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melman—Mary wasmngton University, Becky Leser— Mary Washington University, Aaron Marx—Mary Washington University and Virginia Tech, Rachel Marx - Mary Washington University, James Nilan—Virginia Tech, Aubree Parker—Mary Washington University, Jesse Paul— Catholic University with a $4Q,000 scholarship, Alec Toth—The College of William & Mary
Rappahannock
County Public
Schools plan
International
Festival
By Natalie Hill
On June 8, the third annual International Festival will offer Rappahannock County Public School students a chance to travel around the world without even leaving the area. The festival, sponsored by Headwaters’ Global Spotlights program in partnership with the Curriculum Enrichment Program and RAAC, will be held at both the Rappahannock County Elementary School and the Rappahannock County High School campuses. Students will have the opportunity to enjoy international cuisine, x music, story tellers, dancers, and an array of colorful international exhibits and displays prepared by RCPS students.
Teachers and students are already hard at work researching their adopted countries and would like the community’s help. Rappahannock is a county rich with residents who have traveled or worked internationally. Students and faculty alike would love to see souvenirs, photographs, and videos and to hear about the different cultures that you have experienced. Individuals who are familiar with the cultures of Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Latin America are needed. Guest speakers who wish to share their travel adventures with “tourists” in the classroom are welcome. Community participation is Very important to the success of the festival.
If you have the time or talent to contribute to this worthwhile event, Headwaters would love to hear from you. Please call Paige Coombs at 540-6751819.
Headwaters, the Rappahannock County Public Education Foundation, through programs such as Global Spotlights, Mini-grants and the RCHS Farm to Table Program, assists the Rappahannock County Public Schools as they strive to be second to none. Please share your wealth of knowledge and experience and together we can make the third annual International Festival even more successful than last year’s event
Hearthstone School
Hearthstone teacher Jill Kiehn attended a week long conference with local Rapp Flow and Piedmont Environmental Council representatives on Watershed Planning. Hosted by the Center for Watershed Protection in Shepardstown, West Virginia, Kiehn was among sixty national participants that included EPA representatives, local government officials, non-profit organizations, and Department of Conservation Resources staff that participated in a hands on educational opportunity to learn how to help communities in the mid Atlantic region create a healthy watershed plan to protect the quality of the nation’s water supply.
The purpose of this event was to not only learn how to collect the data and analyze it but to use local citizens, county government and area resources to partner in creating the ordinances and educate the community on steps to take to ensure that our watershed plan supports clean water down stream as well as locally.
A local pilot study will begin this spring that will lead to the creation and implementation of a larger watershed conservation plan to follow. Kiehn hopes to take her knowledge to the Hearthstone classroom next fall and partner with area private and public school students, as well as homeschoolers, to allow all county youth an opportunity to be fully engaged in the development of this project.
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