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 [...]
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Some RPS School Board members don’t seem to believe that Patrick Henry School is a Richmond Public School. They speak animatedly when discussing sports programs for “their” schools, but cast suspicious glances at PHSSA when its board makes a simple request. They even go so far as to say that the charter school takes money [...]
Ian Fraser a seventh-grader in the International Baccalaureate program at Lucille M. Brown Middle School spelled better than all the rest in the 2011 Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee. It took nearly two hours and over 150 words, to determine the best of the best. Ian will be hitting the road in June to Washington [...]
The “Love A Teacher” Video Contest is a studentdriven, teacher appreciation campaign designed to recognize the invaluable contributions of Richmond Public Schools teachers. Current and former students of Richmond Public Schools are invited to demonstrate their appreciation and creativity through submissions of 60-second videos (or less) in honor of their favorite teacher. Entries will be accepted [...]
From PHSSA Facebook we find out the following; New student applications for the 2011-12 school year must be postmarked by this Friday. Click on the link to download an application. AND Thank you to everyone who came to the Parent University last night. The Playground group raised over $150 from the bake sale to go [...]
Council President Kathy Graziano and School Board Member Adria Graham Scott have scheduled a second Meet and Greet for Fourth District parents. The event is scheduled for February 8th, at Fisher Elementary School, from 6:30-8 pm. Fisher is located at 3701 Garden Road, off Cedar Grove Road. Parents of preschool, kindergarten and early elementary grades [...]
Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts will be sprucing up the playground at its permanent home in late March. With no tenant in the building for the last few years, some of the equipment and benches were stolen or damaged. New equipment has been ordered so the students can safely use the playground while [...]
This morning as parents were dropping of their children at Patrick Henry School’s temporary location Reggie Malone was passing out a letter between School Board Chairwoman Kim Bridges and President of Patrick Henry’s Board of Directors Sharon Burton. Reggie Malone had served as vice president of the charter school’s board but resigned the same day [...]
Read it and weep parents. Local news outlets have broken the news on Twitter that our precious little bundles of joy will hanging out with us for a couple extra hours in the morning.
From RPS Twitter; All afterschool activities have been cancelled for today, Wednesday, January 26, 2011, due to forecasts of inclement weather.
Every year the Governor and State Board of Education recognizes schools and divisions that achieve excellence goals and far exceed minimum state and federal accountability standards. Two schools in our area were recognized. Southampton Elementary was awarded the Board of Education Excellence Award, the second-tier honor in the VIP program. These schools and divisions also [...]
Some J.B. Fisher Elementary highlights Decade of state accreditation and AYP Spanish classes offered School garden program Minds in Motion Mind Games Before and after care options This is a great opportunity to check out a local school and staff will be available to answer any questions you may have about RPS Open Enrollment process. [...]
