It's time to begin registering for preschool for the 2021-22 school year! The kick off began with the Little Cardinal Academy Drive-Thru on Friday, April 16. Thank you to the great turn out of families who started the process of signing up for preschool for the 2021-22 school year. If your family did not get to attend the recent drive-thru, you can still visit the school at your convenience to start the enrollment process or just check out the opportunities. The next exciting enrollment event is the Child Plus Fair coming Saturday, May 1st from 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. at Memorial Park.

Also, if you have a child or know of a family with a child that is planning on enrolling in Kindergarten @ WELC for the 2021-22 school year please complete this form https://forms.gle/PgiwUTjfJo36pR9t9. Any child that will be age 5 by August 1, 2021 will be eligible to enroll in Kindergarten. Feel free to contact the school Mon-Fri 7:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m., if you have any questions.

The parents of Wayne County students will have the opportunity to voice their opinion on the Supplemental School Year Program during a survey period that is currently going on in the district. Superintendent Wayne Roberts talked about the program during a school board meeting held April 15th. Check out the left-hand column of this website to gain access to this important parent survey.  

It's an exciting time for youngsters who will be four-years-old by August 1, 2021. These children are eligible to attend preschool at Walker Early Learning Center. Pre-K students benefit from academic growth and social development by attending Wayne County's excellent program. Check out the data from the Urban Child Institute to see why your child should enroll in such a quality and best practice driven Pre-K education. Thanks to the parents who have already registered their children for preschool through the drive-through event held May 16th at school!

It has been difficult enough to master virtual, hybrid, limited in-person study schedules this past school year, so to have put together an extra-curricular academic team who saw considerable success is pretty amazing. Even though the odds were against it, a determined coach and five amazing fourth and fifth graders rallied to make impressive strides through the chain of mind boggling tests offered by the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition. Academic Team competition is a tough challenge for any student under normal conditions, so just to participate in the 2021 season is a tribute to these students

About a hundred first and second graders participated in Kids Kamp, a spring break learning adventure held at Bell Elementary. The children were provided transportation and served breakfast and lunch inside their classrooms at the fun event. The schedule was filled with kid-friendly sessions including everything from Superhero Science where they built a boat out of clay and placed miniature superhero figures inside to see if it would float to looking for their site words on a safari hunt and writing them in shaving cream. Students were introduced to making 3D pictures on the computer while learning to use the mouse (since they normally tap on the screens of the white boards or ipads). They used legos, cubes and building pieces to make miniature birdhouses and structures in the engineer/architect math class. Frisbee golf, water balloons and basketball were part of the PE sessions. They proudly wore their tie dyed t-shirts on the final fourth day. 

Joshua Parmley’s carpentry students ‘nailed it’ on a recently completed one-page essay assignment on how to close the skills gap for potential employees applying to local businesses. The carpentry classes, as well as all the other practical vocational programs at the new Area Technology Center are bustling with activity again, since more of the students’ have returned to in-person learning and can participate in the hands-on learning labs that adjoin their classrooms. ATC students are benefiting from a wide range of state-of-the-art instruction which includes everything from high tech automotive to the latest trends in agriculture classes.