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School of the Week: West Laurens High
Construction students built a boat-shaped serving platter for the district s country boil feast for their bus drivers. Author: Pepper Baker Updated: 7:16 AM EDT May 28, 2021
LAURENS COUNTY, Ga. West Laurens High School construction teacher Jeff Johnson and his students are putting the finishing touches on their latest project. We built from the bottom up on the boat. We made what they call relief cuts where it makes the wood bend easier, so that it can make it bend more like a boat, sophomore Tucker Burney said. We just went through and carefully sanded each of these bent pieces and all of these and burning the wood and making it look like this, junior Cameron Arsenault said.
The school s cheerleading, wrestling and dance teams each brought home state championship titles Author: Pepper Baker Updated: 7:35 AM EST February 19, 2021
LAURENS COUNTY, Ga. West Laurens High School s dance and cheerleading teams made program history, winning their first state championship titles. We knew going off that, that was the best that we had ever done, senior dancer Kristene Peavy said. We were definitely nervous. Especially as seniors, it was our last time ever getting out to go do something, so we didn t want to mess it up and we really wanted to give our all, senior cheerleader Ella Newsome said.
Success does not come easy. Dance coach Shellie Mclemore and Cheer coach Hollie Beale explain how they practiced through a pandemic.
West Laurens High School moving to virtual learning this week
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DEXTER, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – West Laurens High School students will be learning from home Monday, December 14th through Friday, December 18th.
According to a post on the high school’s Facebook page, students will participate in virtual learning because of the effects of COVID-19.
All faculty and staff must report to work during normal business hours.
The post went on to say this change does not affect any other schools within the Laurens County School District.
According to the school’s district’s latest academic calendar, all schools will close for holiday break on Monday, December 21st. Classes start again Monday, January 4th.