Three Oaks Elementary School is officially ready to rock! Sea Shore Realty Broker, Tracy Boswell, heard that the music system at Three Oak’s Elementary needed an upgrade and donated an iPod touch to the school. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. Three Oaks Elementary Physical Education Specialist Tom Warren plans to use the iPod to Read More…

The cafeteria staff at Fairfield Elementary School show off their school spirit for Fairfield SCA’s Wacky Wardrobe Day. Tell your friends! Follow us!  

Earlier this month, Tallwood High School world languages teachers, Gisele Falls and Shawnda Hinton were presenters at the annual FLAVA (Foreign Language Association of Virginia) Conference in Williamsburg, Va.  Falls’s workshop was based on strategies for keeping students motivated in the World Languages Classroom. Falls taught others how to keep their students engaged and motivated, Read More…

Several years ago, Kempsville Elementary Teacher Jodi Sisson began volunteering on a regular basis with the SPCA.Through her volunteerism, she met Sharon Coffey and Dana “Paul” Wilson. Together, the three launched KES’s “Listening Ears” program, where each week Coffey and Wilson would bring in rabbits and guinea pigs to Sisson’s, Carolyn Leal’s and Carol Kinsey’s classrooms. Read More…

This summer, some three dozen administrators and members of the Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals (VASSP) from across the Commonwealth were invited to participate in a unique educational teleconference with United States Senator Mark R. Warner.  They included Virginia Beach principals Jim Miller of Bayside High School, Jim Smith of Kempsville Middle, and Sandi Read More…

College Park Elementary School’s staff help the school all day long: instructors by day and salesmen by night.   Tell your friends! Follow us!  

Centerville has got some new fins! Centerville Elementary – whose mascot is a dolphin – received both a new dolphin statue along with a full dolphin costume from Bank of the Commonwealth. The local bank also had a dolphin for a mascot, but that ended after they were bought out by Southern Bank. Janie Berges, Read More…

Dr. Linda Hayes, principal of Pembroke Elementary School, and Assistant Principal Karen O’Meara attended a Principals Environmental Leadership Program in Tangier Island. At the event, they learned the basics of environmental education and how to use it to meet curricular objectives in a way that engages students. Both administrators also enjoyed hands-on learning activities on Read More…

Staff at Kempsville High School participated in several team building activities during their in-service week this summer. These activities included a “Tower of Cups” game where teams competed to see who could build the tallest tower of paper cups as well as a hula hoop activity where teams had to raise a hula hoop above Read More…