School Snippets – September 3, 2015
Published September 3, 2015
The information below is provided by each school. Schools are listed in alphabetical order according to grade level.
Elementary Schools
Bethesda Elementary
When goals are met for the run fun, rewards are on the table! Kindergarteners at Bethesda Elementary who achieved or exceeded their goals for the most recent fun run were rewarded by wearing any kind of hat they wanted on September 1.
Chapman’s Retreat Elementary
Students at Chapman’s Retreat Elementary celebrated Cheetah Night at Summit High August 28. The Chapman’s Retreat Community came out strong to show their support for their feeder high school. Hundreds of CRES students took to the field to help introduce the Spartans.
Clovercroft Elementary
The fifth grade students at Clovercroft Elementary are preparing for JA Biztown this week. They have designed campaign posters if they are running for mayor and they are interviewing for jobs with different faculty members. Good luck, fifth graders!
Edmondson Elementary
Shelly Lindsey’s kindergarten class has been learning to read, spell and sing color words. They began the fun with their favorite character, Pete the Cat and his colorful shoes. Each Friday the students come to school wearing the color of the week.
Fairview Elementary
We are starting the school year with a bang at FES! We welcomed several new faces to our teaching staff including Hillary Grubbs (kindergarten), Carrie Cooper (first grade), Tawnna Beavers and Janelle Palmer (second grade), Mark Bailey (third grade) and Jason Bell (music). In music class, Mr. Bell is working with first graders on the concepts of loud and soft. They are listening to songs where they have to sing both loud and soft and are working on being an echo to someone who is talking. In other news, mark your calendars, the FES fall book fair is scheduled to start Friday, September 11.
Grassland Elementary
Grassland Elementary is excited to welcome the new math coach, Beverly Gonzales. Every week she dresses as the Math Magician and meets with students during lunch. If a child tells her a math problem they learned in math correctly, the students received an Eagle Feather.
Heritage Elementary
Heritage Elementary Run Club kicked off on Monday, August 31. Over 100 kids were in attendance for the first day! Students in this club will participate in running twice a week before school begins. Throughout the school year, these children will train for local marathon’s and fun runs!
Hunters Bend Elementary
Fifth graders at Hunters Bend have been busy learning and keeping campus safe. They completed a research project about an important Civil War era figure and learned about the Battle of Franklin in preparation for their field trip to the Carter House/Carton Plantation in September. Additionally, the fifth grade Safety Patrol students also began their training and duties for the morning car rider line.
Kenrose Elementary
Kenrose students participated in a Black Out Bullying and Be Nice Conference. The students shared what they learned during an assembly. Some things they are learned were to be respectful of others and to report bullying to an adult.
Longview Elementary
Longview Elementary School recently celebrated Spirit Night at Independence High. Dozens of students showed up to cheer on the Eagles at their first home football game of the season.
Nolensville Elementary
This week, fifth grade students made 3-D edible plant and animal cells. Students were instructed to label their model with the appropriate organelles. Presentations were made in class and afterward, students were allowed to eat their cell.
Pearre Creek Elementary
Students from Pearre Creek’s Panthers Club are helping children across the world. The Panther Care Club, spearheaded by P.E Teacher Kathy Caudill was formed to provide opportunities for students to learn the value of helping others. Students are involved in service projects that help the school, the community, other communities in Tennessee and even communities in Kenya, Africa. Pearre Creek second grade teacher Sarah Roberts is active in an organization working to build schools in Kenya and through this connection, the Panthers Care Club embarked on a project to make individual chalkboards for Kenyan children who had no paper to use in their newly forming schools. Each step of the way, Pearre Creek students and Kenyan students are forming a bond of loving to learn across the globe.
Scales Elementary
The fifth grade classes decided to kick off their shoes and donate them to the Mustang Closet clothing drive for our partner school, Warner Elementary in Nashville. At the end of the day, all shoes came off!
Sunset Elementary
Sunset Elementary fifth grader, Mia Mulder, kicked off the August 28 school assembly with a few words about the “BE NICE” campaign.
Trinity Elementary
Ms. Blood’s class is having a great beginning of the year! We are working hard to build our reading community and increase our reading stamina. The students are busy learning about the different parts of Daily 5, and we really love reading to self and reading to someone! We also had a great time decorating our book boxes with pictures, drawings and items that we love! We are proud of how they turned out and are excited to use them to hold all of the books we will read this year. We’ve just started a 20 book challenge where we will read books spanning ALL genres!
Walnut Grove Elementary
Fourth grade students are practicing their football throws for the upcoming punt, pass and kick competition, held at Walnut Grove Elementary. The competition will take place September 10 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Westwood Elementary
Westwood Elementary recently held its first assembly of the school year. Character awards and academic excellence awards were handed out. The students also got to see the school’s new COW’s – or computers on wheels, and the Fairview High cheerleaders performed a cheer. Also at Westwood, fifth grade students wrote letters to honor veterans from World War II. They honored their service with kind words and 300 letters.
Winstead Elementary
Winstead students are off to a rigorous start. Kindergarten students are working hard to learn correct letter formation while practicing letter recognition and sounds. In math, they are practicing counting skills while learning new math vocabulary.
Middle Schools
Brentwood Middle
Sixth grade students in Valerie Capstick’s class recently conducted a controlled experiment to investigate how increasing the drop height of an object affects its bounce height. Students identified variables, formed a hypothesis, developed a procedure, collected data, graphed and analyzed their data, and formed conclusions.
