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Welcome
to another edition of Hornet Highlights! Throughout my travels each week, I
always seem to find some great things going on both in and around Herndon High
School. Here’s a look at what has been happening in classes, in competition,
and in the lives of our students and staff over the last week. I hope you
enjoy!
Sincerely,
Liz Noto
Homecoming
festivities have begun! Today we sport our creative outfits in honor of Tacky
Tourist Day and Friday is, of course, our Class Color Day. This is all thanks
to the dedication and hard work of our Leadership class. Here they are in this
photo preparing posters for this week’s Spirit Week. We hope to see you at the Bonfire
on Friday and the Parade, the Football gave versus McLean High School, and the
Dance on Saturday!.
Best
Buddies has been hard at work! On September 16th, Best Buddies student leaders
represented Herndon High School at the Best Buddies Capital Region Local
Leadership Training Day in Falls Church. On September 29th, buddy pairs
were revealed during the annual Match Day. Two separate fundraising
opportunities also took place, bringing over $800 to this amazing club. Keep up
the great work!
Last
week marked the final regular season home game for our Field Hockey team. Here,
our senior players and their parents pose for one last picture to commemorate
the end of a season and the conclusion of High School Field Hockey after the
Senior Night celebration. We wish our ladies well in their future endeavors.
The
Herndon High School Dance Team posed for a photo at the end of their halftime
show at the Varsity Football game against Falls Church. These ladies put in
countless hours throughout the school year to make this team a success. The
team has been hard at work preparing for their regular event appearances as
well as for their Nationals competition that will be held in February at
Disney. Way to go, Team!
There’s
always something fun happening at STEM Club. Last week, students filled plastic
bags with water and jabbed pencils through the bags to demonstrate the
properties of polymers. In this photo, several pencils were stabbed into the
bag of water, but no water leaked out. That’s because polymers have long chains
of flexible molecules that seal around the pencil in the bag. What an amazing
lesson!
Instructional Assistant, Mr. John Gum arrived to school last
week with a couple of new creations. Mr. Gum made new bathroom passes for his
colleagues by hand. He shows off one pass that was made out of a cool piece of
wood for Mrs. Cornish, complete with an apple. Thank you to Mr. Gum for
thinking of his colleagues during his spare time!
The
senior year for our Class of 2018 Hornets is underway! Last week, the 12th
graders headed to the stadium for the much anticipated senior panoramic.
Student groups dressed alike and prepared to leave one more mark at Herndon
High School. The chaos of getting more than 400 students is short-lived, and
the memory will be spectacular. Congratulations on another senior year
milestone!
Gold
Award recipient Amelia is pictured here after years of work through the Girl
Scouts has paid off. Amelia not only worked to support students in math through
a math application club, but she is also the president of the STEM club and an administrative
intern for the Herndon admin team. Teachers can look forward to her launch of a
new copier support program. Way to go, Amelia!
This
is no ordinary copier. This is the latest and most appreciated arrival to the
Teacher Workroom in our new administrative trailer in the Hornet’s Nest.
Teachers have long awaited the arrival of a heavy-duty copier outside and have
been dealing with frequent jams and other difficulties with the limited resources
that did exist for them. We are so happy to have been able to accommodate our
outside staff at last!
Math teacher Becky Henry found this gem while tidying up
last week. Here she is holding up an old list of proposed senior privileges. On
the list are many creative ideas. The proposal that takes the cake? A request
for a smoking area for seniors. Says that former senior class representative,
“We realize that this is unreasonable, however, we feel it is our duty to ask
on behalf of our classmates.”
Homecoming
proposals are well on their way! Students have been caught in hallways and
around school asking their significant others to the dance. You can spot a
proposal once the cheers erupt from friends who were in on the secret. The
Homecoming Dance will take place this Saturday from 8:00 until 11:00pm at
Herndon High School. Tickets are $30 and are sold at all lunches.
Powderpuff
football game took place last night at the stadium. Juniors faced off with seniors
in an almost no-scoring match. The seniors pulled out a last-minute touchdown,
defeating the juniors 6-0. Senior team coach and Herndon counselor, Mr. Kim
noted he would have had much less heartburn had the team scored earlier in the
game. Congratulations, Seniors!
In honor of International Walk to School day, Spanish
Teacher Mr. Shea escorted his daughter to school before heading to Herndon High
School for the day. Here he is with his skateboard after his arrival. Mr. Shea
says he needed the skateboard because he didn’t think he could get from his
daughter’s school to Herndon fast enough by walking. He just earned some
serious “cool” points.
On
Friday, the Hornet’s Nest was without power for half of the day. The
transformer that feeds into the trailers malfunctioned and had to be completely
replaced. Dominion Energy was on the scene for hours to repair the issue. We
are so thankful for their help! Classes continued until power was restored
around noon. Thank you to our teachers for carrying on!
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