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Clinton City Schools principals report Read Day, STEM presentations, wellness award and facility updates
Summary
Principals reported Read Across America activities, a $9,500 donation drive for classroom materials, teacher presentations at a STEM expo, a statewide staff-wellness award for Laura Roberts, kindergarten registration and summer boost camp capacity, playground RFP timing and an auditorium seating estimate.
Clinton City — School principals told the school board about Read Across America events, community donations, teacher presentations at a regional STEM expo and facility and staffing updates for the coming months.
South Clinton Elementary Principal Miss Bohnstill said Read Day included four to five guest readers in each class, buddy reading between older and younger students and a book-character costume contest. “It was just a really good day of having fun and celebrating reading,” she said. The school’s February donation drive, “Show CES a little love,” raised more than $9,500 for classroom materials, the principal said.
Sixth-grade teachers Laura Veil and Miss Maples represented Clinton City Schools at a STEM expo in Gatlinburg, where they presented student-created podcasts used in social-studies instruction. North Clinton reported community outreach during Read Week, visits from Roane State dental students and University of Tennessee nursing students demonstrating hand hygiene to early-grade classes. The student librarian Janie Jackson, noted in the record as having served the district for more than 40 years, participated in Read Day events.
Clinton City Schools staff also reported a statewide recognition: Laura Roberts received the state Coordinated School Health award for staff wellness, a competition across 47 districts. The district described her wellness initiatives as weekly staff yoga, pop-up staff wellness rooms with massagers and calming resources, a spring water-drinking challenge, coordinated flu clinics and a specialty-tea program called “Wake Up Wednesdays.” The board observed the award via FaceTime.
Facility and operations updates included a preliminary cost estimate of about $144,000 to replace auditorium seating and notice that the Clinton Elementary parking area behind the building will be repurposed for a new playground at the start of the 2025–26 school year; the district said RFP responses for playground equipment were expected on the Monday after spring break. The district plans to reassign parking and issue staff parking tags when that work begins.
On enrollment and staffing, the district’s director reported kindergarten registration appointments and a transfer-application period from April 1 to May 15. Registration dates were listed: South Clinton on March 25, North Clinton on March 26 and Clinton Elementary on March 27. The district’s kindergarten boost summer camp — designed to prepare rising kindergartners with foundational classroom skills — could expand to three classes to serve up to 60 incoming students if demand continues. The district also reported active hiring, including representation at the University of Tennessee job fair and an open posting for a speech and language pathologist at North Clinton.
The principals and director closed with reminders about upcoming TCAP testing in April and sixth-grade graduation at Clinton Community Center at the end of the school year.
No formal board action was recorded on these informational items during the meeting.
