HHS Scholarships/Awards
Haywood High School Scholarship/Awards Ceremony - May 19, 2017 Top Ten The following Distinguished Scholar students are the Top Ten in the senior…
Class of 2017 awards diplomas to 198 graduates
On Saturday, May 20, 198 Haywood High School seniors walked across the stage in the HHS gymnasium to receive their high school diplomas. Quintavious…
2017 HHS Top Ten
2017 Haywood High School Top Ten 1. Elliot Garrett (GPA 101.758) – The son of Art and Laurel Garrett, Elliot is a member of the HHS Show Choir, the…
Youth Leadership graduates
The 2016-17 Haywood County Youth Leadership Class recently graduated and celebrated at a banquet at First South Community Center. The seniors…
Students learn from Safety Day
Third-grade students had a lot of fun while learning very important information about lots of different area of safety. The UT Extension office out…
Haywood Middle School holds Academic Awards Program
On Thursday, May 18, Haywood Middle School held its Academic Award Program. Principal Morris Long welcomed everyone to the event. Instructional…
Guests enjoy music at the HMS Fine Arts Night
The Haywood County Schools School-Wide Choir is a newly formed group of singers from East Side, Haywood Middle, and Haywood High, who presented a…
Preschoolers entertain with music and dance
Anderson preschoolers joined together to entertain family and friends with music and dance at their end-of-the-year music program on May 19. Under…
Art students at HMS display work
Seventh and eighth graders created the artwork on the wall in the gym at Haywood Middle School. A variety of compositions were created, such as…
School Board to hold a community meeting
For the process of hiring a new superintendent, the Haywood County School Board set a date for a Meeting for community members to attend and express…
Sports May 10, 2017
Courtesy of Brownsville Press
Sports – May 10, 2017
Courtesy of the Brownsville Press
HHS FFA celebrates outstanding year
On Monday, May 8, members of the Haywood High School Future Farmers of America and family members and other guests gathered to celebrate the…
Young signs scholarship
Haywood senior Wandaryku Young recently signed a basketball scholarship with Jackson State Community College. She was joined at the signing by her…
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…