[singlepic id=995 w=420 h=340 float=none] More than 65 parents, children, teachers and staff attended the December 7 Fourth District Schools Open House at Southampton Elementary School. The event was the idea of Fourth District Council Member Kathy Graziano and Fourth District School Board Member Adria Graham Scott, and was designed to give the three elementary schools [...]
Patrick Henry and Westover Hills Elementary welcomed two different sets of guests yesterday, one provided music, the other did some reading. Westover Hills had Ensemble Shanbehzadeh stop by and the kids enjoyed some “lilting trance-like melodic phrases of the ney-anban (double-reed bagpipe) punctuated, supported, and enabled by purposive Persian rhythms”. The second half of that [...]
On Saturday, October 16th, HandsOn Greater Richmond will host the third annual HandsOn Day. During this all day volunteer event, 1000+ local citizens will transform our community by volunteering at one of over 40 nonprofits, city parks, and schools. Projects include park clean-up and restoration, housing rehab for elderly citizens, arts and crafts with children, [...]
AYP stands for Adequate Yearly Progress and tracks how schools are doing in the No Child Left Behind objectives. RTD has the big picture. In the metro Richmond area, Hanover, Chesterfield, Henrico, Petersburg and Richmond saw declines in their scores. —Hanover: 19 of 23 schools made AYP this year compared to 21 of 23 last [...]
Third Annual State of the Schools address will be delivered by School Superintendent Dr. Yvonne Brandon Nov. 17 at 9 a.m. at Henderson Middle School, 4319 Old Brook Rd. A Get on Board bus tour of several Richmond City schools will follow Dr. Brandon’s address. Schools to be toured include John B. Cary Elementary School, [...]
An 8-year-old Westover Hills Elementary School student brought an unloaded .22-caliber pistol to class yesterday in his backpack, police and school officials said. The third-grader apparently brought the weapon to school from home, and it was discovered by his teacher after two other students reported it. [via] The student was released into the custody of [...]
Back in September, Westover Hills Elementary won a Dominion Grant to fund an outdoor learning center. Work crews arrived this week and the center, near on the Jahnke Road side of the school, is shaping up nicely. I understand we should see it in regular use within the next couple of weeks.
The Westover Hills Elementary School is in the process of renovating their library and courtyard. The school has received grant funding for some of the projects, but is dependent on volunteer help to accomplish all the renovations. One of the projects is removing a large brick wall located in the middle of the courtyard. The [...]
