School won for her age group. Jeremiah Johnson, a

senior at Southside High School, was the winner among high school

nominees across the county.

The elementary and middle school winners were given a chance to pick a

book of their choice from the Character Education Cart during the

meeting. High School winners receive a flash drive and a BCS book bag.

All winners sign the book cart.

Read the Nominations for Our Winners Amani Smallwood

Presented By Elizabeth Picone, Guidance

Counselor

I teach perseverance to mean: keep trying, do your best and to never give up. Many students in Eastern take that to heart but if I had to choose only one student who exemplifies the character trait of perseverance, it would be Amani Smallwood.

Amani is in kindergarten. When she first entered Eastern, she was very quiet and kept to herself. She struggled in learning her sounds but she was always ready to do her best. She worked hard every day and never gave up or complained. Although, it was difficult for her, Amani kept working, even putting in extra practice with me. Today I am proud to say that due to her perseverance Amani is on grade level and continues to do her best in her classroom.

Michelle Rocha

Presented By Chris Hill, PE Teacher

Michelle has shown an incredible display of perseverance since the first day of class. Although she was born without one limb, she does not allow that to slow her down or hinder her attempts at any task given to her or her peers. From sit ups, push-ups, pull ups or flex arm hangs, to shooting a basketball, or any other activity, she has a “no quit” attitude about everything she faces. It is extremely refreshing to see a young person with such determination & perseverance. All too often, I have students looking for ways out of exercising. Michelle looks for ways to modify a task to make it work for her. To see her try makes me a believer in her abilities & understand that she doesn’t look for a way out, she is a doer! I am so proud of her on a daily basis. Her classmates recognize that she could use it as an excuse to not do something, however she is a champion in every sense of the word!

Dr. Don Phipps and Terry Williams, BOE, posed with winners during meeting.

2/3/2014 &

2/5/2014

BOE Capital

Visits of Schools

2/17/2014

Special Called

Board Meeting -

Board Retreat and

Work Session

4:00 PM

2/24/2014

Board of

Education Monthly

Meeting

5:30 PM

Headlines from the Agenda Hal Davis, principal of the Northeast Regional School of

Biotechnology and Agriscience in Roper gave an update

regarding the school and student accomplishments during

this first year of operations.

Capital Budget—Southside Drainage Project

BOE approved Dr. Phipps lead way to spend up to $10,000

on project to fix additional issues that have surfaced during

project

School Bus GPS Contract Approved

Policy 3410, Testing and Assessment Program, placed

on hold until next meeting

2014-2015 school calendars approved

Addition of golf program approved for Southside High

School

Field Trips approved

Jeremiah Johnson

Presented By Kathy Clark, Teacher

Jeremiah Johnson is my nominee for the Character Education Award for Perseverance. Jeremiah is in his second Microsoft IT Academy course. He was the first student to earn Excel Expert certification this semester. While he was able to easily achieve the certifications for the Word 2010 and Excel 2010, the expert-level

exams in Word 2010 and Excel 2010 required that he review areas of weakness and retest. Because of his perseverance, he was able to achieve the expert-level certifications after retesting. He was the first student this semester (and only the second in the history of SHS) to earn the Master Office Specialist certification.

February Board Meeting

Calendar

Schools Scoring 95% or More for January Chocowinity Primary School 97.00%

Eastern Elementary School 97.00%

P.S. Jones Middle School 97.00%

Southside High School 97.00%

S.W. Snowden Elementary School 96.00%

Bath Elementary School 95.00%

Chocowinity Middle School 95.00%

Northeast Elementary School 95.00%

Washington High School 95.00%

Ed Tech

Center Takes

Top Spot

Congratulations to Doris

Moore and Gary Burgess,

the custodial team at the

Beaufort County Ed Tech

Center, for taking the top

spot for January’s Clean

School Award.

Leading the pack with

98%, Moore and Burgess

led the way for one of the

county’s oldest campuses

to take the Clean School

title for January. Keep up

the great work!

www.beaufort.k12.nc.us

Coming Soon!

BCS Kindergarten

Registration for

the 2014-2015

school year.

February 20

Red Cross Blood Drive

1pm - 6pm

BCS Central Office

321 Smaw Road

Washington

Providing a safe harbor where all children are successful!

www.beaufort.k12.nc.us