Supporting Parents in Educational Decisions

Crayton Middle and A.C. Flora High Schools are hosting an online parental suport meeting to help plan for the transition to life after school.  Hosted by our Parent & Family Engagement Specialist Mrs. Love.  Please see the link for a flyer with more information and the Zoom meeting link.

Crayton Middle Football vs. Hand Oct. 20th

Tonight's game will be at Memorial Stadium (1000 South Holly St. Columbia, SC 29205) There are no in-person paper tickets at the stadium, they must be purchased at the following link: Crayton vs. Hand Tickets

Governor’s School Presentation

This Thursday, October 21st @ 5:30pm there will be a presentation for prospective students interested in the Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.  You can find the Zoom link here.  The password to join is SCGSAH and will begin at 5:30.  

Prospective Student Handout

Application and Deadline Handout

Picture Day!

Jostens will be here to take yearbook photos next Monday, October 18th.    Pictures can be viewed and purchased on-line at Jostenspix.com after picture day is over. You can personalize your picture and select your background.

Please do not allow your student to wear green as they will not show up with the green screen background.

Dress your best and wear your smile! 

Remember you can purchase your yearbook here.

Parent Teacher Conferences - October 29th

Hello Crayton Families!  This year's Parent-Teacher Conferences will be help virtually, either through a phone call or Teams Video call.  You can book your student's teachers here.

For additional help, check this handout for instructions. 

Basketball Try-Outs

Tryouts for the Girls Basketball team will be Nov. 1st & 2nd and the Boys will hold tryouts Nov. 4th & 5th. All forms (Health History & Physical) must be filled out by a physician and in Planet High School (directions here) in order to tryout. If they are not in by the day of tryouts, you will not be allowed to tryout. Please see Coach Harris for questions about Girl's tryouts and Coach Hawkins for questions about Boy's tryouts.

Virtual Open House

Our Virtual Open House begins this evening, allowing you to meet all of our teachers and other personnel. You can acess all of our teacher videos vie the following link:

Open House Flipgrid

Spring - Summer Football Calendar

April - August Crayton Football Schedule

Summer Volleyball Practice Schedules

    June                   July

Rising 6th Grader Information

Attention parents of rising 6th grade students. Scheduling information for the 21-22 school year was mailed home this week. Please be on the lookout for this important information.

Spring and Summer Football/Volleyball Information 

Spring and Summer practices for Crayton football and Volleyball are rapidly approaching. In order for your student to participate  in spring practices, summer practices, tryouts or any athletic activity, all athletes must have an up-to-date physical exam form along with all other require forms on the Planet High School website. The physical exam form must be completed and dated on or after April 1, 2021 of this school year to be valid for the spring, summer and next school year. Please see the link below for all relevant information and needed forms. Spring and Summer practice schedules will be available on the website April 19, 2021.

Planet HS Directions

to be filled out by physician:

Health History Form 

Physical Form

Urgent Concerning Pandemic EBT Cards.

State agencies are working to provide Pandemic EBT benefits to qualifying children across South Carolina. All households with potentially eligible students are strongly encouraged to validate their address in the DSS P-EBT Address Portal on or before March 19, 2021. The P-EBT Address Portal is located on the DSS website and here. You will need your Student Last Name, Date of Birth, Student ID, School District and School Name. The student ID is the same as your students Mastry Connect log in or contact the school if you need assistance.

Athletic Links

Before participation in tryouts, practices or any athletic event, all athletes must have an up-to-date physical exam form along with all other require forms on the Planet High school website which will need to be renewed each year.  They can be found here:

Athletic Forms and Information

Gifted and Talented Artistic Auditions 

The 2021 Gifted and Talented Artistic Auditions will be held virtually for grade 5-11 students intested in gifted and talented dance and theater. The deadline is March 19, 2021.

GT Artistic Information Brochure

Theatre 8th through 11th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Theatre 5th through 7th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Dance 8th through 11th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Dance 5th through 7th Grade Student Spring 2021 Audition Procedures

Afternoon Pick-up

The traffic route in the afternoon has not changed, but there is a new safety measure.  To request your child out of the building you will need to scan our QR code (see the video above).  You do not need to download an app, most smartphones will read a QR code from your camera application.  Here is a practice QR code that should take you to our district website:

How To Access TEAMS Day One

Accessing TEAMS Student Link

We are so excited to welcome our Cavaliers to the first day of school, virtually!  Above you will find a Youtube video explaining the process of accessing their classrooms.  Student computers that cannot access Youtube should use the second link.  If your student does not know the account password, please call Crayton at 803-738-7224 for assistance.  

Technical Support for eLearning

The Information Technology (IT) Department will provide technical support to all staff, student and parents of Richland School District 1 on eLearning Days. The IT support Team can be reached by calling 803-231-7436. This number will be active Monday through Friday from the hours of 7 am to 5 pm. 

Congratulations to Crayton for becoming redesignated on October 24, 2019, as a Schools to Watch® school, an initiative launched by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform. Crayton has met the three criteria to become a high-performing middle-grades school. We are academically excellent, developmentally responsive and socially equitable. Congratulations to all the faculty, staff and students for achieving this level of performance. For more information about this award, please visit the following site: http://middlegradesforum.org/