FLAGLER COUNTY SCHOOLS Students, teachers, administrators anticipate end of school on May 26
If a school year is like a marathon, then we are rounding that fourth turn and beginning that sprint. The end of our 2021-2023 school year is May 26, so everyone is a little antsy.
We’d like to start this week’s update to congratulate the students earning the “Turn It Around” award. This award recognizes the one student from each school that has made positive choices about their educational future. They all gathered on the Flagler-Palm Coast High School campus for a dinner on May 12. The students (and their schools) are: Michael Popp (Wadsworth Elementary), Royce Mauldin (Bunnell Elementary), Gia Poplar (Belle Terre Elementary), Bailey Mancuso (Old Kings Elementary), Jason Davis (Rymfire Elementary), Luke Raymond (Imagine School of Town Center), Robbery Berry (Department of Juvenile Justice), Moesha Malcolm (Buddy Taylor Middle), Phillips Polanco (Indian Trails Middle), Violet Mills (iFlagler), Bareilly Eveillard (Flagler-Palm Coast High), and Courtney Howard (Matanzas High).
Matanzas High School
The MHS prom was a couple of weekends ago, but we realized there were a handful of students who were not medically able to attend. So we brought prom to them last Friday! Mrs. Cullings held the prom on campus and invited other ESE self-contained access classes, as well as some general education students who were identified as having great positive behavior, to help out. It was a great event and everyone had a good time.
Rymfire Elementary School
Our Orientation to Medical Professions' 6th-grade students participated in Advent Health's Simulation Center. These Roadrunners were the FIRST group of K-12 students to participate in their center.
Our students rotated through stations such as the Cath Lab, Laboratory, Facilities, Radiology, Emergency Room, Ambulance, Life Flight and their educational simulation center.
If students continue to take medical electives through middle and high school, they could graduate ready for a career in the medical field. We are thankful for Flagler Schools' partnership with Advent Health and the opportunities they provide students.
Indian Trails Middle School
Our choral students held their final concert last week. They had a great year in class, and the performance was one of their best.
We also had our final Family Art Night. This has grown tremendously during the year and is something families circle on their calendars. We cannot wait to see it return for the 2022-23 school year!
Bunnell Elementary School
Our second-grade class read the whole Mercy Watson series together! If you’re not aware of this series, Mercy is a pig who gets into unpredictable trouble in each book. Since each of Mercy’s adventures ends with the characters eating hot buttered toast, it only made sense for us to end the series with a “hot buttered toast” party!
Also, if you haven’t seen the morning car rider line at BES, you’re missing out on a pretty good show! We have a “dancing car rider line” with music and dancing, all to help our students get excited to start a new day on our campus. We’ve got students singing and dancing along, and the parents who have to stay in their vehicle take part too! They honk their horns to the music as well. It’s a positive start to everyone’s day.
Flagler-Palm Coast High School
Our Entrepreneurship team competed at Nova Southeastern University last weekend at the NFTE Southeast Business Pitch Challenge. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship focuses on bringing the power of entrepreneurship to youth in low-income communities. Our team finished as runners-up, but that also means they are headed to New York City in the fall to compete in the National competition! The best part -- these students are already working out how to officially launch their business.
FPC took time to honor our students going into military service after graduation. We gathered all the recruits for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. In addition, two of our students, Aryanna Romero and Brendan Buckles, received four-year Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarships from the United States Marine Corps. Each scholarship is worth $180,000. There were just seven of these scholarships awarded in our region, and FPC was the only school to receive two.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Students, teachers, administrators anticipate end of school on May 26
