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Fork Shoals is currently accepting Box Tops for Education, Campbell’s soup labels, and old ink cartridges. These collections are exchanged for funds that support various programs at the school. Donation boxes are in the school bell tower.
Kani Garren, a fifth grade teacher at Fork Shoals School, Jessica Austin, a fourth grade teacher at Buena Vista Elementary; Kelly Hunt, a fourth grade teacher at Brook Glenn Elementary were selected to participate in the 2012 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in New Jersey in July.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s office arrested a 13-year old female student from Woodmont Middle School in connection with the bomb threat made there earlier today (Thursday). The student has been charged with making a bomb threat and disturbing a school.
Two area schools have recently experienced bomb threats that are thought to be “copy-cat” incidents of a bomb threat at Ware Shoals High School last Thursday.
Tuesday afternoon the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a representative from the Greenville County School District and told that a note was found in the bathroom indicating that a bomb was present at Woodmont Middle School.
Fork Shoals Elementary School is currently accepting Box Tops for Education, Campbell’s soup labels, and old ink cartridges. These collections are exchanged for funds that support various programs at the school. Donation boxes are in the school bell tower.
The Wildcat Players of Woodmont High will present Grease April 19-29. Show times will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Admission will $7 at the door.
Greenville County schools and offices will be closed Monday through Friday, April 2-6, for Spring Break. 12-Month Employees will take required leave days April 2-3.
Will Ragland of Woodmont High (left) and Matt Critell of Fork Shoals Elementary and are among ten teachers who have been selected as finalists in the 2012-13 Greenville County Teacher of the Year program.
Eleven high schools, 14 middle schools, and 46 elementary schools in Greenville County Schools District have earned state recognition for academic performance and/or closing achievement gaps.
Schools in southern Greenville County receiving either gold or silver awards for general performance included: Ralph Chandler Middle, Gold; Woodmont Middle, Silver; Ellen Woodside Elementary, Silver; Fork Shoals Elementary, Silver and Sue Cleveland Elementary, Silver.
De Ara Craig, daughter of Claressa Craig, of Piedmont, granddaughter of James and Erica Goldsmith of Piedmont and Linda Craig of Seneca has been selected to take part in the celebration of a truly historic event the Inauguration of the President and Vice President of the United States and attending the Middle School Presidential Inaugural Conference taking place from January 19 – 23, 2013 in Washington, DC.
