💙 Tomorrow (Thursday, April 2) is Autism Awareness Day, and we're showing our support by wearing BLUE! We invite all students and staff to join us in celebrating and honoring the incredible individuals in our community on the autism spectrum. Together, we can build a more understanding, inclusive, and compassionate school for everyone. See you in blue tomorrow! 💙

#AutismAwarenessDay
about 2 months ago, Bladen County Schools
Graphic for World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, 2026, showing a rainbow heart over Earth held by a hand.
Students are actively engaged in learning through centers and small group instruction! They are exploring different spellings for the same sounds using CKLA Spelling Trees, building strong foundational literacy skills in a hands-on way. Students also love spending time reading with Mrs. Cromartie, where they practice their skills and grow as confident readers. It’s wonderful to see their excitement for learning shine through each day!
about 2 months ago, Caren Long
. A young student places a word card on a CKLA spelling tree chart during a phonics activity.
Two students smile while holding writing tablets showing their sentences in a classroom.
Two students sit together reading small books, focused on their literacy center work.
Two students sit together reading small books, focused on their literacy center work.
Two students sit together reading small books, focused on their literacy center work.
Due to a shipping delay, our popcorn will arrive after spring break. Thank you for your patience and support!
about 2 months ago, Caren Long
🧪🎈 Science in Action! Our students explored a hands-on science experiment to see how a chemical reaction can create gas! By combining ingredients, they observed how the reaction produced carbon dioxide, which inflated the balloon right before their eyes. This exciting activity helped students make real-world connections while learning about reactions, gases, and scientific observation. Their faces said it all—science is fun! 💡✨
about 2 months ago, Caren Long
Students watch as a balloon inflates on top of a bottle during a classroom experiment demonstrating a chemical reaction that produces gas.
Students watch as a balloon inflates on top of a bottle during a classroom experiment demonstrating a chemical reaction that produces gas.
Students watch as a balloon inflates on top of a bottle during a classroom experiment demonstrating a chemical reaction that produces gas.
Students watch as a balloon inflates on top of a bottle during a classroom experiment demonstrating a chemical reaction that produces gas.
Students watch as a balloon inflates on top of a bottle during a classroom experiment demonstrating a chemical reaction that produces gas.
📚✏️ Learning in Action! Our first graders are diving into long vowel E with vowel teams this week! Students are building and reading words using hands-on activities, matching patterns like ee, ea, and ey to pictures and sounds. These interactive lessons help our young readers recognize spelling patterns, strengthen decoding skills, and grow their confidence as readers. We love seeing their excitement as they “crack the code” of words! 💡📖
about 2 months ago, Caren Long
First grade students use magnetic letter tiles to build long vowel E words with vowel teams like ee and ea during a hands-on literacy activity.
First grade students use magnetic letter tiles to build long vowel E words with vowel teams like ee and ea during a hands-on literacy activity.
First grade students use magnetic letter tiles to build long vowel E words with vowel teams like ee and ea during a hands-on literacy activity.
📚✨ It Takes a Village! ✨💡 Learning is always better together! Our students had a great time exploring hands-on STEM activities, and even Mr. Chris jumped right in to join the fun. From teamwork to problem-solving, these moments show just how powerful collaboration can be. It truly takes a village to inspire, support, and grow our learners—and we’re so thankful for every helping hand! 💙🐬
about 2 months ago, Caren Long
Students and an adult sit around a table in a classroom working on a hands-on STEM activity using wires, clay, and a laptop, collaborating and learning together.
From Play-Doh to Piano: Kindergarten’s Musical Circuit Creations
2 months ago, Caren Long
Young students work together at a table using Play-Doh and Makey Makey to build circuits and experiment with sound on a laptop.
Young students work together at a table using Play-Doh and Makey Makey to build circuits and experiment with sound on a laptop.
Young students work together at a table using Play-Doh and Makey Makey to build circuits and experiment with sound on a laptop.
Today, our school conducted a practice lockdown drill as part of our ongoing efforts to keep students and staff safe. This was only a drill and was conducted in a calm and controlled manner.

We practice these procedures so that everyone knows what to do in the event of an emergency. Students did a great job following directions, and staff were able to review safety protocols effectively.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to the school.

