Carrollton City Schools * 106 Trojan Drive * Carrollton, GA 30117 * March 24,  2017
New CES assistant principals named
Following the March 14 announcement that Amanda Carden has been named the new principal of Carrollton Elementary School, three new assistant principals were also approved in personnel action.

The Carrollton Board of Education approved the internal promotions of teachers Tabitha Walker, left, and Caroline Norton, center, to assistant principals and the new hire of Kiley Campbell-Carroll, right, an experienced AP who most recently served at Sharp Creek Elementary School. MORE



Water bill roundup
supports education

If you are a City of Carrollton water customer, don't forget about the Water Bill Roundup. 

The program rounds up your water bill to the next dollar with proceeds going directly to the Carrollton City Schools Education Foundation to support educational initiatives for all of our schools. Your support is greatly appreciated!

  
Pre-K lottery signup
at CES next week

Carrollton Elementary School will have lottery registration for prekindergarten for the 2017-2018 school year beginning Monday, March 27, through Friday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children must be 4 years old on or before Sept. 1 to be eligible for Pre-K.

Required documents to enter the lottery include parent ID, child's birth certificate, child's Social Security card, and proof of residence ( current gas, water, or power bill; current lease). No appointment necessary.

CJHS club to present
version of 'Cinderella'

The Carrollton Junior High School Creative Arts Club will present "Cinderella" in two performances, Monday, March 27, and Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. at the Mabry Center for the Arts.

Tickets are free and can be ordered through Eventbrite. Click this short link to register: goo.gl/ipVk2b

Trojan Times past
issues available

Did you accidentally delete a Trojan Times you wanted to save when you were cleaning up your email? No worries! Past issues are available in an online archive. 

Off-campus  K registration events 
March 25 & 30

Two off-site Carrollton Elementary School kindergarten registration events will be held as a convenience for parents. 

The first one will be held this Saturday, March 25, at the new amphitheater behind the Lavender Center in West Carrollton from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The second will be held Thursday, March 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Knox Park.

Please share these flyers with prospective families you know about:

Caleb Thomas is a sixth grader at Carrollton Middle School and serves on the school's broadcast team, assisting on the production side. Caleb is also talented in front of the camera, most recently featured in an upcoming Christian-based movie titled "A Question of Faith" expected to come out this fall.
CMS sixth grader
hits the big screen 

Not many 4-year-olds know what they want to do when they grow up, but Caleb Thomas did, and his perseverance paid off. The Carrollton Middle School sixth grader landed his first principal role in a major motion picture to be released this fall, another credit to add to an already impressive resumé.

Caleb admits his parents didn't take him seriously at first.

"You know how it is when a little kid says something to his parents," said Caleb, now 12. "They just kind of let it go and move on. But by the time I was 7, they knew I was serious and got me an acting coach."

Caleb says he was inspired early on by "little TV shows" like "iCarly" and others that allowed his imagination to run wild.

"I'd watch something on a show and would say, 'Oooh, I would like to do that' and my dad would say 'they're just acting,'" said Caleb. "I thought, then that's what I need to do."

In his most recent work, Caleb portrays Eric Newman in the Christian-based "A Question of Faith," a story about three families touched by tragedy that forces them to question their trust in God. His "mother" in the movie is Kim Fields, who many may remember as little Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey in the 1980s sitcom "Facts of Life." MORE

Maddie Willingham, center, placed third in a statewide high school poetry contest sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Society. She is pictured with her teacher, Nichole Chetti, left, and Carrollton High School Principal David Brooks.
CHS senior places
in state poetry contest

Carrollton High School senior Maddie Willingham has been chosen as the third place winner of the Georgia Poetry Society's Marel Brown Poetry Contest for grades 9-12. Her poem, "The Pure Blossom," will be read aloud April 22 at the Athens-Clark Library in Athens and published in the GPS's annual anthology, "The Reach of Song."

Maddie's poem was selected from high schools all across the state of Georgia.  She wrote the poem in Nichole Chetti's American Literature class.

Maddie is an athlete who plays Lacrosse for the Lady Trojans, has an internship with the Carrollton City School's Athletic Training program, is a member of the National Technical Honor Society and will begin her military career with the Navy immediately after high school. She is the daughter of Mike and Anne Willingham of Carrollton.

Academies of Carrollton Elementary School

Incoming CES Principal Amanda Carden shares with parents of rising first graders details of the new Academies of Carrollton Elementary School program to be launched next year. Two information sessions were held Thursday. Here is a link to a broadcast of the noon session, compliments of Newstalk WLBB. Want to know more? Click here.

Special invitation

Carrollton High School Band Director Chris Carr takes a selfie with the CHS Wind Ensemble prior to Thursday's performance at Georgia State University's  Southeastern Regional Concert Festival at the Rialto Center for the Arts. Carr said it is a great honor to be invited to this festival. Only 16 bands from across the state participated in this year's event.
Annual HCBU Scholarship Brunch

An organization that provides a unique scholarship program that benefits area students who plan to attend a Historically Black College or University, known collectively as HBCUs, held its annual Scholarship Brunch last Saturday in the Trojan Hall of Fame room at the Whitley Morris Field House. The Carroll County HBCU Alumni Association's primary goal is to encourage the best and the brightest who are recruited to attend school through mainstream routes to instead consider the advantages - and heritage - of HBCUs. Over the last six years, the organization has awarded several scholarships of which 10 recipients are CHS graduates. The annual brunch is a fundraiser to provide funding for the scholarships. This year, instead of a keynote speaker, guests heard from HBCU graduates in a panel discussion of their HBCU experiences from the 1930s to today, pictured above.
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