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Students
use creative skills to benefit and comfort others |
 In
celebration of Youth Art Month, Princess Anne Elementary
School’s art and counseling departments collaborated
to host the school’s first annual “Art from the
Heart” event. The annual event is designed to bring attention
to the power and purpose of children’s art, while raising
money for a worthy cause. This year, the school hosted “Brewing
Hope for Haiti,” a tea party at which students’
teacup-themed artwork was on display an available for purchase.
All proceeds from the sale of student art work and baked goods
were donated to a Haiti relief fund.
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 Great
Neck Middle School Advanced Art 8 students used their talents
to provide comfort to cancer patients. Dr. Michael McCollum of Virginia
Oncology Associates commissioned the artwork to be displayed in
the Norfolk medical building. Art teacher Mary Ann Gravely asked
her students to visually interpret what they imagined would lift
patients’ spirits and communicate hope. The students painted
their creations onto individual ceiling tiles, and they have since
been installed in the Virginia Oncology Associates building. Photo:
Art students with their tiles. |
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Living students in Corporate Landing Middle School's
Cooking and Crafts Club used their knitting skills to help Warm
Up America, an organization that distributes handmade blankets and
caps to people in need. Using knitting kits provided by Warm Up
America and Scholastic, students knitted rectangles which will be
assembled by Warm Up America into afghans and provided to homeless
shelters or the American Red Cross. Photo: (back) Stephanie
C., Olivia M., Anissa W., Samantha A., Bridgette R., Christianna
T. (front) Andre P., Brianna G., Conrad B. |
Students
and staff walk, run, and jump for a variety of causes |
 Operation
Smile representative Brigette Clifford awards an Operation Smile
plaque to Alanton Elementary School teacher Wendy
DeMartini and principal Sean Walker. The school was represented
at the Operation Smile Final Mile Shamrock 2010 by 180 Final Mile
runners and 15 8K runners. The school raised $5,000, which will
help fund 20 surgeries by Operation Smile. |
 Glenwood
Elementary School's Relay for Life Team "Gator Gals
and A Guy" participated in the Cancer Survivor Walk at Williams
Farm Park on May 21, 2010. The school's team has raised more than
$2,700 this school year for the American Cancer Society. Photo:
(kneeling) Survivors Joe Whiteside, Debbie Klett, Marianne Reading;
(second row) Amy Murphy, Emily M., Kim Kennedy, Catrina Manigo,
Jessica Lessmann;
(back row) Helen Abernathy, Jackie Guzman,Tara Aperauch, Debra Smith,
Nancy Cuppett, Julia Flaherty, Rhonda Meehan. |
 Three
Oaks Elementary School staff members Kim Greer, Tracey
Wernikowski, Julie Bressette, and Jennifer Jellig also participated
in the Relay for Life event at Williams Park in May. Stars with
the names of and/or messages from students and staff who made donations
to support Relay for Life were hung as decorations on the Three
Oaks tent. |
 Seventh-grade
Middle Years Program students at Plaza Middle School
hosted the school’s first Hoops for Heart Day and raised $3109.15
for the American Heart Association. The event consisted of basketball
games, contests, jump roping, hula hooping, and more. Participants
included: Sara Margaret K., Miranda B., Taylor S., Peter Y., Alex
P., Mackenzie C., Jackie K., and Kristin K. |
 With
100% student participation, Princess Anne Elementary School's
Jump Rope for Heart event raised $6,000 for the American Heart Association.
Princess Anne Elementary School's physical education teacher, Jerry
Killmeyer, center, is congratulated by the American Heart Association's
Dana Else, left, and Cassandra Chabewera, right, for the school’s
fundraising efforts. |
More
efforts to benefit the community |
 Students
in the Auto Service Technology program at the Technical
and Career Education Center are using their skills to
help an organization in need. When Samaritan House receives donated
vehicles from the community, the Tech Center Auto Service instructors
and students evaluate the repairs that are needed, and the Samaritan
House purchases the parts through church donations. The students
gain practical experience, and Samaritan House receives repaired
vehicles to ensure that their residents have transportation. |
 First
Colonial High School students in Douglas Thompson's U.S.
Government classes created Government Social Action Plans, in which
the students had to plan, advertise, and organize a community service
project from which others would benefit. Photo: A student’s
promotion piece for a service project to benefit the Foodbank of
Southeastern Virginia. |
 Students
in the STARS Club at Princess Anne High School
sponsored a canned food drive for St. Patrick's Day. Students and
staff were asked to donate a canned green vegetable to be donated
to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia. |
 The
White Oaks Elementary School SCA sponsored a Crazy
Hat Day to support Heavenly Hats, a non-profit organization which
supplies hats to those who lose their hair due to the treatment
of cancer or other medical conditions. Students and staff raised
$428 to benefit the organization. Photo: SCA sponsor Robyn Harrison,
Jailyn B., Christopher H., Rachel G., Scarlett F., Brianna H., Zachary
S., Jordan S., Jamal B., Megan O., and SCA sponsor Anne-Marie DuPont.
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 First
Colonial High School students in Jennifer McKendree’s
French IV class created children's books for an orphanage in Haiti.
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