East Side Intermediate TOY

East Side Intermediate Teacher of the YEar Leigh Anne Allen is a fifth grade teacher at East Side Intermediate School with 25 years of teaching…

Haywood Elementary TOY

Haywood Elementary Teacher of the Year Lacey Gaylord is a third grade Reading and Language Arts teacher at Haywood Elementary School where she has…

Anderson TOY

Anderson Early Childhood Center Teacher of the Year Crystal Foster teaches kindergarten at Anderson Early Childhood Center. She has 16 years of…

Schools announce Teachers of the Year

The Haywood County Schools Board of Education met on Thursday, February 8, with a full slate of business. The first order of business was an…

Teen dating violence is not OK!!

Haywood High Student Health Council members assist Coordinated School Health and the Health Department in getting the message out to students that…

Sunny Hill proclaims: drink more water …

Sunny Hill recently received a water bottle filling station, provided by the C-3 BE MORE Grant, which is funded by the CDC through the UT Extension…

Dental Health Week

The tooth fairy paid a visit to all the kindergarten students at Anderson recently, since it was Dental Health Week for them. Dwanna Hughes, Outreach…

Eating “healthy” snowmen

Students in Mrs. Cheri Williams’ kindergarten class recently enjoyed making snowmen and eating them, while learning about the vitamins that are in…

HCS sees RED!

On Valentine's Day, the schools turned red, as they observed Heart Health Awareness Month. Educational flyers were sent home with staff and……

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Celebrate Cafeterias!

Leadership class visits East Side

Brownsville-Haywood County Adult Leadership members enjoyed the lessons they learned when they visited all the schools in the county on the group’s…

Youth Leadership 2017-18

Members of the HHS Youth Leadership Class are Sam Banks, McKenna Barken, Cornisha Barnes, Jordan Bell, Jordan Cone, Yatzi Cruz, Riley Ferrell, Leslie…

Massai Twitty wins “Poetry Out Loud”

The Brownsville-Haywood County Arts Council recently sponsored a “Poetry Out Loud” contest at Haywood High School.  HHS Principal Latonya Jackson…

HCS holds Spelling Bee

Haywood County Schools, under the direction of Gina Cozart at Haywood Middle School and Marjorie Vaulx at the district office, held its annual…

Anderson celebrates 100 days!

Kindergarteners at Anderson Early Childhood Center celebrated their 100th day of school on Friday, February 2. They celebrated with carnival-style…

HHS BB Homecoming 2018

Queen Cornish Barnes   The Haywood High School Basketball teams held their homecoming Tuesday, January 30. Crowned Homecoming King and Queen were…

HMS Beta Club inducts 24 members

On Tuesday, January 30, members of the Haywood Middle School Junior Beta Club inducted 24 new members. Principal Morris Long opened the ceremony…

Six FCCLA students to compete at state

On Tuesday, January 23, FCCLA students competed in District STAR Events at Union University. Alexiis Bean competed in Life Event Planning and placed…

DECA students advance

HHS DECA students prepared for District competition to be held January 16. Participating students took online tests on January 10. These scores were…

HHS students learn to weld

Students in the Principals of Ag Mechanics class are learning to weld, under the direction of John Joyner, teacher in the Agriculture program in the…

Welcome, Mrs. Jackson

Members of the Haywood High School Lean on Me Club recently welcomed Mrs. Latonya Jackson to HHS to serve as its new principal. The main objective of…

Culinary students “treat” School Board members

When the Haywood County School Board met on Tuesday, January 9, in addition to taking care of business, they enjoyed several snacks made by students…

Culinary students “treat” School Board members

When the Haywood County School Board met on Tuesday, January 9, in addition to taking care of business, they enjoyed several snacks made by students…

HCS receives TNECD grant award

According to Haywood County Schools Superintendent Joey Hassell, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development announced last week…

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HHS Investigation

By Superintendent Joey Hassell Several weeks ago, our district administration learned of social media posts by a number of Haywood High School…

