Click here for Turtle Talk; Burgess information, pledges and lifeskills.   
Burgess Elementary School January 2010 Newsletter now online! Click to see!

Click here to learn about Burgess Healthy Eating Choices!

Burgess wins Horry County Schools Service Learning Award.  Click to learn more!

Spelling Bee Winners    
Congratulations to Winter Widdifield, spelling bee champion, and to Nolan Fuss, runner-up! Winter will represent Burgess Elementary at the Regional Spelling Bee this spring.  Classroom winners who participated in the school bee were Brandi Back, Anajee Dixon, Christian Franks, Nolan Fuss, Mackenzie Gardner, Sarah Hilliard, Brittany Howard, Dylan Howell,  Savannah Johnson, Callie Moss, Kendall Securro, and Winter Widdifield.

First Grade, Kindergarten and Child Development Registration April 12-18.  Click here to learn more. 

Teacher of the Year 
Jennifer Crawford was selected by her peers as Burgess Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010. Mrs. Crawford teaches second grade at Burgess. She will now complete an application to vie for the title of Horry County Schools’ Teacher of the Year. Good luck, Mrs. Crawford! 

Youth Leadership Award
Chris Young was selected as Burgess Elementary School’s Youth Leadership Award Winner for 2009-2010. Chris selected his fifth grade teacher, Mr. Ron Satterley, as his most influential teacher.  Chris and Mr. Satterley will be featured in an upcoming edition of The Sun News. 

Student Healthy Food Choices 
Student Council representatives Kendall Securro, Carson Ward, and Ajay Patel have developed a project to improve student healthy food choices at lunch. The project is designed to help kids recognize and make healthy food choices, to help kids recognize problems unhealthy eating can cause and to provide prizes for kids to help them make healthy choices. Beginning on November 30th  and going through May 28th,  Student Council representatives will be tracking the food choices of fourth and fifth grade students during lunch time. Those students who are making healthy choices will be rewarded with great prizes provided by Georgetown Hospital Systems. Fourth and fifth grade students are encouraged to make the BEST Healthy Food Choices!  

Rockin’ Reader is a national literacy initiative developed by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.  Now in its second year, Cracker Barrel has established  partnerships with elementary schools in 29 states to establish a comfortable reading space in each school for volunteers to read with school children. Burgess Elementary School is one of eleven schools in South Carolina and the only school in Horry County to be selected for a partnership. Cracker Barrel has provided us with two double rocking chairs, a barrel bookshelf, and a collection of children’s books. Now all we need is you! Do you have a few hours to donate during the school year to read with a child? Information will be coming home soon providing addition information and asking for volunteers. Our goal is 500 hours for the school year– please help us by reading with a child!

Burgesss Elementary is a
Palmetto Gold/Silver
Showcase School!
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William Burgess Award Winner
Congratulations to Karsten Kenley, who was awarded the very first William Burgess Award at the Fifth Grade Award Ceremony on June 3rd.  This prestigious honor is given to a student who shows outstanding leadership skills in and out of the classroom, exemplifies lifeskills in daily choices, is a positive role model for peers, is actively involved in service activities, takes initiative to go above and beyond and has positive interactions with students and adults. This is the highest honor awarded to a student at Burgess Elementary School. 

The award is named after William Burgess, for whom our community is named. Mr. Burgess was a highly loved and respected man and was known as a person of integrity, honor, and compassion. He was commissioned U.S. Postmaster of Marlow, S.C. in 1887 and commissioned U.S. Postmaster of Burgess, SC in 1906. When William Burgess was first commissioned postmaster in this area, the official geographic name became Burgess and included the 25 square mile area then served by the post office.

2009-2010 PTO Officers:
Mollie Muldoon, President
Laurie Hickman, Vice President
Dawn Back, Treasurer
Linda Refling, Secretary
Susan King, Fundraising Chairperson
Tonya Caddle, Hospitality Chairperson

Burgess Elementary School Summary Report is now online!  Click here.

Congratulations 
Cindy Dawsey! 
Top 5 Finalist,
Horry County Schools'
Teacher of the Year!  
Click here.

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