Events
Secret Santa Reveal
Our annual Secret Santa week came to a close with the big reveal lunch and many smiling faces!
Shakespeare Monologue Competition 2020
Students performed monologues from Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale among others, vying for an opportunity to advance to the regional division of a national competition sponsored by The English Speaking Union. CHS students Stella B, Jacob G, and Sam P received Honorable Mentions, and freshman Andre F won the competition, performing […]
CHS Winter 2019 Theater Production: “Walk Two Moons”
The Drama Department of Community High School proudly presents Tom Avertis’ stage adaptation of Newberry Award-winning novel, Walk Two Moons, November 15 and 16. The curtain rises each evening at 7:30 pm at the June M. McBroom Theatre. The price of admission is $5 Set in modern day, 13-year-old Salamanca (Sal) Hill sets out to […]
Fall 2019 Lycée Day
For this fall Lycée Day students are choosing among 17 different locally sourced classes, workshops, lectures, discussions, and tours. Would you choose the chainmail making class, the Taubman museum tour of the Julie Speed exhibition, the discussion of Amish Romance Novels, or the hands-on survival skills session to learn how to withstand the Zombie Apocalypse? […]
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Venezuelan Lunch
Our advanced Spanish students took a walk to the Leonore Restaurant downtown to enjoy a special Venezuelan lunch (and only speak in Spanish).
Calculus Retreat
Our Calculus students had the opportunity to participate in a three night retreat at Smith Mountain Lake. They studied hard preparing for their AP exams, but they also took time to enjoy each other’s company, and of course, spend time on the water. It was a very successful trip.
Scrabble Time!
The CHS faculty teamed up to help fundraise for a great cause at the Blue Ridge Literacy’s annual team-based Scrabble Tournament.
Blackout Poetry
The Spanish students spent March participating in Locura De Marzo. At the end of the contest, they took the lyrics of finalists’ songs and created their own blackout poetry using those lyrics by choosing which words to keep and which to “black out”. They were allowed to skip and cut up words as they saw […]
Copper Plating
The Chemistry students used a battery, alligator clips, a copper rod, and a sulfate solution to electrolytically plate a layer of copper onto a key during lab.
Playdoh and 3D solids
Our Calculus students used playdoh to visualize the volumes of 3D solids given by integrating 2D curves. They then tested their models by finding the exact volume using calculus and comparing the results.
Stealing Art!
The Art Crimes and Van Gogh classes played an art stealing board game where they pretended they were bidding on art pieces and attempting to build the most valuable art exhibit collection to win the game.
A Pi-ku For You
For Pi Day our Spanish classes wrote Pi-ku poems, where each line in the poem had a specific number of syllables representing the numbers of pi as they went down the page.
Pi Variety!
As an infinite number, ‘Pi’ is known to include the digits of 0 to 9 in all possible combinations. But this afternoon, we were interested in figuring out how many pieces of different pies we could fit onto our plates.
Molecular Gastronomy
The Chemistry students served up spherical molecular cocktails for everyone during our pi day celebration.
Pi-ñata
We’re thankful for the students in our Creepy Puppets class for making the pi-ñata for our Pi Day festivities.