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The Division Digest A Newsletter from the Office of the Superintendent

October 2014 Volume 8, Issue 1

Cafeteria Corner and Technology 2

Finance and Human Resources & Budget Public Comment

3

Remedial and Special Educa-tion & Curriculum and Instruc-tion

4

Transportation

& Maintenance 5

School News 5 - 10

Important Dates 11

Inside this issue:

Achieving Creative

Prepared Students

Superintendent’s Message

School Board Meetings: Thursday, October 9, 2014 - Interim Meeting - 5:00 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2014 - Regular Monthly Business Meeting - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - Joint Meeting with Appomattox County Board of Supervisors - 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Regular Monthly Business Meeting - Board of Supervisors Meeting Room - Appomattox CVCC Satellite - 5:00 p.m. All meetings will be held in the School Administration Building, Unless Noted

Dear Staff,

Welcome to the first Division Digest of 2014-15. You will find it full of infor-mation and great activities happening in ACPS. From lessons in our classrooms to athletic events and academic and club competitions, our staff and students are hard at work each day.

One-fourth of the school year has flown by as we are completing the 9th week of school. As leaves begin to turn into the brilliant colors of fall, each day for our students is critical in their remaining approximate 135 days of education this year.

We have a School Board Meeting coming up on November 13 at 5:00 p.m. at the CVCC Satellite in town. Part of that meeting will be a public comment session for individuals to speak to our Board about the 2015-16 Budget. I would encourage you to attend and to make your voice heard at that meeting.

We also have another meeting you are invited to attend on October 28 at 5:00 p.m. at the School Board Office. This is a joint meeting of our School Board and our Board of Supervisors. I will be presenting information about our school divi-sion for their discussion and questions.

Please know that the role you play daily in the lives of our students in ACPS is important. Teaching, supporting, feeding, driving, cleaning, guiding – all of us working together do this for our students. Education is the rope that leads our students to success in fulfilling their dreams. Education enables our students to become powerful with knowledge in their lives. Education encourages creativity and imagination. It gives students opportunities for better jobs and more eco-nomic security, which in turn, leads to an increased quality of life. Through learn-ing, students can become productive, confident citizens. Education is one of the most pivotal investments a country can make in its future as a learned popula-tion boosts economic, technological, societal, and scientific growth.

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” B.B. King

Sincerely,

Dorinda G. Grasty, Ed. D. Division Superintendent


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Appomattox County Public Schools Recycling Program!

Cafeteria Corner Niki Kempton, Food Services Coordinator

Students will be traveling through the school to collect paper from the recycling bins in each classroom, office and lounge. We accept mixed paper, which is every kind of pa-per - except for corrugated cardboard - including magazines, flat cardboard, poster board, white paper, colored paper, etc.

Please do not put garbage in the gray collecting bins and inform students that paper products ONLY are allowed in the gray containers.

Technology Brette Arbogast, Director

Technology Tid-Bits

BYOD Just a quick reminder that we have BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in place. We hope you and your students take advantage of this provided service. All you need to do to gain access to unlimited bandwidth is sign up with the librarian of your school. Parents and community members can also use this service. You can also use BYOD with your cell phones to reduce using your personal data plans. E-mail Reminder: Please delete your “Deleted Items” e-mails at least once a month. This wasted e-mail consumes approximately 15% of our entire e-mail storage. Work Orders Your technicians, Phillip Amos and Chris Cutlip, are working as fast as they can and ask that you please place work orders for any tech-nology issues you may have. They would like to state, “We can’t fix it, if we don’t know it needs fixing”. So please place work or-ders. Your ITRTs are always available to you and we will also start using the work order process for ITRTs Susie Fisher and Danny Richard-son. These work orders help us to make sure nothing gets missed and we can all help out if things get really busy. Please use the same work order website and submittal password to send a work order for ITRTs. Appomattox County Public Schools APP Parents, students, and staff are encouraged to download the app to-day. Our purpose of the app is to increase school communication, whether it’s related to a child’s grade or a community member wish-es to follow a sports team. It’s our school, it’s our community - lets communicate. OneDrive The county’s OneDrive is basically a virtual “Flash Drive”. How many times has the data on your flash drive failed you? Well, don’t depend on that ever again. Your virtual “Flash Drive” can be ac-cessed anywhere and anytime while connected to the Internet. You do not need to be in the division to use it. The Technology Depart-ment has dealt with a dozen, teacher owned, flash drive issues this school year. These devices cost roughly $2.00 to $7.00 each to make and some people use them to store their most important infor-mation. If you’re going to use a flash drive, use the county’s OneDrive as a backup.

