Nevitt Forest Community School of Innovation

Tuesday, March 9th, Chick-fil-A Night from 5-8pm...Come out and Support Nevitt at Chick-fil-A on Highway 81!!!!

“Preparing Students by Providing Quality Education”

Nevitt Celebrates
Golden Apple Winner

WYFF News 4 and Bi-Lo named Mrs. Anderson, one of our Kindergarten teachers, the Golden Apple Award Winner on February 25^th. Here’s a picture of Mrs. Anderson (right) and Anchor Beth Brotherton (left).
Enjoy some footage from this special day below or watch the video, sponsored by WYFF News 4, by clicking here...

Our Black History Month Event

We held our annual Black History Program on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Our Student Council Members read about various historians of character and the students enjoyed dance and music from Anderson University’s West African Ensemble. Please click below to read the article from Anderson’s Independent Mail and enjoy more footage from our Black History Program. Click Here

Congratulations to our Employees of the Year

Ms. Wentzky (Teacher of the Year)

Mrs. Leverette (Instructional Support Staff of the Year)

Mrs. Lee (Non- Instructional Support Staff of the Year)

Mrs. Dolder (Cafeteria Staff of the Year)

Mr. Blackwell (Custodian Staff of the Year)

Robotics Team

The Nevitt Forest Community School of Innovation Robotics team participated in the FIRST Lego League Robotics Regional Meet at Tri-County Technical College on Saturday, February 20. The team was judged on their robot
design, project, teamwork, and robot performance. The team won the first place trophy in Teamwork.

The members of the Nevitt team are: Lanterrious Freeman, Donovan Swinger, Carson Fulmer, Talon Hawthorne,
Taylor Hunter, and Thomas Thompson. The team is coached by Hunter McClure and Carolyn Cromer.

With the help of Bi-Lo, Fourth graders in Mr. McClure’s class will raise around 200 Trout eggs in the classroom. Once the eggs, hatch the students will care and feed the trout. When the Trout are fully grown, all fourth grade students will help release the Trout into a nearby stream.

2009-2010 Spelling Bee Winner Charlie Williams		Superintendent's Writing Contest Winners Kaitlyn Ogden Winner Tariq Thomas 2nd Place Taylor Hunter 3rd Place

March Dates to Remember

March 4th- Write Night at 5:00

March 9th- Chick-fil-A Night from 5-8 Be sure to write Nevitt Forest on the receipt and turn the receipt into the box.

March 16th and 17th- PASS Writing Test

March 19th- NO SCHOOL District Staff Devleopment Day

March 20th (Saturday)- Regional Spelling Bee

March 23rd- End of 3rd 9 Weeks and Southwood Orientation at 6:30
March 25th- Title I Update and Strategic Planning at 5:00---All are Welcome to provide input in the plan for next year!!

Please Mark Your Calendars!!

Our school WILL NOT operate extended day on the following dates:

March 15th-18th
June 1st-3rd

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Take a step back in time

Fourth Grade students presented a living wax museum portraying some of our great founding fathers in history and the tour guides recited valuable information about each.

Sweetheart Luncheon

Parents, family members, and friends take out time to enjoy lunch with their special Sweetheart at our annual Sweetheart Luncheon.

Spotlight on Great Art

Nevitt's Good Citizens

Criteria for Honor Roll

A child that has all A’s on his or her report card qualifies to be on the All A’s Honor Roll.

A child that has at least 2 A’s and the rest B’s on his or her Report Card qualifies to be on the A/B Honor Roll.

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Nevitt Forest is a great place to work and learn. At Nevitt we take pride in preparing our children to be life long learners and productive citizens. Our mission at Nevitt Forest is to educate and prepare all of our students to become responsible, respectful, life-long learners who will successfully contribute, compete, and persevere in an ever-changing, diverse, global society by applying knowledge and skills acquired from positive learning experiences in a nurturing environment. At Nevitt, we live by our school pledge “I am a Nevitt Forest Eagle and I will strive to be responsible and respectful in everything I do”...Go Eagles!!

Exposing our students to as many careers as possible was our goal at this year’s Career Day. Our school was flooded with members from the community who came in to share their career experiences with the students.

Our visitors were: Max Cauthen, U.S. Assistant District Attorney, from the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Agent Rey Garcia, from ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) Mr. Reggie Simpkins, Athlete Career Services and Athletic Academic Advisor, Our very on first grade teacher, Miss. Elizabeth Ridgeway, as Miss. Greater Anderson, Mrs. Serita Acker, Program Director of Women in Science and Engineering and Professor of Science and Engineering, from Clemson University, and Mr. Bernard Jackson, Information Technology Architect, from FOX Systems, Inc. We were also delighted to have Security Guard PETE GREER, Mr. ERIC DONALD, Media Broadcast Specialist, WYFF CHANNEL 4, Mr. Matthew Pruitt, Office Administrator, Vulcan Construction Materials of Anderson, Mrs. Kathy Hoitt, Registered Nurse for AnMed Health Systems, KOHL’S Department Store Retail Manager, Mr. Cedric Cannon, Ms. Sherita Bolden, Author,Anderson County Fire and Rescue A-Shift Fire Chief Michael Guest, Mr. Ashley Mullen of the Anderson County Recreation Department, Agent Jean Stutler and Agent Karin Foster from Anderson County Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services, and Mr. Mark McLAIN Engineer for Cardiac Rhythm Devices from St. Jude Medical.

Fourth and fifth grade students participated in an Open House performance entitled "Forever Rock-n-Roll".

Jill Miller, a water specialist from SCRWA, visited with Ms. Murphy’s 5^th grade science class. She discussed the ecosystem and how it affects our water supply, along with our effect.

Our Extended Day Program

With our Extended Day Program students are eagerly engaged in After School Activities. Students enjoy one hour participating in re-teaching activities and the second hour actively engaged in a club. Please visit https://sites.google.com/a/g.clemson.edu/nevitt-forest/home to learn more or select the picture below to view a video.

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse...It's the COOL thing to do!!

Third grade students learned why it’s important to Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse. The students created scarecrows using recyclable items in the classroom. Please view the pictures below to enjoy their work.

Mission and Vision