Barbara Marshall

Last Tuesday the boys and girls Cross Country teams won their 7th consecutive Cross Country Regional Championships and have advanced to the 3A State Championships this Friday-Saturday in Salem. Good luck to the following athletes: Girls  Alyssa Wright Ada Rigsby Amelia Seabury Kathleen Russo Mary Caroline Heinen Brenna Luczak Mary (Mimi) Kemp Alexis Bartee Gracie…

Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School will host a budget town hall on December 3rd to solicit community priorities as we develop the fiscal year 2020-21 budget that will be presented to the Regional School Board and the public in March 2020. A short presentation at this town hall will be followed by opportunities for stakeholders to comment and ask…

Congratulations to the Dragons that auditioned and were selected to represent Maggie Walker Governor’s School at All-District Chorus.  These students auditioned on Saturday, November 9th at Deep Run High School and will participate in All-District Chorus on February 6-8, 2020.  Chorus is taught by Mrs. Michelle Graham. Simi Chakravarty, ’23-Henrico Jaquante Coleman, ’23-Henrico

Ms. Michele Surat is pleased to announce that Savannah Vonesh (Class of 2021) is this year’s Poetry Out Loud school competition winner. She confidently recited John Berryman’s “Dream Song 14”. Savannah will represent Maggie Walker in the regional competition to be held on February 10. If she wins the regional, she would proceed to the…

Reports cards will be issued to students today during their 8th-period class. 

Ms. Christina Sienkiewicz, MLWGS Orchestra Instructor, is excited to launch “Come and Play” with Dragons with the orchestra students of RPS’s Binford MS on November 13th. Binford students will arrive on campus in the morning to the music room where students will be placed into small groups with the Advanced Orchestra Students to prepare them…

MLWGS is offering depression awareness and suicide prevention training as part of the SOS Signs of Suicide® Prevention Program. SOS lessons will be implemented in the 9th-grade Health and PE classes during the week of November 18th.  Students not enrolled in PE will attend the lesson on November 21st and 22nd  from 11:30-12:30 p.m. The SOS…

The furniture in the commons and cafeteria will be reconfigured for the Information Forums (11/11-11/13).  Student access to these areas during the day will be dependent on their ability to not disturb the arrangement.  If using the commons & cafeteria these days please be sure all furniture is left how it was found.  

On Thursday, November 7th, Maggie Walker’s Tri-M Music Honor Society inducted 11 new members: William Lane Kelly, Devon Jebo, Sam Lichtman, Joshua Yoo, Schubin Chon, Catherine Garrison, Eric Qian, Albert Tang, Emma Hunter, Ankit Agrawal, and Amar Srinivasan. Also honored were continuing members Emma Chun (President), Alyssa Wright (Vice President), Lillian Walsh (Treasurer), Minji Cho…

A meeting of the Maggie Walker Governor’s School Executive Board will be held on November 14, 2019, @ 9:00 am, in Room 153 on the MW campus. The Executive Board is a committee of the Regional School Board invested with many of the powers of the Regional School Board (see Policy No. 1010). Persons wishing to address the…

Congrats to Minji Cho (Chesterfield, ’21) who is on her way to perform with the All-National Orchestra this weekend in Orlando, FL. Also, congrats to Mira Eisenhauer (Henrico, ’21), Emma Chun (Henrico, ’20), Sam Lichtman (Henrico, ’22), Eric Qian (Chesterfield, ’22), and Joshua Yoo (Chesterfield, ’22) who will be performing with Senior Regional Orchestra this…

On Tuesday, November 5th in Woodstock, VA the boys and girls Cross Country teams each won their 7th consecutive Regional Cross Country team title, but their first at the VHSL Group 3 level. Competition started at 3:00 pm with the Boys Championship race. The Green Dragons entered the competition as the favorites but would be…

FIRST® LEGO® League, one of four STEM-learning programs from FIRST®, immerses kids in real-world science and technology challenges. Teams of kids ages 9 to 14 are challenged to design their own solution to current scientific problems, then build LEGO®robots that perform autonomous “missions.” In the process, they develop valuable life skills and discover exciting career possibilities in science…

Maggie Walker requires 140 hours of community service by the 3rd quarter of every student’s senior year. Each year the school holds a community service fair to help bring organizations and students together. This year the date of the fair is November 8th so that all students would have a chance to attend if interested.…

557 Students from 49 States and Territories to Showcase Talents in Orlando, FL, November 7–10 During the 2018–19 school year, along with other accomplished music students across the United States and overseas in military base schools, Minji Cho from Maggie L Walker Governor’s School practiced with dedication to gain a chair or part in her…