Schools & Departments
Centennial Celebration Activities & Events

• Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts
  Students in History classes will create storyboards or video documentaries based on oral interviews. These will be used to form a history fair. The top two from each category will be selected and entered as contestants for the Palm Beach County History Day category "Individuals In History."

• Banyan Creek Elementary
  Students will participate in an essay contest and art project depicting the evolution of education over the past 100 years.

• Cholee Lake Elementary
  Students will participate in a Centennial essay contest.

• Clifford O. Taylor/Kirklane Elementary
  Students will decorate their classroom doors depicting the way school would have been 100 years ago.

• Emerald Cove Middle
  Students will create artwork with historic themes for display throughout the school.

• H. L. Johnson Elementary
  On the 100th day of school, H. L. Johnson Elementary is planning a schoolwide event. Each student and staff member will dress in costume and participate in a school day typical of 100 years ago.

• H. L. Watkins Middle School
  6th, 7th and 8th grade Social Studies classes will utilize the Palm Beach County History and Civics newspaper insert to study the history of schools dating back 100 years. Activities supporting this study will take place within their classes.

• L. C. Swain Middle
  The students and staff will put together a PowerPoint presentation on the City of Greenacres, Lawrence Carter Swain, and L.C. Swain Middle School.

• Limestone Creek Elementary
  Limestone Creek Elementary will have a schoolwide theme day "Dress How Students Dressed 100 Years Ago." Intermediate grades are completing research projects on the Centennial and primary students are going to complete writing assignments and projects based on the same theme.

• Poinciana Elementary
  Students school-wide will make a quilt in art to commemorate the School District’s 100th Anniversary.

• Schoolhouse Children's Museum
  The Schoolhouse Children's Museum will be hosting a special exhibit in the Community Archives Gallery called, "The School bell is Ringing." The exhibit will feature photographs, objects, artifacts and memorabilia of the history of seven Boynton Beach area schools. The Exhibit opens January 13, 2009 and will run through April 18, 2009.

• Seminole Trails Elementary
  Seminole Trails Elementary will join the district's Centennial Celebration by integrating lessons into daily plans and through special in-house TV broadcasts. Students will learn songs and games of the era and explore what life was like for a student in 1909. Activities will culminate with the burial of a time capsule and a gala program, "Then and Now."

• Sunset Palms Elementary
  Students will participate in two art projects. The first project will incorporate the school name “Sunset Palms” and the second one will incorporate the school mascot the sea turtle.