East Side entertains with letters and songs  

East Side Intermediate School students performed their annual holiday program, “Dear Santa: Letters and Songs to the North Pole.” Some of the…

HHS DECA students bite into the “Big Apple”

Fifteen Haywood High School DECA students attended the annual New York Experience Marketing Conference held in the Big Apple December 6-10. The…

Anderson celebrates the holidays

Kindergarten and preschool students celebrated the season by performing a program of holiday songs for their parents, grandparents and friends. Among…

HHS “Angels” share at Christmas

At the Fourth Annual Senior Angel Tree at Crestview, the Health Science students went to Crestview Healthcare and delivered two gifts to each of the…

REACH Academy graduates 13

On Tuesday, December 12, 13 students graduated from the REACH Academy at a commencement ceremony. Graduates were Jackson Alford, Laterius Bynum,…

FCCLA students give back

FCCLA students at Haywood High School donated money to provide Christmas presents for two children at The Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of…

Retired Teachers enjoy holiday luncheon

Members of the Haywood County Schools Retired Teachers organization gathered at Haywood High School in the C & T Commons for their annual holiday…

Students are “Angels”

Members of the Lean on Me Club were busy shopping Friday for the Anderson Angel Tree Program for the people in the community who donated money. They…

December Board Meeting

Board of Education approves Values, Mission, Vision and priorities When the Haywood County School Board met in regular session on December 14, one of…

HES enjoys “Charlie Brown” presentation

Haywood Elementary students and staff enjoyed a presentation of "Charie Brown" by the Haywood High School Drama class. .

Enrichment class studies business finance

Haywood Middle School has enrichment classes as part of its curriculum. This is one of the eighth-grade classes that is studying business finance,…

HHS Pom Squad cheers on the Tomcats

With the job of cheering on the HHS basketball teams, members of the HHS Pom Squad are Briana Mann, Angelisa Kimball, Shanya Palmer, Acayla Palmer,…

HMS Beta Club elects officers

Selected by members, the Haywood Middle School Junior Beta Club officers are (from left) Vanessa Littlejohn, president; Caoni Turner, vice president;…

HMS Beta Club collects food

The Haywood Middle School Beta Club sponsored its annual canned food drive the week of November 13-17. Our students and faculty collected 469 cans,…

HMS students create “Graffiti”

Seventh and eighth graders learned about contemporary art using graffiti. They studied different types of fonts and designs to use. All students…

HES honors Veterans

On Friday, November 10, Haywood Elementary School students, under the direction of music teacher Patricia Gaietto (pictured right, below), presented…

STEM teachers address board members

Susan Evans and Sharon Clark were invited to address the Haywood County Board members at the November 9 meeting. Both teachers teach STEM classes at…

New park “Smoke Free”

HHS Student Health Council members invited Mayor Rawls to consider proclaiming the new Uniquely Haywood Park on the corner of Anderson and Jefferson…

School officials receive Patriot Awards

Pictured at the presentation of the Patriot Awards to three Haywood County Schools officials were (from left) Ronnie Wilson; Jennifer Braden, CSFL…

“Five Little Turkeys”

Students in the Save the Children Afterschool reading program did some unusual reading this week. Once they guessed what was in the "IZIT" box, they…

Project LIT Book Club

On Thursday, November 16, HMS Project LIT Haywood Community Book Club celebrated its first book club selection Wonder by R.J. Palacio. In the book,…

Anderson students learn the letter “U”

Kindergarten students at Anderson, while studying the letter U, created arrows out of cheese as part of their "healthy snack" lesson that week. Each…

How Spider Saved Halloween

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Shead's class at Anderson recently enjoyed reading the story How Spider Saved Halloween, by Robert Kraus with School…

Pancake for Parents a “sweet” treat

Anderson Early Childhood Center held its "Annual Pancakes for Parents" the week before Thanksgiving. PEP volunteers help Anderson staff members to…