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If you picked up the Carrboro Citizen this week, you couldn’t miss the adorable Dr. Seuss Singer (1st grader Gracie K.) on the front page (see link below). Also, the Awards Assembly and wacky basketball game got a full page of coverage in Chapel Hill Magazine’s new publication, The Weekly. And local radio station WCHL 1360AM aired an interview [...]

Did you miss the Read-a-thon Awards Assemblies? If so, then you need to check out one or all of these videos that show the Principal’s Challenge: two teams of teachers, dressed up as book characters (from the BFG to Thing 1 & Thing 2 to Ms. Frizzle), and 8 lucky FPG students took to the [...]

Thanks again to everyone who helped make the 14th Annual Read-a-thon such a success!  Attached is a slide show of photos from the Awards Assemblies last Friday. In addition to the award winners, it highlights the Dr. Seuss Singers as well as the fantastic basketball players and cheerleaders who participated in the Principal’s Challenge.

A big thanks to all the parents who supported the FPG Read-a-thon this year.  Thanks to all the parents who volunteered for the bake sale, Read-a-thon Night and tally day.  We would also like to recognize the following parents for their time and efforts on behalf of this FPG tradition: Co-chairs: Paige Zinn and Kathy [...]

Congratulations to all the winners at yesterday’s Awards Assemblies! And a special thanks to all the teachers who made the students’ day once again with the basketball game – such fun! The students at FPG read more than 942,000 minutes and raised more than $14,500 for the school’s PTA! Yeah! Also, the media center staff [...]