Wellness

Would you consider participating in the following com-munity outreach Wellness activities?

1. A Healthy Cooking Class (learn about healthy, affordable recipes) 2. A Walking Scavenger Hunt in Town 3. A Weekly Exercise Class 4. Other (enter): Please visit the new Appomattox County Public Schools App

to participate in this survey or email [email protected] .

Cafeteria Corner

October is National Farm to School Month! During the month of October, Appomattox County Public Schools cafe-terias will be serving locally grown apples and sweet pota-toes. The sweet potatoes are from a farm to school partner-ship with New Beginnings Farm in Charlotte Court House and will be the first of many selections we will see from them this school year. Please enjoy some of our locally grown items!

Our new 2014-2015 menu selections are a hit! Students and staff alike are enjoying the Chicken Ranch Pizza and Chick-en Teriyaki at AES, AMS & ACHS. The Bacon Cheddar Burger and Mushroom Swiss Burger at ACHS are also very popular choices. Students at APS get a weekly sweet treat every Friday. Come by the cafeteria to enjoy our new fea-tured items!



Finance and Human Resources Bruce McMillan, Director

License Renewal Process During the past few weeks, I emailed all teachers whose license expires on June 30, 2015 (according to our records). This could be those with a Provisional License or those who need to renew. If you didn’t get that email from me and you believe your license expires in June 2015, please check your license and then contact me. Please make sure you are working with your advisor (principal) to complete every-thing needed to get your license upgraded or renewed before employment contracts are issued in May 2015. If your license expires in June 2015, once you have met all the requirements, you may start meeting with your principal in January 2015 to go over your recertification file and get signatures. The school division pays the cost of renewing your license. However, if you have other changes (adding an endorse-ment, changing a name, etc.) there may be a small fee for you. If that is the case, I will let you know. Email me if you have questions. Insurance Update A new insurance year starts on October 1st (all of our medi-cal policies have a plan year that starts on October 1 and ends on September 30). Your deductibles will start fresh as of October 1, 2014. Our medical insurance carrier will again be Piedmont Com-munity Health Plan (PCHP) and our dental carrier will be Delta Dental. If anyone is having issues with their health insurance or dental insurance, please contact PCHP or Delta directly by using the toll free numbers on the back of your ID cards. In addition, you may also feel free to contact Tra-cy Johnson ([email protected]) in our office if you have questions related to your insurance.

Public Comment Invited on 2015-2016 School Budget

The Appomattox County School Board will hold a public comment session on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Meeting Room at the Appo-mattox CVCC Satellite which is located at the Carver-Price Educational Complex at 136 Carver Lane, in Appomattox. The purpose of the session will be to solicit comments from the public prior to development of the 2015-2016 school budget.

Individuals and organizations with suggestions for the 2015-2016 school budget are encouraged to speak at the meeting. It is not necessary for speakers to request placement on the agenda for this portion of the School Board meeting.

This initial meeting will allow the School Board to hear sug-gestions prior to development of the school budget. The bud-get development time line calls for the School Board to hold a public hearing on the School Board Budget at its February 2015 meeting. The specific date for that meeting will be set when the Board adopts its 2015 calendar in January.

For further information, contact the superintendent at 434-352-8251.


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Remedial and Special Education Beth Haught, Director

Curriculum and Instruction Annette Bennett, Director

New Staff You may have noticed some new faces in the halls of our schools. Beth Gafford comes to us as a special education teacher at APS with Keith Hatcher and Donna Hunter joining the APS special education staff as teacher assistants. Kristin Baumgardner is the latest addition to the AES special education teaching staff and Heather Ware joins the AMS group. Amy Vaughan returns to Bright Beginnings with Alice Matthews as the teacher assistant for her class. Title 1 at APS also has a new addition with Lori Wilkerson coming on board as a teacher assistant. AES has a new school nurse with Renee Mann now taking charge of the school clinic while ACHS brings Kelly Geesaman in as their per-manent nurse following her long-term substitute placement there last year. Please join me in welcoming these folks to their new homes! Annual Title 1 / Special Education Parent Meeting Parents will be invited to attend the annual Title 1/ Special Educa-tion meeting which will be held at APS this year on Monday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria. Special Education and Title 1 staff from APS and AES will present information about their programs with take-home materials being provided for par-ents following a brief question/ answer period. All parents of children receiving special education or Title 1 reading services are encouraged to attend this event. Special Education / Remedial Education / Title 1 Advisory Committee Meeting The initial meeting for the 2014-15 Special Ed/Remedial Ed/ Title 1 Advisory Committee is scheduled for Wednesday, October 15 at the school board office at 3:00 p.m. This committee meets four times per year and is made up of parents, community members, and staff who are interested in improving educational services for special education and remedial students in our division. Topics such as transition needs, Special Education and Title 1 regula-tions, Special Olympics, staffing needs, and mentoring opportuni-ties have been included as part of past agendas. Committee meet-ings are open to the public and any interested parties are invited to attend.

