Power to the Seniors in Powderpuff 2018
Paxton Coley, Staff Writer
December 10, 2018
Powderpuff is a game of football which is very different from Kempsville's other football games, as it uses teams made up only of girls, with guys taking on the role of cheerleaders. Kempsville High School played their annual game of Powderpuff on Thursday, December 6th, pitting the grades against each...
Sponsor a Child – How Kempsville Students Are Making a Difference
Paxton Coley, Staff Writer
December 7, 2018
Kempsville students are active in serving the community through the Interact Club, sponsored by Ms. Allison Heighschober. This club is a high school version of Rotary Club, an international service organization for adults. “What we do is we find opportunities to interact with the comm...
Singing and Signing – Kempsville’s Sign Language Club
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
December 6, 2018
“Students have been asking me for years to create a sign language club, and this year I was crazy enough to do it,” said Ms. Fernandes, a special ed teacher who began a sign language club at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year. She learned sign language in her early 20s, for her deaf in-law...
How New Start Times Could Affect High Schoolers
Paxton Coley, Staff Writer
November 30, 2018
On the night of Tuesday, November 27th, 2018, a unanimous vote took place within the Virginia Beach School Board, changing the start times of Virginia Beach public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. This decision was made specifically with the idea that high schoolers need more rest. VB...
Commitment to Graduate: Class of 2022
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
November 28, 2018
Commitment to Graduate for the Class of 2022 on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
You Win Some, You Loose Some: Kempsville’s Scholastic Teams Face Off
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
November 28, 2018
On Monday, November 26, 2018, Kempsville’s Scholastic Bowl team faced off against Bayside in their fifth match of the season. On the way to the match, in a white activity bus, they quiz each other. “Rap,” repeatedly answers Carson Blythe, senior, after his answer to a question on music...
Springstead leads the drama department in “subText”
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
November 14, 2018
When the lights illuminate the stage on the first showing of “subText” and two teenagers become visible, it becomes clear that something is going to be different about this play: both Cameron, played by James George, and Dani, performed by Kylie VanHoose, are on their phones. This is t...
Teens disagree with trick-or-treating policy
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
October 31, 2018
This Halloween, trick-or-treating begins at dusk and ends at 8 p.m. - for kids. Virginia Beach code states that “If any person over the age of twelve years shall engage in the activity commonly known as “trick or treat” or any other activity of similar character or nature under any name whatsoever, he shall...
Threatening Message Found Inside Boys Bathroom
Aaron Thomas, Julius Bastien, and Sydney Haulenbeek
October 30, 2018
On October 25, word got around the school of a possible school shooting. This rumor stemmed from graffiti on the wall of a boys bathroom, which advised students not to come to school and warned of their intent to shoot up the school on Monday, October 29. Principal Melissa George sent a message out ...
Introducing: One Lunch
Skylar Tunstill, Staff Writer
October 24, 2018
The trials have ended. The time of One Lunch is here, formally implemented into all Virginia Beach Public Schools for the 2018-2019 school year onward. The basic concept of One Lunch is to eliminate the need for students to stay after school and have activities, clubs, and tutoring available during t...
New Security Changes Help Protect Students
Sydney Haulenbeek, Editor in Chief
October 3, 2018
Even as Kempsville High School and VBCPS continue to allow visitors, a new layer of front-desk security is still being added this year - a video intercom system. A silver box that contains a video camera, a buzzer and voice intercom has been installed in all VBCPS schools prior to the end of September a...
Happy Retirement, Mr. Harris!
Sydney Haulenbeek, Business Manager and Staff Writer
June 8, 2018
As the 2017 - 2018 school year draws to an end, so does the time of Kempsville’s current Principal, William “Bill” Harris. Harris came to Kempsville in 2012, replacing Evangeline Petrich. During his 6 years spent working at Kempsville, he has influenced many changes, including the e...
