In Your Schools for May 10, 2010

ACHIEVEMENTS

Appomattox

- The following Appomattox County students represented the school division at the Virginia School Boards Association Regional Art Contest: Destine’ Berkley of Appomattox Elementary School, Amanda Davis of Appomattox Middle School, and Andrew Russell of Appomattox County High School.

- The following Appomattox County High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America members competed in the FCCLA State Leadership and Recognition Conference: Destinee Dews, FCCLA president, and Danielle Pickett, FCCLA secretary, both earned silver medals in the Focus on Children STAR Event; and Stephanie Cook and Rebekah McQuigg, both Power of One Completers.

Bedford

- In honor of Earth Day 2010, Moneta Elementary School’s Spring Discoveries afterschool enrichment class planted a new bush by the school sign. The project was sponsored by the 21st Century Grant.

- Jefferson Forest High School student Paige Hammock recently won a Scott Insurance Annual College Scholarship for the 2010-2011 school year. Hammock, a senior, will attend Lynchburg College and plans to major in International Relations. She is the daughter of Tom and Cary McFadden and Robert Hammock.

- The following Jefferson Forest High School students were named to the All-A Honor Roll for the third nine weeks: Christopher Anderson, Dylan Augenreich, Destiny Barnett, Abigail Black, Trevor Blair, Alexis Bowen, John Bowles, Joshua Bowyer, Alexa Briers, Bilynda Brinkley, Alexis Brown, Lydia Brown, John Burns, Elizabeth Carpenter, Samantha Chalker, DeAnza Cook, Bobbi Anna Crie, Zoey Dorman, Sara Driscoll, Allison Elder, Kensley Elliott, Allan Fongeallaz, Violet Forton, Nicholas Foust-Meyer, Ashley Galbreath, Ashleigh Gilmour, Jillian Gogel, Allison Gossen, Joseph Gossen, Robert Haney, Jon Hannell, Sarah Hanson, Ryan Harvey, Bridger Hatch, Rachel Heideman, Jacob Hill, Nathan Hunt, Courtney Jordan, Bless Jung, Kelli Klingenfus, Zane Laughlin, Cara Levinson, Courtney Martin, Andrea McConkey, Colette McFaden, Michael Moser, Katherine Nagley, Joseph Norton, Courtney Otey, Hannah Owen, Marissa Parker, Rachel Policke, Stephen Policke, John Powell, Megan Prothero, Ainsley Reed, Kira Rider, William Riordan, Amanda Rogers, Patrick Schwartz, Kaitlyn Seeberger, Min Seo, Kelli Sill, Randale Smith, Amir Tabaian, Taylor Tibbs, Megan Trum, James Van Eaton, Joshua Winks and Carl Wolf.

Campbell

- The following Brookville High School students were invited to participate in the 2010 Summer Residential Governor’s Schools: Martha Blanks, Visual and Performing Arts, Olyvia Brown-Coles, Humanities, Annie Ketterling, Life Sciences and Medicine, Dongheon Lee, Math, Science and Technology, Jennifer Natyzak, Marine Science, Victoria Sun, Math Science and Technology, Nisha Christian, alternate to the Foreign Language Academies, Chinese, and John Wagler, alternate to the Foreign Language Academies, Arabic.

- Katherine Tweedy of Rustburg High School was invited to participate in the 2010 Summer Residential Governor’s Schools in the Visual and Performing Arts program.

- The following William Campbell High School students were invited to participate in the 2010 Summer Residential Governor’s Schools: Tamara Adams, Visual and Performing Arts, Kenya Clark, Foreign Language Academies, Russian, and Tyler Francis, alternate to the Foreign Language Academies, Japanese.

Lynchburg

- Jan Wiley of Hutcherson Early Learning Center was recently named Lynchburg City School’s ‘Teacher of the Year’. Wiley was nominated by her school and was one of 18 candidates.

- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School for Innovation students Kayla Venable and Donovan Esdaile had poems chosen for submission to the 14th annual Student Poetry Contest sponsored by the American Library of Poetry.

