by Kenneth B Loveless and Cathy Huddle Tax increases, staff shortages and larger classes may be result Most new citizens came to our community primarily for our great schools and our schools provide thebackbone of our way of life. But a new school funding formula has passed in the budgetContinue Reading
School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties FIRST Robotics Competition team, the Pandamaniacs, placed first out of 38 teams in the Electric City Regional in Anderson, SC on March 9-12, 2022. The winning alliance teams included Cyber Tribe from Kingsport, TN, and the Secret City Wildbots from Oak Ridge,Continue Reading
The Lexington-Richland School District Five School Board of Trustees has approved the 2022-2023 school board meeting calendar. The list of school board meetings for the 2022-2023 school year is as follows:• July 11, 2022 at the Center for Advanced Technical Studies • August 8, 2022 at the Center for AdvancedContinue Reading
Dutch Fork High School’s Vex Robotics team competed in the South Carolina Vex Robotics High School State Championship held at The Citadel March 5 and took home a Design Award. The Design Award is presented to a team that has the best engineering notebook. In this notebook the team isContinue Reading
Veteran educator Dr. Kaaren Hampton has been named principal at Irmo High School International School for the Arts. Hampton replaces Dr. Robin Hardy, who is stepping down from the position on June 30, 2022. Hampton has served as the assistant principal of instruction at Irmo High School for the pastContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five will host a Support Staff Recruitment Event from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on March 29 to recruit classroom support, student nutrition and clerical positions, as well as custodians and bus drivers. Candidates must register to attend the event at http://bit.ly/D5SSRE. During the event, participants will beContinue Reading
Camp Bookworm opened recently at Leaphart Elementary School. Students used flashlights to hunt down species in the twilight, fished for native species of fish in Lake Willabuff, got to interact with real camping gear like stoves, tents and loaded hiking backpacks, and explored the wildlife up close and personal withContinue Reading
H.E.R.O. homeschool students recently planted two juniper trees in the Irmo Branch Library Habitat Garden with help from Matthew Schnabel and Beth Foley, Green Step School mentors from the SC Forestry Commission. The trees were donated by Todd Beasley, owner of Primitive by Design and board member of the Environmental Education Association ofContinue Reading
The massive Be Pro Be Proud SC trailer made its way to Chapin Middle, Dutch Fork Middle and Irmo Middle Schools giving students an opportunity to see and test out, through virtual reality, various high-paying skilled and technical positions available in the workforce. Dutch Fork Middle School Career Specialist FionaContinue Reading
Lexington-Richland School District Five is hosting a Community Resource Fair on Tuesday, March 29 at Irmo High School from 5:00 p.m.– 7:00 p.m. The free event is open to all families in School District Five and will feature information about valuable resources and services available for families of students withContinue Reading
Dutch Fork High School student, Jada Silver, has been selected to represent Irmo as a National Youth Delegate to the 2022 Washington Youth Summit on the Environment at George Mason University. Silver joins a select group of 100 students from across the country to participate in an intensive, week-long studyContinue Reading