NEW SCHOOL VISION

Every AC Moore student will enter middle school reading at or above grade level.

NEW SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT

We collaboratively empower students to be accountable and successful.

STAFF CORE VALUES

Passion: Embracing and nurturing our school community

Intentionality: Purposeful, Present, & Prepared

Accountability: Growth Over Ego

Student Pillars of Leadership: PreK - 2

Respect

Cooperation

Community

Responsible

Self-Control

Caring

Trustworthy

Student Pillars of Leadership: 3rd - 5th

Respect

Collaboration

Citizenship

Responsible

Self-Discipline

Empathy

Integrity

• March 1-30............................................................Women's History Month

• Saturday, March 19................................................St. Patty's Day Parade
  

• Monday, March 21-25............................................Special Olympics Unified Champion School, Unified Spirit Week

• Tuesday, March 22.................................................End of the 3rd Nine Weeks

• Friday, March 25....................................................Teacher Workday

• Tuesday, March 29.................................................Report Cards Issued

• Friday, April 1........................................................Early Release for Students, Parent Teacher Conferences
  

• Monday-Monday, April 11-18................................Spring Break

• Saturday, April 30..................................................Bobcat Benefit

There once was a time that women were not allowed to play team sports, officially anyway. After all, it wasn’t very ladylike. And, believe it or not, women were once considered “too fragile” to run the distance of a marathon. Thankfully, times have changed – in a big way. We now see women competing in virtually every sport, and taking top honors, too.

Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach, who is currently the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Staley is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, winning three as a player and one as head coach. Staley was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics.

After playing point guard for the University of Virginia under Debbie Ryan, and winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, she went to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA. In 2011, Staley was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. Staley was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012 and later elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

While still a WNBA player, she started coaching the Temple University Owls women's basketball team in 2000. In eight years at Temple, she led the program to six NCAA tournaments, three regular season conference championships, and four conference tournament titles. On May 7, 2008, she was named head coach for women's basketball at the University of South Carolina.

Staley built South Carolina from the ground up, over the following six seasons, she improved her program's record every year, culminated by winning the SEC in 2013–2014. In late 2014 her team achieved the program's first #1 ranking, making her only the second individual to both play on and coach a #1 ranked team. Staley has gone on to lead South Carolina to five SEC regular season championships, six SEC tournament championships, seven Sweet Sixteens, three Final Fours, and on April 2, 2017, she guided the South Carolina Gamecocks to the program's first NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship.

On April 2, 2020, Staley became the first person to win the Naismith Award as a player, and also as a coach. She also won the other three major National Coach of the Year awards, after she led her team to a 32 win season and a final ranking of #1 in both major polls, before the Tournament was cancelled.

Staley served as the United States women's national team head coach from 2017–2021, finishing with a perfect 45–0 record, before returning full time to South Carolina. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Staley won her first gold medal as head coach for Team USA, and fourth overall, winning all six games. Her South Carolina team finished the 2021-22 regular season with a record of 29-2, the top-ranked team in the country entering the NCAA tournament.

Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American sabre fencer and member of the United States fencing team. She is known for being the first Muslim American woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics, as well as for winning an Olympic medal (bronze) wearing it. Ibtihaj is a prominent advocate for Muslim women in sport, having emerged during a turbulent time for American political discourse.

The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics represented an event of first for Muhammad. She became the first Muslim American woman to wear a hijab while competing in Brazil, plus her Team Sabre bronze made her the United States’ first female Muslim-American athlete to earn a medal at the Games. These successes gained extra resonance as they occurred during a US Presidential campaign during which, then candidate, Donald Trump advocated for a Muslim travel ban.

Beyond the Games, the 37-year-old’s message has continued to resonate. As a sports ambassador, she serving on the U.S. Department of State’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sport Initiative. A pair of books have been penned by her and Mattel introduced a Barbie in 2017 in a hijab that was designed after Muhammad. Additionally, she was chosen as one of the faces to launch the Nike Pro Hijab when it went on sale in the USA and also helped test the product before it went on sale.

Muhammad and her siblings launched their own clothing company, Louella, in 2014 which aims to bring modest fashionable clothing to the US market. Both of her parents were born in the United States and later converted to Islam.

People love to have debates about who is the greatest of all time in any given sport, and in women’s swimming, Ledecky is operating at a different level compared to her competition. The Washington native has 14 world records, 14 world championship gold medals and five Olympic gold medals by the age of 21. In fact, she has blazed an incredible trail for young swimmers around the world with her industrious, upbeat and carefree attitude, which also reminds us not to take life too seriously.

Since her international debut as a 15-year-old at the 2012 Olympics, Ledecky has gone on to swim so far ahead of the field, it’s as if she is in her own pool these days. The American holds the world’s eight fastest times in the 1,500-metre freestyle and has shattered her own records in 400m, 800m and 1,500m distances by astonishing margins. In the Tokyo Olympics, Ledecky won two gold medals and two silver medals, making her the most decorated U.S. female athlete for a second straight Summer Olympics. Michael Phelps may be the marquee name in American swimming history, but Ledecky could potentially soar beyond that.

She has won 38 medals (30 golds, 7 silvers, and 1 bronze) in major international competitions, including the Olympics, World Championships, and Pan Pacific Championships and holds the record for most individual gold medals (11) and overall gold medals (15) at the World Aquatics Championships. She is the youngest woman ever to be inducted into Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame and Washington DC Sports Hall of Fame.

Dear A.C. Moore Families,

I have great news for those of you who have not yet ordered your FREE Smart thermometer through the FLUency school health program. We have received a thermometer donation from Lysol and Kinsa that enables me to provide them to many of our staff members and families directly! They are on a first-come-first-served basis, so call or email me ASAP and I will send one home with your child (1 per family).

For those of you who have already received your thermometer, please activate it and join the A.C. Moore community. The mobile app is like having a nurse in your pocket, and the more of us that use it the more effective it will be!

Please let me know if you have any questions, and please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!

Jennifer Robinson, RN

School Nurse

803-929-3886

jennifer.robinson2@richlandone.org

The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is now available for children age 5 and older! To schedule an appointment for your child to receive the vaccine, please visit the DHEC Vaccine Locator site or call your healthcare provider.

A special thank you to our PTO Volunteers for helping to supervise the St. Patty's Day Dance!

If you’ve missed or delayed routine checkups, you’re not alone: One in five adults in the U.S. reports putting off their healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Take a moment to sign the Make Way for Better Pledge and receive a personalized health checklist and helpful screening information.

For each pledge signed, Labcorp will make a donation to Healthier Generation to sustain our work to ensure every mind, every body, every young person is healthy and ready to succeed.

If you have not placed your order for 4 free rapid COVID-19 test kits through the government at the following website www.covidtests.gov, please do so today! Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests. Orders will usually ship in 7-12 days.

Dates and Times

Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30

Further Information

• Limited quantity of SELF-ADMINISTERED COVID RAPID ANTIGEN TEST KITS available
• Self-Administered COVID-19 PCR Test Kits are also available
• Call ahead for availability