Drew Central 4th Graders held an Estimation and Measurement Day Celebration.

The activities were planned to allow students to explore math concepts with hands-on. Students rotated throughout the classroom which gave each a chance to explore every concept. One activity was “Marble Soup”. Students at this station met the soup chef, teacher Eva Arrington, and made marble soup.

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Drew Central is in day 2 of our pilot program for Breakfast in the Classroom.

This exciting new program allows kids to eat breakfast in the classroom during the first 10 minutes of class. We believe this will drastically reduce childhood hunger and allow everyone to start their day off right. The students and teachers are loving it! Mrs. Meek’s class is shown eating their breakfast and reviewing what they learned in math the previous day. The students were noticing the unit of measurement for the milk and orange juice.

Some teachers are also using this time to teach students how to read nutrition labels. Others are using this time as their reading time. Students sit quietly and eat while the teacher takes roll, gathers homework, and gets prepared for the day.

Mr. McRae’s 2nd grade class at Drew Central are shown being involved in an estimation and measurement math activity.

The goal was to estimate in centimeters the projected length of the gummy worm completely stretched without breaking.

The students then assisted one another in stretching the gummy worm to its maximum length for accurate measurement.

Pictured are: Lana Boykin, Omarion Pace, and Colby Broyles.

The Drew Central school board had its scheduled monthly meeting Thursday, November 08, 2012. Topics on the agenda included recognition of Drew Central Teacher of the Year, the red brick building, and enrollment of students at Drew Central and other southeast Arkansas schools.

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Several Drew Central students recently made the Southeast Junior and Senior All Region Choirs. DCHS students are Jessica Wishard and Caleb Eubanks, 1st chair; Michael Carpenter, 4th chair; Katie Taylor and Hunter Neptun, 7th chair; Kyle Kamminicki, 9th chair, Samantha Jo Chapman, 17th chair; Jazmine Rivera, 20th chair; Bianca Rochelle, 2nd alternate. They will be participating in the senior high choir.

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Wanted: Part-time para-professional to work in a kindergarten classroom ½ day
Qualifications: High School diploma; Highly qualified – 60 hours of college credit or passing score on the Para-Professional assessment
Availability: Immediately
Salary: Salary schedule – based on years experience and education level
Benefits: None
Applications available at Drew Central elementary office.
Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Drew Central School Board called to order their monthly meeting Oct. 9 to address this month’s topics.

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Pictured from left to right: Connor Horton, Camryn Callison, and Sabin Day.

Mrs. Lou Arnold’s second grade class from Drew Central Elementary learned about an important event of history that happened before they were born. They also realized how much this event has affected their lives even today. This event was the 9-11 terrorist attack on America.

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The Drew Central School called to order a special board meeting Sept. 6 to discuss the athletic budget, purchasing of a school bus and board member training among a few other items.

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Mr. McRae’s 2nd grade class participating in first week counting activities. The students were given a square piece of foil approx 3″x3″ and had to brainstorm on how to design a boat that would hold a maximum number of pennies. There were 2 rounds of competition where modifications could be made to their boats. The winners designed 2 boats that held 64 total pennies.

Pictured are the winners of the “penny-boat” competition with their first thought of design. Pictured from left are: Delaney White, Hope Sass, and Will Watson.

The Monticello school board accepted a CPR training unit donated by Ryburn Motor Company. The unit will help to train coaches and staff of the schools to further help to keep kids safe. The unit, which is junior life sized, tells with signals when the trainee applies the right pressure in the proper location and when the trainee breaths correctly into the unit’s mouth.

Ryburn also donate a unit to Drew Central School at their board meeting, recently, shown here with Superintendent Mike Johnston and Rita Venable.

Article by Caleb Burger

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21st Century Afterschool Tutoring Program – Drew Central Elementary has job openings for the following positions:

Certified Teachers
Para-Professionals
Data Personnel
Enrichment Staff

The afterschool program will begin September 4th and run through the end of April. If you are interested in one of these positions, please pick up an application at the elementary office.

According to Superintendent Mike Johnston of Drew Central School District,at their recent meeting,  the demolition of the red brick building is 56% complete. He said that all walls and windows have been removed, plus the brick is down on about half of it.

Bricks are being cleaned and stacked for future use and salvageable wood will be taken, refurbished, and used to make furniture.

With all 5 zone positions on both Monticello and Drew Central’s school boards up for re-election, due to the recent re-districting, here is the list of candidates filing, as the deadline passed, Tuesday at noon.

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New Drew Central School Board Districts

New Monticello School District Boundaries

Enlarged Map of City Area, Monticello District

Re-disticting of school board boundaries is required, due to the 2010 census, just like it was for the city council and quorum court.

All school board seats in both districts are up for re-election in the upcoming September 18 election.

Today, at noon, was the deadline to file as a candidate for any of the 5 seats, on both Monticello and Drew Central’s school board. (more…)

The angry parent accused of crashing a Drew Central school bus and a teacher’s car (February 2011), appeared in Circuit Court, Friday, before Judge Sam Pope. 

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The Family Service Agency (FSA) held it’s conference in Little Rock at the Arkansas 4-H Center, June 14-16. Youth from all over the state attended this conference to continue the youth-targeted statewide grassroots campaign Y.E.S. (Youth Extinguishing Smoking) Team to educate and encourage youth leadership.

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Drew Central High School Cheerleaders were recently recognized at their summer cheer camp hosted by the National private cheer camp company, Premiere Cheer Camps.

The team was selected by Premiere Cheer Camps Staff based on their outstanding sportsmanship, spirit, and growth in the areas of cheer throughout camp. 

Drew Central High School cheerleaders will be featured on the Premiere Cheer Camps national website, www.premierecamps.net in recognition of this achievement. Each squad member recieved an individual ribbon as well as the Premiere Cheer Camps Award of Excellence team certificate.

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