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Dec. 4 Committed CommUNITY Chat with Dr. Connelly in the Cape Fear Attendance Area
Join Dr. Connelly during his next Committed CommUNITY Chat, which takes place in the Cape Fear Attendance Area on Monday, December 4 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the auditorium at Cape Fear High School. The Superintendent is looking forward to engaging in open dialogue with you about the future of the district. Looking ahead, the final Committed CommUNITY Chat with Dr. Connelly will take place on Monday, December 11 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. on the campus of South View Middle School. Visit the CCS Website for additional information.
Upcoming Board Committee Meetings
The Auxiliary Services, Student Support Services and Policy Committees of the Cumberland County Board of Education will hold meetings beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. The meetings will be open to the public via live-streaming available at https://www.youtube.com/user/CumberlandCoSch, and there will also be capacity-limited seating available to members of the public. Documents, attachments, and presentations to be considered or received by the Board of Education will be available for review by the public at the BoardDocs site, which may be accessed through a link that appears on the Cumberland County Schools homepage under BOARD OF EDUCATION (BOE), at www.ccs.k12.nc.us. As these are Committee Meetings of the Board, there will be no public comment period, but public comments will again be shared at the Board's next regular meeting on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. The meeting will be held in the Board Room of the Central Services administration building, located at 2465 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, NC 28306.
3 Students to WIN a NEW Bike in Time for the Holidays!
Third graders at Sunnyside Elementary School are getting the chance to win a new bike right before the holidays. On Thursday, December 7 at 9:00 a.m. in the cafeteria at Sunnyside Elementary, out of 60 third-grade students, three will be announced as the winners of a brand new bicycle! All of the students wrote essays after reading the book titled "Think Big. Work Hard. Be Kind. No Excuses." The three students with winning essays will be presented with a new bike. This effort, sponsored by Olde Fayetteville Insurance & Financial Services, is a part of the Bikes for Kids national foundation, which was co-founded by Meadowlark Lemon. The program provides bikes and helmets to Title I third graders as their first step in completing the three-year character building program. This is the third year Bikes for Kids has been a part of Cumberland County.
DON'T FORGET ... Choice Application Period
Explore the best in education with CCS' Choice Programs! Apply from now through Thursday, February 1, and find the perfect match for your child's talents and interests. Visit www.choice.ccs.k12.nc.us to learn more.
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CCS' ESL Teacher Beverlyn Tolentino's recently presented at the 2023 SETESOL (Southeast Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference. Her presentation was titled "Challenges and Support Encountered by New ESL Teachers." The educator also had the honor of being noted as a conference speaker with the most session attendees. SETESOL has nine affiliates associated with the TESOL International Association that span across 11 states in the Southeast, including Virginia, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
Students in the District 7 Elementary School Beta Club committed two weeks to organizing the school’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. They sorted and boxed donated items that were distributed to several school families. Center Baptist Church, a committed community partner of the elementary school, donated turkeys toward the effort.
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On Nov. 6, students at Stedman Primary School began collecting canned and boxed foods to support Cokesbury United Methodist Church's community food bank. Located in Stedman, the church's food bank serves over 300 families per week from the Cumberland and Sampson County school districts. The class of Pre-K Exceptional Children's Teacher Kayla Jernigan sponsored the school-wide food drive, which included collecting donated items throughout the school each day and helping transport them to the cafeteria for sorting and counting. At the end of their two-week food drive, Stedman Primary donated over 2,100 canned and boxed items to Cokesbury Church's food bank, which helped replenish their dangerously low stock right before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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