Awards at HS Convocation?
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Anonymous
| What sort of awards are handed out at the FCPS high school convocations? Is it like when I went to school in the 80s and 90s? Outstanding Male Student and Outstanding Female Student, Valedictorian and Salutatorian plaques, Best History Student, Best Chemistry Student, Best English Student, and so on. Or is it more along the lines of 250 kids receiving NHS certificates and Scholar Athlete pins? Anyone is the know? |
Anonymous
| Probably depends on the school. I know Marshall HS has a separate awards ceremony where they give all those out before graduation date. It is held at the school during the daytime. |
Anonymous
| There are no valedictorians as we don’t have class rank. There are no awards at the graduation ceremony for LBSS. There is an awards ceremony about a week before for each department, which included about 4 or 5 students per department (math, science, language, PE, music, art…..). They also had a principals award for someone who made a difference to the community, military awards for those going to academies, military service, ROTC. They also honored anyone with a scholarship. There is probably something I am leaving out, but that’s the gist. |
Anonymous
Same at Langley, except they gave the principal's award and a single faculty award at the actual graduation and everything else at the earlier awards ceremony. |
Anonymous
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So they do usually give out awards for each department? Math award, science award, foreign language award, etc?
(And yes, I am talking about the award ceremony held at the school before the actual graduation.) |
Anonymous
Why are you asking again? Three people just said yes for three different FCPS school? |
Anonymous
Well, technically 2 people (one at LBSS and one at Langley). The Marshsll respondent didn't specify what type of awards are given. Is it similar at your school too? |
Anonymous
Well, the Marshall poster said "Marshall HS has a separate awards ceremony where they give all those out" in reference to the OPs list of awards. Mine are at Langley and there are multiple awards given for each department - I think each teacher in the department gets to pick at least one student. It's a lot of awards. |
Anonymous
Yes. A few awards per department. It was probably around 60 or so kids . While it seems like a lot at LBSS we had 713 graduates so it’s only a portion of the senior class. |
Anonymous
| Langley parent here: most of the department awards are given out in a separate ceremony. Graduation will have the principle’s award and maybe 2-3 other major awards, but that’s about it for convocation. |
Anonymous
| Chantilly HS parent here. At our Convocation (our award ceremony), we have dept awards in addition to other random awards. I don't think any awards happen at our graduation. |
Anonymous
| For the Langley posters: Do all parents go to the awards ceremony for seniors or just parents of kids receiving awards? There is a parent/student breakfast right before that but I hope the culture is not for all parents to go to the ceremony when their child is not getting an award. |
Anonymous
I’m not sure what that has to do with culture, but it’s only the parents whose kids are getting awards. It’s pretty long and boring and I can’t imagine sitting through it if your kid were not getting an award. |
Anonymous
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May be old information. Our FCPS HS had an asterisk/other symbols next to the student's name in the printed program. Each symbol represented something, and there was explanation of the symbols printed on the program. In addition, sometime during the ceremony certain groups of students were asked to stand. For all of it -- it was nice to be honored but all were being honored in a group.
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Anonymous
I think you're speaking about the graduation ceremony, not the convocation award ceremony held at a different time. |