1st Annual Christmas Festival

The festival is this Saturday, 12/12 from 9 - 4pm at the school! Over 30 vendors will be on site selling great Christmas gifts! If you haven't finished your shopping, you don't want to miss this! Be sure to arrive early for the best selection. Breakfast and lunch will be available and you can also have your gifts wrapped while you are here! Admission is $2.00 for adults and there is not cost for students/children. We hope to see you here!

Weekly Parent Update 12/10

The holiday rush is definitely upon us! This week we had a wonderful week decorating the school Christmas tree in the front lobby. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to PTE for providing refreshments! Students in all grades took part in a school-wide writing assessment on Tuesday. 4th grade is required to do this by the state of NC but we wanted to place a school-wide importance on writing. Students overall performed very well on this assessment. Remember you can send in your cans to be recycled. Also, Friday, 12/11 is an Early Release Day! We dismiss at 12:45. Next week will certainly be a busy week! We hope to see you all on Saturday at the Christmas Festival!

Family Night Pie Throw Pics

I just had a feeling that we both would end up taking a pie in the face that evening! Students raised over $600! It was so much fun smooshing that pie on Mr. Mays's face!

Weekly Parent Update

Wow...where have I been? As you can tell from my last post (a whole month ago) that things have been crazy busy here at Ellendale. We have launched new things, held an exciting Family Night, had a restful vacation and are ready to buckle down for the holidays. First, family night was a huge success, in large part to you! Thank you for the hours and hours of work from our parent volunteers! I am so excited about the success of the evening. Check out the pie pictures!
Our Veterans program was also a huge success! We had a gym full of visitors and many veterans who attended our program. We will definitely be making this event an annual tradition. We feel it is very important to emphasize our civic responsibility to honor our veterans for their sacrifice.
We will be having our lockdown practice drills this week on Friday. We will have officers from the sheriff's department on campus Friday during the drill to evaluate our effectiveness and response. It is our goal to keep our students as safe as possible so we will be seeking their feedback on any changes that need to be made to our school safety plans. We will hold a drill during the instructional day, as well as during afternoon dismissal. We will dismiss at 2:30 then practice returning to our lock down locations from our dismissal. We hope to have students ready to dismiss to buses and the car line at our regular 2:45 time. Please be aware that it is possible that our actual dismissal time may be 5 or so minutes late on Friday afternoon.
We are getting ready for our Christmas Festival next Saturday, Dec. 12. Information will be coming home with your child tomorrow. If you would like to volunteer for 2 hours to work during the festival, you can earn free admission. We have over 30 vendors with many great gift items. We will also offer gift wrapping services for a small fee. Come do your shopping with us! Breakfast and lunch will be available! We look forward to a great day.