Dear Hayfield Secondary Families:
As fall gets underway,
we will soon begin our academic achievement celebrations including the
first quarter Honor Roll for high school students and the Honor
breakfasts for middle school teams. I’m very proud
to announce that Hayfield has been notified that two of its students
are currently 2010 National Merit Semi-finalist Scholars, two more are
National Merit Commended Scholars, and yet another achieved National
Hispanic Recognition Scholar status based on prior
PSAT scores. We will celebrate these students at the fall Academic
Awards Program and again at the Senior Awards ceremony later in the
spring. At the time of this writing, we were just concluding the
administration of the Princeton Review (composed of released
PSAT questions) for our ninth-grade students and the PSAT for our tenth
and eleventh-grade students, all in preparation for students who will
take their SAT exams in the spring of their junior year or fall of
their senior year. Students should discuss with
their counselor whether the SAT, ACT, or both exams are appropriate for
their post-Hayfield plans. Contact your child’s counselor for
additional information on these options.
This coming weekend,
the Auto Technology classes will be teaming with our neighbors at the
Hayfield Shopping Center to show-off some pretty neat “wheels.” You
may want to stop by; or, if you are into College
research/selection mode with your student, I recommend you attend the
FCPS College Night which we are hosting on Monday, October 19, starting
at 7 p.m. Over 400 colleges and universities will be represented here
and there will be three college-prep workshops
offered.
If you have not seen the alumni walk located between the football stands and the concession stand, you really should take the walk.
Organized by the Hayfield Athletic Boosters, the alumni walk
currently has many bricks inscribed with past Hayfield alumni and
faculty/staff. If interested, I encourage you to contact the Athletic
Boosters via their webpage at www.HayfieldHawks.com.
A big thank you in advance
goes out to all those students, parents, and staff who will organize
and support next week’s Homecoming festivities. The week-long
celebratory activities, enjoyed by
faculty, students, staff, and community will include hallway
decorations, the traditional pep rally, a parade through the Hayfield
community, a hard-to-be-fought football game against Stuart High
School, and the traditional Homecoming Dance. All of this will
be the backdrop as we welcome our new Director of Student Activities
(DSA), Mr. E.W. Nowland, current DSA of Stuart High School, effective
Monday, October 26. Mr. Steve Kewer will be officially retired on
November 1. Mr. Nowland brings six years of experience
as a sitting FCPS DSA, as well as, experience as a DSA in the Virginia
High School League (VHSL) National District (to which we were assigned
this school year). Please welcome him when you get the chance.
It’s mid-fall again,
so please mark your calendars for the upcoming Touching Base
five-minute mini-conferences scheduled for the morning of Wednesday,
November 11. We will follow the same format as last year
providing opportunities for parents to touch base with
teachers. Mini-conferences will start at 7:30 a.m. in the field house
and middle-school lecture hall. Students will have a shortened day
with bus pick-up times scheduled exactly four hours later
coinciding with the start of school, scheduled at 11:20 a.m.
All the best to you and your families, Go Hawks!
William L. Oehrlein, Ph.D.
Principal william.oehrlein@fcps.edu |
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