Our Coalfield School story this week was a little spooky 👻. We hosted Halloween in our school. Ms. Whitney Jackson and Ms. Brianna Massengale, our junior Beta Club, sponsors, and volunteers worked really hard to put this event on for our community. Thank you to the businesses and churches that participated. Hundreds of folks visited our spooky hallways. We also had spooky finger foods day for the staff. It was a creative display of foods by our staff.
Our CMS football team and cheerleaders brought home another gold ball winning the East Tennessee State Championship for the 10th time. Congratulations to Coach Basler and his assistant coaches as they continue to exhibit a culture of excellence in middle school football.
I had the pleasure of observing a couple of lessons this week. Ms. Jessica Lowe had a fantastic ELA lesson. During this lesson, students were engaged throughout the lesson and did a phenomenal job discussing the text and generating questions about the text they were studying.
Mr. Paul Brown was providing instruction in English 1 on character traits from different literary articles. Students worked collaboratively to dicuss and categorize character traits. They wrote their findings on huge postit notes around the room and then presented their findings to the class.
Coach Peyton Tinker’s 6th grade math class was playing decimal jeopardy. Students worked collaboratively to complete math problems involving decimals in an effort to win the game of jeopardy.
Coach Josh Wright and his crew of volunteers worked to continue the improvements for our lady jackets locker room. It is quite the transformation and I am so pleased for our ladies.
My principal coach visited this week during our costume contest and observed our culture. He gave some very positive feedback which I shared with our students and staff. He said that he had worked with nearly 200 schools in several states the last 8 years and he would put our school culture up against any of them…One-Heartbeat.
Please continue to pray for our students, staff, and school.