Private Schools

- The following Liberty Christian Academy students were named to the All-A Honor Roll for the third quarter: Lance Anderson, Danielle Barnhart, Chloe Beisser, Emily DeWitt, Calvin Fensterman, Kristen Gilbert, Virginia Hamlett, Jacob Johnson, Logan Lingenfelter, Amanda Lyons, Alexis Malone, Caleb McKee, Hannah Morris, Miranda Price, Hannah Quigg, Adalie Tchividjian, Caroline Toman, Greyson Wooldridge and Tiffany Zeitler, sixth grade; Aliah Barnhart, Amanda Blake, Holly Clay, William Collie, Carrington Crossland, Nicholas Cumby, Jessica Falwell, Rachel Falwell, Andrew Guercia, Mackenzie Kirkland, Kaitlyn Koons, Jacob Pearce, Jesse Prillaman, Jennifer Rice, Deanna Rossman, Megan Walton, Bianca Wesbrook and Cevell Wright, seventh grade; Brooke Bentley, Eli Boyes, Zachary Clinton, Jansen Collins, John Davenport, Jonathan Falwell, Bethany Federico, Allyson Gilbert, Rachel Haldren, Sarah Isaacson, Kristin Kelly, Sungyu Kim, Jourdann Kirk, Glenna Manns, Eleni Marinos, Elizabeth Martin, Felicity Martin, Cayla McHaney, Rachel Morris, Austin Morton, Ethan Neff, Quentin Palmer, Dana Paulson, Anna PIke, Morgan Powell and Caroline Roberts, eighth grade; Landon Anderson, Steven Atkinson, Amanda Barrick, Micah Brickhill, Whitney Bryant, Hye Rin Cho, Christy Conner, Jack Erdly, Ashley Eubank, Logan Ford, Jennifer Garrett, Caleb Good, Charles Hancock, Nicole Hawkins, Nathaniel Hess, Morgan Horne, Kyle Jamerson, Jessica Jarvis, Yo Han Jeong, Michael Johnson, Elizabeth Kappler, Dakota Kelly, Ha Young Kim, Saetbyeol Kim, Song Hoe Koo, Sun Gyeong Lee, Jessica Lindsey, Kristin Miller, Jeremiah Mosse, Alyssa Magyar, John Nance, Blake Papet, Andrew Pollard, Nicole Pollard, Abigail Quigg, Laura Ray, Soh Hyun Son, Anna Struhar, Amber Taylor, Claire Thompson, Brittany Tyree, Keith Weisenstein and Falon White, ninth grade; Nathaniel Bettcher, Kathleen DeWitt, Mary Grace Falls, Elizabeth Green, Sarah Hartman, Rick Lee, Evan McDouall, Dana Mercer, Jin-Young Noh, Courtney Powell, Rebecca Roberts, Bethany Singleton, Meg Sun and Emily Smith, 10th grade; Da Sol Ahn, Laura Brumble, Lindsay Collins, Cassie Foster, Shannon Jamerson, Frank Manns, Sarah Quigg, Lyndsie Ramsdell, Amy Rocco, Shinah Shin, Jaclyn Toews and Joy Trost, 11th grade; and Emily Dunbar, Stephanie Eubank, Andrew Haldren, Matthew Hamilton, Seongji Kim, Laura Lawhorn, Merriane McLeod, Emily Peters, Erik Radka, Michael Rocco, Myung Son, Sarinda Smitthimedhin and Jessica Velastegui, 12th grade.

- The following local students attending Episcopal High School in Alexandria were named to the High List (academic honor roll) for the third quarter: Virginia Duerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Duerson III of Lynchburg, Chelsea Jack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jack of Bedford, and Pendleton Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Jones of Lynchburg.

- Liberty Christian Academy’s Boosterthon Fun Run raised nearly $40,000 for the school. Students in grades K-6 participated in the fundraiser.

SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

Amherst County

- Today through May 14: PALS Testing for all Amherst County kindergarten students

- May 11-14: SOL Assessments at all Amherst County elementary and middle schools

Elon Elementary School

- May 11: PTO Meeting, 6:30 p.m.

Amherst County High School

- Today: Band Concert, 7 p.m.

- May 11: Golden Tassel Ceremony, 7 p.m.

- May 14-19: Nine Week Assessments

- May 15: Prom, 8 p.m. to midnight at Sweet Briar College

Appomattox County

- May 12: Safe and Drug-Free Schools Committee Meeting, 3:30 p.m. at the School Administration Building.

- May 13: Interim School Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m. at the School Administration Building

- May 19: Teacher Advisory Committee Meeting, 3:30 p.m. at the School Administration Building

Appomattox Primary School

- May 17: PTO Meeting with performance by kindergarten students, 7 p.m.

- May 18: 2010-2011 Kindergarten Orientation, 7 p.m.

