
We had a blast with the Bailey Mountain Cloggers from Mars Hill University yesterday! THANK YOU to the Stokes County Arts Council for arranging for them to come perform for our Bulldogs! They are always so fun to watch!

We recognized our fifth grade students and all of their amazing accomplishments today with recognition and awards. 👏 Thank you to our guest speaker, Mr. Jacob Harbour, Assistant Principal at Piney Grove Middle School.
We wish you all the best of luck at Piney Grove next year! Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog! We hope you've had the time of your life.💙



Bulldogs are GENIUSES🧠,
Bulldogs are BRIGHT💡,
and our Bulldogs are NOT GOING TO SWEAT THE TEST👟!
We had our EOG parade this afternoon with support from our community members and families to celebrate K-2 finishing their assessments and to energize our 3-5 students for their EOGs over the next few days! We had such a great turnout and we know our students are ready to ROCK THE TEST! Go Bulldogs! You've got this!

🎉📣EOG PARADE AND TESTING SPIRIT DAYS🎉📣
Families and Community Members: Join us for a parade to encourage and energize our 3rd-5th grade students before their end-of-grade testing and celebrate how hard our K-2 students have worked to complete their testing!
Wednesday, May 22nd at 12:30pm
along the access road
Please bring posters and noise makers to show your support!
Students: Kick Off to Testing Spirit Days! Join us in supporting our 3rd-5th grade students and their upcoming state testing by dressing up on the spirit days!
Monday 5/20 - Wear jeans
Tuesday 5/21 - Wear neon and sunglasses
Wednesday 5/22 - Wear athletic clothes or rep your favorite team



THANK YOU to our Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week Sponsors! We felt ALL the love and appreciation with all the goodies last week! ❤️❤️
Decorations by Sandy Ridge PTO
Lunch from The Red Top Café by Sandy Ridge PTO
Pizza from J.J.'s by Sandy Ridge PTO
Breakfast from Pinto's Grill by Sandy Ridge PTO
Lunch from Cindy Ferguson
Nacho Bar from Santana's by Sandy Ridge Ruritans
Dessert from Susan Campbell
Dessert from Joyce Proctor
Dessert from Brandi James
Dessert from SRO Tucker
Muffins from the parents of Everette Martin
Tomato Plants for staff from Clark Family Farms
Lunch from Easy Eats, LLC by Sandy Ridge Elementary
Coffee from Rocky's Coffee and Ice Cream delivered by Tory Mabe by Sandy Ridge Elementary


Happy National School Nurse Day, Nurse Karen! We're a little late, but we always appreciate you!


School Lunch Hero Day was Friday! We missed the post then, but we love and appreciate our cafeteria staff every day! ❤️🍎🧃🥪


Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to our teaching staff! We celebrate you and thank you for your hard work and dedication to our students to help them learn and grow. 💙🐾


Happy Administrative Professionals Day, Mrs. Tessa! We are so thankful for you and how you wear every hat so well!


We enjoyed getting to meet some of our new Kindergarteners today! We are so excited for you to become a Bulldog and for you and your families to join our school community here at Sandy Ridge next year! 💙🐾

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Congratulations are in order for our Battle of the Books team once more! We placed second in the Elementary Finals competition today. Way to go, Bulldogs!
We have had so much fun bonding and reading together. We are sad to see this season come to an end, but so very proud of our team and celebrating our hard work! We are already looking forward to next year!


ATTENTION all prospective Bulldogs! We hope to see you there!


Congratulations to our Bulldogs for placing first in our North district Battle of the Books competition against Lawsonville and Nancy Reynolds yesterday! Afterwards, we all celebrated and ate lunch together. It was so much fun to get to know our new friends that we will get to know even better next year! We are very proud of these students for reading and working hard.
Our team will travel to Nancy Reynolds on Monday for the SCS District Elementary Finals against King and Walnut Cove Elementary.



Mrs. Young's kindergarten class enjoyed more guest readers this week! Thank you to School Board member Cheryl Knight and School Board Chairman Von Robertson for visiting our school and sharing a story with our Bulldogs.


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We dressed in silly mismatched outfits and socks today because reading is FUN!
Special thanks to our guest readers:
Junior and senior members of the North Stokes Beta Club:
Kaitlyn Bullins, Kailey Hickman, Kaydence Woods, Lily White, Savannah Eaton, and Jack Young
What an exciting week we have had celebrating Read Across America! We are so thankful to our guest readers for sharing their love of reading with our students. Staff, students, and families, thank you for making this week fantastic by participating in our dress up days!

Reading exercises your mind! Our Bulldogs wore their sporty clothes today to celebrate!
Special thanks to our guest readers:
Tory Mabe, Tourism and Marketing Coordinator for Stokes County, who read "The Raft" by Jim LaMarche
Crystal and Abby Boyles, who read "The Very Cranky Bear" by Nick Bland and "Pete the Cat and the New Guy" by Kimberly and James Dean to Mrs. Young's Kindergarten class
Lydia Cook, former Bulldog, who read "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?" by Dr. Seuss to Mrs. Young's Kindergarten class

Books allow us to dream BIG! Today was PJ day at the Ridge!
Special thanks to our guest readers:
Samantha Joyce, AKA "Sam I am," parent to former Bulldogs Avery, Allie, and Abbie Joyce, who read "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss and "The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be" by Joanna Gaines
Heather Oakley, Sandy Ridge community member, who read "Oh the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss

We are so thankful for our amazing Family Support Specialist, Mrs. Smith! She goes above and beyond to support our Bulldogs.
