Education Notebook: Warner Robins High to host theater workshop

Published: February 17, 2013 

Warner Robins High School’s fourth Wall Children’s Theatre Company is offering weekend workshops for children ages 7 through teenagers enrolled in the eighth grade. The workshops will guide students through monologue discovery, voice coaching and stage presence skills sets, according to a news release.

The workshops will be held Feb. 24 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; March 23 from 9 a.m. to noon; April 13, from 9 a.m. to noon, and May 18 from 9 a.m. to noon.

The sessions will conclude with an opportunity for the participants to perform on stage for an audience of their peers and parents May 18 at 6 p.m. The sessions will be held in the Warner Robins High School Theatre, according to the news release.

Dublin parent gets state leadership award

A Dublin parent is one of six across the state who received the 2013 Georgia Parent Leadership Award at a Friday ceremony.

Debra Mainor, who has been involved at Hillcrest Elementary, serves on the school’s governance council and has been involved in the process of revamping the school’s educational programming as well as its recent conversion to a charter school, according to a news release from the Georgia Department of Education.

Mainor also has been involved in getting the school’s student leadership council off the ground this year.

The award is given by the state Department of Education and the Georgia Parent Teacher Association.

This year’s winners also included representatives from school systems in Gwinnett, Cobb, Decatur, Douglas and Forsyth counties. They were nominated during Georgia’s Parent Engagement Month in November.

Peach County High School to host curriculum night

The Peach County High School Second Semester Curriculum Night for parents and students will be Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Orientation will begin in the auditorium with the State of the School address by Principal Bruce Mackey. Parents will have the opportunity to pick up their students’ mid-term progress report, visit teachers and find out about scheduling and advising procedures for the next school year.

Additionally, the guidance department will explain post-secondary and dual enrollment opportunities. Representatives from Fort Valley State University, Middle Georgia State College, Central Georgia Technical College and Middle Georgia Technical College will be available to answer questions, according to a news release.

-- Compiled by Telegraph writers Jenna Mink and Andrea Castillo.

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