Superintendent Update
St. Landry Parish School Board
May 8, 2017
Upcoming Events
High School Graduation - May 19, 2017
MACA – 6:00 School Gymnasium
OHS – 6:30 School Gymnasium
EUNICE – 6:30 EHS Auditorium
BEAU CHENE – 6:00 School
NORTHWEST – 6:00 School
PORT BARRE – 6:00 School Gymnasium
NORTH CENTRAL – 6:00 School
Message from Superintendent Jenkins
Around Campus
Beau Chene High
Eunice High School
We started a new program this week. Since it is the seniors last week, if they turned in a gently used uniform, we are allowing them to have free dress this week. We got a tremendous response. We will use these uniforms for students next year who can't afford them. We have good kids that welcomed the idea of donating their uniforms to others.
Highland Elementary
Highland Elementary honored their administrative assistant, Keila Keith, on her special day to express how wonderful she is with a t-shirt that describes her just perfectly.
MACA
Congratulations to the Woman’s Choir of Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts for getting all superior ratings at the state competition.
MACA’s Second Annual History Day Project: Students were in costume and character all day and presented their historical figures, topics, or events to their classmates.
Maca History Day Period 3 – Junior High Students
Congratulations to the band of Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts for winning the State Concert Band Sweepstakes trophy. The band got all superior ratings.
Northwest High School
Opelousas High School
A Modern Chaucerian Senior Project
The AP English IV/Dual Enrollment class of Opelousas High School completed one of its many senior projects by doing a reproduction of Geoffrey Chaucer’s, Canterbury Tales Pilgrimage. Just as Chaucer crafted a portrait gallery of Medieval society during the 1300s, the class presented a modern day pilgrimage depicting modern personalities dressed in medieval attire. The students assumed the role of Chaucer’s objective narrator and wrote in his comparable heroic couplets, a prologue entry of the personalities they represented. As they journeyed around the streets near OHS, they enjoyed reading often witty, colorful banter of their character’s speeches. Modern personalities represented included El Chapo, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dog, Lana Delrey, Casey Anthony, Mac Miller, Ray Rice, 21 Savage Miley Cyrus and Donald Trump. The students added their original and creative written work to Chaucer’s 17,000 lines of vivid poetry that still resonate and entertain modern readers six centuries later.
Park Vista Elementary
South Street Elementary
4-H achievement day results
5th Grader LaTia Taylor received Second in horticulture
6th grader Jaylin Jackson third in musical instruments, First in outdoor skills, and Second in discovering 4-H
Sunset Middle School
Congratulations to the following 4-H members competing and earning awards on Saturday, April 29th at Achievement Day at Opelousas High School.
Marissa Howard – 3rd place – Ready to Wear
Emma Zuniga and Jenifey Torres – 2nd place – Dance
Christen Parke – 1st place – Ready to Wear
3rd place – Poster Contest
3rd place - Outdoor Skills
Kendal Briscoe - 1st place - Pet Care
3rd place – Public Speaking
2nd place – Job Interview
2nd place – Ready to Wear
District Wide Events
Mrs. Pat Mason-Guillory
Leader In Me Comes to St. Landry Parish Schools
School Nurse Day
May 10, 2017, marks School Nurse Day. Please recognize the school nurses of the St. Landry Parish School Board for their vital role in the educational process and the health and well-being of school children throughout the parish. School nurses manage and provide care to students with chronic health problems (e.g., diabetes, asthma, tube-feeding, and catheterization). School nurses deal with complex medical and social issues to thousands of students, often moving from school to school throughout the district. For some students, school nurses are the only health care professionals they ever see.
Kneeling from left to right: Kimberly Bellon, RN, Vanessa Hulin, RN, & Michelle Savoie, RN
2nd Row: Rosalyn Baty, RN, Carolyn Keating, RN, Connie Pousson, RN, Lisa Guillory, RN, & Tharvasha Davison, RN
3rd Row: Sylvia Brown, RN, Callie Schouest, RN, Monica Murdock, RN, Amy Soileau, RN, & Ellen Stagg, RN
Not Pictured: Nichole Miller, RN