Fairview Middle
Fairview Middle School students participate in the “Thinking Archaeologically” project. Sixth grade social studies students were give an “artifact” to look at and try to figure out what it is, what it might be used for, and hold old it is.
Grassland Middle
Grassland Middle School’s clubs are kicking off this week! Model UN is underway and anyone interested should contact Susan Oldham at susano1@wcs.edu for detailed information. GMS is bringing back the Chess Club and players of all levels should plan to participate. Contact Andy Mangrum at charlesm1@wcs.edu for additional details. For the sports minded, Girls’ Basketball tryouts have been scheduled for Friday, September 25 at 3 p.m. Registration is now open for Grassland Boys’ Lacrosse in grades three through eight for the fall season. Visit http://grasslandboyslax.com/ for more information.
Hillsboro School
Barnaroo is coming! This year’s event will be November 7 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. The school is still looking for a few committee members to help with this year’s event. This is a great way to jump in and get involved for a one time event. If you are interested, please contact Jennifer Jones at hhjones3@bellsouth.net.
Page Middle
Page Middle was busy this week with exciting classroom activities and sporting events. Chorus is busy learning new songs for their next performance. In seventh grade art, students are showing their linear perspective drawings. In seventh grade science, students are creating human size molecules to learn the parts of a molecule and the function of each. On the athletic side of things, the JV football team recently played a hard fought game against Brentwood, and the boys and girls cross country teams suited up against Freedom Middle and Sunset Middle.
Spring Station Middle
Caitlyn Ensley, Program Coordinator of the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee in Knoxville, visited Spring Station to speak to the sixth, seventh and eighth grade health classes about the importance of good mental health and how to maintain it. She tailored the lessons specifically for the different age groups beginning with basic ways to deal with stress and bullying for the sixth graders. With the seventh and eighth graders, Mrs. Ensley gradually went more in depth discussing the negative effects that stress and bullying can have on their mental health such as depression and anxiety. The students in each grade were encouraged to reach out to adults in their life to seek help before these things become too difficult to handle. We appreciate Mrs. Ensley coming to share these important topics with our students.
Sunset Middle
Saber girls and boys golf have both brought home wins! The girls, led by a round of 39 by “The Birdy Hunter” Mary Elise LoGuidice and stellar support from Carson “The Ace” Applegate, the Lady Sabers tamed the Panthers of Page Middle. The girls look to continue their success with two matches next week. On the boys side, they defeated Page with a score of 168 to 174. Team members Jared Steltmann and Jackson Twerdahl beat the Page twosome by one stroke while Jordan Lessenberry and Campbell Early beat their opponents by five strokes. The boys play four matches in the next two weeks.
Woodland Middle
Mrs. Hopkins seventh grade language arts class created a Reverse Bucket List in their journals.
High Schools
Brentwood High
Brentwood High volleyball coach Barbara Campbell won her 1,500th game as the Lady Bruins won the Juanita Boddie Tournament in Hoover, Alabama on Saturday, August 29. This is Campbell’s 28th year as head coach. She has won 10 state volleyball championships.
Centennial High
Centennial will be holding a Hope Scholarship informational meeting on September 8. The meeting will be held in the CHS Library and everyone interested is invited to attend. On September 10, there will be a Senior Parent Night beginning at 7 p.m. Parents will get helpful information on all the important things that take place during their student’s senior year.
Fairview High
The Fairview girls soccer team is undefeated and ranked first in the district right now! Congratulations, Yellow Jackets.
Franklin High
The PSAT will be administered at Franklin Wednesday, October 14 during the school day. Students in grades 9-11 may register for the PSAT no later than September 18 at a cost of $18. Please pay online at http://osp.osmsinc.com/WilliamsonTN. This will serve as your registration when you select the PSAT for the correct grade level and include your student’s full legal name on the payment page. When asked for a student ID, use either the student ID or any family phone number. If you prefer not to pay online, see Mrs. Cavender in the counseling center and pay with check or exact change. Study guides will be available in the counseling center.
Independence High
IHS seniors, make sure you stay up to date with all the information you need for the year. Visit old.wcs.edu/ihs/parents-and-students/students/seniors/ for all things you need to know.
Page High
What’s this dome pictured below you ask? At Page High this week, Vanderbilt University visited the Astronomy classes. Students were able to take a step inside and see the stars and constellations projected onto the dome above.
Ravenwood High
Two Ravenwood High cheerleaders, Kylie Betchley and Becca Zaves, made the Tennessee All-State Cheerleading Squad, selected by the Tennessee Cheerleading Coaches Association. A total of 18 girls and boys were chosen from around the state to the squad and will cheer at the East West All-State Football game December 11. In other athletic news, RHS counseling will sponsor a collegiate athletic eligibility information night at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 17. Parents and students from all high schools are invited. Contact Ms. Amman in counseling with any questions at jenna.amman@wcs.edu.
Renaissance High
Renaissance seniors are participating in a yearlong study of poverty in Williamson County through a project called “Poverty in the Midst of Prosperity” during iLab. Seniors will study the problem and implications of poverty in Williamson County and will evaluate current solutions to poverty and generate new solutions as well. Open House for Parents on Thursday, September 3 at 6 p.m.
Summit High
Congratulations to Summit’s Students of the Month for August: Kaycie Farner and Nathan Crane, freshmen; Ivy Tubbs and Trevor Kuehl, sophomores; Grace Bauer and Jake Geasley, juniors; and Sydney Queen and Antonio Hamilton, seniors.