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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Shout Out from Highland Elementary Rachel Fowler Last week the students and staff at Highland Elementary participated in Red Ribbon Week. The theme of the week was "Life if your journey, travel drug free!" PTO decorated the school with red ribbons and had students sign to say that they would be drug free Highland's PTO helped students celebrate being drug free with a spirit week. Monday students dressed to impress. Tuesday students turned their backs on drugs and wore their clothes backwards! Wednesday students wore crazy socks and "socked" it to drugs! Thursday students teamed up against drugs by wearing their favorite sports team shirt! Friday showed that they pledged to be drug free by wearing red! Teachers and staff participated by wearing a red ribbon each day. Not only did students wear their Red Ribbon Week spirit, but they displayed it in their creations as well! PTO sponsored a Red Ribbon Week poster contest, where each classroom made a poster to display each student being drug free. One winner was chosen from each hallway and rewarded! Students also showed they promised to not do drugs by signing a pledge banner! ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Excellent job showing your drug free spirit this week Highland Hawks! ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Shout Out from Central Office Everyone at central office enjoys Halloween as our favorite day of the year because we are lucky enough to have pre-K and K students from Eastlawn come over for trick or treating! It is a toss-up who enjoys this day more—kids or adults! Our building was filled with incredible super heroes, princesses, ninja turtles, police officers and more! Some Som Some little, some big! ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Shout Out to Graham High School Kim Draluck I would like to send a special Shout Out to Kim Davis, Career Development Coordinator at Graham High, and all the others staff at the high schools who prepare our children as they are getting ready to take the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) tests and make their way into the military to serve our great nation. Had it not been for Kim, I would have been stressed out to the max while waiting and getting my son ready for the ASVAB test. Thanks to her, my son registered for the test, took it and got his results without any issues. She works with all of the recruiters to make sure our brave future military young men and women’s needs are met as they begin to prepare for their journey and a future defending our country. Thank you! (Kim Davis (on left) at the High School Options Fair talking with parents and students about CTE options) ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Shout Out for Election Day, Tuesday, November 6 Just a reminder that Tuesday, November 6 is Election Day. It is a teacher workday for Alamance-Burlington Schools, so students are not in schools that day. This is a safety precaution because ABSS has 9 schools that are used as election sites by the Alamance County Board of Elections. Those schools are: Andrews Elementary Grove Park Elementary Hawfields Middle Hillcrest Elementary Newlin Elementary Pleasant Grove Elementary Turrentine Middle Smith Elementary Sylvan Elementary Shout Out for ABSS What’s After High School? Program At the Saturday, October 27 Success By Design College Knowledge Conference, one lucky ABSS student won a laptop as a door prize! See below for his thank you to Michael Lane, director—Duke Dix from Western High is busy writing a book! Good afternoon Mr. Lane, I was excited to win the laptop yesterday! It was completely unexpected! I will use it for school work, college research, and writing my book. I have it up and running today and I will begin using it for my homework. I am currently in the AP Capstone Program at Western High and I will be using it often for research. Thank you for organizing the Success By Design Conference yesterday. I learned a lot and will use the information provided to guide my college and scholarship research. Winning the laptop was a huge bonus, but the conference answered a lot of questions that my parents and I had about planning for college. Sincerely, Duke Dix ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Shout Out to Graham High Check out the Times-News story about the Graham High launch of the UNC virtual reality college tour: http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20181027/at-graham-high-unc-campus-tours-go-virtual Shout Out to Sea Turtle Superhero at Central Office School employee dedicates her summers to sea turtle conservation By Jessica Williams Times-News Suzan Bell’s office pays homage to one of her greatest loves: sea turtles. When she and her husband purchased a home on Oak Island in 2002, she channeled her lifelong love of turtles and tortoises into the Oak Island Sea Turtle Protection Program, protecting mothers and babies during the nesting season from May to October. “We get up about five o’clock in the morning and we go out on the beach, and what we’re looking for are tracks,” Bell said. “We’re looking for the mama’s tracks that say she came out of the ocean. And once we find the tracks, we follow the ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 tracks up, and we try to determine if she laid a nest, where she would have laid the eggs, or if it’s a false crawl, you know, what happened. And if we determine that it is a nest, we actually get on our hands and knees and dig in the sand … to verify that it is a nest and that there are eggs there.” If they find a nest, they determine if the area is safe — somewhere far away from beachgoers and high tide — and move the eggs to another location if necessary. “We try not to move nests because it should be as natural as possible,” Bell said. Generally, nests hatch 55 to 65 days after the eggs are laid. For staff with the Protection Program, that means around-the-clock observation starting on the 50th day and continuing until the turtles have hatched and made it to the water safely. “It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it, I couldn’t even tell you the number, it is exciting every single time,” Bell said. “I still get goosebumps. I still get excited. I still get that feeling that this is such a miracle.” An Alamance County native, Bell graduated from Eastern Alamance High School and worked in classrooms for a number of years before moving to ABSS’ central office to become an administrative assistant for Dr. Angela Bost. “Now that I’m out of the classroom and over here, if a teacher calls me and says, ‘We’re doing a project on this or that, would you come and speak?’ I’m always willing to go to share, and I love it,” she said. The kids get to see fun pictures of sea turtles hatching and even a “triplet egg” with three turtles inside of it, but they also learn an important lesson: clean up after yourself, and recycle. Trash left on beaches can block mother sea turtles from laying their eggs, and trash floating in the ocean has catastrophic effects. A study published Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Australian nature research journal Scientific Reports found that even small bits of plastic can be lethal, with the risk of death increasing significantly for sea turtles that have ingested 14 pieces of plastic or more. Larger pieces, like plastic bags or straws, can cause suffocation. ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Bell drinks from a metal straw each day, which is one example of how students, and adults, can reduce their plastic use. “I always ask them to tell their parents, ‘Let’s pick up what we brought. Let’s leave only footprints in the sand,’ because this is their home, not our home,” Bell said. And when her old students drop by to visit, the first question they ask her is, “Ms. Bell, how are the sea turtles?” Shout Out from Western Alamance FFA Taylor Apple, Advisor On Thursday Nov, 1 the Federation FFA truck and tractor driving contest was held at Western Alamance High School. Western Alamance, Southern Alamance and Southern Guilford had students competing. We are proud to announce that First Place in truck driving goes to Harris Moss and First Place in tractor driving goes to Preston Cole! These two students will be competing in the state contest on Jan 31 in Raleigh at the Southern Farm Show. at left: WAHS FFA truck drivers Harris Moss and Taylor Slemenda at right: WAHS FFA tractor drivers Harris Moss, Matt Woodruff, Preston Cole ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Nov. 2, 2018 Mrs Apple’s horticulture class visited ACC and Iseley Farms. Students got to tour the ACC horticulture department to learn about offerings in their program. Students got to meet current students, visit their greenhouse, and talk about careers in horticulture. Students also had a tour at Iseley Farm by wagon.