The Petersburg High School (PHS) Summer School Commencement Exercises will be held Thursday, July 31 at 9 a.m. in the PHS Auditorium. This ceremony is open to the general public.

1) For informational purposes: the dress code for Petersburg High School and Vernon Johns Junior High School.

2) Physicals for Petersburg High School (PHS) student athletes will be offered at PHS on Saturday, July 19, from 8 a.m. to noon, in the PHS Gymnasium.

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The Petersburg City Public Schools will hold a worksession Wednesday, July 16 at 6 p.m. The agenda will be available Tuesday afternoon at the Petersburg Public Libraries. Major items for discussion will include Policy Revisions to Section G (Personnel), an MOU update, and updates to the Secondary Reconfiguration Timeline as well as regarding the progress of construction in the district.

Summer in Petersburg brings a special tradition – one that has often received applicants from as far away as Amelia and Charles City counties. That tradition is the three-day Summer Challenges program for Gifted and Talented Students, sponsored by the Petersburg City Public Schools (PCPS) and hosted at the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School (ARGS).

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The Petersburg City Public Schools announces its district-level winner for the 2008 Mary V. Bicouvaris Teacher of the Year award, Ms. Hallie Powers, who teaches English at Petersburg High School. Ms. Powers will now compete for the honor of Regional Teacher of the Year. The winner of that competition will compete for statewide and possibly national honors.

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Aaron Cudjoe, a student at Vernon Johns Middle School in Petersburg, was honored at the Petersburg City Public Schools Board Meeting earlier this year. Aaron was one of 36 students, and the only one from the Tri-Cities, to win in the James River Chapter division of the 2008 Virginia Parent Teacher Association (PTA)’s annual Citizenship Essay Contest. This year’s theme was: Education, the Foundation of Freedom. “It’s important for students to get their ideas and their talents out there, for people to see the things that they can do,” said John Hart, president of the Petersburg Citywide PTA.

Five men were honored on June 18, at the Board meeting of the Petersburg City Public Schools, by R.E. Lee Elementary School Principal Barbara Patterson. These members of the Petersburg Kiwanis Club provided Lee students with supplies and other educational tools during May and June of the 2007-2008 school year. Their goal was to revive the long-standing Kiwanis “Terrific Kids Program” in Petersburg.

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The Richmond Chapter of Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) presented the Middle School Computer Terminology Quiz Bowl on May 24, at the Times Dispatch Building in Mechanicsville. Students from Vernon Johns and Peabody middle schools in Petersburg were excited to represent Petersburg City Public Schools in this event for the first time. Teams had to answer questions about Computer Science and Technology, in a Jeopardy game show-style competition, testing their quick recall of very detailed, technical information.

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1) Middle College High School to begin in Petersburg on Monday
2) Petersburg Health Occupations Students of America students now aim for national honors

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1) Click here for a copy of the Petersburg High School summer school bus schedule; Click here for a copy of the Walnut Hill Elementary School summer school bus schedule.
2) The Petersburg City Public Schools congratulates LaToya Gee, a rising junior at Petersburg High School (PHS), for her 3rd place win in the 2008 Richard Bland College Science Fair; and David Washington, a rising senior, PHS, for earning an honorable mention.

1) Gifted Summer Programs Announcement
2) Richard Bland College and PCPS sign historic agreement: Middle College High School program
3) They came from Petersburg, too – dignitaries wow city students

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The Petersburg High School juniors who have been accepted into the first year of the Middle College High School (MCHS) partnership program with Richard Bland College (RBC) of the College of William and Mary, along with their parents, have been invited to a reception to be held Tuesday at the RBC campus.

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Jessica White, a Petersburg High School (PHS) junior, has been chosen as PHS’ 2008 recipient of the West Point Leadership Award. The award presentation will take place Thursday, June 5 at 11:30 am at Petersburg High School.

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1) Westview Early Childhood students celebrate a year of learning
2) Say cheese (and sauce and pepperoni) – school gets pre-SOL boost
** 3) Petersburg City Public Schools Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Revue on Tuesday (** = this line item was added after the original post went up)

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Students from Vernon Johns Middle School (VJMS) in Petersburg recently won first place in Robot Design in the Virginia/DC First LEGO League Regional Qualifying Tournament, which came about through their participation in the Digital Inspiration for Interactive Video Game Design and Programming Project sponsored by Longwood University. Longwood, in collaboration with Virginia State University, sponsored the competition.

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The second grade students in teacher Nancy Grosvenor’s class at A.P. Hill Elementary School in Petersburg have been learning this semester how to write simple phrases and words in Chinese – the language of more than a billion people.

1) Black and Gold SOL Round-up at Peabody Middle School, Saturday, May 17.
2) The Petersburg School Board will hold its 2008 Retirement Banquet on Thursday, June 5.

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Click here to read the agenda for tonight’s previously advertised meeting of the Board of the Petersburg City Public Schools. This hearing, to begin at 6 p.m. in the School Board Office, concerns Section J of the Petersburg School Board Policy Manual. Section J concerns student issues and the items up for revision include but are not limited to: exclusions and exemptions from school attendance; student dress and grooming; student conduct on school buses; and student suspension or expulsion. This is a public hearing and speakers will be able to discuss anything that pertains to the subject matter of the meeting.

The Board of the Petersburg City Public Schools will hold a call meeting on Monday, May 12 from 6 to 7 p.m., in the Board Room of the Petersburg School Board Office, 255 E. South Blvd. The meeting will be a closed session, to complete the annual evaluation of the Superintendent of Schools.

For increased clarity, the whole message has been updated: The Board of Education of the Petersburg City Public Schools voted on Wednesday, May 7 to have Vernon Johns Middle School become Vernon Johns Junior High School. This fall, the school will have students in eighth and ninth grades, rather than the current setup of sixth through eighth grades.

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1) City Council to hear/discuss 2008-09 school budget on April 22.
2) Public hearing on April 24 re: Section J of the schools’ policy manual.
3) Appreciation Night, PHS Varsity Basketball Team, April 28.

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For informational purposes only: there will be a call meeting April 17 at 5pm at the School Board office in relation to a disciplinary hearing. This will be a closed meeting.

Petersburg High School (PHS) is offering “Saturday School” for Earth Science SOL Remediation, on April 19 and 26, as well as on May 3. The sessions will be from 9 to 11 a.m, in PHS Room E-215. The drop-off for students is the PHS bus parking lot. Students are responsible for their own transportation. Please contact Principal Alicia Fields or Helen Shands, Department Chair, for more information, at 862-7095.

As noted previously, PPS will hold a meeting tonight on the reconfiguration of Petersburg’s secondary schools (the meeting will be at 6pm at Vernon Johns Middle School). Click here to view/download a .ppt presentation (1.53MB) entitled Secondary Schools Restructuring Proposal.

1) Details re: registration for Westview Early Childhood Education Center
2) Details of the Team Riddick Youth Football Camp, scheduled for this summer

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