ACPS Celebrates SOL Perfect Scores Appomattox County School Board is excited to announce that 129 students have achieved a perfect score on 182 SOL assess-ments. This fall, parents and students will receive invitations to recognition ceremonies at their respective schools. Congratula-tions to all these students! 2015-16 Instructional Calendar Committee A division-wide Calendar Committee will begin to meet soon. Representatives from each school are needed to participate. Please let your Principal know if you would like to be on this committee. School Improvement and Curriculum Alignment Teachers and administrative staff in each of our schools have been working (some since last December) to address the curricu-lum alignment issues that have been discovered as a result of our School Improvement audits. The Department of Education re-quires all schools to closely examine the alignment of its written, taught and tested curriculum. There are basically three steps that must be completed to insure that alignment is achieved. Step 1: (Written curriculum) We must unpack the SOLs- teachers must examine each standard and skill to determine the cognitive level that is required of students to show master of that standard or skill. Step 2: (Tested curriculum) All of our formative and summative assessments must be updated to match that same cognitive level. The SOL assessments are guaranteed to be a cognitive level match so our assessments should match as well. Step 3: (Taught curriculum) Lesson planning must be re-examined with those same cognitive levels in mind. Instructional activities and assessments are key components of a lesson plan so they will need adjustments based on the alignment process. We have revised the division lesson plan format this year to include all of the necessary components that will prompt teachers to con-sider the written and tested curriculum when planning and teach-ing a lesson. This is a great deal of work which is why we are allowing our-selves an entire school year to complete it. Aligning the curricu-lum as it is taught is the goal for each subject in every grade lev-el. This process relies heavily on the expertise of each teacher who knows their curriculum content, and can assimilate all of these steps to achieve alignment. Thank you to each teacher who is approaching this task reflectively and professionally.

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Volume 8, Issue 1

Transportation Matt Lair, Supervisor

School Bus Safety Week October 20-24, 2014

Governor McAuliffe has proclaimed October 20-24 School Bus Safety Week across Virginia. The average school bus transports 54 students, replacing approximately 36 family vehi-cles. School buses are equipped with safety measures, including bright colors, stop sign arms, and cross-view mirrors to avoid crashes and prevent injuries. School bus drivers are required to undergo rigorous driver training and certification require-ments. We wish to recognize our bus drivers and transportation staff for their steadfast commitment to safely transporting the children of ACPS each day. Thank you to our school bus driv-ers!

Maintenance Timmy Garrett, Supervisor

The Maintenance Department is preserving the history of one of our many buildings, which was one of our painting projects this fall. This building was donated to Appomattox County Public Schools on April 12, 1940 for use as a County Library for the County of Appomattox.

School News

APS NEWS

APS First Grade - Mr . David Street received funding for his classroom from DonorsChoose for a classroom project called “Fun Math”. He will receive the following items: 1. Bubble Pop! Math Challenge Game 2. Ticket-To-Win-It Math Arcade Game 3. Math Bingo Library 4. Math Stories Paperback Library 5. Math Start Stories

