By: Alicia Sands Lurry Sarah Smith Elementary School Principal Dr. Michael Forehand is extremely proud of his school’s consistent track record of academic excellence. According to the recent Single Statewide Accountability System Award (SSAS) Schools recognition by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), Sarah Smith and five other elementary schools – Mary Lin, Morningside, Morris Brandon, […]
By: Alicia Sands Lurry Just like their school mascot, students at Morris Brandon Elementary School are busy little bees. For the fourth time this school year, students in kindergarten through fifth grade embarked on a school-wide service project designed to help individuals in need. This time around, students donated everything from toothbrushes, toothpaste and socks, to […]
Buzzers sounded quickly as 290 elementary and middle students from 29 Atlanta Public Schools competed in the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl at Drew Charter School. At the elementary school level, Morris Brandon Elementary won first place and Garden Hills Elementary won second. At the middle school level, Sutton Middle School won first place with Atlanta Neighborhood […]
Congratulations to media specialist, Lindsay Waddell, and her team from Morris Brandon Elementary on their amazing performance at the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl regional competition for the metropolitan Atlanta area. Morris Brandon placed third in the competition, which included students from school districts across the metro area. The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl is a competition […]
Congratulations to Morris Brandon, Centennial Place, Garden Hills, Parkside, D.H. Stanton, Toomer, Beecher Hills, and Drew Charter elementary schools for their outstanding performance in the fourth-annual APS Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl this last weekend. As the highest-scoring teams, Parkside and Morris Brandon will proceed to the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 5. […]
Some 80 members of Morris Brandon Elementary‘s First Grade Choir filled the new auditorium with song on Thursday, bringing music to the ears of those assembled to celebrate the opening of the new Primary Center that will serve kindergartenders and first-graders. The choir performed under the guidance of music teacher Gail Oden, and was […]
UPDATE: Watch video of the First Grade Choir performance here. Visit photo gallery here. APS and other distinguished officials cut the ribbon Thursday on the Morris Brandon Elementary‘s Primary Center that opened at the start of the year and serves the growing Buckhead school’s 200-plus kindergarteners and first-graders. The ceremony capped off an unprecedented year of school […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer with our first duo: Nancy Hultquist (above right) and Kelley Jordan-Monné (left) from Morris Brandon Elementary. These two teachers traveled to Bamako, Mali, to continue to develop the school’s relationship with their sister school, Kalanso Espace Education. Kalanso and Morris Brandon began their sister-school partnership […]