News Archive / May 2013

2013 LCPS Graduation Speakers Set

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has set the speakers and after-graduation celebrations for its 18 graduation and completion ceremonies.

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Russell Named Shenandoah Teacher of the Year

Scott Russell, an art teacher at Ball’s Bluff Elementary, is the 2013 Shenandoah University Teacher of the Year for Loudoun County.

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Frederick Douglass Memorial Wall Honored

The Memorial Wall at Frederick Douglass Elementary School has received a Community Blue Ribbon Award from the Loudoun County Joint Architectural Review Board (JARB).

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Potomac Falls Guitar Quartet Performs at Kennedy Center

The Potomac Falls High School Guitar Quartet added yet another achievement to its list of distinctions as the ensemble performed May 2nd at the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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‘Lost Boy of Sudan’ to Address Social Science Winners

Deng Chol, one of the “Lost Boys of the Sudan,” will be the featured speaker during the awards ceremony for the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Social Science and Global Studies Academic Awards and Celebration.

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Valley Yearbook Receives National Awards

Yearbook editors Ashley Jackson, Katie Pownall and Christina Sanders represented the 2012 Saga staff when they accepted a Gold Crown from Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) the organization’s 89th annual Scholastic Convention.

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All-Dulles District Girls’ Lacrosse Team

Senior goalie Bailey Carver of Woodgrove High School is the 2013 Dulles District Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year. Tuscarora High School’s Anna Kate Collier was named Coach of the Year.

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Newton-Lee Student Wins Regional America Recycles Day Prize

Timmy Siegel, a second-grader at Newton-Lee Elementary School, is the K-12 winner of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Regional America Recycles Day contest.

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Leadership Loudoun Youth Accepting Applications

The fourth annual Leadership Loudoun Youth class will be held the week of July 15th and the week of August 5th.

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Rolling Ridge Elementary Hosts a Walk-a-thon for Track Construction

Rolling Ridge Elementary needs a new outdoor track, so nearly 120 students, parents and staff members walked miles around the existing track on April 26th as a kick-off for a series of fund-raisers planned to pay for the construction of their new facility.

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Countryside Principal Stuck on Reading

To celebrate School Library Month, students at Countryside Elementary were challenged to read 3,000 hours (collectively) during the first two weeks of April.

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Leesburg Police Department Offering Youth Camps This Summer

The Leesburg Police Department will be offering two youth camps this summer. Junior Police Camp is for rising sixth- to eighth-graders. The Kidsmart Safety Camp is for children aged 6-10.

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LCPS Students Qualify for All Virginia Chorus

Sixty Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) students were selected through audition to participate in this year’s All-Virginia Chorus and the Middle School ACDA Honors Chorus.

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Briar Woods’ Students Earn Recognition at International DECA Conference

Members of the Briar Woods High School DECA chapter earned the organization’s highest honors at DECA’s 67th annual International Career Development Conference, April 24-27, in Anaheim, Calif.

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Harper Park Marks Schools to Watch with Family Photo

You know how hard it is to get a family photo…Bad hair days…Fashion malfunctions…Uncooperative weather…

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Towbin to Speak on Children’s Mental Health May 16th

Dr. Kenneth Towbin, the chief of clinical child and adolescent psychiatry Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, will speak from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16th, at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Administrative Offices in Ashburn.

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Woodgrove SCA Honored

The Virginia Student Councils Association recently named Woodgrove High School’s Jeff Schutte its High School Adviser of the Year.

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Summer Robotics Camps Coming to NOVA-Loudoun

The Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA)-Loudoun Campus is inviting students from various grade levels to participate in hands-on, robotics camps that focus on science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts.

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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has declared May as “Lyme Disease Awareness Month” in Loudoun County.

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Top Monroe Students of the 3rd Nine Weeks

Monroe Technology Center (MTC) has named the top students in each of its programs for the third nine-week grading period. Awards were given for participants in both “A” and “B” days (some programs meet on only one day).

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Eagle Ridge Again School to Watch

Much has changed since Eagle Ridge Middle School was first designated a School to Watch in 2007.

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Frederick Douglass Presents Original Musical

Frederick Douglass Elementary recently celebrated its unique place in the history of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in song.

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LCPS Sweeps Top 3 Places in State Chemistry Competition

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) students took first, second and third place at the Virginia State competition of You Be the Chemist® Challenge.

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LEAP Town Hall Meeting May 8th

The Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents (LEAP) will hold its final meeting of the 2012-2013 school year on Wednesday, May 8th, at the School Administrative Offices in Ashburn.

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Get Smart! 5K May 11th

The Smart’s Mill Middle School PTA is sponsoring the sixth annual Get Smart! 5K Stampede on Saturday, May 11th.

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STEM Education Taken to Next Level at Eagle Ridge Middle School

As a way to implement more STEM education in a general public school setting, Eagle Ridge Middle challenged its students and staff on April 19th by holding an all-day STEM education event.

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U.S. Army Band Giving Free Concert at Dominion May 8th

The U.S. Army Band, “Pershing's Own” will join the Dominion Symphonic Band on stage for the community concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8th.

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