School community council meets Thursday
School community council meets Thursday
The Kealakehe High School Community Council will meet from 5:15 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the staff cafeteria dining room.
Agenda items include a summary of public hearing testimony and parent nominations for the 2012-2014 SCC.
Parents, students and community members are encouraged to attend. For more information, call Linda Jeffrey of the Parent-Community Center at 327-4300, ext. 2432.
Kanu O Ka Aina accepting applications
Kanu O Ka Aina New Century Public Charter School in Waimea is currently accepting student applications for the 2012-2013 school year. Applications are being accepted for students entering kindergarten through 12th grade.
Integrating culture, language, community and the natural environment, KANU’s curriculum is project-based and place-based. As a free public K-12 school, KANU is held to the same performance expectations and same assessment testing as all Hawaii schools. Hawaiian language courses are taught, but English is the language of instruction.
Applications are being accepted for KANU’s preschool program for 4-year-olds. While a fee applies to preschool, need-based financial aid is available.
When the 2012-13 school year begins, all KANU students will be consolidated for the first time on one campus, Kauhale Oiwi O Puukapu.
Halau Pokii will house the preschool through fifth grade and Halau Puke will house a library and sixth- through 12th-grade classrooms. Hale Hoolako has been occupied at the campus site on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands since 2009. Hale Hoolako also serves as a community resource and technology center.
Applications are available at kanu.kalo.org. Call 890-8144 for more information.
Brown Bags to Stardom registration now open
Registration for this year’s Brown Bags to Stardom is now open for elementary, middle and high school students.
Schools hosting talent shows will send singers, instrumentalists and bands to compete in BBTS’s music category. A nonmusic category will showcase talented student dancers, magicians, jugglers and variety acts.
Deadline to register is April 10. Students attending schools without talent shows can contact BBTS at 951-6699 or email bbts@brownbagstostardom.com to see if they can represent their schools.
There is a $25 registration fee per student that includes a 2012 BBTS T-shirt, meal, lanyard and backstage passes.
Essay contest
winners announced
The Eddie Aikau Foundation presented its seventh annual essay contest awards Saturday, honoring 25 winners statewide, including 10 from Big Island schools.
The contest’s theme asked students how Aikau’s heroic actions on March 17, 1978, reflected the Hawaiian values of kokua and kahiau. Students were asked to write about how those values inspire their own actions and influence decisions of “who to help, when you can’t help everyone.”
In the English language division, Hawaii Island winners were Waimea Middle School seventh-grader Tania Dupont, third place; Konawaena Middle School eighth-grader Danielle Uemura, first place; Konawaena Middle School eighth-grader Kuuipo Bettencourt, third place; and Konawaena Middle School students Thomas Johnston and Justin Jennings, honorable mentions.
Students from Ke Kula O Nawahiokalanio Puu in Keaau won all five awards in the Hawaiian language division. Alakai Iaea-Russell placed first. Fellow seventh-graders Kaualiliko Baclig and Iona Kumupono Kim took second and third place, respectively. Eighth-graders Tuvae Nerveza-York and Hokulani Fortunato earned honorable mentions.
The Eddie Aikau Foundation’s annual essay contest is open to all seventh- through 10th-grade students, and accepts submissions from November through January. The foundation is a charitable organization created to share Aikau’s life, contributions and accomplishments while promoting education and the advancement of Hawaiian culture.
For more information, visit EddieAikauFoundation.org.
Waimea school looks to establish advisory panel
The Hookakoo Corp. invites interested community members, families, faculty, staff and students of Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School to participate in a facilitated work group planning session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 31 in the school cafeteria.
The all-day work group will review academic accomplishments and needs, current school programs and chart new opportunities for WMS students. Recommendations of this work group will be incorporated in the current leadership search and the school’s academic improvement plan and budget for coming years.
The deadline for participation is Friday. Hookakoo Corp. hopes to recruit 10 family members, 10 community members and 10 faculty and staff, plus three students and several educational experts to participate in a transition process that will lead to the reformation of a local advisory panel.
The letter of invitation, application to participate and more explanation of the school’s leadership transition process are posted at WaimeaMiddleSchool.org under “Leadership Transition.”
For more information, call the school’s interim Principal Lydia Trinidad at 887-6090, ext. 225, email Lydia_Trinidad@notes.k12.hi.us, or call Hookakoo Corp. Executive Director Megan McCorriston (938-3835).