Rock Hill School News For Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The District Volunteer & Partnership Awards Luncheon will honor 55 individuals/businesses/groups on July 29 at Dutchman Creek Middle School. The honorees are those who give of their personal time and financial resources to benefit students and staff in Rock Hill Schools.

The Tax-Free Weekend for school supplies, clothes, footwear, computers, computer equipment, etc.will be the first weekend in August.

Cindy Hunt, with ParentSmart, is pleased to announce that the trustees of the Duke Endowment have approved an appropriation to The Early Learning Partnership of York County in the amount of $110,000 for free clinics (such as in our Family Resource Center) to serve uninsured children.

The Carroll School, a restored Rosenwald School in Rock Hill, is featured in the August edition of Southern Living magazine in a beautiful four-page spread. A crew from the magazine visited the school on April 2 and interviewed teacher Melanie Hornsby and Queenie Hall, instructional specialist.

The Rock Hill Elks Lodge, once again, plans to provide every third-grade student with a complimentary dictionary in late Sept. or early October.

Linda Hutchinson, former C0-Principal of the Central Child Development Center, had an article published in the July/August edition of Exchange magazine, a journal for directors of preschool and day care programs. Dr. Hutchinson's article is about the gardening program teachers and students at the Central Child Development Center did with the assistance of students in the Rebound program.