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Our Future, Our Commitment, Our Students

United Way Grant Awards

Teachers across FCS met at

Novozymes to receive grant

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Final FHS Football Game

Marks History

Final home football game

marks the end of an era at

current FHS campus. Page 3

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Franklin County Schools

Students and staff at Bunn High School, Franklinton Elementary School, Louisburg Elementary School, and Laurel Mill Elementary School worked extremely hard to collect food for the Franklin County community as part of the 2010 Fall United Way Food Drive.

More than 9,000 non-perishable food items were distributed on Monday, November 22 to ten dif-ferent food pantries across the county. This was the largest food drive so far. The United Way cred-its Franklin County Schools as the goal could not have been accom-plished without the district‟s sup-port. In addition, thirty 40-pound boxes of sweet potatoes were dis-tributed. For Christmas, there will be 200 turkeys distributed.

“The schools have helped hun-dreds of people get needed food with their generous efforts,” says Kathy Harrelson, Executive Direc-tor of the United Way of Franklin County. “They reached out in a way that immediately made a dif-ference.”

Yeazel Named FCS Assistant Principal of the Year

Surprised by Central Office Leadership, Melissa Yeazel, Assistant Princi-pal of Bunn High School, was awarded by Assistant Superintendent for Hu-man Resources Lynn Henderson and Superintendent Dr. Eddie Ingram as the 2011 Assistant Principal of the Year for Franklin County Schools. Yeazel began her teaching career at Bunn High School in 1997 as a mathematics teacher. As a teacher, she taught every course offered in the area of mathematics from Pre-Algebra to Advanced Placement Statistics and Advanced Placement Calculus. She taught one year at Bunn High School and two years at Franklinton High School. In addition to teaching in Franklin County Schools, she also taught for four years in Hanover County, Virginia and three years in Elkhart, Indiana. Yeazel is beginning her fourth year as an assistant principal at Bunn High School. “This is an exhilarating job for me because I am part of such an ex-traordinary team,” Yeazel says. “Bunn High is a phenomenal group of teach-ers, staff, and students led by Robin Faulkner, who has been an inspiring mentor to me. All of our teachers are talented and dedicated to students, and we have a very energized student body. All of these things make this job both fun and personally rewarding.”

Food Drive a

Success for

Holidays

Melissa Yeazel (second from right), Assistant Principal of Bunn High School, was

surprised at school with the FCS 2011 Assistant Principal of the Year Award by

Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Lynn Henderson (far left) and

Superintendent Dr. Eddie Ingram (far right). Also pictured is Robin Faulkner

(second from left), Principal of Bunn High School.

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29 FCS Teachers Awarded Grants from United Way at Presentation

Teachers from across the district attended an awards presentation held at Novozymes on Thursday, November 18. Twenty-nine teachers

from various schools received grant monies. One teacher from Cross Creek Charter School also received grant money. The total amount of

grants awarded was $30,958.95. Eighty-one grants were initially submitted for possible approval, a total of $94,356.23.

Eddie Hinton (left), who works with math tutoring at Bunn Ele-

mentary School, receives his money for the grant he wrote titled,

“Mastering Math Technology Style.”

Creating an imaginative title for a grant was ex-tremely popular as teachers from across Franklin County Schools applied for United Way Grants this school year. Varying titles for grants awarded this year included, “Gulliver‟s World,” “Something on the Inside Working on the Outside,” “You, Mii, Wii—Get Fit,” and even “SMART Kids Need SMART Boards.” On the evening of Thursday, November 18, several teachers and administrators met at Novozymes for the grant awards presentation. United Way Board of Directors Chairman and Creative Education Center Principal Dale Byrns led the presentation with the assistance of Kevin Potter and Laura Terry from No-vozymes. Teachers from across the school district will use their grant money for new, exciting opportunities for

their classrooms.


