Along with Hyde, Frink principal Michael Moon and Stephanie Harrell, the Summer Bridge administrator, accompanied the students. The tour on Tuesday took the former fifth graders into classrooms on Frink’s sixth-grade hall, into the media center and gym and the area where bus riders enter the building. “They got a preview of what we’ll be doing in the sixth grade,” Hyde said. They met regularly with middle school counselors and fit physical education sessions into their schedule.

Summer classes in math, English language arts and science gave students a taste of sixth-grade work. Rising sixth graders headed to Woodington Middle and Rochelle Middle received the same Summer Bridge attention and also toured their new schools this week. “There’s a little bit more independence on the student’s part when it comes to inside the classroom, a little bit more independent work,” said Christy Hyde, a sixth-grade math teacher at Frink and a leader in the middle-school portion of Summer Bridge for students leaving La Grange and Banks elementary schools and the K-5 section of Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School. While the 11-year-old concedes that getting lost in the halls on her first day is still a possibility – “I hope there are some teachers standing out there,” she said – her new school appears less new because of what she and other Summer Bridge participants learned about teacher expectations at the next level and about what that big step up in grade requires of them emotionally and academically. “I know more sixth grade teachers and I know which classes there are,” Janiyah said Tuesday while she toured Frink with a small group of Summer Bridge students who just last month put the fifth grade and their La Grange Elementary School days behind them. Frink Middle School and Contentnea Savannah K-8 School feed into North Lenoir High School.Janiyah Outlaw might not know her way around EB Frink Middle School yet, but she knows a lot more about moving up to the sixth grade after spending the past three weeks in LCPS’s Summer Bridge Academy, a program helping rising sixth and ninth graders make the step up to a new school environment. Frink Middle School receives students from Banks Elementary School in Kinston and La Grange Elementary School in La Grange. It is the only former black school in the county to not undergo major renovations since integration.Į.B. Frink Middle school is the oldest school in Lenoir County still in use. In the 1980’s, Lenoir County switched from the junior high system to a middle school system and the grade levels served changed to sixth through eighth grade. With integration, all the county middle and high schools changed their mascots, and FMS went from being the Wildcats to the Cavaliers.

Frink went from a high school, to a junior high school serving grades seven through nine. In 1970, Lenoir County schools integrated and E.B.

Mewborn was a former student at Frink, and he was principal until 1981. Allen Mewborn became the second principal of the consolidated school. Savannah school is now closed, but was consolidated with Contentnea Elementary to form Contentnea Savannah K-8 School. Interestingly enough, these remain three of the four current middle schools in Lenoir County. There were three choices for black students in Lenoir County: Frink, Savannah, and Woodington. When consolidation occurred, Frink was chosen for its location, infrastructure, and administration. Upon consolidation, the school was renamed E.B. Around this time, Lenoir County became one of the first places in North Carolina to have both white and black consolidated schools. Principal Frink died suddenly in May of 1951. They rebuilt the school across the street at its current location (102 N. In 1921, the school caught on fire and burned down. It was located at 103 North Martin Luther King Jr. Frink Middle School began as La Grange Colored High School in 1920.

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