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Friendship Preschool is holding a fundraiser at Flippin’ Pizza (800 W. Broad St., Falls Church) on Feb. 17 from 4 – 9 p.m. and a portion of the proceeds will go toward purchasing air filters and other items so it can keep students and staff Covid19-safe in its classrooms.
Friendship Preschool is a part of Friendship United Methodist Church, which is located in the greater Falls Church area.
F.C. High Academy Holds Open House Tonight
Falls Church Academy — a Governor’s Health Sciences Academy — will hold its annual open house to be held virtually on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 6:30 – 8 p.m. A Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (BBCU) link for the program will be posted on the academy website no later than 6:15 p.m. on the day of the event.
Prospective students and parents are encouraged to learn about the exciting health and human service courses offered to Fairfax County Public Schools high school students for the 2021-22 school year.
Registration for these classes has already begun through student’s base school counselors.
Course offerings include: American Sign Language; Biotechnology Foundations; Criminal Justice 1 and 2; Dental Careers 1 and 2; Emergency Medical Technician; Exploring the Language of Medicine – Exploring Health Sciences; Health Informatics; Intro to Nursing; Medical Assistant; Patient Care Technician; Pharmacy Technician 1 and 2; Practical Nursing and Vietnamese.
More information about the Academy is available on its website (fallschurchacademy.fcps.edu), or prospective attendees can contact Bill McGreevy, Academy Administrator, at wcmcgreevy@fcps.edu.
Multiple F.C. Band Students Earn District Honors
Fourteen high school band musicians from the City of Falls Church’s unnamed high school successfully auditioned into the District X Honor Band.
The audition consisted of all major and chromatic scales, performing a complicated etude and sight-reading virtually. Students competed in a large pool of Fairfax
5TH GRADE AMBASSADORS of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School’s GIVE Day Club hosted a Pet Food Drive around Falls Church City during the last weekend in January. The staff and furry friends at the Animal Welfare League of Arlington, which helps Falls Church and Arlington residents keep their pets fed, were overjoyed by pet food donated — the 5th graders filled 5 SUVs with pet food. (P����: C�������
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County and Alexandria City schools. Congratulations go to David Lehrer — tenor saxophone; Ryan Vagoun — baritone saxophone; Alec Autor — trombone; Joe Carpenter — clarinet; Sine Anderson — clarinet; Caroline Toyryla — clarinet; Sam Swetnam — euphonium; Sophia Urbom — violin. Additional District honor band students are: Abby O’Regan — percussion; Carlos Ortiz — trumpet; Elisabeth Snyder — flute; Megan Carpenter — clarinet; Megan Mann — french horn; Nick Teply — trumpet and Tony Tomljanovich — trumpet.
Congratulations also go to Carpenter, Toyryla, Swetnam and Urbom, who received top placements in district ensembles and are now eligible to audition for State Band and Orchestra.
Students will audition online between Feb. 26 and March 1.
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Falls Church City Parents for Schools (FCCP4S) is committed to advocating for the return to full-time, in-person education for the children of families who seek it.
Guidance from the CDC, the Virginia Department of Health, and other medical and scientific groups continues to show that in-person education must be a priority for our children and can be done safely.
• Falls Church City will have a fully vaccinated school workforce as of mid-February • We know how to minimize transmission risks • Scientific studies on school transmission continue to show little risk from in-person instruction • The mental and emotional impact of virtual learning on our children is unacceptable and cannot continue
Join the growing chorus of parents, students, and concerned citizens at www.fccp4s.com info@fccp4s.com
“The default has to be to keep schools open. This is something that we’ve kind of made the wrong calculation on from the very beginning and we know we’re causing harm to children and we have data and science on our side that schools can be open safely, so I think that has to be something that we continue to do. Schools should be the first to open and the last to close as the CDC director has said.” Dr Amesh Adalja, Johns Hopkins
