News from Scholars' Academy

The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Ms. Jessica Cuneo has accepted the position of Associate Director at the Scholars' Academy for the 2010/2011 school year. Ms. Cuneo grew up near Cleveland, Ohio and moved to North Carolina in 1998. She received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from High Point University. Her master's degree in curriculum, instruction, and supervision was awarded at UNC-Wilmington. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and has the North Carolina endorsement for Academically/Intellectually Gifted education. Her teaching experience has been with kindergarten, third, and fifth grade students, working with gifted children for the past four years. Jessica and her husband Steve live in Charlotte with their dog, Maggie. Jessica is a competitive runner and novice triathlete. Her other interests include reading, traveling, and all kinds of outdoor activities. We look forward to a very rewarding relationship with Jessica and are excited to have her join our school community.

Transportation - A reminder that once parents turn from Endhaven Lane into the school parking lot the speed directive is please drive slowly! The speed limit here is creep speed. The area in front of BASC and our school is not the place to make up lost time in the morning. Parents at morning drop-off should also remember to pull up as far as they can toward the mailbox so that parents behind them do not have to pull around in front of stopped cars to drop off a child. Once all riders are off the bus we will move the bus around the other side of the drive around in order to make drop off a safer experience for our car riders.

News About Our Graduates - Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2008 at Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy who have been selected to attend the North Carolina School of Science and Math beginning in the fall of 2010: Grishma Alakkat, Aakash Indurkhya, Pooja Potharaju, and David Wang. Greg Song is on the wait list. We will update our congratulations as we hear from other graduates.

Recycling - We love that families are interested in our recycling program. Over the past month some families have been adding their recylables to our bins. We appreciate the ethics of this, but the school bins simply are not large enough to accommodate any items other than those that come directly from our students. To have piles of recycling material pile up between our biweekly pick-ups is unsightly and unsanitary. Please use your neighborhood curbside recycling program for your family items.

Earth Day - A special thank you to Maura O'Sullivan and Melissa Brown for our Earth Day activity table. This is one of my favorite days. I had fun with the quiz - although I missed half of the questions. Even the one about the year of the first Earth Day. Who would have guessed?