MS Math Competition This Friday

Joe, Sidni, Amiya, Rylan, and Laci will represent Valor at the regional mathcounts competition this Friday. They were selected as the top students in the Middle School from a qualifying exam. They will compete as a team and also an individual in four different math categories. If they win they will head to the state games in April. GO VALOR NATION!

Business Night Round #2

Last Thursday, the mission groups presented their missions a second time. All of the students did their best. The presentations, their elevator speeches, and team posters were well done. Despite no businesses attending, the students pushed forward and some donations were made. Mrs. Taylor was proud of all of them! Some of the ways our presenters thought would help reel in more businesses would be to be less laid-back while calling, sending emails, contacting smaller companies, and better memorizing their presentations. According to Malachi from the Philippines group, it's important that even though no businesses came, there is always room to improve.

Interview with Nona Darling

The yearbook team interviewed Nona Darling regarding her job here and snow stress.

What is your job at Valor?

“I am the finance administrator.”

Do you like your job?

“I love my job.”

What is your favorite and least favorite part of your job?

“My favorite is working with the great staff and all the students at valor.”

Stressing out over deadlines, because I don't do well with stress."

Is there any added stress coming back from the snow days trying to catch up on work?

“Yeah I felt really out of sorts. I do well when I have a routine and a schedule .”

What did you do to relieve this stress?

"During the snow days, I did puzzles. That was a really good outlet for me."

Now that we are about halfway through the school year, how do you think the school has turned out? Is there anything you would add or change?
“I think it is good as is and a great sports complex would be great, like with our own soccer and track field.”

Interview with Amber Kenniston about snow stress

The yearbook team interviewed Amber Kenniston in correlation to snow stress.

What is your job at Valor?

“I am the Administrative assistant.”

Do you like your job?

“I LOVE my job.”
she says with white eyes and a silent double hand slam

What is your favorite and least favorite part of your job?

“My least favorite part of my job is. . . because Valor is a new school it takes a ton of work as we are growing, developing and creating everything it gets easier and easier. But right at the front, I seek to make everything the best, just like the rest of the stuff and that just takes a lot of work.

My most favorite is really hard. It is going to be the people I work with, is my absolute favorite. I love every second of every day that I get to spend here. And my second favorite thing is the kids like I absolutely live to love on the kids."

Is there any added stress coming back from the snow days trying to catch up on work?

“No, I actually was able to work remotely so I was actually able to get more done at home than I would have on campus because there were no interruptions.”

Now that we are about halfway through the school year how do you think the school has turned out. Is there anything you would add or change?

“The school is better than I even dreamed it could be it is a wonderful surprise. I would have more students at valor I would like to have about 500 kids and to keep growing from there but we don't
have space.”

Latest Video: Dealing with Snowpocalypse Stress

The SNOWPOCALYPSE Workload

As you know our school (VCSI) had been out of school for 10 days because of the SNOWPOCALYPSE.  So now that we are all back in school I asked some of the students what is it was like to be back, 28% of the student I interviewed said that the workload was the same in their classes but 57% of students said that the workload was horrible and that there was a lot of things to catch up on, though 15% of student have mixed emotions about the work they said that there was a medium amount of work but still relatively easy.

Check out the above video on ways students deal with such "tremendous stress."

State of the School Address - Monday, Jan 23

Valor's State of the School Address event took place at 7:00 PM on Jan 23.The head of the school, Angie Taylor, gave a presentation of what our school is all about to the families of Valor and potential new students. Afterwards, the guests were free to partake in refreshments while visiting different tables presenting the One-2-One program and the three mission groups. Members from teams going to Yakama, Philippines, and Haiti presented their missions in hopes to raise funds for their respective trips. Some presented their mission by giving "elevator speeches" (a short spur of the moment speech), drinking dirty water (demonstrating filtration of water), or giving out bracelets (a great hook for potential sponsors). It was a great night for presenting our school to current and future Valor families and celebrating our progress as a school body.