MARGUARITE CHRISTIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COLLECTED 798 POUNDS OF FOOD, MOST OF WHICH THE FOURTH GRADE CLASS BROUGHT IN. FOR THE CHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK’S “BE A GIVER” INITIATIVE. PICTURED IS MS. DE LUNG’S FOURTH GRADE CLASS WITH FOOD BANK DONATIONS.
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Pansy Day at Curtis Elementary, a day when every student plants a pansy or bulb, is a day of beautifying the school grounds for the winter and early spring. Last Wednesday was a cool but sunny morning. Each grade filed out of the classroom either with their pansy or picking up one purchased for a small fee from the PTA. Bulbs were furnished for students who did not bring a pansy or turn in the PTA form to purchase one at school. Shovels from the first Pansy Day 23 years ago were picked up one by one. With shovel and…
Each year, theater and drama teachers bring new experiences to their students and audiences alike, sharing thrill and adventure through the arts. They showcase plays, develop love for the arts in students and many other life skills. Meet two Chesterfield County teachers that bring their talents to two neighborhood middle schools with their own flair and commitment to theater and drama. Each is in her first year as a drama teacher in the area. Falling Creek Middle School – Shelley Butela Right now, Shelley Butela has her drama students working on dramatic writing. Some of the students made speeches on…
Families search areas for the “best” schools. One sign is a thriving arts program. Students who are well-rounded in arts, sports, and good academics make for great schools. Two drama and theater teachers in the Chester area make parents happy every year as they move and shake their students at two area middle schools. Meet Dustin Allard from Carver Middle School and Martha Stanley from Davis Middle School. George W. Carver Middle School – Dustin Allard Dustin Allard is in his seventh year of teaching the theater and drama program at Carver Middle School. “I have a BFA in Theatre…
Temporarily housed at Marguerite Christian Elementary School, Becky Liggitt’s fifth-grade class returned to the site of their former school Friday to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony on the future replacement for Enon Elementary School. They performed their school song before attending members of the Chesterfield County School Board, members of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, school and county government officials, and Enon residents. The students were excited and honored to be attending, and they were amazed to overlook the construction project that now includes nearly 15 acres. “I have been attending Enon since kindergarten,” said fifth-grade student…
Parents of Matoaca Elementary and Matoaca Middle students got their first look this week at a new construction plan that would unite the currently split Matoaca Middle campuses and provide a construction site for a replacement Matoaca Elementary. “I’m excited to share with the community this new plan, which is efficient in that it not only creates better learning environments for our K-8 students, but it also shows that we are being good stewards of our taxpayers’ investment in public education,” Matoaca District School Board member Rob Thompson said. The proposed plan calls for a new wing to be built…
Barbuda is just a little island of approximately 1,600 villagers in the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma touched down in Barbuda on Sept. 5, ravaging the area with winds of 185 miles per hour. Barbuda is just a little island of approximately 1,600 villagers in the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma touched down in Barbuda on Sept. 5, ravaging the area with winds of 185 miles per hour. One teacher at Curtis Elementary School calls Barbuda home. Deborah Parker, early-learning specialist, started updating all her fellow teachers about the destruction in her home just around the time the storm came into the area. “Please pray for…
Following in your parents’ footsteps in Chesterfield these days looks a lot different compared to a generation ago. For Matoaca High School graduate Nick Skoff, it means pursuing a career in electrical engineering, a field in which both his parents work. Skoff always knew he was mechanically-inclined. As a child, he wanted to know how his computer worked, and he was drawn to Lego bricks and toys that taught him the basics of engineering. “I had a little robotics set where you could build something and program it, and that’s where I got my first interest in electricity and what…
The Chesterfield County School Board recently adopted a prototype design for middle schools that will be built in the future. The new replacement of Manchester Middle construction project is part of the bond referendum overwhelmingly approved by Chesterfield County voters in 2013. Six companies submitted design proposals. RRMM Architects was awarded the contract for its two-story design of almost 134,000 square feet that will accommodate 1,100 middle school students. The prototype is easily site adaptive and is the same prototype of the recently constructed Georgie Tyler Middle School in Isle of Wight County. “We are excited to be one…
Enon Elementary School has been on the chopping block since the most recent bond referendum allowed the funding for the schools replacement. While the jaws of the excavator crunch on the sides of the old gymnasium it is a metaphor for the future and the opening of a new school at the same location. The students will have to spendsome at Marguarite Christian, but a new school when some return will be less crowded and more open,clean and young. Nostalgia is always present and parents of students and students who attended Enon years ago want memories to hold.