FHS Holds Final Football Game at Current Stadium

The 1958 Football Team, the school’s first football team known at that time as the “Red Rockets,” along with members

of the 1958 Cheerleading Squad were honored during a special half-time presentation at Franklinton High School’s final

home game on the existing campus of Franklinton High School. The school will be moving to its new campus at the

intersection of Lane Store Road and Cedar Creek Road next school year.

At the start of the special half-time

presentation, all decades of the school

were honored across the football field.

In addition, Franklin County Schools

Assistant Superintendent for Auxiliary

Services Tommy Piper (center) was

honored during the half-time presenta-

tion for his hard work and dedication

to the FHS athletic program while he

was a coach at the school. Pictured

with Piper is FHS Principal Charles

Fuller (left) and FHS Assistant Princi-

pal/Athletic Director David Averette

(right).


Yeazel adds, “I am grateful for this award. Franklin County has a talent-rich group of leaders in the assistant principals and prin-cipals, and I am proud to be as-sociated with them.” Yeazel holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Wake Forest University, a Certifi-cate in Executive Management from the University of Notre Dame, and a Masters of Arts in Education and Human Develop-ment-Educational Leadership and Administration from The George Washington University.

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RES Awards Pancake Breakfast for Academics

Students at Royal Elementary School were recently awarded with a pancake

breakfast. The breakfast was an incentive for completion of all homework and

class assignments, along with passing four Accelerated Reader tests in two

weeks. Third through fifth grade participants enjoyed good company and food

during this academic celebration.

Director of Elementary Education and Title I Linda Frederickson discusses grading and

reporting with representatives from each grade level of each school at the first meeting

of the district professional learning community (PLC) in November at Bunn Elementary.

The objective of the district PLC is to open conversations with all regarding standards-

based grading and student engagement.

Schools Closed for Holidays

All schools will be closed during Christmas Break. All schools ex-cept the Early College will have teacher workdays on Monday, December 20 and Tuesday, De-cember 21. The Early College has teacher workdays on Friday, De-cember 17 and Monday, Decem-ber 20. School will resume on Monday, January 3. YES will be holding Extended Learning during the week of January 3-7. The Early College will resume on Tuesday, January 4.


Bunn Middle School Highlights

In Mary Ciffone-Baker‟s classes, she introduced the con-cept of spreadsheets, vocabulary, symbols, and formulas associated with the creation of spreadsheets. Mrs. Baker taught the main function of spreadsheets, which is the calculation of data. She emphasized the real life use of them by assigning students data from Billy Bob‟s Burger Barn Restaurant (a fictitious Name). They were given data that included menu items. They had to order a certain amount of food items, calculate the total, and then calcu-late their final bill and change. Finally, they were asked to calculate the mean of what the cost of the items equaled as part of a final formative assessment.

Students in Ms. Hensley‟s Social Studies class completed a Historical Action Figure project. Each student chose a historical figure from Europe, Russia, or Latin America they felt played an important role in history. In this project, the classroom audience acted as representatives from a toy company. Each student then made a prototype of their figure and wrote a “sales pitch” to persuade the “toy com-pany” to manufacture their historical figure. Hensley said, “My students did an excellent job with this project. Their „sales pitches‟ were an excellent format for delivering a report and they had a great time doing it. I am impressed with their artistic talents and creativity in making their pro-totypes. I am very proud of their hard work.”

“Ever heard of Marchetta „Bulldog‟ Grantham? She ain‟t comin‟ to sing the National Anthem!” Those exact words were on display on a flyer throughout Bunn Middle School in preparation for the PBIS faculty and student volleyball game that was held on Tues-day, November 23. The game was held to en-courage student atten-

ance and create school spirit. The teachers were great sports, and the school had a lot of fun getting ready for the game. “PBIS is working at BMS,” Assistant Princi-pal Andrea Faulkner said, “and we are excited about all of the efforts of the PBIS team.”

