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Olive Garden's Pasta for Pennies LuncheonPosted on: Thursday, April 28, 2011Grafton Middle School (GMS) raised $1,000 for Olive Garden's "Pasta for Pennies" program. The program supports the fight against Leukemia and Lymphoma. Each year, schools choose a three-week period when students fill collection jars in their classrooms with donations of spare change. The class collecting the most money at each school is awarded a pasta party delivered to their classroom by their local Olive Garden restaurant. Nellie Williams' 6th grade class won the pasta party at Grafton Middle School this year. |
Grafton Middle School Marshmallow ChallengePosted on: Thursday, April 28, 2011Grafton Middle School (GMS) students in science classes undertook the Marshmallow Challenge. This challenge, which has been given to college students, kindergarteners as well as corporate executives, is simple. Given 18 minutes and the following material, 20 strands of spaghetti, 3 feet of tape, 3 feet of string and one large marshmallow, construct the tallest tower possible to uphold the marshmallow on top. Many teams produced a tall tower, only to see it crumple as they placed their marshmallow on top. Creativity, modeling and good teamwork at GMS produced a winning structure with a height of over 75 cm! |
Key Club Helps Invisible ChildrenPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Tabb High School’s (THS) Key Club, under the leadership of club sponsor Michael Martinez, has continued its sponsorship of the Invisible Children's Organization with its donut sale. Key Clubbers sold Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before and after school during the week of April 18th to raise money for this charitable organization. |
Parachuting at Grafton MiddlePosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Theresa Zeytoonian's sixth grade science class experiments with gravitational potential and kinetic energy using parachutes. |
Together We CanPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Grafton Middle School (GMS) students participated in the National PTA Reflections Program this year. The program is an arts recognition and achievement program for students. The Reflections Program provides opportunities for students to express themselves creatively and to receive positive recognition for original works of art inspired by a pre-selected theme. |
Virginia Music Educators Blue Ribbon Music School Award for Tabb HighPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011On March 19, Tabb High School’s (THS) Girls Ensemble participated in the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) District 8 Choral Assessment. This is a state choral singing assessment that has choral students being adjudicated against a national standard. |
Cubism Collage Wins 1st Place in District CompetitionPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Grafton Middle School (GMS) student, Sangho "David" Han won an award from the Yorktown Women's Club Art Competition for his mixed media Cubism Collage. His artwork won Best In Show and 1st Place for the middle school category. David also placed 1st in the District competition and he received a $50 savings bond. |
World Finals for Seaford Elementary!Posted on: Friday, April 22, 2011The Seaford Elementary School (SES) Odyssey of the Mind Team competed at the State Competition on April 16, 2011. The team placed 2nd in their division and as a result will compete in the World Finals in College Park, Maryland. The SES Odyssey of the Mind team also won the prestigious Renatra Fusca award for creativity above and beyond the requirements of the problem. |
Yorktown Middle IB Students Honor Virginia TechPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Students in Katie Bookbinder's International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) geometry class created and produced a memorial quilt to honor the victims of the April 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech. Working in collaboration with their MYP visual arts and English courses, students applied their knowledge of geometric shapes to produce the quilt's design and then included poetry inside each of the individual aspects of the quilt. The quilt was the only memorial item allowed to be displayed in the reopened Norris Hall on April 16, 2011, the fourth anniversary of the tragedy. |
Bruton High Teams Up with Kohl’s for School BeautificationPosted on: Friday, April 22, 2011Bruton High School (BHS) students, parents and staff teamed up with Kohl’s volunteers to work together on beautifying the outside of BHS. On April 16th, the Beautification Team worked together to plant flowers, pull weeds and spread mulch to beautify the front entrance to BHS. |
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