Hard to believe the end of March is near and April is upon us! Praying the rain comes and the fires are gone by the time you read this! From floods to fires, it was been a year! So proud of your sweet children and their resiliency! They have faced adversity yet again, and have been so brave and strong! Proud of them and all of you!!

So proud of our All-County Chorus students! They did an excellent job at their performance this past Thursday! They get together with other elementary schools in the county to perform. Check out the performance below! Thanks to Mrs. McHenry for practicing with them and leading them!

Hunter Burnette

Ali Holland

Annabelle Ledford

Madeline Leis

Brysen Mackey

Peyton Messer

Bria Rhodarmer

Mirandah Roe

Linley Trull

Haylee Barton

Isabella Maldonaldo

Maeya Reed

Barrett Shepard

Libby Watson

Lila Murray

Betha Murray

Several of you have asked about our SRO Officer, Officer Jenn. She sustained a knee injury and is currently waiting on MRI results to see if she is facing an upcoming surgery. She has been greatly missed and we are hoping to have her back later this school year, but it will just depend on her results. In the meantime, you will see various Sheriff's Dept. deputies and officers that are filling in. If your child would like to make Officer Jenn a get well card, I will be happy to deliver those to her! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers for her as she is healing!

Several parents have asked how they can help in these weeks leading up to Spring Break. The students are tired, the teachers are tired, and families...we know you are tired as well! PTO is offering duty free lunch this week to our teachers on Thursday. This is such a treat for our teachers that sit and eat with students every day, sometimes only getting 15 minutes to eat, because they are trying to get their students settled. If you can help with this on Thursday, please sign up on the Sign up Genius below! Thanks in advance!!

We have had some great applicants and are in the process of hiring new employees for after school. We feel like this will be the last week for after school to be closed on Tuesday and Thursday. Thanks for your patience and understanding as we stay in compliance and do what is best for our students with numbers. We appreciate your support!

Fifth graders will be taking their practice science test on Tuesday, April 1st. Please make sure they are here on this day and have had breakfast at home or at school. If your child was sick or missed their test last week, they will make it up on Wednesday, April 2nd.

This Thursday, PTO has set up a day for teachers to have duty free lunch! Please sign up below if you are able to help with this event!!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4CACAD23A0FDC61-55987852-duty#/

We hope you will join us from 5:30-7:00 pm on Thursday, April 3rd for our STEM Night!

It's a drop in event where students will travel around the school and complete experiments and fun science activities. All students that complete 5 of the activities will get a goody bag filled with treats and a science activity to take home, not to mention a homework pass! Hope to see you there!

We are very excited about our Career Day this coming Friday!! Thanks to the volunteers that will be sharing their expertise with our students!

We hope everyone has a restful and wonderful Spring Break!!

Excitement is building for our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair! It will be the week of April 21-25, 2025. Look for more information soon! If you would like to be a Book Fair Volunteer, visit this link to sign up for a day and time: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B45ABAE28A2FCC07-55928007-spring

• Trying hard: Striving is about putting in a lot of effort and dedication to reach a goal or accomplish something. We are encouraging your children to strive to be their best each day!!

Our 3rd Annual Spring Fling will be here before we know it!! Below you will see the flyer that can be used to purchase tickets, along with the document that shows the items that each grade level will be collecting for our basket raffle. Thanks for all your support!

We will be having our annual Kids Heart Challenge event on April 22nd and students will be taking home information following. Students have the option of raising money for the American Heart Association. More info to come!

April 3 PTO Meeting at 8:30 am

April 3 STEM Night

April 4 Career Day

April 8- 2nd Grade music program

April 11- Early Dismissal Day- 12:30 pm

April 14-18- Spring Break

April 20 Easter

April 21-25 Book Fair

May 2 Spring Fling

May 5-9- MClass Assessments

May 16-May 30- EOG testing and K-2 math assessments

May 30- Last day of school

Email: awatson@haywood.k12.nc.us
BES: 828-646-3448

Cell: 828-226-3128