📢 Attention Parents 📢
🗓️ Mark your calendars! 🗓️
We want to remind all parents that on Monday, April 8th, we will be releasing school early at 12:45 PM due to the total solar eclipse happening later that day. This is the first day back to school after spring break.
There will be NO AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM this day. Please let us know how your child will get home.
If your child will be riding the bus that day, it is important to ensure that someone is present at the bus stop to pick up your child by 1:15 PM.
Pickups will begin at 12:45 and will be in the loop like usual.
If there are any changes to your child's usual transportation arrangements, please notify the office at Cartmell prior to 11:30 on April 8th by sending an email to cartbuspass@carroll.kyschools.us. If you already know, please feel free to send your email now.
If there is no change in your child's transportation for this day, you do not have to do anything.
Thank you for your cooperation and assistance in ensuring the safety and smooth transition of our students! 🚌👨👩👧👦
The Strategic Plan Steering Committee yesterday worked on determining the core values for Carroll County Schools. Our community members added their thoughts during a Town Hall last night. Please continue to participate in this process and give your input!
An impactful and informative seminar on vaping will be held on April 18. Students at each school will participate and there is a parent academy as well. Watch our social media and websites for more information!
Members of the Carroll County High School FFA Chapter celebrated Ag Day by reading to students at Kathryn Winn Primary and Cartmell Elementary.
They read a book about bugs and set up butterfly grow kits with children at Kathryn Winn. The group also read a book about greenhouses and set up window sill greenhouses filled with items planted by Cartmell Elementary students. The books and kits were donated by the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation.
The FFA members include Kaitlyn Wilson, Matthew Biggin, Navaeh Crawford, Brayden Stewart, Houston Parker, Lacie Gross, Madi Groves, Skyler Robbins, Andrea Cotero, Keagan Hatton, Gage Stone, Johnny Scherder, Brooklyn Brewer, Macy Coghill, Macyn Walters, Luke Taylor, Jaslyn Walker, Zayn Satchwell, Jackson Kyle, Landon Warren, Patrick Parker, Rileigh Darnold, Kaden Dukes, Kaseton Tilley and Coy Willhoite.
Our Town Hall is today! Please join us at 6 p.m. for an opportunity to share in the vision and mission for Carroll County Schools. All are welcome!
Tomorrow is our Town Hall! Please join us to talk about the future goals for Carroll County Schools. We look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts!
Please join us next week for a Town Hall meeting to provide input to help determine the district's priorities. All voices are valuable! All are welcome to attend!
School will not be in session tomorrow, Friday, March 15. It is a teacher work day. We look forward to seeing our students on Monday, March 18.
Cartmell Elementary teacher Laura Pirtle’s innovative strategies teaching iReady math to her second graders earned her recognition recently.
Each month, curriculum associates conducts a drawing across the state to select which teachers to recognize. Principal Brandi Wells and Instructional Coach Michele Long surprised her with the certificate, candy and a card recently.
Please join us for a Town Hall meeting to discuss the vision and goals for Carroll County Schools. This will be used to write a Strategic Plan for the district's future. We value your opinion!
This week we celebrate our school social workers during National School Social Worker Week. Thank you for all you do!
Cartmell Elementary School Resource Officer Laman Stark, or Officer Pop as he is known at school, spoke to a classroom recently about safety and personal belongings.
Fourth grade students from Cartmell Elementary School recently took a tour of the Kentucky Utilities Ghent generating station.
Fourth grade students at Cartmell Elementary learned about stored energy by using rubber bands and toy cars. They are in Jessica Butcher's class.
The Animal Savers completed their supply drive at Cartmell Elementary and got to visit some puppies from the Carroll County Animal Shelter recently.
Animal Savers is part of the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) at Cartmell. In total, they collected 383 items for the shelter, which is 111 more items than last year. Their donations filled the shelter's van three times.
They are going to present this project at STLP State on March 27 in Lexington!
Today we celebrate our maintenance team. Thank you for your hard work!
Carroll County Schools Superintendent Casey Jaynes shared information today on the proposed state budget and how that money is used in the district, dreams for future facilities and an update on the Strategic Plan. Watch our social media for the next Coffee With Casey!
Carroll County Schools is in the process of determining priorities for a science instructional resource. We are surveying students, science teachers, and families. Your feedback is valuable to the committee as they work to determine the priorities in the science instructional resource.
Please complete the survey at your earliest convenience by clicking on the English https://forms.gle/9pqZ5HrYhBTuR7cw6
or Spanish https://forms.gle/NpPKWW41uR6ezanH9 survey.
The survey will close on March 1st.
Staff, students and community members are continuing to work on development of a strategic plan, which will set the course for Carroll County Schools for the next 5 to 10 years. The next Town Hall is at 6 p.m. on March 19. Join us for this important discussion!
Staff, students and community members are continuing to work on development of a strategic plan, which will set the course for Carroll County Schools for the next 5 to 10 years. The next Town Hall is at 6 p.m. on March 19. Join us for this important discussion!