An anti-violence initiative was held at Bunn Middle School in October to promote anti-violence in homes, school, and the community. “Hands Are Not for Hitting,” sponsored by Franklin County Safe Space, is a school-community part-nership to assist students in understanding their hands should not be used to hurt another person or peer. Stu-dents traced their hands on a display as a pledge. This was displayed at the Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil and will be returned to the school to be displayed.


Cedar Creek Captures MAC-9 Conference

Championship in Football

Third Graders at EBES

Learn Early How Not to

be a Bully

Third graders at Edward Best Ele-mentary eagerly learned how to do their part in helping to keep EBES a bully-free school. Melissa Jennings from Safe Space talked to all third grade students on Monday, Novem-ber 15 to ensure they learn early how to respect others and to make sure they are not showing bully behaviors to others. They also learned some strategies of what to do if someone shows bully behaviors toward them. They ended each class session by agreeing to sign a pledge not to bully, and this pledge will hang in their classrooms.

Congratulations to the Cedar Creek Middle School football team for their amazing season! They soundly defeated Hawley Middle School 29-14, closing out the season with a 7-1 record—the best in the school‟s 13-year history! With this victory, the Jaguars captured the 2010 MAC-9 Conference Champi-onship title. Congratulations to the coaches for all of their hard work, and the Jaguar players who made it happen.

Bunn High School Football Team Makes it to

2010 Class 2-AA State Football Playoffs

The Bunn High School Wildcats made it to the third round of the state playoffs on Friday, Novem-ber 26. Unfortunately, the Northeastern High School Eagles in Elizabeth City defeated the Wild-cats 35-7 using a balanced offensive attack and an aggressive defense. The Wildcats had previously defeated North Pitt during the first round of the playoffs a couple of weeks prior by having a strong overall team speed advantage. They also defeated Kinston a week later with its best defensive effort of the season. The Wildcats record at the end of the state play-offs was 11-3. Congratulations to Head Coach Chris Miller, his coaching staff, and his team for all of their hard work and effort this school year.

Smokey the Bear Visits

YES

Smokey the Bear and the NC Forest Rangers visited first graders at Youngsville Elementary School. They shared a video, five rules of preventing fires, and goodie bags.


Long Mill Elementary School Happenings

ABC 11 Chief Meteorologist Chris Hohmann visited Long Mill Elementary on Monday, November 29. He spoke to fifth graders about how meteorologists predict the weather. In addition, he taught students about se-vere weather awareness and answered questions from the audience. Hohmann is on ABC 11 Eyewitness News during the evening hours. The Long Mill Lions gave Hohmann a school shirt as a gift for speaking.

Long Mill Elementary recently held their student coun-cil elections. Students gave speeches at an assem-bly. The students are (left to right): Isaiah Walker, Sydney Stine, Kyshun Black, and Ben Haight. The student council sponsors are Jennifer Thompson (back left) and Cindy Walker (back right).

A talent show was held on Monday, November 8 at Long Mill Elementary School. The show was held as part of the school fitness initiative. There were thirteen acts total in the talent show. Members of the Library Club are seen above dancing to “Cotton-Eyed Joe.”

The Photography Club at Long Mill Elementary School recently participated in a workshop given by local professional photographer Scott Wilson. This club is part of the LOMES student leadership initia-tive.


Franklinton Elementary School Happenings

Kaitlyn Klein and Selena Rosabal, both students at Franklinton Elementary, recently received notification that they were winners in the 2010 NC School Bus Safety Poster contest. Kaitlyn received 2nd place and Selena received 3rd place. Each received a plaque to honor their accomplishment. Mrs. Yvette Masullo, their Art teacher, submitted the posters. Entries are also posted online at www.ncbussafety.org.

Franklinton Elementary School celebrated the grand opening of their newly renovated gymnasium on No-vember 18, 2010. Students performed songs and Lester Wilder spoke to the crowd of over 300 and inspired the students of FES to work hard and rise to the challenge. Alumni of the classes of 1961-1968 were also in attendance. After the dedication, the visitors were invited to visit the many booths set up in the gym that focused on making healthy choices.

