Today, Haleyville Elementary School second and fifth grade students filled their cafeteria. After finishing 10 weeks in the Super Citizen Program, they are gathered to celebrate their accomplishments and honor local heroes from the stage.
These students have learned their important roles in America’s future thanks to an immersive experience in civics, character, financial literacy and social studies. And in the closing piece of the program, Torch Teams (or “Helping Hands” for the younger students), students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world. They chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with Authentic Liberty Replicas & Liberty Pins. They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the Torch Teams & Helping Hands Heroes honored today in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the Winston County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
Were you at the event? See the photo gallery below to find yourself, to revisit the magic or watch it unfold for the first time >
- These Haleyville Elementary students are excited to honor their heroes and get their Helping Hands graduation certificates!
- Showing off their Super Citizen Graduation Certificate!
- Troy and Dally lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
- 2nd grader Laney shares all about her Helping Hands Hero!
- Laney honored Posey Whiteside, founder of LovePacks, as her class hero!
- Lilah Kate, 5th grader at Haleyville Elementary, told us all about how her Super Citizen Hero, lineman and her father Matt Kilpatrick, inspires her class to be Super Citizens!
- Lilah Kate and Matt Kilpatrick!
- 5th grader Tate shares about his class Super Citizen!
- Mr. Palmer himself led the students in their Helping Hands Pledge!
- Now it’s time for Haleyville Elementary 2nd graders to take their Helping Hands Pledge!
- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
- Now it’s time for Haleyville Elementary 5th graders to take the Super Citizen Pledge!
- Pledging to be the Super Citizens of Haleyville Elementary!
- These students placed their hands on their heart and promised to be a Super Citizen.
- Hands on hearts, these students pledged to be Super Citizens.
- 5th grade students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- These students are singing our tour anthem loud and proud!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Leading the crowd in song!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Waving their flags in song and celebration!
- Students and teachers alike singing along to our tour anthem!
- We are thankful to everyone who made our event possible, especially assistant principal Elyse Aldridge, principal Tammy Hatton, and assistant principal Marc Tracy!