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Education

  • Moneta Elementary student wins County Spelling Bee

        Out of the six words he had to spell last Thursday, Aiden Belcher struggled the most with “stucco.”

        Even though he wasn’t familiar with the word, he still got it right, and then spelled “crochet” as the winning word to claim the title as 2013 Bedford County Spelling Bee champion.
        Belcher, a student at Moneta Elementary School, will now compete in the regional spelling bee scheduled for March 16 in Roanoke. That will be held at the Holiday Inn-Airport at 10 a.m.

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  • Study looks at new middle school options

    proposals would require one or more of the current sports fields at LHS to be relocated, if that site is chosen.
        In addition to discussing the study, the school board will also hold a public hearing on the 2013-2014 budget for Bedford County Public Schools. Action items include a vote on a revised elementary school redistricting proposal for the Forest Zone as well as updates to the school system’s zone transfer policy. The school board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Bedford Science and Technology Center auditorium.

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  • School safety, carryover funds discussed by board

        School safety and use of leftover funds were among the discussions at last Thursday’s regular meeting of the Bedford County School Board.
        
    School Safety
        In the aftermath of the tragic school shooting at Newtown, Conn., in December, school staff have been reviewing their school safety and security policies, according to Superintendent Dr. Douglas Schuch. That included reviewing those issues with each school principal.

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  • Board looks at plan for elementary redistricting

        The Bedford County School Board discussed, but didn’t take any action Thursday, on a scaled down elementary school redistricting proposal.
        But it does appear if the plan is approved, it wouldn’t go into effect until the 2014-2015 school year.

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  • New redistricting plan addresses concerns

        A scaled down elementary school redistricting proposal would affect only about 1 percent of students attending Bedford County Public Schools, all in the Forest Zone, and would exclude moving any students to Big Island Elementary.

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  • Social media posts bring out deputies

        Some social media posts, the week before Christmas, brought extra deputies to the county’s schools just before Christmas break. At least one principal, Tim Overstreet, principal of Liberty High School, sent a letter to the parents of the students on Dec. 21, explaining what was going on.
        “We worked on that just about all week,” commented Major Ricky Gardner of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.

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  • No move for sixth grade

    After hearing from the public last week, the Bedford County School board voted to leave sixth grade classes in the Liberty Attendance Zone in their base elementary schools. Currently only the sixth grade from Bedford Elementary attend Bedford Middle School (BMS). The public hearing was on a proposal to move the sixth grades from the other three elementary schools in the Liberty Zone to BMS.

    Several citizens, all of them opposed to the idea, spoke at the hearing.

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  • Forum focuses on safety

        “I’m part of a club that nobody wants to be a part of,” said Tim Groover, when he spoke at a teen driving safety forum at Staunton River High School (SRHS) Monday night.

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  • Teachers let board know they expect raises next year

        Don’t expect Bedford County teachers to be quite as understanding this upcoming budget year if raises aren’t included as part of the package.
        Bedford County Education Association President Cheryl Sprouse said teachers plan to make their feelings clearly known to both the school board and the board of supervisors as the 2013-2014 budget is crafted.

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  • Future budget issues focus of meeting

        Short- and long-term budget issues were on the agenda at a joint meeting of the Bedford County School Board and Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening.
        A proposal to use $655,000 in leftover money from the 2011-2012 school budget to fund a bonus for school employees prompted little discussion or direction from the supervisors.

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