Fifth-grade students at one Henrico elementary school recently learned more about lighthouses and their keepers, thanks to an initiative created by a Navy veteran. Charlie Anderson, a resident of the Avery Point senior living community in Short Pump, suggested the project to his granddaughter Leah’s fifth-grade teacher, Farrell Bishop.
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Nuckols Farm Elementary School has been named a 2022 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education, an honor that it also earned in 2012, making it the only school in the division to be honored twice. The designation was announced Friday morning by U.S. Secretary of
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When Jack Bond was in fifth grade, he had a change of attitude about school. "I remember many parts of fifth grade quite vividly," Bond says today. "It was the first time I looked forward to going to school each day." His transformation into an eager
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It may be only her second year as a teacher at Nuckols Farm Elementary School, but Karen Shrader has wasted little time making an impact on her fourth-graders. Each of her lessons is guided by a simple question: “How can I make it come alive for my kiddos? To pique
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Twelve new cases of COVID-19 at Henrico’s public schools since March 10 have resulted in 114 people entering quarantine, according to school system data as of March 15. To date, since schools began reopening in person on a staggered basis Feb. 22, there have been 33 new cases of
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