Graduation 2025
It was wonderful seeing so many alumni present at graduation. And a special thank you goes out to our alumni lauders.
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2025 Annual Film Lab Showcase at the Grandin Theater
The 9th Annual Film Lab Showcase at the Grandin Theater this May featured four short films produced, written, filmed, and edited by high school students. The red carpet event represented the culmination of students’ group curriculum based learning for the 2024-25 school year.
We’d like to congratulate our beginner film lab students, Bee M, Reece B, and Theo H, as wells our advanced students, Ivor G and Jupiter C, on the efforts they put in to making this premiere a great success.
We’d also like to note our teacher and student actors, who played varying roles from lead to extras – Josh, Eva Rose S-W, Sarah P, Anna H, Miles C, and Sori M.
Sarah P shared:
I had such a great time being in “My Shadow Is Brighter”. The cast and crew for it were so fun to work with and the premiere went amazingly well.
Trivia Night!
Thanks to seniors Odessa and Daniel, during the last week of classes everyone was able to get together for a fun night of trivia.
Odessa Reflects on the Daisy Art Parade
As a senior this year, Odessa attended her last Daisy Art Parade as a CHS student. She was kind enough to share this personal reflection with us:
Although I have interacted with the Daisy Art Parade in the past, this was by far the one filled with the most clearly formed effort, well-earned organization, and energetic community engagement. Throughout the day I saw people excitedly interacting with giant puppets (such as the Frida Kahlo) and actively learning about the messages various krewes aimed to spread—from embracing art to protecting our natural environment. I also saw a pink dragon-pony bite off someone’s head. Despite the parade not being directly downtown as with the first year, many people from around Roanoke showed up to watch, or to celebrate art and artistry. It was a great new decision to end in the plaza with the statue of Henrietta Lacks, where parade-goers thoroughly decorated both the sidewalks and a number of collective-art canvases. I loved being present this year, and I can’t wait to see the parade continue to grow.
Senior Slip & Slide
The seniors set up a make-shift slip and slide in the yard for all to enjoy. But perhaps NO ONE enjoyed it as much as Seph, who went down at least 5 times?
World Building Class Posters
Over the course of the semester, the World Building Workshop students each created their own fictional worlds. This involved researching historical, social, literary, and/or scientific principles to give their worlds internal consistency. They manifested their worlds through a combination of small specific assignments, and a larger project to present their world in the form of written fiction, a game/game system, or other creative format of their choice. They presented their world to us through an end of the semester poster session for all to enjoy.
Morningside Urban Farm
The Farms class visited Morningside Urban Farm and met with farmer Hannah Patrick and Angela Charlton, Carilion Community Health Educator & Morningside Urban Farm Coordinator, to learn about SE Roanoke’s own small farm and garden and the many cool community events happening there. Thank you to both Hannah and Angela for their time!
Visit to LEAP’s Food Hub
The CHS Farms class visited LEAP’s Food Hub to learn about all of the good work LEAP does making important connections within the Roanoke food system.
Spring Spirit Week
We enjoyed another student-led Spirit Week
Frat Monday
Cringy Tee Tuesday
Whimsical Wednesday
Thwap Your Outfiths Thursday