DonorsChoose.org is a free, nonprofit website where teachers can receive funding for student resources. All they ask in return is a thank-you package for their donors. QuickStart Tennis of Central Virginia, Inc. - APS PE teacher Cheryl Crews, was recognized for organizing a tennis training program. The Walter Payne Foundation sponsored the program– an organization started by the late Walter Payne, who was a coun-ty public school teacher and Pamplin resident. Second Grade Orientation was held on August 25, 2014 at 6:00 pm. An estimated 35 parents joined us and participated in the event. On September 8, 2014 at 6:00 pm, APS hosted their First Grade Orientation. APS teachers shared fir st grade expecta-tions and strategies for working with students as a partnership for learning. We received over 175 students and families during this event. US Map Comes to APS - Cheryl Crews (PE Teacher) was con-tacted by a Longwood professor with an interest in painting a United States map on our blacktop. Ms. West approved it, and she is super excited about it. We’re excited that we will have this on our blacktop here at APS. Lunch Buddies is a program dedicated to students meeting a caring adult at lunch time to build positive, supportive relation-ships. Lunch Buddies may also play a learning game and/or read a favorite book with their student. APS welcomes school volun-teers to join us for reading books, playing learning games, going on field trips, and/or sharing specific skills and talents with our students. Forty-four volunteers, including our Lunch Buddies, have completed APS volunteer forms and are receiving orientation and guidance. Coming to school is fun with our Attendance Program. Students have a calendar on which to place stickers. The calendar stickers lead to weekly and monthly recognition. Read! Read! Read! APS recognized the winners in our Summer Reading Program and celebrates Accelerated Readers each week with fun bookmarks, posters, bracelets, and books! APS has partnered with Longwood University for student learning by hosting Longwood Partners. Our Longwood Partners are col-lege students preparing to enter teaching as a career. Longwood Partners work with APS teachers and students to discover the pro-fessional and personal rewards of teaching. APS Harmonizers (several staff members) sang the National Anthem at the JV Football Game on September 18, 2014.



School News, continued

APS News, continued

Second grade students enjoy the newest playground equipment donated by our generous PTO.

First graders enjoy the new map of the United States on the blacktop at APS.

Second graders explore magnets during a science les-son. They demonstrate vocabulary words such as

attract and repel.

During a kindergarten unit on Community Helpers, members of the Appomattox County Rescue Squad

brought an ambulance to APS and discussed how they help the community.

First graders enjoy a trip to Johnson's Apple Orchard on October 2nd. At the orchard, the students learned about

plant resources and the life cycle of a plant.

AES News

AES Students Team Up for Strategic Test-Taking Our Title 1 and Remedial Ed teachers teamed up during the first nine weeks to provide students with effective reading strategies to use when taking tests, reading text, and problem-solving for mathematics solutions. Pictured here are Mrs. Debbie Carson, Mrs. Mary Ann Almond, and Mrs. Linda Ward working together to support fourth grade learners.


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AMS News

AES News, continued

AES is Wild About Engineering! Mr. Scot Shippee and Mrs. Debbie Fish, from the Virginia De-partment of Transportation, were guests in our 3rd and 4th grade ALPs classes for two days in September. They introduced the children to civil engineering. Mr. Shippee and Mrs. Fish had the students conduct an experiment involving various mixtures of concrete. The students enjoyed testing their concrete beams to discover which formula proved to be the strongest. Mr. Shippee is a parent of three students at AES and APS, as well as the husband of kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Kelly Shippee.

Fourth Graders from AES were able to experience a bit of Living History on their recent field trip to Jamestown. Students traveled by charter buses on September 19, visited the Jamestown Settle-ment where they could explore the museum, and then toured rep-lications of the English fort, the Indian village, and the three ships that traveled from England to the New World in 1607.

Fifth Annual Watch D.O.G.S Program Begins at AES

On October 2, approximately 100 men came out for pizza night with their students to participate in the fifth annual Watch DOG kickoff event. It was a HUGE success! Commons B was filled with dads/grandpas/uncles/brothers and AES students. Thanks to – Leaders, Mrs. McCann and Ms. Christian, and helpers Mrs. Jamerson, Ms. Yeatts, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Lewis, Mr. McCann, Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Knight and the cafeteria staff, Mr. Bowyer and Mrs. Cyrus. Mr. Matt Homan, intern pastor for Midway Baptist Church, gave a motivational talk concerning the role of father figures in the lives of our youth, particularly in sup-port of classroom learning. We look forward to many Watch DOGS coming to AES throughout the school year! Pictured here is a veteran Watch D.O.G.S. volunteer, Roy Johnson with his son, Micah, who travels all the way from Wyoming to support our school and our students by volunteering in our school.

Mrs. Denise Rogers’ homeroom had the honor of “helping” Mr. Reichert fulfill his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Mrs. Rogers’

homeroom raised the most money in the school for ALS.




