READ to be READY
Haywood County Schools (HCS) is 1 of 212 grant recipients across the state to receive a 2017 Read to be Ready Grant. The grant funds educational…
HHS Senior softball players honored on Senior Night
Senior members of the Haywood High School Softball team, Felescia (Squirrel) Sanders, Claudia Price and Morgan Hendrix, were honored on Senior Night…
Anderson students read more than 40,000 books!
Anderson Early Childhood Center students had a fun reward for collectively reading more than 40,000 books this school year. Pre-K and kindergarten…
2017 Distinguished Scholars Banquet
The Class of 2017 Distinguished Scholars candidates were honored at a banquet on Tuesday, May 2, in the HHS cafeteria. Twenty-nine students were…
Garrett and Bond excel in National Decathlon
Glynn Bridgewater, sponsor for the HHS Academic Decathlon, announced Tuesday that Elliot Garrett was the highest scoring team member in the online…
HHS A/V students work with Jackson Generals
Five HHS A/V students had a great opportunity of hands-on experience in the audio-visual field at a Jackson Generals game. Pictured are Emily Pugh,…
Baseball and Books was a HUGE success!
Baseball and Books was a HUGE success! The Wildcats were allowed to wear their baseball gear and jeans Friday, April 21, for Baseball and Books! The…
ES students “Walk Across Tennessee
East Side students recently concluded an eight-week physical activity challenge called Walk Across Tennessee. The challenge is sponsored by…
Art contest promotes healthy living
By: Tennille Short National Public Health Week was celebrated April 3-9. Local elementary students participated by entering the Public Health Week…
Art contest promotes healthy living
By: Tennille Short National Public Health Week was celebrated April 3-9. Local elementary students participated by entering the Public Health Week…
Reading Is Fundamental “Book Jams”
By: Peggy Jackson For the past 20 years, Haywood County has been a “Reading Is Fundamental” community! This means the Haywood County Family Resource…
Mary-Wyatt Pettigrew named Youth of the Year
Mary Wyatt Pettigrew received the Youth of the YearAward from the Exchange Club. She was chosen among many candidates due to the work she has…
Three artists win contest
The Brownsville Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse chose an Alice in Wonderland theme for the coloring contest they sponsored for…
Ready to be Ready: HCS Spring Book Jam
By Yvette Blue On April 13, 2017, Haywood County Schools sponsored a Spring Book Jam at the Brownsville Boys and Girls Club. In alignment with the…
East Side students make great gains!
These wonderful students achieved the most gains on the Star Spring Screener from Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Pickens' class! Shivam and Akira made the most…
HES presents Spring concert
Haywood Elementary School students pulled out all the stops on April 13 when they presented to a huge crowd of family and friends their Spring…
And the race was on!
Anderson Preschoolers hit the grass running at their annual Easter Egg Hunt held on April 13 on the school’s playground. Overseeing the frantic…
School Board plans for Superintendent selection process; approves preliminary budget
The county school board won’t ask county taxpayers for more money next year, and they’ve decided to manage the hiring of a new school superintendent…
Superintendent Teresa Russell resigns
Superintendent Teresa Russell It wasn’t the first order of business, but the last. Superintendent of Schools Teresa Russell read a letter resigning…
Students hear the message “Don’t Drink and Drive”
Haywood High School seniors on Monday, April 10, took the production of a mock car crash seriously that they experienced where several were injured…
GEAR UP offers ACT prep workshop
Haywood County GEAR UP TN provided a great opportunity for juniors to do well on their ACT Test this school year. GEAR UP offered a workshop from…
East Siders compete in 4-H speech contest
Photo by Chris McCain Article Contributed by Brooke McCain, Brownsville Press On Wednesday, March 15, five fourth-grade students and two fifth…
Saving students, growing leaders
Sixteen high school students were present at the March school board meeting to talk about their trip to Nashville to the Education Equal Opportunity…
Jalyn Mann wins bike
Anderson Early Childhood Center announces that Jalyn Mann won the bike for the third nine weeks. Donated by the Brownsville Police Department and…
HES holds Pep Rally
