Free agricultural education kits available for Virginia classrooms (12/4/2024) - Free gifts to educators from Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom are intended to bring joy, engagement and inspiration to schoolchildren year-round. Virginia teachers can order a 2025 Creative Agriculture Resources… …
MHS Music Dept. to hold Holiday Concert tonight (12/4/2024) - The Mathews High School Music Department will hold its annual Holiday Concert at 7 o’clock tonight, Thursday, Dec. 5, in the school’s auditorium. The free performance will include selections from… …
Legislative visit (12/4/2024) - Diane Kaufman, who is the regional director of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s Eastern Virginia office, visited Abingdon Elementary School as part of the Virginia School Boards Association’s Take Your Legislator… …
THMS art winners (12/4/2024) - Bay School’s Made in Mathews Studio Tour Student Art Contest winners from Thomas Hunter Middle School pose with teacher Katie Witowski. They are, from right, Witowski, first-place winner Liam Tiller,… …
Turkey Trot (12/4/2024) - Petsworth Elementary School held its annual Turkey Trot fundraiser on Tuesday, Nov. 26. The school collected 1,173 canned goods for Salem Community Church’s food pantry. Those who earned first place… …First-quarter honor rolls announced in Gloucester and Mathews (12/4/2024) - Page Middle School Page Middle School has released its honor rolls for the first quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. Students receiving all As during the marking period were: Eighth… …
GHS junior acts FAST to save life (11/26/2024) - Spotting the first signs of a stroke can be difficult, but not for 16-year-old Hannah Broadwell who acted quickly to save the life of her best friend’s mother earlier this… …SEAC to meet Monday (11/26/2024) - The Special Education Advisory Committee for Gloucester County Public Schools will meet at 6 p.m. Monday in the T.C. Walker Education Center cafeteria. This meeting will include a presentation on… …
VSBA launches public education initiative (11/26/2024) - The Virginia School Boards Association has announced the launch of the VSBA Public Education Initiative, a yearlong campaign designed to elevate the conversation around public education across the commonwealth. With… …
VFW nominee (11/26/2024) - Achilles Elementary School’s 2024 Teacher of the Year Sharon Daugherty is now the Gloucester Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8252 nominee for the VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award. Established… …Mathews board approves personnel actions (11/26/2024) - The Mathews County School Board took a number of personnel actions at its Nov. 19 meeting. The board approved two transfers: Stacy A. Hudgins transferred from her position as registrar… …
Mathews School Board discusses student achievement (11/26/2024) - Superintendent of Schools Dr. David S. Daniel made a pair of presentations this month to members of the Mathews County School Board—one on student performance in a K-3 literacy screening… …
Legislative tour (11/26/2024) - State Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover) visited Botetourt Elementary and Gloucester High schools Monday as part of the Virginia Schools Boards Association’s Take Your Legislator to School Month. Above, McDougle,… …Deadline approaches for TOGA essay contest (11/20/2024) - The Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association Middle School Essay Contest deadline is December 15. In this contest, students must write an essay on oysters with the theme, “Consider the Oyster.” TOGA… …
Read, Rise and Shine (11/20/2024) - Jan Towne of Read, Rise and Shine reads the book “A Good Deed Can Grow” to second grade students in Delo Bloomfields’s class at Mathews Elementary School on Nov. 13… …
School board makes personnel appointments (11/20/2024) - The Gloucester County School Board made several personnel appointments at its Nov. 12 meeting, held in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium. Melody Beshel of Gloucester was appointed to an… …
Tiny House Project (11/20/2024) - The Gwynn’s Island Civic League Foundation recently donated $1,000 to Mathews High School in support of the school’s Tiny House Project. “We chose this project as it supports education in… …
Community leaders express support for Y proposal (11/20/2024) - Although it wasn’t on the agenda, discussion of a recent proposal by the Mathews Family YMCA to offer a preschool/day care program for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds on school grounds… …
School Briefs (11/20/2024) - Farren Winter of Gloucester, has earned all-conference honors in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) as a member of the Shenandoah University field hockey team. The graduate student is a… …
GREA to hold Holiday Luncheon Dec. 5 (11/20/2024) - The Gloucester Retired Educators Association will have its catered Winter/Holiday Luncheon at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Disabled American Veterans Building, 6265 Professional Drive, Gloucester. The fun-filled,… …
Legislative tour (11/20/2024) - The Mathews County School Board hosted a legislative tour last Thursday of all three county schools, showing the building needs and challenges faced at Mathews Elementary, Thomas Hunter Middle School… …
MHS students tackle historic restoration project (11/13/2024) - Fairfield Foundation board president Tom Karow had been looking for a couple years for someone who could restore the period shutters for Timberneck, the historic home on the York River… …Boards go ahead with RFP for school space needs (11/13/2024) - Members of the Mathews County School Board and Board of Supervisors sat down Saturday morning for a joint work session to consider the long-term capital needs for the school division,… …
Dinner and a Show (11/13/2024) - The Mathews High School Music Department held its third annual Dinner and a Show fundraiser on Friday at the Thomas Hunter/Mathews Elementary School Cafeteria. Guests enjoyed a spaghetti dinner while… …GCPS earns Purple Star designation (11/13/2024) - “We’re a military family community.” Dr. Anthony Vladu, superintendent of schools, announced that Gloucester County Public Schools is now one of six school districts in the commonwealth to receive the… …