From Our Elementary Principal



Mr. Richard Boykin

The floors are polished.  The bathrooms are renovated.  The halls are filled with book bags and backpacks.  The smell of newly opened packs of paper and workbooks fills the air.  The sounds of lockers opening and closing, the students' laughter, and the aroma of fried chicken nuggets can only mean one thing:

SCHOOL HAS BEGUN!

It is time to sharpen the pencils, designate time for homework, and think about what the teacher has taught you that day.

I want to encourage parents to take time to read, read, and read with your students.  If only ten minutes per night, let them hear you read, and please take time to read to them.  This is so very crucial in kindergarten and lower elementary.

I appreciate all the work that our kindergarten parents put in on the K-playground.  Your work has certainly made a difference and a safer place for our children to play.

Thanks to the teachers for making this one of the smoothest beginnings of a school year I have ever been part of.

I want to encourage all stakeholders in the Leake Academy family never to stop working for a better school.  Dennis Kimbro writes, "Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action."

I can only speculate the success of the upcoming year, but with continued teamwork, the possibilities are limitless.

NOT ART, NOT BOOKS, BUT LIFE ITSELF IS THE TRUE BASIS OF TEACHING AND EDUCATION.  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi  (1745-1823)

Richard Boykin