The halls of the Community School of Davidson were transformed into a Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday night. (Christina Ritchie Rogers / DavidsonNews.net)

Community School of Davidson sixth-graders hosted the school’s fifth annual Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday evening, transforming the halls into an interactive history lesson. Meanwhile, about 150 people gathered Sunday at W.A Hough High School to remember Bailey Middle School science teacher Mark DeSarro, who died earlier this year. Also, Davidson Elementary plans Field Days, Bailey Middle School plans its annual Beach Bash, Lake Norman Charter students celebrate the arts, and two local students win National Merit Scholarships. Read below for details. Read the full story

Bailey's Battle of the Books team. (BMS photo)

By KAY SKIPPER

Bailey Middle School’s Battle of the Books team took the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools title for the first time in the school’s history in a nail biting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat competition Friday, March 9, at Alexander Graham Middle School. Read the full story

Mark V. DeSarro, a Bailey Middle School teacher, coach, friend, father and grandfather, formerly of East Liverpool, Ohio, died suddenly Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, at his home in Charlotte. He was 53. See more in OBITUARIES»

Bailey middle school students and staff are grieving the loss of seventh-grade science teacher Mark DeSarro, who died at his Charlotte home Saturday. Read the full story

CORNELIUS – Bailey Middle School was briefly put on lockdown late Friday morning while police from Cornelius and Huntersville searched for a man who lived in the area who reportedly was threatening to harm himself.

The lockdown was brief, and the man eventually was located unharmed in Huntersville, near N.C. 73 and Mayes Road. He was hospitalized, according to Huntersville police.

Parents of Bailey Middle students were alerted about the lockdown Friday afternoon in a automated telephone call from the school.

Electric violinist Mark Wood played with Bailey Middle School students Rachel Laminack (left) and Kelsey Tyo Tuesday night. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

String music on a high school stage rarely sounds like what concert-goers heard at W.A. Hough High School Tuesday night. Award-winning electric violinist Mark Wood led a student orchestra in string versions of songs ranging from “We Will Rock You” by Queen to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” to “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay. Read the full story

A revolution is transforming string and orchestral music and if Mark Wood has his way, it will change the way strings are taught in schools as well. We need to prepare for a time when the classical orchestra “disappears into obilivion,” the electric violin pioneer says. Mr. Wood brings his “Electrify Your Strings” education tour to the Lake Norman area next week, including a concert Tuesday, Oct. 25 at Hough High. Read David Boraks’s interview with Mr. Wood and find out how to get tickets to the concert in THE GUIDE»

J.M. Alexander Middle School in Huntersville will have an interim principal when students return to classes later this month. JoElla Ferrell, a retired Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools principal, will be filling in indefinitely for Alexander Principal Jo Karney, who is out on medical leave. Also in this column, area schools’ open house and back-to-school events schedules, and CMS adds cricket to its 2011-12 sports program. Read the full story