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abilities. Seventeen out of
twenty-seven
participants
received awards for online
testing and the team earned a
team champion award for
finishing in the top 10th
percentile for students that
competed globally.
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When I Grow Up Add It Up
In preparation for TN
Ready testing, third grade
students
at
Arlington
Elementary participated in
special activities each day
including “Aspire
Day”
above).
Students
were
encouraged to dress up
according to each of their
aspiring careers.. Fourth and fifth grade
students
at
Arlington
Elementary School, led by
Mrs. Virginia Tomlinson,
recently competed in a
Perennial Math tournament.
(below). Students worked as
individuals and groups to
showcase their mathematical
talents and problem-solving
Donelson
Elementary
participated in Purple Up! Day
to show its support for military
kids on April 13th. Above,
right: Military child, Mia Gee,
from Mrs. David’s class points
to her contribution to a
hallway display on “Being a
Military Child…” (hint: she
thinks it’s “great!”).
Inspiring Grandpa
Mrs. Booth’s 2nd grade
class had a very special
briarcrest
christian
visitor, who was also the
grandfather of one of the
students.
On October 27, 2017,
Dale Sanders (below, right),
Isaiah’s
grandfather,
completed his thru-hike of
the entire Appalachian Trail.
In doing so, Sanders
becomes the oldest man at
age 82 to hike all 2100+
miles in one calendar year .
Briarcrest
Christian
School
eighth grade
student,
Taylor
Kearbey,
has
qualified to
be in the Scripps National Spelling
Bee this spring in Washington,
DC. The Bee is the nation’s largest
and longest-running educational
promotion, administered on a not-for
-profit basis by The E.W. Scripps
Company and 291 sponsors in the
United States, Europe, Canada, New
Zealand, Guam, Jamaica, The
Bahamas, Ghana, Puerto Rico, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, and American
Samoa. She is the daughter of Tara
and Jeff Kearbey of Lakeland.
Taylor won the school spelling
bee in November. This win allowed
her, along with other school winners
from West and Middle Tennessee, to
take an online spelling and
vocabulary test given by Scripps.
The top 70 spellers from this test
then competed in the Tennessee
Titans
Regional
Spelling
Bee.
Taylor advanced to the
Regional Spelling Bee in Nashville
in March. She placed in the top 26.
Bee Week 2018 will take place
from May 27 to June 1.
Photo Courtesy of BCS