Youth and the Arts, sponsored by the Arts Council will take place at Swain Auditorium on March 23rd.  Please come out and support DF Walker students who will be performing.  There will  be about 100 students representing dance, music, and art.  Art work will be hung in the gallery to be viewed after the performance.   Music students will perform opera scenes that they wrote.  Dance students will be performing a German folk dance called the D'Hammerschmiedgselln.  The performance will start at 12:30 PM, March 23rd, and last approximately 1 hour with a reception and art show to follow.  We'll see you there! 

Please join me in congratulating Mrs. Brenda Coston, a teacher assistant here at D. F. Walker Elementary School.  She was named the District I Teacher Assistant of the Year at the North Carolina Association of Teacher Assistants district meeting held in Williamston on February 13, 2010. Mrs. Coston was nominated by her peers competing with teacher assistants from 15 counties in the Northeast. She will advance to compete with other teacher assistants from across the state for the honor of State Teacher Assistant of the Year on February 27, 2010 in Greensboro, NC. The State winner will be announced in April. 

In an effort to help UMCOR (The United Methodist Committee on Relief), students and staff at D.F. Walker Elementary School set a goal to collect items to fill 100 health kits to help victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.  They not only met their goal of 100 health kits but also raised $537.00.  UMCOR is a non-profit global humanitarian aid organization that works around the globe to alleviate human suffering due to natural disaster, war or conflict.     

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Mike Artell, an award-winning author, illustrator, TV cartoonist, conference speaker, musician and humorist will be at DF Walker on Tuesday, January 26 to speak with students and staff about his work.  Students can purchase books from the media center to have personally autographed by Mr. Artell.  Books can be purchased for $11.55.  Please make checks out to DF Walker Elementary School.  

DFW has been selected as a Model School in the NC PBS program!  We have been recognized because we have demonstrated excellent results of our school staff, students, and parents working together to use school data to implement research-based practices and to develop supportive systems to teach all the students new behaviors.

Wow! What a great turnout we had at our WatchD.O.G.S. kick-off event. Eighty-six father-figures were here to enjoy pizza and to find out more information about our WatchD.O.G.S. program. Mr. Wynn, granddad to Brady, was our guest speaker. As ...a WatchD.O.G., he encouraged all dads, granddads, stepfathers, and uncles to spend one day this school year at school.

Many of the "dads" signed up. If you were unable to attend and would like to participate, please contact Deputy Mike Lamirand at school.