In an effort to save money and the budget, the Santa Rosa school board implemented a hiring freeze last November, replacing only what the superintendent deems essential personnel for the 2012-2013 school year.
Seventh grader Noah O’Connor has always been a straight–A student. But the 13-year-old said he studies hard for his high scores and “takes school seriously.”
The classrooms at Holley-Navarre Intermediate School were turned into a tropical island of fun last week as students practiced their reading comprehension, storytelling and other keys of literacy at the Literacy Luau Night.
Volunteers from the Santa Rosa County Master Gardeners visited Woodlawn Middle School on April 25. While there, the gardeners demonstrated the use of their Garden Mosaic process to identify plants.
Seventeen-year-old Christina Adamyk spent two weeks researching the intricacies of the snow goose. She said she was awed by the beautiful simplicity of the bird and tried to capture the myriad subtlety of colors encompassed by the white feathers.
Two teams from Holley-Navarre Intermediate’s Odyssey of the Mind advanced to the state competition at the University of South Florida in Orlando on April 6.
Seventh-grade student John Finelli races against the clock to craft a Boomilever crane from balsa wood to create the lightest crane that can hold the most sand.
