DA Athletics: 2010-2011; A Year in Review
May 20, 2011 • TJ Rogers
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Raider football players, fans, cheerleaders, and trainers celebrate the game winning catch with .4 seconds left on the clock. Sports at Dorchester Academy have captivated Raider fans; monumental achievements and many headlines have filled the school and the Maroon and Gold. It is shocking that the... Read more »
Lower School Lab
May 20, 2011 • Josh Bucci
Filed under Classroom News, Top Stories, Uncategorized
All through out the year, Mrs. Melissa Hinton, high school biology teacher, has visited the lower school students to work on science labs and conduct cool experiments. When asked about working with the lower school Mrs. Melissa said, “I loved... Read more »
Middle School Exploring
May 19, 2011 • Joey Shieder
Filed under Classroom News, News, Top Stories
5th Grade stands in front of a Ripley's Aquarium exhibit Middle school students are not the easiest people to teach, but they are easy to entertain. Savannah, Charleston, Jacksonville, and Myrtle Beach were all destinations for middle school field trips. ... Read more »
Making History
May 19, 2011 • Brandon Bair
Filed under Baseball, Top Stories
The baseball players at DA are on the verge of making history. We can do something that has never been done before, which is winning a state championship in football and baseball in the same year. We split the series with First Baptist winning the first game 5-1; we fell short... Read more »
A Lot You Didn’t Know About World War II
May 12, 2011 • T.J. Rogers
Filed under Classroom News, Top Stories
During the week of April 11, 2011, the high school participated in a cumulative unit of World War II. Art and technology were the main focuses of the unit. “The most interesting thing I learned all week was the food rationing,” junior Grande Fender said. He was interested... Read more »
Making Memories
May 9, 2011 • Elizabeth Brownlee
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
The prom king Mc Kenzie Ammons and prom queen Jacey Wagers dance after the contest announcent was made. Prom can be boring and prom can be fun, but Dorchester Academy’s 2011 Rumble in the Jungle was a “wild” place to be on Friday, April 15 at the Elks Lodge in Walterboro. The junior class worked... Read more »
Play It To The Beat
May 5, 2011 • Lauren Scruggs
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Seventh Grader, Effie moorer Works hard to catch up with the competition in Middle School. By learning chords and remembering keys, middle school students keep up on their special talents. Many students in Dorchester Academy’s middle school have magnificent talents, but some... Read more »
Taking a Break
April 29, 2011 • Reese Westbury
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Spring break is a time when students filled with spring fever get to spend a week of relaxation outside school. Springtime is a beautiful time when the flowers are blooming and baseball and softball is in full swing. It is certain that everyone needs a break, and a week out of school is... Read more »
Enrollment
April 28, 2011 • Joey Shieder
Filed under News, Top Stories
Bookkeeper Susan Hughes works on the enrollment for 2011-2012 school year Are you attending Dorchester Academy next year? If so, you may have missed the enrollment deadline. As of April 25, 2011, the school had 264 students enrolled. Junior Peyton... Read more »
Rivalry at the Literary Meet
March 15, 2011 • T.J. Rogers
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories
Trevor Canady and Cassidy Gruber were two of the participants in the Literary Meet. They both participated in storytelling. The Annual SCISA Literary Meet, was held at Holly Hill Academy on February 2, 2011. Dorchester Academy had contestants in many different categories who were competing... Read more »
