In celebration of Florida Aviation Business month, Frontier Airlines First Officer Aaron Norris spoke with Paxton High School's Gaetz Aerospace Career Academy students about his career as a commercial pilot. Norris shared with students details about requirements to become a commercial pilot and various available paths to reach that goal. There is a growing need for pilots in the U.S., with Boeing predicting the need for 790,000 new pilots by 2037.
WCSD Launches 1st Newcomer Program at Van R. Butler Elementary!
February 21, 2020
After extensive district-wide professional development provided by Ms. Beatrice Palls of B & B Educational Consultants, Inc., and collaboration with district and school personnel, we are excited to announce the launch of Walton County School District’s first Newcomer Program for our non-English speaking students. Van R. Butler has become the flagship elementary school for Walton County’s bold initiative to develop and implement an academic and social program to support our recently arrived immigrants and their families.
Recently enrolled students who are non-English or limited-English speaking in grades two through five will receive intensive English Language Development and English Fundamentals of Reading instruction in a classroom that has appropriate and culturally- sensitive curriculum aligned to Florida Standards. In addition, the students will participate in cultural awareness activities that are designed to assist them in acclimating to their new country. We are looking forward to the success of these students and this program.
Science Fair #1 Place Regional
February 19, 2020
Congratulations to Freeport Middle School students Nicole Gross and Seri Brown for their first place win in their category at the Regional Science Fair!
SWHS's Fisher Marks Scores 1500 on PSAT/NMSQT
February 19, 2020
Congratulations to Fisher Marks on his score of a 1500 on the PSAT/NMSQT. Fisher is a junior at South Walton High School. Not only did Fisher scored a 1500 on the PSAT/NMSQT, he also had a perfect score on the math portion of the test. We are so proud of Fisher!
Seahawk Senior Nadia Bock has advanced to the Finalist stage in the National Merit Scholarship competition, based on her high academic performance for 4 years at South Walton High School and her PSAT scores. Congratulations to Nadia, her teachers and family
WMS Invites Families to Data and Doughnuts
February 19, 2020
FLORIDA PREPAID Open Enrollment running Feb. 1 through April 30
February 19, 2020
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FMS Art Students Announced Contest Winners at Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Performance
February 18, 2020
Over 1,000 5th graders from Okaloosa and Walton County were guests of the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra as they performed “The Chenoo Who Stayed for Dinner” by Peter Schickele at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center today! Jeffrey Rink conducted the orchestra, and founding NFSO conductor, John Leatherwood, performed the narration of “The Chenoo Who Stayed For Dinner,” by Peter Schickele. This is an annual event sponsored by the NFSO, and a great opportunity for students to see and hear a live symphony orchestra in performance. Special guest performer was 10 year old violinist, Kyle Richardson, Junior Division winner of the NFSO Concerto competition in performance of the 1st movement of Mozart’s G major violin concerto.
Congratulations to Freeport Middle School students Lily Stacy and Paisley McCormick for their 1st and 2nd place awards in the Picture the Music art contest sponsored by Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra!!!
The students are pictured with art teacher Kendra Estes.
MSE 4th Graders Have an Opinion!
February 18, 2020
MSE 4th graders are busy creating opinion compositions. They use the “PAT” down method to analyze the prompt, followed by intense writing. The students love sharing their opinion pieces with their classmates, as they become very confident writers!
Paxton 8th Grader's "Omnipod Amor" Awarded at Regional Science Fair
February 17, 2020
Eighth grade Paxton School student Zoe Orange was recently awarded several awards at the East Panhandle Regional Science and Engineering Fair for her project "Omnipod Armor." For her project, Zoe 3D designed and printed a cover to provide protection to her Omnipod, an insulin delivery system, then tested the strength of her device. For her efforts, she won honorable mention in the junior engineering division and a certificate of recognition and commemorative coin from Reliance Test & Technology for an outstanding project. Congrats to Zoe for an excellent job using science and engineering to solve a real problem!