Congratulations to Anita Cardona!!! JYJ Teacher of the Year

Ms. Cardona was selected from Five Finalists as our Teacher of the Year. She is a technology leader in our school and our system and does a tremendous job in using technology to support her classroom. Under her leadership, our Spanish classrooms have conducted classes in conjunction with sister classrooms in Honduras via Skype. She serves as a Promethean Leader and teams with Sadie Hoover to lead the Wake County Promethean Users Group.

Teacher of the Year Finalists!

We are very proud to present our five Teacher of the Year Finalists. We will film a video of them teaching a lesson and an interview with them about their "hope for their students." Our staff will then view the videos and interviews and select one of them our JYJ Teacher of the Year!

Our Finalists!

Debra Pitt- Second Grade

Julie Thompson- First Grade

Anita Cardona-Spanish

Jen Bell-Fifth Grade

Jenna Rickley-First Grade

Joyner Jamboree a BIG Success!!!

Everyone had a Great Time at the Joyner Jamboree!!! It was our largest crowd in memory and there were lots of fun activities for young and old alike!

Math Night

Everyone had a Great Night at Math Night on Oct. 13th!!! Students, Parents, and even Teachers got a chance to show their Math Skills.

Congratulations Mrs. Pitt!!!

Congratulations to Ms. Debra Pitt!!! She was recognized by Office Max with their National "A Day Made Better Award." This award recognizes a teacher who, on a daily basis, makes the lives of everyone around her better. Ms. Pitt received office supplies and supplies for her classroom with a value of over $1000 and we received books for our library in honor of Ms. Pitt.

Be The Church Day- Stop Hunger Now

As a part of our church's Be The Church Day, my family participated in a Stop Hunger Now food packaging event at The Peak Methodist Church in Apex, NC. We packaged over 20,000 meals (Rice, Soy Meal, Vitamins, and Vegetable Flavoring) as a part of our service project. Best yet, everyone no matter how small can help! Many of the meals we packaged are going to Haiti and very well might feed a child that our Haiti team visited in the orphanages this summer.

Chip Popivicieu shares his experiences on Everest.

Chip Popivicieu, one of a very few men to have ever summited Mt. Everest came to speak to our 5th graders Friday about the climb. They are currently reading the book, PEAK by Roland Smith, which details a trek to summit Everest.

Mr. Popivicieu was born in the mountainous region of Transylvania and the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.

Joyner 3rd Graders Helping Refugees from Central African Republic

The family pictured above were guests of Ms. Scheffel and our third graders Monday. They are Refugees from the war in the Central African Republic. They fled to Chad after their villages were burned and soon came to the United States with the help of Lutheran Ministries. They live in Ms. Scheffel's apartment complex.

Our third graders have been studying communities and discussing what happens when things go wrong in a community. Our guests communicated through an interpreter and told the students of their time in the refugee camps and their trip to America.

JY Joyner Open House

Dear Joyner Parents,

We invite everyone to come out to our Open House on Thursday, Sept. 15th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm.

Great Opening!!!

Thanks for another great opening of school! We have enjoyed meeting all of our new Kindergarteners and new to JYJ students. We're off to a good start!

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Joyner Recognized by NC Dept. of Public Instruction

J.Y. Joyner Magnet Elementary has recently been recognized by NCDPI as a NC ABC's School of Distinction for our performance on the NC End of Grade Test.

Congratulations Teachers, Parents, and Students!!