The Edline system seems to have taken root in the fertile soil of the minds of the Bayside students, parents, and teachers; for now, students can, and have used Edline to register online for their prospective courses.

The heads of the respective departments submitted their recommendations for courses to the students, which helped guide them in their selections, all while parents were able to supervise the selection process by viewing both recommendations and their student’s subsequent choices.

The Scholars’ Bowl teams have been making the tournament rounds recently, sending two teams to the LWBCC Academic Tournament on Feb. 22, and one to the Emerald Coast Academic Tournament on Feb. 23. All of the teams did well with the A team in the LWBCC tournament finishing with a 10-4 win-loss record. The team that competed in Fort Walton in the Emerald Coast tournament finished third and got a nifty T-shirt for their effort, despite not knowing a single composer in a now infamous worksheet round. The LWBCCA team comprises: Ian Shields, Anna Yearwood, Stew Shoemaker. The B team was made up of Matthew Wolf, Phillip Cork and Brandon Hammel. The students who went to Fort Walton Beach were Dorothy Griffith, Will Lomers, Megan Sessel, Hannah Ng, John Clark and Ryland Hunter.

The fourth-graders are still doing everything imaginable. They are learning about the Civil War and the differences between the North and the South during that shaky time in the United States of America’s history though the story telling of their teacher, Mrs. Kalaris. Mrs. Kalaris is going to read the students “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” in Alabama History class to show the students similarities between Paul Revere’s ride and John Wisdom’s ride during the Civil War. The fourth-graders also learned about Egyptian hieroglyphics and stegangraphy, and combined them by making their own codes in composed hieroglyphs.