 VBODA DISTRICT X ORCHESTRA ASSESSMENT AT FALLS CHURCH HS!
Dear Family Fairfax,
It has been a relatively quiet week this week. Certainly, our students are still preparing for assessment, we had an outstanding showing at the orchestra assessment last weekend and It’s Academic, and our Winter Athletic Banquet and celebration was on Monday, but for Fairfax High School, I have learned that THAT is a quieter week for us. Next week, on the other hand…
I had the opportunity to meet with several of the club student leaders yesterday. We have been working on establishing a Club Council that consists of representation from our each of our clubs, to discuss student activities, ideas, and innovation. It was fun hearing their unique perspectives and seeing how easily they were working alongside each other…even with the diversity of clubs and student interests in the room. In the near future, I hope to have the Club Council fully established with monthly or bi-monthly meetings. Hopefully, the outcome will be an even more student-centered Fairfax High School—we should all be proud of our pride.
I wanted to send a reminder to parents that our students should not be accepting food delivery during the day. Not only for the obvious safety and security reasons: my security staff and I do not know if it is, in fact; a food delivery; who is that driver (is it really Uber Eats); and, allowing packages to be brought into the building to the main office or handed off to students throughout the course of the day. It is impossible for us to safely monitor. Please help us by helping your student understand why this rule is in place. Also, for your reference, here is a link to our school lunch menu at Fairfax: Lunch Menu It truly is international fair that is offered at Fairfax every day by our hardworking Energy Zone staff!
I hope your family stays warm and dry this weekend!
Erin B. Lenart
Principal, Fairfax High School
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A Reminder to Parents and Students:
Please keep a sick child home. Please do not send your child to school if he/she has a fever or is vomiting. It is recommended that your child be fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medication before returning to school.
All students are required to go to the clinic when feeling ill during the school day. Please ask your teacher for a pass to go to the clinic when feeling ill. The clinic will assess you and contact your parent to pick you up. This procedure is for your care and also allows our clinic to track school illnesses. It also streamlines the pick-up process for your parents/guardians. Thank you.
Meeting for Parents About FCPSOn
Parents, on March 20th from 7:00PM – 8:00PM in the Fairfax High School Library, we will be presenting information on how we are preparing for FCPSOn (where every students gets a computer). As part of this presentation we will discuss the distribution and other logistics of the computers as well as answer any questions that you may have.
DECA STATE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2019!
DECA State Leadership Conference 2019
This past weekend, 61 FHS DECA Members attended the State Leadership Conference in Virginia Beach. At the conference, students demonstrate their strengths through both a written component such as an exam, extensive marketing research with a real business or organization, as well as an interactive component such as a presentation or role-play. Industry professionals serve as the judges for these events.
As an integral part of the classroom curriculum, DECA’s industry-validated competitive events are aligned with the National Curriculum Standards in the career clusters of marketing, business management and administration, finance, and hospitality and tourism. DECA’s competitive events directly contribute to all participating students being college and career ready when they graduate from high school.
The following 26 students earned the opportunity to advance to the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Astha Shah placed second overall in Entrepreneurship role-play. Darby Bridwell and Christian Grimmell placed second overall in Integrated Marketing Campaign - Service. Chetana Suvarna placed second overall in Financial Consulting. Lucy Fitterer placed third overall in Food Marketing Series. Aya Al-Amad and Emilie Bidgoli placed third overall in Integrated Marketing Campaign – Product. Rishi Shah placed third overall in Start-Up Business Plan. The following students placed in the top eight in their event. Alexis Amoruso, Sara Han, and Charlotte Modes (Creative Marketing), Lara Demir, Bailey Morris, and Shaiann Sarkhosh (International Business Plan), Jack Allen and Madison Mitchell (Integrated Marketing Campaign - Event), Mehreen Hoque, Hospitality and Tourism Personal Selling, Mohir Muminiy, Business Finance Series, Julia Scott and Chetana Suvarna (Marketing Management Team Decision Making), Maxwell Patrick and Paolo Vicencio (Marketing Management Team Decision Making) and Jody Marchiando and Marcus Stotts (Team Decision Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making) and Alec Mitchell and Grace Walters (Travel and Tourism Team Decision Making).
The following students earned medals for placing in the top 10 on comprehensive exams and presentations. Julia Moser (Apparel and Accessory), Lucy Fitterer (Food Service Marketing), Madison Mitchell (Integrated Marketing Campaign), Elle McNally and Abby Garcia (Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making), Jody Marchiando and Marcus Stotts (Sports and Entertainment Team Decision Making), Maxwell Patrick and Paolo Vicencio (Marketing Management Team Decision Making), Chetana Suvarno (Financial Consulting), Mehreen Hoque (Hospitality and Tourism Personal Selling), Cara Attkisson (Professional Selling), Mohir Muminiy (Business Finance), and Madisyn Bukoski (Human Resources Management). Our students received the preferred award for Fairfax DECA Chapters’ program of work and annual report.
VBODA District X Orchestra Assessment
This past weekend the FHS Orchestras participated in the annual VBODA District X Orchestra Assessment at Falls Church High School. Their final ratings are noted below. For your reference all ensembles are adjudicated by four music education experts using the following rating system:
Final Ratings:
o I – Superior
o II – Excellent
o III –Good
o IV- Fair
o V – Poor
FHS Intermediate Orchestra, combined intermediate ensembles:
Overall Excellent rating, I’s from two of the four adjudicators
FHS Philharmonic, combined advanced ensembles:
Overall Superior rating, I’s from all four adjudicators
FHS Chamber Orchestra:
Overall Superior rating, I’s from all four adjudicators
Thank you for your continued support of the FHS Orchestra!
Virginia National Assn of Teachers of Singing Music Competition
Congratulations to Kamila Adamczyk and Charles Wolfer on winning first place in their respective categories for musical theater and classical at VANATS at Shenandoah University and will move on to Mid Atlantic regionals competition in Towson MD. Noelle Buice won Honors in her category and is also moving on to Regionals.
 Noelle Buice, Charles Wolfer, and Kamila Adamczyk
Washington National Opera Summer Program
Congratulations to Charles Wolfer on being accepted into the Washington National Opera’s three-week summer program, WNO Opera Institute at American University! Many qualified students auditioned for this prestigious program, and Charles was selected to participate in the 2019 season from June 24-July 14, 2019.
International Festival 2019!
I-fest 2019, an annual event lead by the ESL department, was a success! Thanks to many wonderful colleagues behind the scenes AND the dedication and hard work of all the students.
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