Tag: Annandale High School
Annandale High School to offer COVID vaccinations
Annandale High School Annandale High School is offering COVID-19 vaccinations for students age 12-18 on Thursday, May 27. Fairfax County Public Schools and the Fairfax County Health Department are teaming up to provide one-day COVID vaccination clinics to students. Other sites include Bryant High School in Alexandria on May 25, South Lakes High School in … Continued
Farewell Mr. Finch, former Annandale HS principal
Jim Finch speaks at the Annandale Athletic Boosters Hall of Fame banquet in 2018. Jim Finch, the much-admired principal of Annandale High School from 1966 to 1986, died Feb. 18 at an assisted living facility in Hendersonville, N.C. He was 92 and suffered from a variety of ailments. He “passed away peacefully in the presence … Continued
Annandale High School graduate will represent Venezuela in a beauty pageant
Rachel Laguna Rachel Laguna, of the Annandale High School Class of 2007, is the 2021 Mrs. Venezuela and is slated to compete in the international Mrs. Globe competition in Shenzhen, China, later this year. Mrs. Globe (or Ms. Globe, as Laguna prefers) is an international beauty pageant featuring contestants age 26 to 45 of any … Continued
All-girls team from Annandale High School wins Audi competition
The winning team from Annandale High School. A team of sophomores from Annandale High School won a $2,000 grant in the Audi-STEM for Her: Drive Like A Girl competition. Aisha Ismael, Katie Hutnan, Francesca Gabriel, and Tejh Hardin came up with a way to enhance the car-buying and ownership process for female customers while considering … Continued
Annandale choral students perform a virtual concert featuring African-American composers
The Annandale High School Choral Department hosted its first virtual concert, “Lift Every Voice,” featuring all five of the school’s choirs performing works of six living African-American composers with a focus on hope, equity, and unity. The concert is available on YouTube. Several choral members speak during the performance about what the songs mean to them. The … Continued
Annandale High School featured in TV news report on failing grades during pandemic
A screenshot from a “Good Morning America video, shows reporter Alex Presha interviewing Annandale High School teacher Catie Bishop in front of the school. Annandale High School was featured in a segment on “Good Morning America” Dec. 5 on how students across the nation are failing academically due to the challenges of online learning during the … Continued
Annandale High School students launch an Equity Team to combat racial bias
The Annandale High School Class of 2021. Students at Annandale High School formed an Equity Team with the goal of creating a climate at the school that is more responsive to students from diverse backgrounds. “I see so many instances where people from underrepresented groups are not supported or face implicit bias from teachers, coaches, and … Continued
Annandale students featured on news program
A news segment that aired on MSNBC July 13 with three rising seniors at Annandale High School illustrates some of the issues students and their families are thinking about as they decide what to about the return to school. Fairfax County families must decide by July 15 whether to spend the entire 2020-21 school year … Continued
Drive-by celebration honors Annandale HS graduates
The Class of 2020 missed out on prom, the all-night graduation party, and spring sports. The stay-at-home order aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic put a stop to all the fun activities that cap off 12 years of schooling. As one Annandale High School student put: “Senior year kind of sucked.” But while they … Continued
People wait for hours for COVID tests in Annandale
People stay in their cars while getting a COVID test. Hundreds of people waited for hours at a free COVID-19 testing event at Annandale High School on Saturday. The testing event was hosted by the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Fairfax County Health Department. Those agencies are holding a similar COVID testing event … Continued
DeRose named principal of Annandale High School
Shawn DeRose (under the A on the Atoms poster) meets the folks at Annandale High School. [Region 2 Twitter] Glasgow Middle School Principal Shawn DeRose will become the new principal of Annandale High School. DeRose will be leaving Glasgow tomorrow after leading the school for the past five years. Mark Merrell has been interim principal … Continued
Members of the AHS Class of 1959 recall fun times in semi-rural Annandale
The Annandale High School 60th reunion. When Annandale was a semi-rural community in the 1950s, teens used to ride horses down the streets, enjoyed sock hops in the school gym, and in some cases, quit school to get married. Those are some of the memories shared by Annandale High School alumni at an informal celebration … Continued
Interim principal named for Annandale HS
Merrell Mark Merrell will serve as interim principal of Annandale High School until Fairfax County Public Schools fills the position. Tim Thomas, who had been AHS principal for four years, retired July 1. Merrell was principal of James Madison High School for 14 years before retiring in 2015. Before that, he was an assistant principal at … Continued
A student and business leader selected as Mason District ‘Lord and Lady Fairfax’
Victor Nguyen This year’s Mason District “Lord and Lady Fairfax” are Victor Nguyen, a student at Annandale High School, and Elizabeth “Libby” Novak, a former member of the Fairfax County Small Business Commission, Mason Supervisor Penny Gross announced May 16 in her “A Penny for your Thoughts” column in the Falls Church News Press. Every … Continued
Selection process under way for new principal of Annandale High School
Thomas Fairfax County Public Schools invites the Annandale High School community to a meeting May 15, 5:30 p.m., at the school to review the process for selecting the school’s next principal. The current principal, Tim Thomas, is retiring, as of July 1. Thomas has been at AHS since the start of the 2015 school year. … Continued