Appomattox Elementary School

- May 11: AES PTO Executive Committee Meeting, 6:15 p.m.

- May 18: AES PTO Appreciation Night, 6:15 p.m.

Appomattox County High School

- May 13: Career and Technology Advisory Committee Meeting, 11 a.m. at ACHS

- May 14: Annual Appomattox Sr. FFA Chapter Awards Banquet, 6 p.m. in the cafeteria

Bedford County

Big Island Elementary School

- May 17-21: SOL Testing for grades 3-6

Otter River Elementary School

- May 22: Event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Otter River Elementary School, noon. Event is for current and former students, parents, grandparents, faculty and staff and friends of ORES. For more information, call the school, 586-9210.

Thaxton Elementary School

- Today: Pre-K, Kindergarten and First-grade PTA Program, 6:30 p.m.

- May 11: Kindergarten History Museum Outreach

- May 17-21: SOL Testing

Campbell County

Rustburg Middle School

- May 13: Family Fitness Night, 5 to 7 p.m. at Rustburg Middle. Event is an interactive, informative and fun evening for families of Rustburg students in grades 3-8.

Lynchburg

Heritage Elementary School

- Today: Good Citizen’s Assembly, 2:15 p.m.

- May 11: Science Challenge for fifth-grade HES Science Fair winners at Central Virginia Governor’s School

- May 12: Third-grade Reading SOL Test (part one)

- May 13: Third-grade Reading SOL Test (part two)

- May 14: Third-grade SOL Trip

- May 18: Fifth-grade Reading SOL Test

- May 19: Fourth-grade Reading SOL Test

Perrymont Elementary School

- May 11: PTO Executive Board Meeting, 5 p.m.; SOL Kickoff Bingo Night, 6 p.m.

- May 12: School Nurse Day; Third-grade Reading SOL Test

- May 13: Makeup day for Third-grade Reading SOL Test; Parent Advisory Meeting, 6 p.m.

- May 14: Third-grade SOL Incentive, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Putt-Putt

E.C. Glass High School

- May 11-15: ‘I Hate Hamlet,’ 7:30 p.m. at the Alumni Studio Theatre. Tickets are $8 and are available through season tickets or at the box office one hour prior to each performance. For more information, call 522-3712 or visit www.ecglasstheatre.org.

- E.C. Glass is accepting donations for a used book sale to be held May 24-28 and a giant indoor yard sale to be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 29 in the E.C. Glass cafeteria. Both events benefit the Mercy Care Centre School in Nairobi, Kenya. The Mercy Care Council is also collecting the following items to take to the school this summer: washcloths, small bars of soap, dry erase markers, pencils, colored pencil, small erasers and pencil sharpeners. Drop off donations at the Main Office between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Private Schools

James River Day School

- Today through May 14: Spring Book Fair, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Taylor Media Center

- May 11: Book Fair Family Night, 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Taylor Media Center

- May 11 and 13: Standardized Testing for kindergarten students

- May 14: Field Day with Buddy Picnic, 11:30 a.m. Everyone must bring their own lunch and drink. Concert by Counterpoints Chamber Orchestra of St. Anne’s-Belfield School, 7 p.m. in the Cafetorium. Tickets are $20 for adults and free for students. Concert raises money for a Haitian school. Concert presented by Forte Chamber Music and JRDS.

Liberty Christian Academy

- May 12: Last day to register for the Young Women’s Conference, ‘Beautiful from the Inside Out,’ to be held 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 22 in Liberty University’s DeMoss Hall. Event is for mothers and their daughters (age 13 and up). For more information, visit livingpureministries.org.

- May 13: Academic Awards, 6 p.m. (middle school) and 7:30 p.m. (high school)

- May 14: Full day of school (change from original calendar)

- May 14, 15, 21 and 23: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ 7 p.m. (May 14 and 21) and 2 p.m. (May 15 and 23) in the Old Thomas Road Baptist Church Sanctuary, 701 Thomas Rd. Tickets are$8 in advance or $10 at the door. Purchase advance tickets at www.lcabulldogs.com or by calling 444-4862.

Timberlake Christian Schools

- Today: Booster Club Meeting, 7 p.m.

- May 11:11th-grade field trip to Richmond Holocaust Museum; third-grade field trip to Point of Honor and Lynchburg Museum

- May 14: Early dismissal at noon; Awards Banquet, 6:30 p.m. in the TBC Ministry Center; After Party, 10 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Campus II