Friday, August 7, 2015

Welcome to the 2015-2016 School Year












Welcome back!


I want to welcome everyone back to school!  The 2015-16 school year has started and we have had great days at school so far.

I want to thank our teachers for all of their hard work preparing their classrooms for the new school year.

Our current enrollment:

K = 165
1 = 184
2 = 154
3 = 178
4 = 188
5 = 146
Total: 1015 students
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New Staff at CES
Elizabeth Silcox - 4th grade 
Mrs. Silcox comes to us from Johnson Elementary where she taught 2nd grade last year. Mrs. Silcox will be in 4th grade teaching math with the Campbell, Quillen, and Carter group.  Mrs. Silcox actually started her teaching career at CES last year in 1st grade for the 1st 3 weeks of school while Mrs. Alice Johnson recovered from surgery.  Mrs. Silcox will be in Mrs. Brown's old room.

Laine Owens - Kindergarten
We are excited to be able to bring Lanie back to CES this year.  Laine completed her internship with us last year in 1st grade (Wise) & 4th grade (Broussard), filled in for us in SpEd when Mrs. West left and then finished out the year for us in K for Mrs. Brodie when she had her baby.  Ms. Owens will teach K in Mrs. Brodie's old room.
Crystal Brazell - Lunchroom Manager

Crystal comes to us from Tanner High School where she served as lunchroom manager last school year and for summer school.  We are glad to have Ms. Brazell with us at CES.

Ashley Carr - Special Education Teacher

Ashley taught in Lauderdale County last year.  We are excited to have Mrs. Carr on staff at CES.  Ms. Carr will be taking Mrs. McRee's place who left for Johnson Elementary's preschool program.  We are glad to have Mrs. Carr with us at CES.

Mike George - bus driver

Mr. George has been a bus driver for Athens City and has subbed in Limestone.  Mr. George will drive bus 110.  Ms. Nave moved to ELHS.  (Ms. Nave will be our Tech School bus driver on Tuesdays).  We are glad to have Mr. George with us at CES.

Joey Hall - bus driver

Mr. Hall was a sub driver last year for LCS and will be driving bus 96 for us this year.  We are glad to have Mr. Hall with us at CES.

Vivian Mahaley - Lunchroom staff

Mrs. has worked at Discovery Middle School in Madison for the last several years in the lunchroom.  We are glad to have Mrs. Mahaley at CES.
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MacBook News
This year our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students will all have MacBooks!  Our 3rd grade students will receive their MacBooks on Wednesday, August 12th. 


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Building Update:
Our plans our being finalized by our district staff and we are hoping to bid out our project to contractors next month (September) and start construction in October.
Part of our construction phase will include shutting down the south side of campus while the parking lot goes through the initial phase of construction.  This will mean big changes for morning drop off, bus drop off and afternoon pick up.  We are currently working on these plans now.  Please be patient during the time we have the south side of campus closed (possibly 3 months).

 
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I am very excited about this school year!  If I can be of any service to you during the school year please do not hesitate to call, email or just drop by the school.
Thank you,
Matt Scott
256-216-8702
matt.scott@lcsk12.org