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Woodson hosted our annual Tiny Tots Performance

Message from Mr. Greata

The morning snowfall last Friday was a beautiful start to the winter season! Fortunately, the weather held off just enough that we were able to hold our many student activities over the weekend.

The Red Jenkins Basketball Tournament was as exciting as ever, including a nail-biter of a game that went into double overtime on Saturday night. Our teams played admirably all weekend, and it looks like we will have an excellent basketball season for both the girls' and boys' teams.

A big congratulations goes out to our Wrestling Team! They took third place overall out of over 50 teams at the Henrico Westling Tournament - The Annual Warrior Stampede. Great job! As always, check out woodsonsports.com for all athletic events.

Our Theater Department also performed their one-act play, A Piece of My Heart, this weekend. This was in preparation for the VHSL competition on January 30th (time to be determined). From what we saw, I'm sure they are going to do very well! 

Last week, we celebrated all of our staff nominees for the Outstanding Employee Award. I want to thank all of the staff, families, and students who took the time to nominate a staff member for this award and let them know they are doing a great job.

We are proud to announce our schoolwide winners, who will now go on to compete at the pyramid level:

• Outstanding Teacher: Martin Terrazas
• Outstanding New Teacher: Jessica Dixon
• Outstanding School-Based Professional Employee: Richard “Rick” Mey
• Outstanding School-Based Operational Employee: Debora “Debbie” Glover
• Outstanding School-Based Leader: Blair Smith

Helen Landers and her guitar students gave a wonderful performance last week to kick off the winter concert season and we have a busy week ahead with both Orchestra and Band concerts on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. We hope to see you there and check out the Woodson Weekly Podcast for sounds from our Band’s Tiny Tots Concert!

Next week is our Winter Spirit Week, and the themes are being voted on as we speak! We look forward to the reveal and a huge amount of school spirit. Our staff is getting into the spirit by competing in a Penguin Game! Small penguins are distributed, and you must "give it up" to anyone that asks you if you're holding one. The last one holding a penguin when the game ends will win a prize!

Hope you stay warm and have a wonderful week!

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