The mission of Newport Grammar School, in collaboration with involved, caring parents and community members, will

  * Provide a creative, personal, and challenging education;
* strive to create an environment conducive to optimal achievement and
   fulfillment for both students and staff;
* Foster life-long interest in learning;
* Inspire all to strive for individual excellence;
* Accept others' differences; and
* Become a contributing member of a global community.

Newport Grammar School has "Gone Green" and is in partnership with "Keep Cocke County Beautiful" to make a difference in our environment.  At the beginning of this school year we joined the green movement by agreeing to work toward recycling all paper products .  The school was outfitted with a special outdoor recycling bin to collect mixed paper and is eager to receive smaller bins for individual classrooms and offices in our school.  The bins are being provided through grant money received by "Keep Cocke County Beautiful."  Mixed paper is easy to spot once you get started.  Our teachers and students are making a conscious effort to recycle   items like magazines, notebook paper, copy paper, newspapers, junk  mail, etc.  We hope this effort will carry over into the homes and more people will join us in this endeavor to save landfill space.

Our students are now discovering a new way of learning science.  They are now allowed and encouraged to experience this subject through various hands-on activities.  Each grade level comes to the science lab once a week for an average of one hour.  Here they explore each expected learning standard in a new and exciting way.  The classroom teachers as well as the science lab instructor are on hand to guide them through each experience.

At the end of the school year, each child will have been exposed to major laboratory equipment.  All grades complete mini courses in microscope use and triple beam balances.  The metric system is in continual use in the measurements of length, volume, mass, and area. Our students are encouraged to think globally on many issues and will be well acclimated to the scientific community's body of knowledge.

Two goals are set for the science lab.  Number one is to simply learn by doing.   Number two is to have fun!   Student excitement is nearly tangible when dissections are near.  Fourth grade will be examining an owl pellet and classifying actual bones they find.  Fifth grade has so far enjoyed creating cell models that mysteriously appeared as water balloons.  Some sixth graders have possibly complained of counting beans while in actuality they were mimicking biological mark and recapture methods to estimate the population of particular organisms.  Playing with play-dough may sound elementary, but our seventh graders enjoyed creating cell models labeling all major cell organelles.  Of course eighth grade gets to have the most fun by creating paper pets and allowing them to have off spring and analyzing their genetic make-up.  Each grade level benefits from the experience and looks forward to returning.  No day has passed without hearing the question, "What are we doing in science lab next week?"

Effective July 1, 2007, school systems are prohibited from hiring any individual whom the department of children's services has found to have committed abuse against a child or whose name has been placed on the state's vulnerable person's registry or the state's sex offender registry.  School systems are required to submit the names of all potential employees to DCS prior to employment to determine if the potential employees were found by DCS to have committed child abuse.  This will be in addition to the criminal history record check conducted by the TBI.  

Newport Grammar School is now providing English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring for any student in kindergarten through eighth grade who doesn't speak English at home or whose native language is not English.  Eighth grade language arts teacher Lenora Douglas recently earned an additional endorsement on her teacher's license that qualifies her to teach English as a Second Language.  Mrs. Douglas's primary goal is to give extra assistance to her ESL students' individual needs.  However, Tennessee has an ESL curriculum in place, and all ESL students are required to take an achievement test, the English Language Development Assessment (ELDA), as well as the TCAP test each year.  Mrs. Douglas says she is excited to have the opportunity to provide extra help and support for students who may otherwise fall behind because of language barriers.  The ESL tutoring class meets after school on three days a week in Mrs. Douglas's classroom .

The Newport City School System is searching for students with disabilities within the District. The following are considered to be handicapping conditions: speech-language impaired, learning disabled, blind, deaf, health impaired, physically impaired, seriously emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, gifted, autism, hearing impaired, multi-handicapped, functionally retarded, or developmentally delayed. If you have a child that is not currently enrolled in the Newport City School System that meets one of the above conditions, please call the Special Education Department at Newport Grammar School at 423-625-0686

The Newport City School District, 301 College St., Newport, Tennessee, is an Equal Opportunity Employer & Educator who fully and actively supports Equal Access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Sex, Age, National Origin or Disability. We wish continued progress for all minority communities.

Virtually any kind of parent involvement boosts student achievement, from baking cookies to joining a committee, from going on a field trip to volunteering in your child's classroom. When you are present in school activities, you send a clear message to your children that school is worthwhile and valuable.

The Newport City School Board will meet  March15 , 2010 . Pre-meeting will begin at 5:30 with regular meeting to follow.