Parent Teacher Magazine Union County Public Schools September 2014 | Page 4

Year-round school gets off to great start

School bells sounded signaling
the start of the year-round calendar
and the beginning of the 2014-15
school year.
UCPS Safety Director Jarrod
McCraw said there were no major
problems reported at either
the schools or with the school
system’s buses.
Monique Gregg and Stephen
Montague brought their daughter,
Alaina Montague, 5, for her first day
of kindergarten at Walter Bickett
Elementary School.
“She’s been looking forward
to this day forever,” Gregg said.
“She’s so excited. If she was upset,
it would be harder, but she’s so
excited so it’s okay.”
East Elementary School was fairly
Monique Gregg walks her
daughter, Alaina Montague,
indicative of the first day at all the
5, into school on her first day year-round schools.
of kindergarten at Walter
“The energy level has been high,”
Bickett Elementary School.
said the school’s principal, Denny
Ferguson. “The teachers are pumped.
Our students walked in the building ready to learn. That was the one
resounding thing I saw this morning. I’m already walking in classes
and seeing that students are getting to know each other, but the
teachers are already getting into content.”

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“Things went very smoothly,” said Walter Bickett Elementary
principal Tom Childers. “Lots of excited faces. Those students who
didn’t make it to open house were anxious to find out who their
teachers were, but there was plenty of staff members in the hallway
to give that information. Overall, it was a very good start.”
Childers brought in the concept of bag breakfast to Walter Bickett
Elementary, a program he began at his former school, Marshville
Elementary.
Michele Bain, Walter Bickett cafeteria manager, said the bags go
to every students and changes every day. The bags contain a variety
of item, including yogurt, cereal, sausage biscuit or cinnamon bun. It
also has a piece of fruit and juice.
“There’s no wait f