Congrats!!!

 

Jacob Cullens

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​The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public School District is honored to have a student selected to participate in the 2017 North Carolina Governor’s School.  Jacob Cullens of Northeastern High School is among the 600 rising high school juniors and seniors statewide selected to attend the five-week summer program for academically or intellectually gifted students.  Cullens is the son of Barry and Missy Cullens. 

Students selected for Governor’s School were nominated in one of 10 curriculum areas. Cullens was nominated in Natural Science. The Governor's School curriculum focuses on the exploration of the most recent ideas and concepts in each discipline, and does not involve credit, tests or grades. The 2017 session begins on June 18^th and will conclude on July 26^th.

Cullens feels that Governor’s School will give him an opportunity to spread his wings and realize new experiences.  He expressed his desire to meet new people and to participate in classes with like-minded students.  He wants to continue his education after high school with the United States Naval Academy and will have an opportunity to attend their summer session for a week, just prior to leaving for Governor’s School. 

When asked how ECPPS has helped to prepare him for the Governor’s School experience, Cullens shared that his Honors and AP English classes as well as participation in FFA and being a leader in band have all prepared him greatly for this new challenge.  He is appreciative of being selected for this awesome opportunity and feels that it will lead him one step closer to his goals beyond high school. 

The Governor’s School of North Carolina, founded in 1963 by former Governor Terry Sanford, is the oldest statewide summer residential program for academically or intellectually gifted high school students in the nation. The program is located on two campuses: Governor’s School West at Salem College in Winston-Salem and Governor’s School East at Meredith College in Raleigh. Cullens will be attending the East campus. More information about Governor’s School is available at www.ncgovschool.org.

Softball

The albemarle colts will be playing Pungo on April 15th thursday of this week. Also its Laurie Cartwrights birthday!!!

submitted by: Shelby Erps

Field Day

Field day for grades K-5 is coming up on May 14th. Parents of the kids usually come and watch so come and watch your kids have a great day.

submitted by: Amanda Lane

From Mr. Stallings

April 12, 2010,

Dear Parent/Guardians:

Thanks to all the parents who came out and supported Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. We had plenty of good food and lots of laughs. The K-2 teachers made over $300.00 to purchase books for their classrooms
Thanks to all that supported our annual Toy and Tractor Show on April 9th and 10th. It was well attended and enjoyed by all .There was a lot of interesting toys and tractors for viewing.
April will be a short month with the Spring Break behind us. We hope you enjoyed your break, but we will be busy once we return to school. Our CAT tests, field trips, softball games and the TIC Tournament will make April go quickly.
We need to remind you that early registration for the 2010-2011 school year is until April 30th. This will save you $100.00 on registration.
We are currently taking registration for all K-5 students who need summer care beginning June 1st, 2010. You may pick up an application in the office.

CAT Testing

We hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe spring break. Now that we are back at school, we have a very busy week with CAT testing. Please be sure to get plenty of rest, eat a good breakfast, and bring at least two #2 pencils! Good luck everyone!

submitted by: Jenny Phillips

Computer

So recently on TV I've seen a lot of those "Is your PC running slowly? Buy this!" commercials. This saddens me for two reasons, one being that people actually buy this stuff, and two is that people don't even acknowledge the free options. First off, if your PC is running slowly chances are there's a better option than burning a pile of money on some useless software. It also doesn't mean you need to buy a new PC/hire tech help/throw it out of a window, it means you need to download AVG 9 Free, CCleaner, and Defraggler (The latter two are both made by Piriform). AVG 9 Free is your basic anti-virus/spy ware/malware/
what-have-you, it's just an all around effective tool. CCleaner is basically a Swiffer for your PC (but not a Swiffer Wet-Jet, those things are horrible), it cleans out registry errors old useless files, and temporary files. Defraggler on the other hand is a defragging tool and I know what you're thinking "But wait! Windows already has one of those!". Well you're right, it does, and Defraggler is a lot like the windows defragging tool except with around 183% less suck. It runs in around a two-thirds the time of the windows tool, and even has more options to customize how it runs. Just let these three do their job and your PC should be back to usual in no time.

submitted by: Hunter Harman