Staff and students dressed up as their favorite book char-acters at FES recently. The fourth grade teachers dressed up as characters from “Cloudy with a Chance for Meat-balls” by Judi Barrett. Bob the Builder (aka Mrs. Penning-ton) even completed a few work orders on campus!

On Monday, November 22, Mary Green (right), Treasurer of the Franklinton American Legion Auxil-iary presented FES Principal Carol Davis (left) with a check. This money will be used for the Special Edu-cation department at the school.

http://www.ncbussafety.org


TLMS Boy’s Soccer Team Has Undefeated

Season

BES Holds Annual Turkey

Trot to Promote Wellness

All of the students and staff at Bunn Elementary School walked together around the campus on Tuesday, No-vember 23 as part of their annual Turkey Trot to promote wellness at the school.

Congratulations to the Terrell Lane Middle School Boy‟s Soccer team on an outstanding season. The Tornados went 11-0 and won both the regular sea-son and conference tournament championships. This is the first time the soc-cer team has posted a perfect 11-0 season and brought both the regular sea-son championship and tournament championship to Terrell Lane. Congratula-tions to the players, managers, and coaches for their hard work this season. Also, a special thanks to all the fans that came out and supported the Torna-dos this season.

Louisburg Elementary School Highlights

LHS Band Performs for

Veterans’ Day

The Louisburg High School Band performed for the Franklin County Veterans Day ceremony on Thurs-day, November 11. The band fea-tured patriotic selections including an Armed Forces Medley, "This Land Is Your Land", "Columbia The Gem of the Ocean", "God Bless America", "Remember Pearl Har-bor", Sousa's 1888 march "The Cru-sader", and Sousa's 1918 setting of our National Anthem. This year was the sixteenth straight year the LHS Band has performed for the Franklin County Veterans.

The Louisburg Elementary PTA held a Veteran‟s Day Program honoring forty-eight veterans from their student‟s families. A deli-cious pancake supper ended the

event.

Fifth graders at Louisburg Elementary recently at-tended an International Fair with their peers. Each stu-dent in Mrs. Leonard‟s Star-quest Class became experts on a country in South Amer-ica. They dressed the part and served store-bought foods from their assigned

country.


Holiday Greetings from FCS Superintendent

Dr. Eddie Ingram

December 2, 2010

The Holiday Season is upon us! It is hard to believe we

are on the cusp of beginning the second decade of the

21st century. The Holidays provide us the time for rest

and reflection. While today’s world certainly presents

us with many challenges, I know our community and

school family are prepared to meet and exceed expec-

tations despite the economic downturn. Our best days

are truly ahead of us, and together, we shall continue

to make Franklin County Schools a school district with-

out peer. I appreciate and look forward to continuing

our work with everyone to create sound educational

experiences for our children.

I believe that the spirit of the season provides us a

time to momentarily forget our troubles and embrace

what is truly important… our relationships with family

and friends. It is good to balance our work lives with

festivity and rest. My sincere wish is for everyone to

have a wonderful holiday and a prosperous 2011.

Happy Holidays!

Eddie Ingram, Ed. D.

FCS Superintendent


Louisburg High School Band Students Accepted into

UNC-Wilmington Honor Band

Left to Right: Justin Benfield, Erin May, Joshua Lusky, Colleen Leonard, Erin Davis, Danielle Wagner, and David Wood.

Seven students from the Louisburg High School Band were accepted in and attended the UNC-Wilmington Honor Band Festival on Thursday, November 18 through Saturday, November 20. The students worked with the UNC-W music faculty for ten hours of rehearsal to prepare a concert on Saturday, November 20. Ninety-three students from across North Carolina and Virginia joined to-

gether to create the UNC-W Honor Band.

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