White:North Raleigh Christian Academy at 7300 Perry Creek Road is planning an orientation for new families at 7 p.m. Aug. 14. The orientation is for parents only.

White:Northern Wake is welcoming two new principals when school starts in August.

White:Freshman year can be an exciting, yet scary, time for students -- and parents. To help ease some of those concerns, several northern Wake schools are hosting freshman-orientation camps.

White:Has this week been hard for you parents of kindergarten students at Brier Creek Elementary School? You're not alone.

White:Congratulations to a few northern Wake students who received $1,000 scholarships from Wal-Mart.

White:Good news coming from Ravenscroft: Rising eighth-grader Laura Gillespie and rising 10th-grader Svyatoslav Petrov both won third place awards in the student photo contest of the Triangle Land Conservancy, entitled "Saving the Places You Love."

White:What happens when you combine the elements of illusion and dance?

White:With many kids out for the summer and spending time at friends' houses, ASK (Asking Saves Kids) is reminding parents to ask about guns in the homes of where their children are spending time.

White:There's only one way to close out the school year and that's with good news. Congratulations to the following Wakefield Middle School students:

White:The Wake County Public School System's summer school schedule will begin July 5 for students who are interested in attending.

White:Visit Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School at 1800 S. Main St. for the first Charity Laser Light Show and Dance-A-Thon at 7 p.m. June 2.

White:Hats off to the 2006 northern Wake high school valedictorians. The students are Jennifer Dawson of Leesville Road; Jennifer Greenstein of Millbrook; Natalie Cooke of Sanderson; Thomas Blair of Wake Forest-Rolesville and Meredith Horton of Wakefield.

White:Congratulations to Durant Road Middle School's eighth-grade band. The students received a "superior" rating and won first place last month in the Middle School Class AA Concert Band division at the Music Showcase Festival in New York City.

White:Think you're good at solving science or math problems? High school students interested in the challenge should participate in the 2006-07 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology.

White:A big congrats to the honors chorus Capital Pride at Leesville Road High School.

White::With proms and graduations around the corner, parents and kids should visit the National PTA Web site, www.pta.org, for information on drugs and alcohol abuse prevention. Inf

White::N.C. State University is offering more summer science camp opportunities for science buffs.

White::Parents, does it seems like yesterday that your little one didn't want to let go of your hand at kindergarten and now they're getting ready to graduate from high school? Do you need help coping with that?

White::Congratulations to T.W. Bradshaw, a fifth-grader at North Ridge Elementary School, who won $1,000 for his school with his idea of improving parental support by creating a parent-tutoring resource center, with one-on-one tutoring from parents.

White::Parents should enjoy a special performance of "The Fork in the Path," an opera written, composed and produced by fifth-graders at Brooks Elementary School at 10 a.m. today.