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Students from Key Middle School attended the National Technology Student Association (TSA) conference in Denver this summer, finishing sixth in the Electronic Game Challenge and competing in Problem Solving.
A Shrevewood Elementary School kindergarten student gets directions from a teacher on the first day of the 2009-10 school year
Centreville Elementary teachers participated in the first annual Welcome Walk, where they met students at home prior to the start of the new school year.
NBC4 news anchor Pat Lawson Muse met Cameron Elementary School students on the first day of school and helped distribute complimentary backpacks donated by the station, CVS, and Vitaminwater.
During an assembly in remembrance of September 11, 2001, the Woodlawn Elementary School community viewed the freedom flag, Virginia’s official symbol of remembrance honoring the victims and heroes of 9-11.
Students at Deer Park Elementary School greet the new school year with smiles.
Members of Annandale High School’s new freshman class were greeted with red school T-shirts to wear to upcoming events.
A Weyanoke Elementary School student checks out his classroom at the school’s Meet and Greet, held prior to the start of the school year.
Students, parents, and staff members were all smiles at the Willow Springs Elementary School Open House.
Teachers at Columbia Elementary School use puppets to teach Students Rights and Responsibilities to first and second grade students.
Students at McNair Elementary School play a manipulation game during the school’s welcome back to school Open House celebration.
First grade students at Annandale Terrace Elementary School are learning to use digital cameras to create a photo story project for science.
A sixth grade student from Wakefield Forest Elementary School tries on a tuba during a visit from the Woodson High School marching band.
Newington Forest Elementary School’s newly-elected SCA officers led their schoolmates in a pep rally to start the new school year.
Superintendent Jack Dale welcomes new students to Coates Elementary School on the first day.
Music students from Stuart High School participate in their annual Tag Day fundraising event.
A kindergarten and first grade class at Lemon Road Elementary School says the Pledge of Allegiance dressed in their school uniforms.
Administrators from Hayfield Secondary School check out a school bus prior to the start of the 2009-10 school year.
October
Waples Mill Elementary School students participated in Chalk4Peace, creating their own artistic interpretation of the concept of peace.
Edison Academy Landscape Design and Turf Management students move plantings that would have been bulldozed during the school’s upcoming renovation project to a new, safer location on campus.
Listening intently, Cooper Middle School advanced journalists learn tips and strategies for creating their school yearbook at a special workshop.
Hybla Valley Elementary School students were able to see and hear what it means to be part of a band when the West Potomac High School marching band performed a mini-concert on the elementary school’s blacktop.
During the weeks before classes resumed, some Churchill Road Elementary School students helped refurbish the playground equipment as part of a Boy Scout community service project.
On Constitution Day, students in Debra Wines’ fourth grade class at McNair Elementary School wrote their own constitution as well as a constitution for the classroom.
Marshall Academy Culinary Arts students make chocolate truffles under the guidance of a visiting chef from Johnson and Wales University, a former Academy student herself.
FCPS librarians visited research facilities at the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court during an in-service workshop this fall.
:The Madison High School band jammed with the Chinese rock group Mayday as part of a cultural awareness meeting that showcased music in the two countries.
Stuart High School, Glasgow Middle School, and Poe Middle School’s AVID program were featured on WUSA9 as part of the 9NewsNOW Hero Central initiative.
First and second grade students at Halley Elementary School wrote stories about positive character traits and attached them to biodegradable balloons in the hopes whoever finds the stories will write back with similar positive stories.
Annandale Terrace Elementary School held its September Fun and Fitness Field Day; here second grade students are playing a pass-the-hoop game.
Students at Centre Ridge Elementary School are beginning their second season of Girls on the Run, a program that builds self esteem and promotes positive character traits in girls in grades 3-6 and concludes with a 5K run.
Second grade students at Lake Anne Elementary School celebrate Constitution Day by signing a classroom constitution.
Robinson Middle School’s club fair, where over 40 clubs and activities were featured, offered students the opportunity to browse the clubs, pick up flyers, and meet the sponsors.
: Terra Centre Elementary School SCA officers traveled to Food for Others, a local food bank in Fairfax County, to deliver nearly 20 pounds of produce from the school’s Discovery Garden to help those in need.
Columbia Elementary School’s pre-school students are ready for school.
Mountain View Alternative High School science students enjoy the harvest of the garden they planted in the spring.
Members of McLean High School’s historical reenactment club, Project Enlightenment, were honored guests at this year’s Constitution Day celebration at Montpelier Estate.
Students at Waples Mill Elementary School display their chalky hands after designing a Chalk4Peace drawing.
November
South County Secondary School observed its second annual Passionately Pink for the Cure Day where all students, faculty, and administrators were encouraged to dress in pink to support the 25th anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Kilmer Middle School hosted professional skateboarder Andy Macdonald, who spoke to students about setting goals, following dreams, and making smart decisions.
Fourth grade students at Lees Corner Elementary School were treated to a performance by the President’s Own United States Marine Band String Quartet.
Fifth grade students at Churchill Road Elementary saw monarch butterflies emerge from their cocoons and were delighted when the first one, named Charlie by the students, got to know some of them personally.
Chantilly Academy Health and Medical Sciences students simulated being victims of a mass explosion and applied medical makeup to look like they had burns, fractures, and amputations for an emergency training preparedness drill at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital.
Kings Glen Elementary School sixth grade students participated in a Cake Boss-style competition known as "Continental Cake Wars,” and decorated the eight geographic regions of the U.S. using edible decorations.
In grateful thanks for letters from Navy students, SGT Mullins had a flag flown over Camp Striker, Baghdad, Iraq in the name of Navy School
Lynbrook Elementary School students received a donation of dictionaries from the George Mason Republican Women’s Club.
Weyanoke Elementary School fifth grade students gave thank you cards and American flags to World War II veterans during a visit to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Students at Herndon Middle School work in the school’s Bike Shop, which repairs and cleans donated bicycles which are then donated to needy children in the community.
The West Springfield High School girls cross country team took second place in regional competition and qualified for the state competition; team member Paige Kvartunas was the top finisher and set a new school record with her time of 17:36.
Former Stuart High School and NFL football player Charlie Garner is congratulated by Pamela Jones, Stuart principal, and John Ponton, former assistant football coach at Stuart and current principal at Annandale High School, as his jersey is retired while his daughters and niece help celebrate.
Cosmetology students practice hairstyling skills on mannequins at Marshall Academy.
A Floris Elementary School teacher took part in a zero gravity flight as part of the Teachers in Space program.
First Lady Michelle Obama visited Hollin Meadows Elementary School yesterday to see the school’s vegetable garden while promoting the Obama administration’s Healthier U.S. Schools initiative.
Sixth grade students from Forest Edge Elementary School interview the principal for a radio broadcast to Scotland as part of the Fulbright Teacher Exchange program; a Forest Edge teacher has exchanged positions with a Scottish teacher for the 2009-10 school year.
Animal Science students at Edison Academy donate bathing and grooming services one Saturday per month to dogs from local rescue organizations and shelters in hopes of helping them find adoptive homes.
Students at Lanier Middle School wear pink in support of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, which fights breast cancer.
Using shaving cream to write high frequency words was one of the many extended learning opportunities for Franconia Elementary School’s first and second grade students in the Alphabet Soup intersession class.
Students at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School learned lessons in economics pertinent to their lives and grade level curricula during Junior Achievement Day which was staffed by volunteers from Ernst and Young.
