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School briefs

Bayshore Christian adding eight classrooms

By ELISABETH DYER and SHANNON BREEN
Published September 30, 2005

BAYSHORE BEAUTIFUL - Parents, teachers and students are celebrating the planned addition of eight classrooms at Bayshore Christian School, 3909 S MacDill Ave.

For three decades, the school taught prekindergarten and kindergarten classes in portables. Construction on the new classrooms is expected to be finished by winter break, said Steve Hill, administrative assistant for the school.

A subsidiary of Bayshore United Methodist Church, Bayshore Christian teaches prekindergarten through 12th grade and has an enrollment of about 400 students.

GANDY/SUN BAY SOUTH - Most residents have left the Rembrandt Gardens Apartments, and Tampa Housing Authority officials are helping the remaining families relocate by the end of the year.

Once the public housing complex is vacant, crews will demolish the buildings and begin transforming the site for school use. School officials at nearby Robinson High School envision community tennis courts, practice fields for soccer, baseball and softball and an airplane hangar for students in the Aeronautical Academy.

Tampa Housing Authority and the School Board agreed to swap 10 acres of district-owned land south of Robinson for the 8-acre housing complex off Lois Avenue after someone fired gunshots from the complex's parking lot near students playing softball at the school in February 2003.

DOWNTOWN - Blake High School drama students will perform Holes, the story of a teen who overcomes a family curse after he is sent to a camp where children are forced to dig holes. Performances will be in the Don Thompson Theatre at 7 p.m. today and Saturday. Tickets are $7 at the door.

BELMONT/JACKSON HEIGHTS - Students at Franklin Middle School will take oaths of lifelong dedication to being law-abiding productive citizens during the school's Inaugural Ceremony and Career Exploration event from 12:20 to 2:20 p.m. today.

Franklin, at 3915 E 21st Ave., opened last year as Florida's first middle school magnet with a law theme. E.J. Salcines, an appeals court judge, will swear in the students.

During the event, students will also get a closeup look at a bomb squad robot, SWAT team, canine unit, underwater diver, race car, helicopter and mobile crime scene lab from the Tampa police and Hillsborough sheriff's departments.

The public is welcome.

[Last modified September 29, 2005, 09:21:10]