During Kindness Week, our students led a "Kindness Parade" where they traveled the whole campus and spread kindness to each department in the form of encouraging signs, bubbles, whistles, and goodie bags with candy. Our staff and students really enjoyed the parade and positivity!
The student vs. staff Goalball game was SO MUCH FUN! Congratulations to the students for beating the staff in every match.
We have been lucky to enjoy a few BEAUTIFUL days sprinkled in with the days that remind us it's not quite spring yet and our residential students always take advantage of the nice weather. Here, the Deaf department residential halls all joined together for a game of kickball!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Our older Deaf boys celebrated by making shamrock shakes during their evening group counseling session with Ms. Alysha and residential staff. Looks tasty! ☘️
Kindness week updates!!
Our students have been working to fill their pompom container to resemble their kind deeds during this week. Let's see how many more we can get before the week ends!
Also, our boxes for Augusta Dog Adoptions are filling up. We still have another week to collect items for them!
Also, check out some of our students and staff enjoying the Photo Booth area!
More highlights of VSDB Reads! ⬇️
Here we have our Superintendent, Pat Trice; our Audiologist, Lindsey Richard; and one of our school counselors, Alysha Scott. Thank you to EVERYONE who participated! ❤️
The deadline to order your yearbook is April 1... You don't want to miss this!!
We are trying something new this year for full accessibility. Each yearbook will have a QR code that links to videos with audio descriptions of each page!
Pre-K fun in the library!
It's getting closer to spring, but it's still pretty chilly! Our pre-K kiddos had an impromptu "snowball fight" with some packing peanuts to keep warm but still enjoy the last bits of winter hanging on!
As part of our Kindness Week fun, we set up a Photo Booth in our lobby and we've been having fun with it so far. Stay tuned for more pictures!
Join us live on YouTube for our staff versus student Goalball game! We will begin at 4:00! https://youtube.com/live/6wVrRzOfS4I?feature=share
I don't know about you, but our library is wayyyy more than "just books." Ms. Michelle set up so many stations around the library this week centered around kindness and she has open hours this week for any classes to come do stations at any time throughout the day. Look at all her creative ideas!
Students have really enjoyed learning about and playing Ga-Ga ball in PE recently! If you haven't played or seen it played, you should check it out!
Work study Wednesday!
These students are applying valuable work and interpersonal skills while working at Food Lion in Fishersville. Their main job is to stock and organize shelves, but they are often approached by customers and get to practice providing good customer service!
Why would we order EIGHT THOUSAND pompom balls, you ask? Kindness week, of course!!
For each act of kindness our students do this week, they earn pompoms. Then, they add their personal collections to a container the whole school is trying to fill. Let's see if we can fill it!
This week is Kindness Week! We surprised the students yesterday morning with a Kindness Welcome Party as they arrived to school! There were so many surprised faces and a whole lot of smiles!! We're looking forward to a great week.
Our students had an early homegoing last Thursday so our school and residential staff could participate in professional development. Thank you Kim Shank from The Arrow Project for our interactive workshop on trauma informed practices!
After the strange winter we've had so far, snow flurries today shouldn't have been surprising...but it still felt surreal to see snow! As always, it was so beautiful looking at the light dusting of snow around our campus ❄️❄️
VSDB is ready to Spring Forward! Spring is full of excitement and newness...and we are HERE for it! Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight.
Our Goalball teams traveled to North Carolina to Governor Morehead School to compete. The girls and the boys teams won both games to complete their last away matches before hosting the March Madness Goalball Tournament March 17-19 at VSDB. This has been a good season so far and we are excited about the upcoming tournament! Our teams have traveled to three states in three weeks so they are looking forward to being back home for a full weekend of games and fun. We'd also like to extend a special thank you to Tom Gorman Photography for always sharing his photos with us! We are so thankful for our players and their families who have shown so much support throughout the season!!
We just can't get enough of the beautiful sunsets over our equally beautiful campus!
