Let’s Move! Active Schools announced that Red Mill Elementary School is one of five schools in Virginia and 544 schools nationwide to receive the 2016 Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award. The organization, part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative, recognizes outstanding efforts in creating active school environments, including providing students with at least Read More…
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LPES student featured in national Down syndrome awareness video
On Saturday, Sept. 17, Linkhorn Park Elementary School student James Grunwald will be a star on the Times Square jumbotron in New York City. A photo of him holding a book he wrote and illustrated as a first-grader last spring entitled, “I Can,” will appear in the National Down Syndrome Society’s (NDSS) annual Times Square video Read More…
Submit VBEF fall grant applications and auction artwork by Oct. 7
In June, the Virginia Beach Education Foundation (VBEF) awarded $85,000 to teachers to support their 2016-17 Schoolwide Grants and Innovative Learning Grants. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the VBEF will award an additional $40,000 this fall for a total of $125,000 in grant funding this school year. The grant application deadline for the fall review process Read More…
Green Schools National Network blog features VBCPS submission
Kudos to Marie Culver, gifted resource teacher at Seatack Elementary, An Achievable Dream Academy, for her feature published on the Green Schools National Network blog. Her submission, “Growing a Greener and Cleaner World with Ocean Friendly Gardens,” describes the efforts of school staff, students, parents and community members last year to create the first Ocean Friendly Read More…
Staff members spin support for Bayside leadership workshop
Car washes. Concession stands. Cookie sales. All are methods schools used by schools to raise money to support student activities and athletics. Bayside High School (BHS) teacher and SCA adviser Ashley Williamson put out the call for a more active way to support the school’s annual leadership workshop – spin class. The BHS SCA hosted Read More…
The Week in Photos: Sept. 5-9
What a great opening week of school! Welcoming signs. Welcoming staff. Caring community partners. Engaged parents and families. And, did we mention the Blue Angels? Take a look at some photos captured by school media liaisons and school division staff. We hope next week is just as amazing! Many schools took staff photos to mark the Read More…
New academy celebrates opening with ribbon cutting ceremony
The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy (EBA) at Kempsville High School celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 6, the first day of the new school year. The academy’s first class of ninth-grade students were introduced to parents, community members and Kempsville staff members in the audience. “I know I speak for my fellow Read More…
The Week in Photos: Aug. 29-Sept. 2
Back-to-school bulletin boards, breakfasts, neighborhoods visits and even yoga were just some of the images shared by school media liaisons and staff members this week to highlight VBCPS employees’ work and fun as they prepared for the first day of school. Woodstock Elementary School teachers are stepping into the new school year with “pencil shoes.” Teachers Read More…
ICYMI: Summer 2016 highlights
The dismissal of students June 17 didn’t mean all school division activity stopped for the summer. Celebrations, workshops, recognitions and learning for students and staff continued throughout the weeks and months that followed. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from summer 2016 with links to more coverage. CELEBRATIONS Commencement week for the Class of 2016 concluded Saturday, June 18, Read More…
VBCPS staff prepare to fly with Blue Angels
Brad Ward and Bevin Reinen are preparing for the flight of their lives. When the Blue Angels visit Virginia Beach for the NAS Oceana Air Show Sept. 9-11, the two VBCPS employees will take backseat rides in F/A 18 Hornets as part of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps flight demonstration squadron’s guest flight program. Read More…
