The dietary staff had a special Hawaiian day in the Hornet's Nest for lunch last week. Our Dietary staff is so creative and they make really good food!🍍🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🍍

Barbie Coble's art students have a display of the art they created this year. Check out their art work in the Massey Activity Center lobby. 🎨

⚠️CORRECTION: The show will take place in Vestal Hall on the first floor in the hall near room 126.⚠️

Come to the Sensory Art Show on Friday May 26th in the Massey Activity Center lobby. Showing the art of students of all grades! The art show will be from 9AM until the start of the award ceremony.

The cafeteria staff celebrated student birthdays for March, April, and May. Happy Birthdays!!🎂🎉🎁🎈

State testing is officially over for our middle school students! To fill the last few days of school, they will be enjoying many engaging projects and activities. On Thursday, students were able to work together and use their collective creativity and create a box marble maze game! After they were finished they were able to take turns testing all the mazes that were created. 

Kate Shealy's students are working hard to put the covers on this year's Yearbook!

If you want your own copy of the Yearbook, please contact Tammy Phelps. 252-237-2450 Ext. 282

Last Friday we honored our employee anniversaries with a ceremony and hotdog cook out! Jeff Morgan, our maintenance supervisor, has been working for the state for over 30 years! Congratulations y'all!

We have published a new webpage for the School Advisory Committee. On it there are dates of meetings and minutes from the January 23rd meeting.

You can find the page in the website menu under About Us -> School Plans -> School Advisory Committee.

Last week the cafeteria staff had a special Jungle Day event in the cafeteria! They are a creative crew! 🐅 🦍 🦛 🐆 🦜

This month's spotlight is on Melissa Chatman. Melissa is an ASL Coach here at the school and helps students perfect their ASL. She has worked at ENCSD for seven years. Born in Wilson, NC she grew up here and attended ENCSD. Melissa says her favorite part of the job is teaching and working with students. Earlier this year Melissa did a fantastic job helping lead cheers at a school pep rally. She has a big personality and a great sense of humor.

The Lion's Club treated us to a delicious hot dog dinner yesterday!🌭 They also donated $300 to the school. We thank them for their kind service and their support of our school!

Williamson Gym is being updated! The floor was resurfaced and repainted bringing the design up to date. There is still more to do but, check out the before and after photos of the floor! 🏀🏐🤸‍♀️

The SRR class stamped circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles using wooden blocks and tempera paint to make Shape Friends. 🎨

Elementary students recently created collage self-portraits and middle school created identity self-portrait collages in art. Aren't they fabulous?🎨

Don't miss your chance to apply! March 31st is the deadline to apply for the ENCSD's summer program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in Eastern NC, Operation Accelerate! K-12 students will learn beyond the classroom through a variety of field trips, STEM activities, games, life skills, and ASL immersion. Click the link to apply now: https://www.encsd.net/students/operation-accelerate/application-form 

It's Career Day today. The students saw presentations from Harold Campbell and Ruben Leon and got to ask them questions.Thank you Harold and Ruben for sharing with our students today!

Spirit Week! Wear your colors this week!

Free Online American Sign Language Lessons

Are you:

Parents of a Deaf or Hard of Hearing child (0-3 years old)?

Brenda is our friendly Librarian and Media Specialist who has worked for the school for twenty seven years. Born in Goldsboro, NC, she is an alumna of Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf and also attended Fike High School for some of her classes. Brenda has a Bachelors of Science degree in History with Teaching certification in Social Studies grades 9-12, and a Masters degree in Library Science. Both degrees are from East Carolina University.

Our middle school robotics team "Top Homies" is in Talladega, Alabama for the 4th annual NRSC Vex IQ Competition today and tomorrow! Wish them luck! 🍀 💚💛💚💛 NRSC IQ Competition 2023- Friday

Barbie Coble's art students are at it again!  Barbie says,

The Kindergarten students have been learning about the Elements of Art: Line, Shape, and Color. Check out their masterpieces!

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ENCSD's HS Robotics team 27893A FazeUp has made it to the finals! Watch them compete on the livestream starting at 2:00pm EST! https://www.youtube.com/live/E9NBKX5wa-w?feature=share

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The High School Robotics teams are at the Alabama School for the Deaf and gearing up for inspections and practice matches!

🤖 Wish them luck! 🍀

We have pictures from a research project Fallon DiBlasio's class worked on for "The Mitten" story they have been reading. Fallon's students chose an animal, researched facts, and presented them to the class. 🐱🐰🐴🦆🐸🐢