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

• Wednesday, March 9..............................................Secret Garden Clean-up
• Tuesday, March 15.................................................Book Cover Contest Deadline (details in Parent and Family Engagement section below)
• Thursday, March 17...............................................Picture Day

• Friday, March 18....................................................St. Patty's Dance Party

• 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

During field day last year, each student was asked to create a t-shirt design for the 2022 field day t-shirt. Mrs. Whetstone would like to thank all the Bobcats for their amazing artwork. It was a difficult choice, but the design committee selected three designs for honorable mention and one winning design for this year's t-shirt. Honorable mention recognition goes to:

The winning artist and highest recognition for the 2022 field day t-shirts design goes to 5th grader, Eli Simmons. Congratulations, Eli, for creating our field day t-shirt.

Take a look at how our Bobcats celebrated Read Across America Week! A special thank you to our Media Specialist, Jessica Warren for coordinating a fun-filled week of reading activities for our students!

Thank you for your continued support of our Bobcat Family!

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The 2022 Women’s History theme, “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.

Women as healers harken back to ancient times. Healing is the personal experience of transcending suffering and transforming it to wholeness. The gift of hope spreads light to the lives of others and reflects a belief in the unlimited possibilities of this and future generations. Together, healing and hope are essential fuels for our dreams and our recovery.

This year, in particular, we are reminded of the importance of healers and caregivers who are helping to promote and sustain hope for the future. The NWHA encourages communities throughout the country to honor local women who bring and have historically brought these priceless gifts to their families, workplaces, and neighborhoods, sometimes at great sacrifice. These are the women who, as counselors and clerics, artists and teachers, doctors, nurses, mothers, and grandmothers listen, ease suffering, restore dignity, and make decisions for our general as well as our personal welfare.

Women have long advocated for compassionate treatments and new directions in public health and in women’s mental and physical health. Women have also historically led the way in mending divisions, healing wounds, and finding peaceful solutions. This timeless work, in so many ways and in addition to so many other tasks, has helped countless individuals in our communities recover and follow their dreams.

The 2022 theme proudly honors those who, in both public and private life, provide healing and promote hope for the betterment of all.

Mia comes from a family that’s run a small business in Bennettsville for over 100 years. Her small town roots have kept her in tune with the challenges that families and businesses face every day, and has given her the perspective to bring people from all walks of life together to get things done. She is running for Governor so that South Carolina can be a place that is full of opportunity. If McLeod wins the election, she would become South Carolina’s second female governor and become the first Black governor in the state elected to this office.

Mia has shown leadership in and outside of government. With 18 years as an entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of her own company, she has also served as a college educator, the state’s top victim advocate and has a distinguished career serving the people of SC in the legislative and executive branches. She has worked with Attorneys General and Governors to take on South Carolina’s crisis of domestic violence by developing the state’s first protocols and curricula for law enforcement, solicitors, judges and victim advocates, using a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to training and implementation. While leading the state’s Crime Victim Compensation Program, the Program received national accolades for its innovative expansion of services and access to rural, underserved communities and was used as a model for other states.

She has won multiple high-profile, competitive races for State Representative and State Senate (the latest by more than 24 points), in which she became the first woman and first African-American to win her Senate seat. She is a Liberty Fellow, SC Education Policy Fellow and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Nikki Haley is a diplomat and politician who served as the 116th and first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations for two years, from January 2017 to January 2019.

Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, and earned an accounting degree from Clemson University. She joined her family's clothing business, before serving as treasurer and president of the National Association of Women Business Owners. First elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004, she served three terms. In 2010, during her third term, she was elected governor of South Carolina, and she won re-election in 2014. Haley was the first female governor of South Carolina, the youngest governor in the country and the second governor of Indian descent. She was the first female Asian American governor, and in 2017 became the first Indian American in a presidential cabinet.

Born in 1954 in Lake City, South Carolina, Darla Moore made her way from her family’s tobacco, soybean and cotton farm all the way to Wall Street.

The University of South Carolina graduate was the vice president of Rainwater Inc., an investment company until 2012. Moore is also the founder and chair of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit thinktank that strives to raise income across South Carolina. In 1997, she was the first woman to be profiled on the cover of Fortune magazine and was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business.

Moore has served on numerous corporate boards, including JP Morgan’s national advisory board. She has also served on the University of South Carolina’s board of trustees and the New York University Medical School and Hospital’s board of trustees.

Moore currently serves on the National Teach for America board of directors and the Culture Shed board. The University of South Carolina business school is named after Moore, the first business school in the country named for a woman. Recently, she’s moved back to Lake City part time.

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.

In honor of National Nutrition Month, Healthier Generation and their friends at That's it. want to help you put your best fruit forward. The colorful quiz, budget-friendly buyer's guide, and easy-to-use resources will help you and your family discover and enjoy fruit all year round.

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

• **SELF ADMINISTERED COVID-19 Saliva Test Kits ONLY**
• Pick up during normal business hours
• No appointment needed

Dates and Times

Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM

Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Address

2600 Bull St, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, United States

Further Information

• Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are now available at this testing site.
• Preregistration is highly recommended, but not required.
• You can register for a vaccination appointment at https://www.impacthealth.com/scc19vaccine
• Wait times at all sites vary and patients are seen in the order that they arrive.
• Pre-registration will help to reduce your wait time at the site.