Students Head Back to School This Week

Several Upstate school districts head back to class Monday, others later in the week.

By: Staff reports | News Channel 7
Published: August 17, 2009

It's back to school today for many students starting a new school year. Students in Spartanburg County School District 5, as well as Cherokee, Oconee, and Union all went back to class today. At Duncan Elementary, children filled the hallways as parents dropped them off early for the first day of school.

Principal Susan Hill says the start of school is always exciting for her 650 students, and the first few weeks are dedicated to getting them back into the school day routine, "Usually, the first week is where we are working on a new schedule making sure there are no kinks, but we work for the first two weeks on procedures and routines for the children cause they forget just like we do."

The rest of the schools in Spartanburg, Anderson and Laurens County go back to school tomorrow. Greenville students start on Wednesday.

For a photo essay on the first day of Kindergarten at Prince of Peace click here.

Here is a full listing of school start dates:

Cherokee County (All Districts) - Monday, August 17th

Oconee County (All Districts) –Monday, August 17th

Spartanburg County (District 5) -Monday, August 17th

Union County (All Districts) –Monday, August 17th

Abbeville County (All Districts) - Tuesday, August 18th

Anderson County (All Districts) - Tuesday, August 18th

Greenwood County (All Districts) –Tuesday, August 18th

Laurens County (All Districts) - Tuesday, August 18th

Spartanburg County (Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7) -Tuesday, August 18th

Greenville County (All Districts) -Wednesday, August 19th

Henderson County (All Districts) – Tuesday, August 25th

Polk County (All Districts) –Tuesday, August 25th

Rutherford County (All Districts) –Tuesday, August 25th

Pickens County (All Districts) – Tuesday, September 1st

Fred Cunningham warns drivers to be careful when stopping for buses in his blog.

wspa.com and News Channel 7 covers your back to school concerns:
The P.A.C.E. Center offers tips and ideas on how to get kids starting school on the right foot.

Reducing the anxiety of returning to school.

More tips on reducing anxiety from P.A.C.E.

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Watch out for scams. Some people are using the back to school season to grift others out of hard earned cash.

More:
Find your school district here.

Greenville County Schools offers back to school help:

Greenville County School's Web site

Information on free and reduced lunches at GCS.

Check out these other site for tips especially for parents and teachers
All around tips for going back to school

Want to be enviromentally friendly. Do some "green" back to school ideas here.

Teachers, check out this slide show on back to school tips.

Tips especially for kids:
Kidshealth.org offers these tips especially for kids.