- November 18, 2024
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Matanzas High School and Belle Terre Elementary students from Sandra Oliva and Mercedes Brunelle’s physical disabilities class visited Whispering Meadows Ranch to celebrate Earth Day. The trip was sponsored by the Belle Terre Beta Club and Anna Bongiovanni, fifth-grade teacher BTES.
At the ranch, the students learned about organic planting, cultivating, water conservation, and harvesting. Students also learned about composting, good insects for the garden and natural fertilizers.
Supremacy Dance to perform at Carver Center
The Flagler Palm Coast High School Supremacy Dance Team will perform 6:30 Friday, May 30, at Carver Gym. Students from Bunnell Elementary School and Rymfire Elementary Schoolwill be joining the team.
Coach Wendy Ellis started Supremacy Dance Inc. to create a business that gives free dance classes to children in the community. PAL awarded them $5,000 for the year towards the program for costumes, stipends for teachers,and community hours for high school students from the Supremacy Dance Team. The performance will end the season.
Former Supremacy dance members, Christina Stephenson, Kendahl Bermudez and Rubin James taught the classes to the students and the performance will close out the season.
Admission for the show is free, but donations are welcomed, as they hope to continue the dance cap throughout the summer.
Old Kings Elementary to participate in Stephen Covey leadership program
Old Kings Elementary School will be training their entire faculty and staff at a workshop based on Stephen Covey’s best-selling “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” June 16-18. The initiative is named “Leader in Me.”
“We are looking forward to exposing our faculty and staff to Stephen Covey’s renowned training,” said Robin Dupont, principal at Old Kings Elementary School. “Stephen Covey’s book uses proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, human dignity and more, and those are principles we believe in as well.”
The school was awarded a grant for the training, and the initial teaching will be followed by implementation training on Aug. 12. A parent information night is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 11.
The “7 Habits of Highly Effective People’” is an international best-selling book and has sold more than 25 million copies in 40 languages throughout the world.
The goal of the workshop is to train the staff to help prepare students for success in the 21st century, as well as improve test scores and help discipline referrals to decline. It’s designed to train and empower staff so they can implement and infuse the Leader in Me process into the culture of Old Kings Elementary, thus transforming the school into Old Kings Leadership Academy.
The grant funds will help with the cost of the Leader in Me implementation, however, additional funds are needed to make the program a success. The public can help by participating in fundraising efforts or making a donation to the school. One way to help is to get involved in the 2014 OKES Golf Scramble to be held Saturday, May 31, at Palm Harbor Golf Club. Visit okesowls.com/content/2014-okes-golf-scramble.
