Archive By Section - SCV Schools
Students give back with Project Puppy Love
Hundreds of new and gently used blankets, towels, collars, toys and beds were collected by students at Saugus' Mountainview Elementary as part of "Project Puppy Love," benefitting AngelDogs Foundation, a mobile spay/neuter clinic and deaf-dog rescue network based in Newhall. Project Puppy Love was the idea of the school's Student Service program, which seeks to help the community through philanthropic efforts devised by the students. "Last winter, we did a food drive. The kids were ...
Clubs reach out to patients
Students from Valencia High School's Fight for a Cure and Femina student clubs recently made valentines and wrote heartfelt notes for hospital patients. The clubs organized the outreach effort as part of Valentine's Day and with the goal to provide joy to people in need and to inspire others to help. Fight for a Cure hopes to raise awareness for rare diseases while Femina is the school's women's rights club.
TV personality visits SCV International
Television personality Stephanie Edwards recently toured Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School and met with students of the growing charter school based in Castaic.
Project Prom donations sought
The William S. Hart Union High School District in partnership with the Assistance League of Santa Clarita is asking the community to provide donations for Project Prom, a charity program that gives local high school students the opportunity to attend prom.
Schools to get recycling programs
Waste Management has received a Keep America Beautiful grant worth $5,000 that will help establish recycling programs at elementary schools within the Saugus Union, Newhall and Sulphur Springs school districts.
Kids compete with Legos
Rosedell Elementary School students recently participated in the Legoland Jr. Lego League Expo at the theme park.
Bowman students visit technical institute
A group of 39 Bowman High School students and four teachers recently took a field trip to Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga. During the visit, Universal Technical Institute representative Joan Serra and former William S. Hart Union High School District student Adrian Cross provided a guided tour of the facility. Students were taken through fully equipped shop environments, where they watched teams of Universal Technical Institute students work on state-of-the-art vehicles provided by Ford, ...
SOARing toward L.A. marathon
Students Off And Running, also known as SOAR, and the Santa Clarita Track Club will host the second Mardi Gras Madness 5K on March 3 at Bridgeport Marketplace.
Gelig memorial scholarship application now available
The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce is now taking applications from Santa Clarita Valley veterans or an immediate family member who is pursuing higher education at a Southern California college or university.
A day of snow at Saugus
Saugus High School's Associated Student Body brought in 14 tons of snow Friday for students to enjoy on the last regular day of school before finals this week. Students were asked to bring in five food items or $5 donation for the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry for admittance to the fenced-off snow area. Hundreds of cans of food were collected, and the students enjoyed a fun sled course down the hill in the quad ...
Team to host competition
Valencia High School will be the site of a West Coast Elite dance competition in January. Some of the top schools in California will be on hand to open the 2012 season. Locally, teams from Hart, Saugus, Valencia and Golden Valley high schools will participate. "This is a great opportunity to watch some very elite teams compete here in the Santa Clarita Valley," Valencia adviser Michelle Brown said. "We're very excited to be hosting an ...
Kids sing, dance for Winter Spectacular
Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School students showed off their artistic skills during the school's fourth annual Winter Spectacular on Dec. 8 and 9. The kids performed at Higher Vision Church as part of the community event that featured singing and dancing from all grade levels. This year's theme was "The World Within Our Grasp," and tickets were sold out. The school decided to stream the show live online for SCV International family members and ...
Students push for concert funds
Students who are part of the William S. Hart Union High School District's "Yes I Can" program are making a final push for people to vote so that it can receive a $50,000 grant for its annual Summer Meltdown concert. The students producing the ninth annual Summer Meltdown Concert are currently competing for a $50,000 grant from Pepsi to help plan, produce and promote the all-day festival, scheduled for May 2012. Yes I Can is ...
West Creek students donate toys
West Creek Academy's Parent-Teacher Association and the student-run Leadership Team joined together with ABC News and the Los Angeles firefighters to help support the Spark of Love Toy Drive. West Creek Academy families collected new, unwrapped toys and sports equipment for Southern California children. Students and their parents recently drove to Westfield Topanga Mall to deliver and stuff a bus full of toys with Garth Kemp from Channel 7 ABC News. Students of Cate Muro's ...
High school clubs create mobile library
After a semester of hard work, the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force chapters from Academy of the Canyons, Canyon, Golden Valley, Hart and Valencia high schools have completed their first mobile library project. The project departed this past November for a refugee camp in Eastern Chad, Camp Djabal. In the library were projects and lessons completed by the various chapters aimed at teaching the refugees English along with materials uploaded to Kindles. Fundraising and ...
Articles by Section - SCV Schools
‘A Knight Like No Other’ at Trinity
When Trinity was founded, it only had Kindergarten through second grade and planning a prom was many years down the road.
Helmers student wins national PTA Reflections award
Augie Altes, a Valencia resident and first-grader at Helmers Elementary School, has won the national PTA Reflections competition in the category of photography for the primary grade level (K-2).
Field trip to the Chumash Center
The Chumash Center is a very exciting and inspiring place. This article will be about the tour our home-school group took of the center.
Civil War life on display at Placerita Junior High School
David Held, in the chacter of a southern infantry sergeant, and others described life in the Confederate army to a group of 8th grade students during an historical presentation by Civil War re-enactors at Placerita Junior High School on Friday.
Footloose is spring production at Golden Valley High School
The spring musical at Golden Valley High School will be "Footloose" and run Wednesday through Friday.
Students from Legacy Christian Academy win NASA contest
"How does it feel to look at Earth from space?"
Placerita Junior High fields Ballroom Dance Team
The Placerita Ballroom Dance Team from Placerita Junior High School in Newhall recently competed at the High Desert Dance Classic in the Dancing Feet Youth Ballroom program held at Antelope Valley College.
Pi Day celebrated at Oak Hills Elementary
Third grade students at Oak Hills Elementary School in Valencia recently celebrated Pi Day. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 around the world.
A homeschooler’s perspective of extracurricular activities
am a homeschooler. That means that I do my schoolwork at home, but I also take classes.
Student writes own play
I love language arts: books, plays, poetry; you name it, I love it. I've always liked it but what really hit it off was when I took a theater class, I was hypnotized. I was determined to write my own play, and I am succeeding! I love writing. It's like making my own world! Here is a sample of my play. I now present to you the opening scene of my play, "Trust Me."
Student attends inauguration
As an American, no matter Republican or Democrat, a trip to the Presidential Inauguration is the thrill of a lifetime.
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