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…
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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…
Students wish all staff a ‘Happy New (School) Year’
All VBCPS staff members return to work this week to prepare for the new school year and the arrival of students Tuesday, Sept. 6. Students welcome back all staff with this “Happy New (School) Year” video message. Tell your friends! Follow us!
Brandon Middle distributes school supplies in community
Brandon Middle School has collected school supplies over time from various organizations and churches to share with students who may need extra materials. Rather than wait for students to return to school to provide supplies, Brandon staff members went into the community Friday, Aug. 26, to deliver supplies. They visited Brookwood Apartments to provide bags, notebooks, Read More…
Summer programs support student transitions to middle and high school
Eighth graders admitted to feeling nervous on their first day of middle school. High school seniors remember being uncertain about what to expect as freshmen. These experienced students are now sharing lessons learned with rising sixth-graders and ninth-graders in transition programs hosted by the division’s secondary schools before the new school year begins. The programs Read More…
Creeds steps up its multiplication practice for students
It started with a photo Casey Conger saw on Twitter in October. A school in California marked a set of stairs with vocabulary words for students to see more often. Eager to make the most of her own students’ transition time, the Creeds Elementary School principal started thinking about the two stairwells in her school. Read More…
Cox and Bayside collaborate to create academic adventures
The sidewalks in front of Cox High School typically are not filled with chalk drawings of stick figures, hopscotch squares, smiley faces and other doodles. And it’s not common for an intense game of Duck, Duck, Goose to break out steps away from the school’s front doors. However, that was the scene the first week Read More…
Parent workshop provides overview of gifted education program
More than 40 parents in room C9 at Landstown Middle School sat, stood and leaned for one of the first breakout sessions of the morning. “How many of you have gifted students?” asked Dornswalo Wilkins-McCorey, instructional specialist in the school division’s Office of Gifted Education. Most attendees raised their hands. One parent responded, “We don’t Read More…
Aspiring entrepreneurs develop plans for their passions
One word. That is what rising ninth graders in the new Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School were asked to use to describe how they felt at the end of third day of the Envision Lead Grow program. Energized. Encouraged. Knowledgeable. Accomplished. Composed. Organized. Impacted. Empowered. The 20 female students also expressed feeling Read More…
