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To begin each monthly meeting, the Lexington School Board takes a moment to recognize teachers, students, or individuals and groups within the LCS community that make a significant impact on the district’s day-to-day operations.
LCS Superintendent Rebecca Walters recognized three of the district’s community partners for the goods, services and strength they provide the LCS community – Spencer Home Center, Blue Sky Bakery, and Earth, Fire & Spirit Pottery. Walters also awarded these businesses with a certificate from the 2023 Virginia School Board Association Honor Roll at the School Board meeting last Tuesday, May 2.
Walters thanked the businesses for providing the district with supplies that support their elective programs that would normally be too expensive for the schools to acquire.
Spencer Home Center has supplied Lylburn Downing Middle School with wood and carving equipment to help the district kick-start its wood carving and build programs. “We need supplies, we need wood, we need carving equipment, things like that – Spencer [Home Center] has been a great partner and been able to provide some of that.”
The building supply store was also integral in transforming the middle school’s teacher lounge into a functional, instructional kitchen space for the new cooking elective LDMS added this year.
“… We took our teacher’s lounge and turned it into an instructional student kitchen to offer a basic cooking skills class to our middle school students,” Walters said. “Spencer Home Center was a great partner to help us see that through. They helped us with design, they helped us with materials …” Earth, Fire & Spirit Pottery has also donated materials to support the district’s art electives and programs. At Waddell Elementary School, the pottery store has sponsored art shows, provided art displays, and donated “additional supplies that really make our art program a rich program,” Walters told the Board.
Walters continued, “At the middle school, there’s no way we’d be able to support our ceramics program without the help of Earth, Fire & Spirit, because the price of clay is a bunch … [they] help give the students the supplies to create beautiful art projects.”
Blue Sky Bakery has also been a tremendous community partner for LCS as a sponsor for Waddell and the Parent-Teacher Association, Walters said. The bakery provided lunches for teachers on teacher workdays and donated their fan-favorite focaccia bread to be served at a school sponsor spaghetti-night event.