Thank you for your continued support in helping us keep our school safe! 💙
2 months ago, Caren Long
We were honored to welcome Officer Hakeem Brown with the NC Highway Patrol to speak with our 4th graders! 🚓💙
He shared powerful messages about hard work, perseverance, accountability, and responsibility—reminding our students that their choices today help shape their future. We are so thankful for community leaders who take the time to inspire and encourage our students!
2 months ago, Caren Long
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer stands and speaks to a group of fourth grade students seated in a cafeteria. Students listen attentively as he shares a message about responsibility, perseverance, and making positive choices.
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer stands and speaks to a group of fourth grade students seated in a cafeteria. Students listen attentively as he shares a message about responsibility, perseverance, and making positive choices.
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer stands and speaks to a group of fourth grade students seated in a cafeteria. Students listen attentively as he shares a message about responsibility, perseverance, and making positive choices.
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer stands and speaks to a group of fourth grade students seated in a cafeteria. Students listen attentively as he shares a message about responsibility, perseverance, and making positive choices.
A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer stands and speaks to a group of fourth grade students seated in a cafeteria. Students listen attentively as he shares a message about responsibility, perseverance, and making positive choices.
Kindergarteners are building strong math foundations through hands-on learning! Students used counters and math boards to explore number combinations and find different ways to make a number. Activities like this help strengthen number sense, problem-solving, and early addition skills in an engaging way.
2 months ago, Caren Long
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Kindergarten students sit on the floor and at tables using colorful counters and blue math boards to practice number combinations. They write equations on paper as they work together on early addition and number sense skills.
Congratulations to Trevor M. for being our top seller in the popcorn fundraiser! 🎉🍿 We are so proud of your hard work and dedication! Popcorn orders are expected to arrive before Spring Break—get ready! 🙌
2 months ago, Caren Long
A young boy stands smiling with a scooter beside an adult outside a school building on a sunny day.
STEM + literacy + teamwork = Leprechaun trap success! 🍀✨ Our students worked in small groups to design, plan, and build leprechaun traps. First, they sketched their ideas and wrote about how their trap would work. Then, teams came together to share ideas, choose a favorite design, and bring it to life using a variety of materials. From teamwork and problem-solving to creativity and writing, this activity had it all! We can’t wait to see if we catch a leprechaun! 🌈💚 #STEMinAction #LeprechaunTrap #HandsOnLearning #Collaboration #PrimarySTEM #EPSDolphins #MarchMadnessLearning
2 months ago, Caren Long
Completed leprechaun traps sit on the classroom floor, decorated with shamrocks, bright colors, and pipe cleaners, ready to catch a leprechaun.
Close-up of a student decorating a cardboard box trap with paper shapes and craft materials as part of a group STEM activity.
Students sit together at a table building their trap using a cardboard box, pipe cleaners, and colorful materials while collaborating and sharing ideas.
A student’s worksheet shows a hand-drawn design of a leprechaun trap along with written sentences explaining how the trap will work.
A group of elementary students gather around a table filled with green, yellow, and black construction paper, pipe cleaners, and craft supplies as they plan their leprechaun trap.
Kindergartners hard at work building number sense! ✏️🔢 Students practiced composing and decomposing numbers 6 and 7 using multiple strategies—interactive board work, drawing representations, and hands-on floor activities with counters. From “4 and 3” to “2 and 5,” our learners are discovering that numbers can be broken apart and put back together in so many ways! 💡 We love seeing math come to life through movement, collaboration, and creativity! 🧠✨ #NumberSense #KindergartenMath #HandsOnLearning #MathInAction #EPSDolphins #ComposingNumbers #DecomposingNumbers #EarlyMath
2 months ago, Caren Long
A group of kindergarten students sit on the classroom floor using colored counters to build different combinations of numbers during a hands-on math activity.
A student uses a stylus on a large digital board to solve composing and decomposing number problems, showing combinations that make 7 with drawn dots.
A student uses a stylus on a large digital board to solve composing and decomposing number problems, showing combinations that make 7 with drawn dots.
A student uses a stylus on a large digital board to solve composing and decomposing number problems, showing combinations that make 7 with drawn dots.
A young student stands at an interactive board writing number combinations for 7, using circles to represent quantities while solving a math problem.
Rock, Rosetta, rock! 🎸✨ After learning about trailblazing musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe for Women’s History Month, our students brought history to life by designing and coding their own electric guitars using micro:bits! From coloring and crafting to coding and creating sound, students explored how music, technology, and creativity connect. 🎶💡 Future engineers, musicians, and innovators in the making! 💻🎸 #LearnersToLeaders #WomenInHistory #STEMinAction #MicrobitMagic
2 months ago, Caren Long
1. Student holding a colorful handmade paper guitar with a micro:bit attached, showing how it functions as an electric instrument
Student holding up a completed paper guitar with a micro:bit attached, demonstrating their finished STEM project
2. Two students sitting at a table smiling as one holds up a decorated paper guitar connected to a micro:bit, with laptops and crayons nearby
Student holding up a completed paper guitar with a micro:bit attached, demonstrating their finished STEM project
. Close-up of a student connecting a micro:bit to a paper guitar while coding on a laptop screen
BCS Families—

Due to the threat of severe weather in our area and out of an abundance of caution, Bladen County Schools will transition to an asynchronous remote learning day for students and an optional workday for staff tomorrow, Monday, March 16.

