Last week, on Thursday, March 28,  Amber Coponiti, a psychology and world history teacher, delivered student-made cards to a retirement home. This is the second year in a row that she has urged her students...

–    Kempsville High School has five foreign exchange students during the 2018-2019 school year. This piece is written by Antonia Emmerich, a foreign exchange student, as a description of her time...

Class council and SCA elections are right around the corner at the beginning of April. On Friday, March 22, 2019, a Meet the Candidates event was hosted for students to mingle with and speak to 2019-2020...

National Foreign Language Week began in Kempsville on Monday, March 4, 2019, and will carry on through Friday. This week, which is generally the first week of March, is celebrated by foreign language teachers...

Beginning February 4 there is a new app created by VBCPS that allows parents to track their kid’s bus and students to see when the school bus is close to their stop. The app is called Here Comes the...

KHS is reinstituting its tardy plan during the second semester of the 2018-2019 school year, beginning Monday, February 4, 2019. The policy was originally removed three years ago for lack of effectivity.   “We’ve...

Following the partial government shutdown, which began on December 22, 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made temporary free and reduced lunch available for students impacted...

When students entered the school on Tuesday, January 2, 2019, at the end of their winter break, they were redirected to the auditorium. Fire engines remained outside, two on the front of the building and...

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 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...

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 playful, teasing woman named Essie dances clumsily a few feet to the tune of Beethoven (which her husband, Ed, had proudly declared was a sound of his own creation), as her mother Penny sat nearby, chattering...