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Smart Back to School Shopping Tips for Families
By Lori Mackey, an i-Parenting award-winning author, speaker, mother of two teens and founder of http://www.Prosperity4Kids.com
Back to school means seeing friends, catching up and wearing new clothes, which is fun and exciting for kids, but for parents Back-to-School shopping, planning and scheduling can be stressful. If you plan ahead, and involve your children in… »
What Summer Vacation?
School is finally over. It’s time for the lazy, care-free days of summer to begin. Or is it? Many high school students will spend their summers trying to complete various summer assignments for AP courses and trying to better prepare themselves for college. We might as well just continue going to… »
Valley Teacher Will Spend Year Abroad
As the school year comes to a close, students and teachers are giving much thought to summer plans, and, more importantly, next school year. With the opening of Woodgrove High School, many students and teachers will be in a new unfamiliar setting, but few will get to spend the school year in a foreign… »
Anti-Prom 2010
With the end of the school year fast approaching, Loudoun Valley students’ days are filled with sports practices, studying for AP Exams, and various other extracurricular activities. Despite their busy schedules, however; students still find time to have fun, and one event that many students have been looking forward to is the junior-senior prom.
This year,… »
Blood Drive At Loudoun Valley High School
After much planning and organization the March 19 blood drive at Loudoun Valley, which was sponsored by the National Honor Society (NHS) and the American Red Cross, commenced without any glitches and many lives may have been saved thanks to these efforts.
“We had a basic interest meeting showing that we’d be interested in the blood… »
The History Club at Loudoun Valley
On March 19 and 20 the History Club at Loudoun Valley will board the bus to travel back in time to 1859, the year of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Each year, the History Club holds its annual John Brown weekend, a time in which participants reenact John Brown’s infamous raid… »
Leesburg Celebrates the Arts
On Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27 Heritage hosted an art show for all of the schools that feed into Heritage, as well as the high school itself. At the event students were able to show off their hard work, which covered the halls and cafeteria.
A wide variety of art was on display including… »
Summer Options for Students
Missions trips to China or Haiti, attending Pre-College at Brown University, or Governor’s School, are options that high school students have to occupy their summers. With the end of February fast approaching, students are beginning to think about summer plans, and are in the process of filling out applications and attending interviews to… »
Blizzard Blog
“I heard it’s going to snow three feet!” “Don’t jinx it!” Comments like these filled the hallways at Loudoun Valley throughout the week of the second and sixth in anticipation of the upcoming blizzard. On Thursday, students sat in their eighth block classes, anxiously awaiting the ringing of the final bell. … »
Walking in Their Shoes
As people enter the gates of Loudoun Valley High School’s track they hand over a pair of used shoes and begin to walk around the track—barefoot—along with others similarly shoeless. This is the sight that Valley’s International Service Club hopes to witness on May 15 for their project, The Barefoot Mile.
The International Service Club board,… »
Volunteer and Make a Difference
As my junior year progresses, the pressure to get accepted to college is stronger than ever. With the college application process in the near future, my fellow students and I are striving to hold ourselves to certain standards that most colleges look for. The vast majority of colleges look not only for… »
AP Classes: Perils and Promises
This school year, students enrolled in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will have to pay for their own AP Exams, priced at $86. In previous years, LCPS has paid for each student to take the exam(s), however, due to budget cuts this year, students have to pay for it themselves, and for students taking… »
The History Club USO Dance
Each year, the Loudoun Valley History Club sends people flying through the air as they prepare for their annual USO Swing Dance, a dance set in the 1940’s to lift spirits before going off to war. “History clubbers” are taught East Coast Swing, a type of swing dancing in which the girls oftentimes find… »
Making the Grade
New year, new start. From what I gather, this seems to be the overall attitude of Loudoun Valley High School students. This year, however, students not only have a new set of seven or eight classes but a ten point grading scale to go with them.
Talk of a new grading scale… »
Hatrick’s Leadership Evaluated
April 24, 2009
Edgar Hatrick, Superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, was both lauded and reviled this week.
The American Association of School Administrators chose Hatrick as its president elect for its year 2009-2010. Hatrick has belonged to the AASA for 22 years, serving on its Executive Committee and Governing Board.
“Ed is a veteran school leader… »