Education Archive

Holley Navarre Intermediate School students celebrated the end of the school year with an art show May 22. From about 800 students, 300 artists were chosen to receive a blue ribbon for excellence in art.

The entrance to West Navarre Intermediate School had an extreme makeover last week. Students painted ceiling tiles in bright colors to replace the plain white squares at the entrance to the school. The ceiling tiles are a lasting tribute to the random kindness 62 students showed their communities.

Florida’s top school board, the State Board of Education, met May 20 in Santa Rosa County. The meeting was held in Milton at the Santa Rosa County School Board Office.

Navarre High School senior and disc jockey Robert Rushing played his biggest gig yet at a show he will most likely remember for years after high school.

A 2007 Navarre High School alum and graduate student at the University of Kentucky has been awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship of up to $30,000 to study Russian in Irkutsk and Vladivostok, Russia. Cassidy Henry was one of 106 graduate student award winners selected nationwide.

The floors at West Navarre Primary School will soon be covered with new carpet after most of the classrooms were flood damaged from April’s storm. But before that, students got the chance to leave permanent autographs to be remembered by future generations.

Fla. Gov. Rick Scott during a Florida Cabinet meeting May 13 recognized nine outstanding educators for their contributions to learning, and Holley-Navarre Intermediate  teacher Danielle Clark was one of them. Each teacher was presented with the Governor’s Shine Award.

Seven West Navarre Intermediate students will be advancing to the 2014 4-H/Tropicana Public Speaking Contest this week for their innovative speeches on topics including imagination, following your dreams and the earth.

Corrina Nelson, a fourth-grade teacher at West Navarre Intermediate, has been named the 2014 Rookie of the Year. Fellow teachers nominate a rookie each year, and the winners from each of the district’s 33 public schools are up for the top honor, ultimately selected by the Santa Rosa Education Foundation.

Proud parents were at Navarre High School April 29 to recognize graduating seniors and bright students who were inducted into the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.