ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE TOGETHER
  
March 11, 2014
In This Issue
Day of Play & 5K
Rotary Teachers of the Year
Awards & Nominations
Student Delegate Assembly
Elementary News
Middle School News
High School News
How are we feeling?
Kindergarten Registration
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Boone County Day of Play 5K Walk & Run 
  

Third Annual Boone County Day of Play-Family 5K Run/Walk

Sponsored by the Superintendent's Student Advisory Council

March 29, 2014; England-Idlewild Park                           

8:45-9:00  Zumba Kick Off

9:00-10:00 Family 5K Run/Walk

10:00-11:30 Family Activities and Health Fair

Cost: 

Pre-registration (March 1-March 22) Students and adults register separately:

$10 students; $20 adults and $35 families (2 adults and at least 1 child or 1 adult and more than 2 children)

Proceeds will support Feed his Kids

Student Registration click here

Adult Registration click here

Family Registration click here

   
 Rotary Teachers of the Year
 
Three teachers from the Boone County School District have been named Rotary Teacher of the Year.  Congratulations to Lisa Willoughby of Mann Elementary School,  Kelly Read from Boone County High School and Karen Wiebe of Camp Ernst Middle School.
Northern Kentucky Has Talent

Winners from Boone County Schools

 

Congratulations to Ockerman Middle School and Boone County High School who each had winners in the Northern Kentucky has Talent Contest. Ockerman Middle School students won in the STEM category for video game development and design. Boone County High School's Zac Raleigh won in the High School Visual and Performing Arts category for his rendition of Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie.' Their talents will be honored among many others Thursday March 27th at the Excellence in Education Celebration at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center.

....and Congrats to Golden Apple nominees

Three Boone County School Teachers nominated for the 2014 Golden Apple will also be recognized that night. Ilah Conley from Florence Elementary, Lisa Fischer of Longbranch Elementary and Pamela Schlabaum of Thornwilde Elementary. The three are among twenty nominees.
They are from left: Lela Pair-Boone County High School, Alex Warner-Ryle High School, Sam Gormley-Cooper High School and Kierra Dages-Conner High School.
Student Advisory Council Selects Delegates
The Superintendent's Student Advisory Council met last week to elect new Student Delegates from all four Boone County High Schools. The Council consists of student representives from all levels Elementary, Middle and High School.  One of these four faces will be the next Student Representative to the Boone County Board of Education. 
  
 Attendence Services Director Mike Ford says, "Our goal through this process is to prepare all students to become future leaders."  Ford further states, "Public Education was created to have an educated populace that can make decisions to assist in the governing of our country, for the people, by the people."
ELEMENTARY NEWS
Project Based Learning
  
What is most likely going to engage your mind, listening to a boring lecture or actively participating (hands-on) in a project? Students in the Boone County School district are being prepared for the 21st century workplace through Project Based Learning. The project may be a complex question, a problem or a challenge that students are expected to solve, answer or overcome. At each level elementary, middle and high school in the district students are involved in Project Based Learning as part of their STEM education. Read more.

 

 

 
The theme for PBL at Erpenbeck Elementary is "Oh, the places you'll go." On this day Kindergarteners there are working on American Symbols and the fifth graders were learning about the rules and regulations that govern what they eat for lunch at school.  You are invited to attend ErpenBeck's first-ever PBL event Tuesday, March 11th from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.  See more.  
MIDDLE SCHOOL NEWS
 Project Based Learning 
 
At the middle school level sixth grade students of Laura Faulkner's class at
Gray Middle are working on a project called "I'm Moving!?!" These students are faced with the hypothetical situation of having to move out of the country because their parent's job has been relocated. It's their responsibility to help their parents pick a new location. To the left they are on a tour bus in Sweden.  To the right they are researching new places to live. Read more.
HIGH SCHOOL NEWS 
Project Based Learning
 
On the high school level, you can meet future pilots and engineers in training at Conner High School. In Richard Henson's Aerospace Engineering Design and Testing class these students are learning on flight simulators and on this day they were learning the importance of aerodynamics by building their own aircraft wings. Read more.
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

  
   
 
 
Basic knowledge and skills are no longer enough for the work place of tomorrow. Through Project Based Learning, a STEM education, students learn to take responsibility and develop the confidence they will need to solve problems, work collaboratively and be the creative innovators their future will require.
 
How's your Child's Health?
  
Does your child need a physical or immunizations?  We've made it easy and convenient to get it done.  Boone County Schools have partnered with HealthPoint Family care to bring medical care to our schools.  Services have been expanded to include Conner Middle School in addition to RA Jones Middle. Click here for more information.  
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Kindergarten Registration for 2014-2015
 
If you have a child at home and not in school yet it's time to start thinking about preparing them for Kindergarten.  To start the enrollment process your child must turn five before October 1st, 2014.  Click here for the enrollment dates for the 2014- 2015 school year.  The Boone County School District makes the process easy and fun for you and your child.  Click here for kindergarten readiness videos then download the kindergarten enrollment packet.