AMS NEWS, continued

Cheryl Ellis, PTO President, shown above, is demonstrat-ing our new security system that was put into place at the main entrance. All visitors will now have to ring the “doorbell” and be buzzed in by the main office staff.

AMS National Junior Honor Society Officers – Summer Natour (President), Katelin Savage (VP), Chris Richardson (Reporter) Cheyenne Moore (Treasurer) and Austin Robertson (Parliamentarian) Not pictured: Ilyana Servis (Secretary).

Appomattox Middle School teachers, Emily Harris, Jorena Simpkins, Ashley Stokes and Julie Haley have been selected to participate in the 2014-2015 Mountains to the Bay James River Watershed Academy, sponsored and conducted by the Virginia Resource Use Education Council (VRUEC) in part-nership with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). Through the grant, AMS will also receive a $500 mini-grant to support the team’s watershed education work with their students.

Mrs. Fort and Mrs. Armstrong’s History Classes Become Cartographers

As an introduction to US History, students became familiar with the basics of geography by creating their own globe. Students began their project by drawing and labeling lines of latitude and longitude. Once these lines were drawn, students applied their understanding of latitude and longitude by plotting the coordinate points that represented each continent. Students labeled the con-tinents and the five oceans and had several challenge options they could incorporate into their globe project.

AMS hosted a Family Fun Night for our students and their families on Sep-tember 16. The evening was filled with old-fashion relay races and games. Door prizes were given after a

yummy hot dog supper .



ACHS NEWS

Social Studies Project About 25 eleventh grade students at Appomattox County High School are embarking on an essay project for the 150th anniver-sary of the surrender that brought the Civil War to an end. The project is designed to help them make connections between the surrender that took place in the old village of Appomattox Court House in 1865 and their lives today. This project is the result of a partnership of the Carver-Price Legacy Museum, Appomattox County High School, and Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (NHP). The essay project is a multi-tiered project that gives students the chance to explore the events of 1865 and those surrounding the integration of public schools in and around Appomattox, and ultimately how those events have impacted their lives as students today. Students will begin the project by visiting Appomattox Court House NHP on Oct. 8 and learn how the surrender came to be in the small village, what the village was like, and the impact of how emancipation changed life in Appomattox. On October 15, at 1:00 p.m. the students will visit the Carver-Price Legacy Museum and get a glimpse of what it was like to be an African-American student in Appomattox before 1971. This event is open to the public and will include a panel discussion with eight people, many of whom attended Carver-Price High School, and all of whom experienced integration firsthand either as students or parents. Finally, the students will interview a member of their own family who also experienced integration to gain another perspective of the same historical event. After completing all of these activities, the students will then write an essay to express how their lives have been impacted by these historical events that took place in Appomattox over the last 150 years. The essays will be complet-ed this winter and will be part of the 150th anniversary exhibits at the national park in April, 2015. Rev. R. Stuart Jones, Chairperson for the Carver-Price Legacy Museum 1865 Committee, said of the project, “Our hope is that our youth will see this great event in history not just in today's eyes but in the eyes of all those who gave so much for the free-doms we all have today. We invite the Greater Central Virginia Area and the world to come and be a part of this and all the other events to come as we walk down through our great history that began here in Appomattox.” Rev. Jones and other members of the partnership find inspiration from the late Maya Angelou in her book, "Still I Rise" where she wrote, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestor gave. I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise....Still I Rise."

Students Travel to France

On June 23, 2014 the ACHS French Club left for the Dulles Inter-national Airport in Dulles, Virginia to depart for an eight day trip to Paris, France. We arrived at the Charles de Gaulle the next morning where we were taken by bus to our hotel in Bobigny, a suburb just outside of the city. We put our things down and jumped on a train for a short ride into the city center. There we explored the Latin Quarter, a popular area for students and young people, checked out the Notre Dame Cathedral, and had dinner in a café. Although their eyes were drooping with fatigue, all nine students and four chaperones took as many pictures as they could of the exciting sights.

The next day we explored some Parisian landmarks such as the Opéra and the Arc de Triomphe and then we headed out to the castle of Versailles (see picture below of students standing in front of its front gates). The following days included visits to the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay to check out some art, a visit to a perfume factory/shop, a river cruise on the Seine, and lots of café sitting and pretending to be Parisian for a week!

