Rock Hill School District News For February 14, 2013 #rockhill #rockhillschools

South Carolina Recycling Champs

Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that brings people together to build and sustain vibrant communities, announced yesterday the winners of the “Recycle-Bowl,” the first nationwide recycling competition for elementary-, middle- and high-school students.

     

While a school system in Indiana won the national award, the Applied Technology Center placed first in S.C.’s “Recycle Bowl,” with a prize of $1,000, and Finley Road Elementary placed second. Their selection was based  on having the highest per-capital recycling rates. Recycling coordinators at the winning schools are Pam Jackson (ATC) and Donna Elliott (FR).

      

Smiling from ear to ear hearing the announcement, Assoc. Supt. Tony Cox stated: “We’ve developed an innovative recycling relationship with the City of Rock Hill, and Rock Hill Schools can now boast that it has the premier recycling program of K-12 in the state.”

 

An Invitation from the Palmetto Reading Council

The Palmetto Reading Council will hold its annual banquet on April 18 at the Cotton Factory. The featured speaker will be Storyteller Ron Jones. .

 

Worth Knowing

The district's latest "Facts & Figures":

• Sullivan Middle has two new grant winners. Gwen Lindsay, Asst. Principal, received a $700 grant from Target for a “college field study trip” for eighth-graders; and Owen Privette, PE/health teacher, received $1,650 from Piedmont Medical for a hydration station for the school’s football teams.
• Joe Gulledge, Director of Bands at Rock Hill High, has been elected as President of the S.C. Band Directors Assn. Joe is the first band director from Rock Hill Schools to be selected for this prestigious honor
• Local radio station WRHI (1340 on AM dial) will interview one of our Chinese students who’s attending school this week at Northwestern at 7:40 a.m. Feb. 15. “Lucky,” his American name, is the house guest of Jason Moree, Asst. Principal at Old Pointe Elementary, who was “Lucky’s teacher last summer in China.
• §John Rosemond, a psychologist, family therapist and nationally known expert on parenting issues, will speak at St. John’s UMC in Rock Hill on Sunday, Feb. 24. 

Elaine T. Baker

Director of Information Services