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Bladen County Schools is now on Flickr! Share your graduation memories with us - Join our Flickr group here and share the experience of your 2013 graduation.  You must join the group before you can upload photos or videos. You can invite friends and family members to view your graduation photos.

Give Five - Read Five: Donate Books to Local Elementary Schools - Have you ever heard of the term summer loss? This is not a seasonal diet or exercise program, but a troubling trend in which students lose valuable literacy skills when they stop reading during their break from school. Low-income children are especially susceptible to this problem because they often go home to an environment where there are very few books or other reading resources. As a result, by the end of fifth grade, these students are approximately 2 ½ years behind their more affluent peers in terms of reading ability, primarily because of summer loss. For this reason, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) has launched the "Give Five – Read Five" campaign. As a part of this effort, we are asking parents, business leaders and members of our communities to donate five new or gently-used books to their local elementary school before June 5. Research done at Harvard University by Dr. James Kim shows that even reading four or five books over the summer helps to prevent the summer slump so just imagine what we will accomplish if we make sure every student in grades K-5 leaves school on the last day of the school year with new books in hand. The last day of school  for students is June 10th, so let's get those books in.  The NC DPI plans to honor all businesses who donate 50 or more books to a local school.  We hope you will consider sharing information about "Give Five - Read Five" in your place of business, at your board meetings and with other business leaders and members of your community.  With your help, we can encourage students to keep reading during the critical summer months so they will be ready to learn and succeed when they return to school this fall. 

Summer Feeding Program Returns to Bladen County Schools: Food is In when School is Out - The Child Nutrition Department will once again offer free summer meals— breakfast and lunch—to Bladen County students through the Summer Feeding Pro-gram. The program will kick off at East Arcadia School on June 17 and Dublin Primary, Bladenboro Middle, and Elizabethtown Primary on June 23 and last until July 31. Breakfast will be served five days a week from 8:00 am until 8:30am. Lunch will be served five days a week from 11:30 am until 12:30 pm. No applications are needed and no id is needed. This program is for all school age children in Bladen County.  Children cannot be dropped off and left unaccompanied.

Board approves School Uniforms for all schools...........Beginning August 26, 2013 all students will be required to wear

UNCP AIG Licensure Program...........Application and admissions packet

2013-2014 School Calendar Now Available.............

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The Bladen County Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, national origin, sex, age, or handicapping condition in its policies.