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Revised Calendar - 2/09/2010
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Revised Calendar and Make-Up Days |
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Friday,
February
5 |
Optional
Teacher Workday (June 15) |
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Saturday,
February
13 |
Saturday
will be a student make-up day only if
any days the week of February 9-12 are
missed.
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Saturday, February 27 |
Saturday will be a student make-up day for
February 5.
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Additional make-up
days, if needed: Saturday, March 13,
and Saturday, March 27.
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Saturday school hours will be from 8:00 a.m. -
1:00 p.m., with lunch being served. |
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Burke County Middle School Math
Count News
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Three Burke County Middle
Schools are headed to state competition for Math Counts.
Heritage Middle School won first (1st) place,
Liberty Middle School placed fourth (4th), and East
Burke Middle School placed fifth (5th) out of 30 teams!
Congratulations!
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Icard Students Receive Visitors From Catawba Science Center
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Icard Elementary
School Students who
earned their second
nine-week
Accelerated Reading
goal enjoyed a great
treat on February 3.
The Catawba Science
Center came to the
school and performed
a Physical Science
Show. They
presented concepts
on static
electricity,
pressure and the
properties of liquid
nitrogen. Steel, an
instructor from the
science center
walked on broken
glass and laid on a
bed of nails. He
explained how he did
that and why
students should
never try these
experiments at home.
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The Superintendent's Diversity Appreciation Task Force
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The
Superintendent's Diversity Appreciation Task Force has been
formed which is comprised of stakeholders representing
different ethnic backgrounds within the community. This
group is initially forming to address the following three
issues:
(1) Close the
Achievement Gap,
(2) Enhance the Ethnic Diversity of Our
Workforce, and
(3) Celebrate and Respect Diversity. |
If you are
interested in serving on this task force, please
click here
to take this survey. Thank you.
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