The students dined in various restaurants that gave them a feel for some of the many different types of cuisines that thrive in The City of Light. They stopped in several boulangeries and pâtis-series to try some of the delicious croissants and pastries that they had heard so much about. They did some shopping on the Rue Mouffetard (where some of our girls met a famous instagram-mer!) and strolled along the Champs-Elysées. Students ordered from crêpe stands, asked about souvenir prices, and so on while practicing their French. It was a true language immersion.

When the night of the Eiffel Tower ascension finally arrived, some of the students were scared and some of them were excited to go all the way to the top, but all would agree now that they are glad they went up there, where one can truly see and understand from atop why this city is thought to be the most beautiful in the world by so many. New friendships were made with students traveling with us from other American schools, as old ones were strengthened from within our group of 13. It was a memorable trip for all and a wonderful experience to have---truly the trip of a lifetime.

ACHS, continued




Last year, Appomattox Middle and High Schools were intro-duced to an inspirational young lady named Rachel, through the “Rachel’s Challenge” Assembly. Rachel was one of the first victims of the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999.

After Rachel’s death, her family was inspired by her writings, an English essay, and her diary in which Rachel challenged her fellow students to be kind to one another and to make everyone feel welcome and wanted at school each day.

FOR Club or “Friends of Rachel” Club was started at both AMS and ACHS just after this unforgettable assembly.

This year, the FOR Club at ACHS has decided to work on en-couraging the students to come together as a whole. “High Five Fridays” was the first step. Everyone is excited to share high-fives between classes with friends and strangers alike! Class-room meetings are being conducted during Raider Rooms where club members will further the club’s agenda and to become a place for students to share school happenings and air frustra-tions.

FOR Club welcomes any student who is interested in participat-ing!

The Appomattox County High School Athletic Department would like to recognize the Appomattox Scholastic Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2014:

John Curtis Caldwell Sr., Thomas R. Cobb (1986), Sydni Jack-son (1987), Scott Judy (1995) and Candace Lee (1998). This class was formally inducted at halftime during the varsity foot-ball game on October 3, 2014.

The Fall Sports Season is well under way for the ACHS Raid-ers. The Varsity Football Team is currently 3-3, and is coming off of a 34-16 win against William Campbell on Friday Oct. 3rd. They are off on Oct. 10th and play at Gretna on Oct. 17th. Our next home game will be on Oct. 24th against Dan River.

The Varsity Volleyball Team is currently 5-7, and are 5-2 in Conference 37 matches. They will be away on Oct. 9th against Altavista. The girls will be at home again on Tuesday Oct. 14th against William Campbell.

The Cross Country Team has over 30 runners this year and both the Boys and Girls Teams are representing Appomattox County well. They ran their only home meet on Oct. 1st at the Police Tower Road Community Park. Both teams did very well. They travel to Nelson County on Oct. 8th, to William Campbell on Oct. 15th and to Galileo Magnet School in Danville on Oct. 22nd.

The Competition Cheer Team has been to one Invitational Competition, the Stinger Classic, held at Brookville High School and placed first in their class. They traveled to Powha-tan High School for the Spirit Invitational on Oct. 4th. The girls finished in 9th place overall against 15 schools .

The Golf Team has had another successful regular season. They just competed in and defended their Conference 37 Cham-pionship. Coach Marshall was named Coach of the Year, and Bruce Shober was named Golfer of the Year. The team trav-eled to Cedar Hill Country Club in Jonesville, Va. to compete in the Region 2A West tournament on Thursday Oct. 2rd. The team brought home the Region 2A West Championship and will travel to Glenrochie Country Club in Abingdon Va. to play in the State Championship on Oct. 13 & 14.

The Winter Sports Season is just around the corner. Practice for winter sports can begin on Monday November 10th. Just a reminder to winter & spring sports athletes that you MUST have a completed VHSL physical turned in before you can start to practice. This includes participating in any out of season practices.

Sports

Chris Dodge, Athletic Director



* Upcoming Important Dates *

October 10 - 1:00 p.m. Early Dismissal - End of First Nine Weeks

October 13 - Teacher Workday and Student Holiday

October 16 - Earthquake Drill Day

October 20 - Report Card Day

November 17 - 21 - American Education Week

November 26 - 1:00 p.m. Early Dismissal

November 27 - 28 - Thanksgiving Break, No School

Achieving Creative Prepared Students

The “Dead Period” at the beginning of the winter sports is from November 10-19th. All other sports besides winter sports cannot practice/condition/have any communication from coaches during this period.

Sports, continued

Documents

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