Haywood County Schools Brownsville Tennessee

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Haywood County Schools
900 East Main Street
Brownsville, TN 38012
Phone: 731-772-9613
Fax: 731-772-3275
Email: battled1@k12tn.net
haywood.k12.tn.us

Doris Battle, Editor

Our appreciation goes to Director of Schools George Chapman

It is certainly fitting that the June 2008 “Notebook” should be dedicated to Director of Schools George Chapman. He has led our school system since 2000, overseeing many changes with the great leadership, wisdom and the utmost dedication to the children of Haywood County.

It has been under his direction that our schools met the challenge of the No Child Left Behind directives, succeeding in making this community proud of their hard work and successes. Under his direction we have expanded our curriculum to meet the needs of all the county’s children, and we have mounted a campaign of informing and uniting all citizens behind the local school system.

The job of Director of Schools is a monumental one, because there is nothing more important than our children. Director Chapman always kept that as his motivation and encouraged his staff to raise the bar to give our children an advantage in the world they must live in after school.

I have also appreciated my years of working with him. Director Chapman has been a wonderful “teacher” and mentor to me and his other staff members, the school administrators and teachers.

For his dedication and for all the many hours of hard work Director Chapman gave to this community, we offer our sincerest appreciation and wish him the best in his retirement and future endeavors.

UT-Martin Steel Band performs at Sunny Hill School

The University of Tennessee-Martin Steel Band and African Ensemble performed “Musical Celebrations of Africa” for students at Sunny Hill School in late February. The performance was both entertaining and educational and focused on the cultures of Cuba, Trinidad, and Brazil. The UTM Steel Band is an ensemble of students of Dr. Julie Hill, Director of Percussion Studies at UT-Martin. The performance was sponsored by the Brownsville-Haywood County Arts Council as part of its Arts in the Schools program.

Three win DAR Essay Contest

Three Sunny Hill students, Molly McAdams, Erin Dennis, and Sierra McClinton, were winners of the school’s Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Essay Contest. They each wrote essays on the Jamestown Settlement. The local David Craig Chapter, DAR annually sponsors an essay contest in schools to promote learning about American history.

Writing assessment practice yields winning essays

Practice for the school’s Writing Assessment that is part of the testing statewide for students in Tennessee schools, yielded six winners who wrote essays from the prompt: “Invisible for a Day.” Three students each in the fifth and sixth grades were named winners for their work. In the fifth grade, Donterio McIntosh, Robert Allen King, and Amanda Lopez were the winning authors. In the sixth grade, Morgan Marlar, Elton Terry and Ashley Porter’s essays were the best. First-place winners won a bike, second place winners won a MP3 player, and third-place winners received a $25 gift certificate. Money to buy the prizes came from Distinguished Title I funds.

Sidelines

School Dates

Sept. 1
Labor Day Holiday

Sept. 4
Eastside PTO Fall Fundraiser Starts

Sept. 10
Eastside-ThinkLink
Eastside Guest “The Standards”

Sept. 11
Eastside Fall Pictures

Sept. 16
End 1st Six Weeks

Sept. 18
Eastside PTO Fundraiser Ends

Sept. 29
Parent/Teacher Conf.
(Time 9-5)
Report Cards Issued

Sept. 30
Staff Development ( Students do not attend)

Oct.13-17
Fall Break

Nov. 5
End 2nd Six Weeks

Nov. 14
Report Cards Issued

Nov. 26-28
Thanksgiving Holidays

Dec. 2-4
Gateway Test (Grade 9-12)

Dec. 19
(½ Day Students & Teachers) End of 1st Semester (89 days)

Dec. 22-31
Christmas Holidays