Papa Johns' &
Zaxby's Night
CES has Papa John’s Night the first Thursday of each month and Zaxby’s Night on the third Tuesday of each month. On each of these nights, a percentage of the restaurant’s profits are donated to our school. Please come and join us on these nights! We appreciate your support!
Annual SIC Clean Up Day
The School Improvement Council is calling all Mom's and Dad's who enjoy yard work. We are going to have our annual SIC clean up day on Thursday, September 2 from 6:00 - 7:30. Please bring your tools and come help us get our school grounds in shape. We look forward to seeing you!
Code Red!
On Thursday, September 9 from 6 - 7:00 please come and join our school for a CODE RED (Read Every Day) event. You will have a chance to enjoy some food, fun, and entertainment. We are excited about reading and can't wait to share with you our CODE RED initiative for this school year.
CEP/PTO Fall Fundraiser
On Friday, September 10, CES students will be bringing home a packet of information, including catalogs, for our fall fund raiser. Orders will be due back by Tuesday, September 21. Funds raised will go toward our Leveled Text Libraries. We really appreciate everyone who helps with this program.
Grandparents' Lunches
Grandparents’ lunchs will be held the week of September 20-24. The schedule for each grade is listed on the calendar on page 1. Please be sure to sign up ahead of time when the information comes home. Thank you.
Progress Reports
Camden Elementary School teachers send home progress reports every three weeks to help keep parents better informed. Therefore, we will not send home Interim Reports in the middle of the nine week period.
How would you like to help our school earn free books? We are starting a program by SunnyD that will let you do just that. Its called SunnyD Book Spree, and the program will donate 20 books to each class that sends in at least 20 SunnyD UPC labels. The program will also award hundreds of books to the 10 schools that collect the most labels.
Please help us get our books!
Save SunnyD UPC labels, and send them in to your child's classroom. We will collect and mail them to the program for our free books. Please also ask family and friends to collect labels, too - because once we have earned 20 books for our classrooms, we can start collecting for the big prizes. Hundreds of new books in our school library would be wonderful!
For more information, go to
SunnyD.com/bookspree. You can even track our school's progress and see how many labels we have submitted.
Thanks in advance for helping all of our kids shine in school!
Kohl's Cares for Schools
Please vote for Camden Elementary School of the Creative Arts, Kershaw 01 at www.facebook.com/kohls. It is a great opportunity for our school to win $500,000. Everyone can vote five times.
You can also help by asking your friends and family to vote for us, too!
Thanks for all of your support!
PBIS
This year, our school wide behavior policy has changed. Since Kershaw County School District received the SAFE Schools Healthy Students Grant, we are able to have a district wide behavior process titled PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Support. We will begin this process this school year.
Our School Expectations are
Be a WISE Owl:
W-Work Responsibly
I-Involve Safety
S-Show Respect
E-Encourage Others
We hope that you will discuss these expectations with your child. Help them follow these expectations at home and at school. We are looking forward to a Positive School Year with our WISE owls.
Cafeteria News
Beginning Monday August 30 if your child owes $12.00 on their cafeteria account, they will receive an alternative meal. The alternative breakfast will be cheese toast and milk, and the alternative lunch will be a cheese sandwich and milk.
Mrs. Lynn Matthews is the CES Teacher of the Year for 2009/2010. We are so proud of her!
To share more about this wonderful teacher, we have posted a profile of her on our website. Please click the picture below or look to the left under the tab "About Our School."
Check it out!
New Podcasts and Blogs
In an effort to keep more informed, Mr. Yount will now be doing a weekly Podcast. We plan to post each Friday with upcoming information about the week ahead. You will be able to locate the podcast by going to yount.podbean.com or by clicking the link above his column on the school website, ces.kcsdschools.com.
Also, Mrs. Goodwin and Mr. Yount both have created a blog. The blogs can be found by going to the school website at ces.kcsdschools.com, then clicking on Blogs on the upper left hand side of the page. We hope you will visit these resources often or subscribe.
Goodwin's Grapevine
It is the beginning of another school year. This is always such an exciting time. I enjoy seeing the new faces and getting back into the school routine. We have been off to a busy start, and I'm sure we will have a year filled with endless learning opportunities.
I have the privilege of working with our school's improvement council that consists of a dynamic group of parents, teachers and community members, We ensure that the SACS plan is followed and that the yearly activities are aligned with the school goals. This year we have some new members and officers.
Camden Elementary School SIC
Tracey West- Co-Chair; Camisha Williams - Co-Chair, Tripp Montgomery - Secretary, Rose Sheheen - Community Member, Barbara Bunch, Trey Setzer, Charlie Chandler, Beth Warnock, Trudy Ranges, Darryl Drakeford
Thank you SIC for all that you do.