Everyday many of you drive past the re-opened Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts. The obvious improvements are easy to spot, less litter, no broken windows, new playground equipment. What you don’t see is all the other work that’s being done, who is doing it and the tremendous benefit that Reedy Creek watershed receives.
Mayor Dwight C. Jones, City Council President Kathy C. Graziano, 4th District School Board Member Adria Graham Scott, and Huguenot High Principal Tyrus Lyles are inviting the public to join them Thursday, January 26th at 3 p.m. at Huguenot High to celebrate the start of construction of a new high school. More images of the [...]
From those that don’t want to click through or can’t read the small print. The meeting in our area is at 3:00 pm at Lucille Brown Middle School, 6300 Jahnke.
Every few years, Richmond Public Schools start talking about rezoning. This process can obviously change which school your child is zoned for, and might result in schools being closed if they are under-attended. 6:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m on February 15, RPS is holding a Community Meeting at Thompson Middle School. Some of the proposals floating [...]
Alia Butler dropped me this note yesterday about the recent drive to Be a Santa for Local Kids as part of the Richmond Public Schools McKinney-Vento Holiday Program. Next year I hope to do a better job of promoting this and serving more families. Special shout-out to Alia who headed up the program and did all the [...]
Not only has Adria A. Graham Scott of the 4th District announced that she won’t be seeking re-election but Council Chair Kim Bridges and Evette L. Wilson of the 9th District have also announced that they won’t be running in November. Graham Scott, elected to the board in 2008, had announced her intention to not [...]
Below are some excerpts from letters/emails to School Board Chair Kim Bridges in response to her letter sent to all PHSSA parents. Additionally school board members Maurice Henderson and Adria Graham Scott interrupted a PTA Meeting to pass out the letter. The same letter was received by every parent at that meeting the next day. [...]
Little known fact is that Richmond Public High Schools have to compete with larger, richer county schools. The result as you would expect, is wholesale slaughter on the playing fields. This is best displayed by George Wythe’s impressive, for all the wrong reasons, 67 game losing streak. With poor records participation in sports declines. To [...]
After the exciting win last week Manchester proved to be too much for the George Wythe High School football team to handle. Final Score Manchester 47, George Wythe 12. George Wythe made history last week by breaking a 68 game losing streak.
and from ABC8 and an article on RVANews.
If first you don’t succeed try, try again. I doubt the creator of that quote thought a football team would have to try 68 times before gettting a result. After years of frustration the George Wythe Bulldogs football team finally notched a victory last night. Any sports fan can relate to a rough patch and [...]
I realize the graphic is hard to read. The walk-a-thon event is this Saturday at 9 a.m. It is part of the Waldorf Fest of Fall which runs from 10-2. Lots of activities going on at 1000 Westover Hills Blvd.
Richmond hasn’t built a new high school in 40 years. Huguenot was to be the first new high school and now the city, not the school board, wants to remove $2.2 million from the budget. The city controls the budget for this project since it is being built as an Mayor Dwight C. Jones initiative [...]
Thanks to everyone that made helping out a Westover Hills Classroom a success. Let’s see if we can do it again. This time, Lindsey Prather is looking for some musicals. Make a donation at DonorsChoose.Org. Some advocates of music education argue that classroom music should focus completely on music. While I agree that music has [...]
Chris Dovi of Richmond Magazine.com posted an article sharing the preliminary results of PHSSA SOL testing. The results were also made available on Tuesday at the Patrick Henry School Board meeting. The 5th grader had a 94% passing rate in both English and Math testing. For the 4th graders 81% passed the History and 85% [...]
The Building a Better Richmond Planning Team and Richmond Public Schools will be hosting community meetings to share the construction schedule and discuss additional updates for the new Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and Huguenot High School. The community meeting for Huguenot High School will be held Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at the high [...]
Both RTD and Richmond Magazine.com have stories on the latest tiff between the school board and the Patrick Henry board. It will come as no surprise that the Richmond Magazine story by Chris Dovi is the better written one and actually takes a look at the central problem between the two boards, communication. At issue now [...]
The RTD has an article on the board of the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts meeting with parents about the recent controversy. What is being forgotten by the media and some of the citizens is what has gone on this year. Bonnie Brown sent the following letter to the AP Newsroom.
Tuesday, June 6th, the inaugural 4th and 5th grade classes of the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts celebrated their year end Lunch Date with the Future program at the Willow Oaks Country Club in Richmond, VA. School faculty, board members, local business owners, parent volunteers, community members, and even the city council were [...]
This Thursday, May 19th at 7:00 p.m. Lacy Ward Jr., the Director of the Robert Russa Moton Museum will be discussing the importance of educational options in the commonwealth. Fittingly this discussion will take place in the future home of the Virginia’s first charter elementary school the Patrick Henry School building at 3411 Semmes Ave. [...]
PHSSA’s Art Teacher, Anne Chamblin brought in a student from VCU to animate the drawings about evolution done by the 4th and 5th graders. I’m not sure but I think Tyler Rhoades is the student involved and more details were grabbed off the Youtube Page.
Good Shepherd Episcopal School will be offering both full day thematic and several one week mini sessions for children 3-12. You can sign up your kid for camps on Art, LEGOS, Cuong Nhu, Science, and Culinary Sciences. Camps are held Monday through Friday and include a snack with lunch available for a bit more cash. An extended [...]
Last night the city council heard citizen requests for budget money. North of the river wants landscaping and a lighted sign for Carytown, south of the river is looking to improve their schools. Details from RTD. Among the possible changes to Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ plan, Councilman E. Martin Jewell is recommending $500,000 to help pay [...]
RPS is having a contest in which students say why they love their teacher and above is the Patrick Henry entry. Voting ends April 30th, to vote go here click on the video and hit the “Like” button. I haven’t gone through all the videos so if you recognize another neighborhood school please let me [...]
