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B ‘Page 8A-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, August 13, 1992 West Elementary School opens this fall with brand new classrooms. Pictured is one of the regular-size class being readied for students who arrive at 8:15 a.m. Monday morning. New West School ready to go Students, parents and teachers = are excited about the newly reno- vated buildings at West Elementary -- School. Teachers have been unpacking and getting ready for fall all during the summer, said Principal Sherrill Toney. "This has been the most fun I've had in 20 years, working on the room," said kindergarten teacher Hilda Leonard. The pale yellow walls look 4 bright, sunny and happy. Toney said the main building is designed with 12 full-size class- rooms and two intermediate class- rooms for Resource and Chapter 1, Fifty percent of the student body * can fit into thé cafeteria at one time. Lunch will be self-serve or buffet style for the first time at West. The cafeteria also has a stage area for small performances. Toney said that letting children ‘off and picking them up after school has been made simpler and safer. Parents will drive down Goforth Street and drive through the back entrance of West to turn left or right onto Watterson Street. The gates to the driveway will be locked during the day from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., he said. Each classroom has 954 square feet. The kindergarten rooms are even larger. Each room has a storage and work room for the teachers. And phones may be installed in the fu- ture. In the center of the building is the office area and health room. . The media center and library have old shelving from West, and fea- tures a conference room for teach- ers and parents. The second building will house music, art, speech, Spanish, aca- demically gifted, a counselor and before and after school care. It in- cludes four classrooms and six of- fice spaces and a gym. " We've got it all covered," said Toney. % School Board advance September 27-29 School board members call their upcoming retreat appropriately "Advance." "We'll be doing some long-term planning and receiving updates on “current programs by school offi- cials," said Chairman Ronnie Hawkins, who said the board will meet in Boone for the fourth annu- al retreat on September 27-29. "A retreat gives us more time to discuss in-depth some of the things we're interested in seeing happen in the system because we're limited at regular board meetings," he said. Both Supt. Dr. Bob McRae and Associate Supt. Dr. Larry Allen said that uppermost in the minds of the board will be the dilemma of what to do about old Central. School, which now stands vacant since West School students moved to their new campus. Allen says the board will take a look at the plan- ning space, what decisions need to be made immediately about me- chanical, electrical and plumbing needs of the building, and whether to start upgrading it for the admin- istrative office staff to move in. This fall the system will auction the old Park Grace School proper- ty, declared surplus property and made available for auction by the county board of commissioners. Testing Coordinator Jean Thrift is expected to make a presentation on testing which has changed this school year with the elimination of the California Achievement Test. A state-directed test has been de- signed to measure the standard course of study that teachers are given to teach. Parents will be get- ting the state report that doesn't compare their children's grades to those from across the nation but from across North Carolina. The board is also expected to discuss at-length participation in a three-year Performance-Based Accountability Program, a school improvement plan. This plan calls for development of «a central office differentiated pay plan with affected staff offered the opportunity to vote. Last year the system voted for across-the- board distribution. This year the pay plan will be submitted to af- fected staff 30 days after opening of school. Sixty days after teachers , Teport, a secret ballot vote will be taken by all affected employees. By November, the approved plan is to be submitted to the state. The item will be on the agenda for the September 14 meeting at which new faculty members will - be honored at a reception at 6:30 p.m. prior to the 7 p.m. regular meeting. SHELBY MAZDA $143.55* Per Month 1992 Mazda 323 Hwy 74 By-Pass E, Shelby, N. C. Y.704/433-67 *Selling Price $7595, 10% Down (Cash or trade), 60 Months, 9.5%APR on approved credit. N. C. sales Tax & Tag additional. Clar-Mar, Inc. 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"We've been looking for better “ways to do a better job," she said of her plan to schedule ninth- graders to have five class changes in a day instead of the usual six changes. Lavender said that during the 1991-92 school year, 39 ninth- graders dropped out of school. And many of the 327 ninth-graders who finished the year had difficulty making the transition from Middle School to High School. To make it easier for the fresh- men, they will have a schedule that includes two back-to-back periods of English or two of PE I/Health each semester. "Six class changes each day make it more difficult for students and teachers to establish personal relationships, and each student has six classes for which to prepare ev- ery day,” said Lavender. "Extending class periods into blocks of time longer than 55 min- utes increases the length of teach- er-student contact and reduces the number of class chang es." 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