Asynchronous learning means that students will work independently on assignments that teachers have either posted in Canvas or Google Classroom.

Staff will receive information about the optional workday from their supervisors later this evening.

All after-school events and activities are cancelled for Monday, March 16. Additionally, the special-called Board of Education meeting scheduled for Monday has been postponed until Tuesday, March 17, at 6:30 PM.

Thank you and please stay safe.
2 months ago, Bladen County Schools
Graphic reading “Weather Update” with Bladen County Schools logo on a light background framed by blue lines and orange banner.
We are so proud of our Elizabethtown Primary School students who were featured in the online newsletter from EducationNC after presenting at the NCTIES in Raleigh!

https://www.ednc.org/student-stem-showcase-reigned-supreme-at-ncties-2026/

Second graders worked with Media Coordinator Caren Long and their classroom teachers to create an interdisciplinary project that combined literacy, science, robotics, and coding. Students studied insects and habitats, designed their own bugs, and built them using recycled materials like cardboard and aluminum.

Using coding skills they had previously learned, students programmed robot car kits and attached their insect creations so their bugs could “take flight.”

Students Messiah McNeil and Jayla Carter were interviewed about their creative robotic insect designs. We are incredibly proud of how our students showcased their creativity, problem-solving, and STEM learning on a statewide stage!

#EPSDolphins #BladenCountySchools #NCTIES #STEMLearning #FutureInnovators
2 months ago, Caren Long
🎉 Congratulations to Isabella M.! 🎉 We are so proud of Isabella for earning 3rd Place in Sculpture at the Elementary State Beta Club Convention! 🏆 Her creativity and hard work truly paid off. Way to represent Elizabethtown Primary School and show your artistic talent. Keep creating and reaching for the stars! ⭐🎨
2 months ago, Caren Long
Student holding a sign celebrating 3rd place in sculpture at the North Carolina State Beta Convention for Elizabethtown Primary School.
Mixed-media sculpture of a hand wrapped in wires and cords with a yellow crown above it, displayed on a table
🎉 Student Creativity in Action! Congratulations to our student Jeremiah Y., who designed the Elizabethtown Primary School Beta Club shirts for the 2025–2026 school year! 👏 Jeremiah’s design, “Wired for Success,” perfectly captures the Beta values of Leadership, Achievement, Service, and Character. His creative artwork will be proudly worn by our Beta members as they serve our school and community this year. We are so proud to celebrate the talent, leadership, and creativity of our EPS students! 💙💛 #EPSDolphins #BetaClub #StudentLeadership #WiredForSuccess #StudentCreativity
2 months ago, Caren Long
Student Jeremiah Y. smiles while wearing the Elizabethtown Primary School Beta Club shirt he designed featuring the “Wired for Success” graphic
Student Jeremiah Y. smiles while wearing the Elizabethtown Primary School Beta Club shirt he designed featuring the “Wired for Success” graphic
During Women’s History Month, our kindergarten and first grade students read Mae Among the Stars and learned about the inspiring journey of Mae Jemison—the first African American woman in space. 🚀 As a young girl, Mae dreamed of becoming an astronaut even when others doubted her. Her story reminded our students that big dreams can start when you’re young and grow with determination and hard work. After reading the book, students reflected on their own hopes for the future and drew pictures of what their dreams might look like someday. From scientists and teachers to athletes and artists, our students are imagining bright futures ahead. 🌈 We love seeing our Dolphins dream big!
2 months ago, Caren Long
Student holding a worksheet drawing of a teacher standing beside a board that says “ABC.”
Student holding a worksheet drawing of a police officer as their future dream job.
Student worksheet showing a drawing of a YouTuber with screens and a desk, with crayons nearby.
Student worksheet showing a drawing of space and the word “astronaut.”
Student drawing showing a dream to be a chef with a decorated cake and Christmas tree.
More baby chicks are hatching in 2nd grade! 🐣

Our students are getting a front-row seat to science as they watch the amazing process of chicks hatching during their embryology unit. The excitement in the classroom is contagious as students gently hold the fluffy new arrivals and observe them up close.

Hands-on experiences like this help bring science to life while teaching students about life cycles, responsibility, and caring for living things. We love seeing their curiosity and joy as they welcome these tiny new classmates! 💛🐥
2 months ago, Caren Long
Two elementary students gently hold a newly hatched chick while standing beside a brooder bin filled with wood shavings and a heat lamp in a classroom.
A student kneels beside the brooder bin and smiles while carefully holding a fluffy yellow chick in both hands.
A student kneels on the classroom floor and proudly holds a baby chick while smiling at the camera.
Students gather around the brooder bin under a warm heat lamp as one student carefully holds a chick and others watch.
Two students reach into the brooder bin filled with wood shavings as they gently hold and observe a baby chick under the heat lamp.