At the school’s Academic Pep Rally on March 31 for the third nine weeks, Haywood Elementary student Sabren Hasan was the winner of the perfect…
Keunte Rudd shares with younger students
Keunte Rudd, a student at the REACH Academy at Sunny Hill School, was given permission by Superintendent Teresa Russell to speak to members of the…
GEAR UP and others sponsor tours
Haywood County GEAR UP TN provided tours at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Jackson and Lane College in January for 13 students…
HHS DECA students advance to international competition
HHS DECA Students Advance to International Competition Three Haywood students, Leslie Fox, Satya Patel, and Colbie Killen, placed second in…
HHS DECA hosts on-site Mini Conference
Haywood High’s DECA Chapter hosted its annual on-site mini conference in the Career and Technical building on March 2. Each year DECA likes to…
Show Choir takes on California
By Hannah Riley The weekend of March 18-19, the Haywood High School Show Choir competed in four categories in Anaheim, California. They…
Fractions in review
Mrs. Cress' students at East Side reviewed fractions yesterday with their dry erase boards. We see our Wildcats using their strategies to answer the…
Students learn science lessons
Mrs. Cress's science classes at East Side had so much fun recently testing substances to see if each one was an acid or base!
ES students create banner
This Kaboom Park Banner was used for the ground breaking ceremony recently at the new community Park on Jefferson Street by the Farmers Market. East…
March Board meeting packed with news
Mr. Bobby Henderson, TSBA Southwest District Director and Chairman of the Hardeman County Board of Education, presented the Board of Distinction…
Academic Decathlon State Results 2017
Haywood High School had three teams who participated in the Academic Decathlon regional and state online competition as well as in a scrimmage that…
Marketing students target Tomcat football
Haywood High School marketing student Delmy Ortega created a survey as part of the unit on marketing information management. Student groups prepared…
“Cookies for Courage” for local heroes
East Side's Student Council members labeled Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies “Cookies for Courage” for our local firemen, EMS, and police…
ES students talk about “Leader in Me” model
A few representatives from the East Side Intermediate School Student Lighthouse Team shared with a few of the county commissioners their thoughts on…
Haywood Elementary students love books!
Recently students and teachers at Haywood Elementary celebrated reading by dressing as their favorite book characters. First-grade Teachers and…
East Side “outside” math lesson
Mrs. Kelso at East Side took her students outside on a beautiful day and taught her fraction lesson with sidewalk chalk!!!
Students learn about decimals
East Side fourth-grade students in Mrs. Kellie Haywood and Mrs. Danielle Crider's classes have been discussing real life situations in which they…
Hey there! Hi there! Wowza! Wooza!
You missed a fun time, If you missed Seussapalooza! Anderson answered the creative call And a wondermous time was enjoyed by all! The Cat in the Hat,…
HES celebrates Dr. Seuss’s Birthday
Last week, the staff and students celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday by decorating the classrooms and making the hallways come alive! The first graders…
East Side students perform in Black History program
Sheronda Rogers-Green and Daughters of Destiny were guests at East Side Elementary and presented a Black History program on February 23.…
Farmer Grady’s STEM Challenge
Chelsea Currie, 4th grade Math/ Science East Side Intermediate Living in Haywood County, the Heart of the Tennessee Delta, agriculture is of great…
HCS Nutrition staff attends culinary training
On February 21, Denita Jarratt, Director of Nutrition for the Haywood County School System, attended Culinary Training in Cordova along with…
HES students honor history in song
Third-grade students at Haywood Elementary School pulled out all the stops to present a monumental Black History Month and Presidents’ Day Music…
East Side graduates 210 D.A.R.E. students
It was a outstanding graduation ceremony with a gym full of guests for 210 fifth graders at East Side Intermediate School as they completed the…
Julian Stanz REACH Academy Teacher of the Year
Mr. Julian Stanz has taught for eight years in Haywood County Schools. He currently serves as the History and Economics instructor for Sunny Hill…