While most students are still enjoying their summer vacation, Harlem High School officials want to get them prepared for the upcoming start of school.
With classes resuming in less than a month, the school is holding a Back to School Celebration Wednesday at Harlem High.
"It is (for) all the kids. It focuses on the community, the Harlem community, and then our feeder schools, the Appling community, which is back with us now," Harlem High Principal Dietmar Perez said. "With the opening of Grovetown (High School),we're almost going to be like a new school next year, minus a lot of good kids we lost to Grovetown. It is kind of a celebration of the community."
The event, which is for all school-aged children in the Harlem and Appling areas, including pupils for Harlem's elementary and middle feeder schools, and runs from 1 to 6 p.m. Activities will include inflatables, a rock climbing wall, water slide, mechanical bull and dunking booth.
Perez, who is the school's new principal after 19 years at Harlem as a social studies teacher and assistant principal, said he'll be taking a shift in the dunking booth and is working on his heckling skills.
"We want people to come out and enjoy it and have a nice community day," Perez said.
Concessions will be available all day, and a band of former and current Harlem High students will perform at 6 p.m.
Admission is free, and rides cost 50 cents. All-day ride passes will be available.
Rising Harlem High freshmen will have the opportunity to get their school schedules, locker assignments, school tours and other information at the event.
"It is a good time for freshmen parents to meet some of the teachers, some of the staff. They can come out and walk around," Perez said.
For information, call (706) 556-5980.
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