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2025 Citywide Volunteers of the Year

Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) values and promotes active engagement of the community in all our schools. The Office of Family and Community Engagement coordinates many volunteer opportunities for community members to interact and contribute to the academic achievement of our students and the overall continuous improvement of VBCPS.

2025 Citywide Volunteers of the Year

Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) values and promotes active engagement of the community in all our schools. The Office of Family and Community Engagement coordinates many volunteer opportunities for community members to interact and contribute to the academic achievement of our students and the overall continuous improvement of VBCPS.

2025-26 federal grant information presented to Virginia Beach School Board

The Virginia Beach School Board received information about proposed federal grant applications at its May 13 meeting. For the 2025-26 school year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) would receive approximately $21.6 million in formula grant funds through programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

Families

Welcome Families!

As we progress throughout the year, please keep the following in mind to maintain your student's and other student's health to ensure a successful academic year.

Pembroke Meadows Elementary School Guidelines for Keeping Your Child Home

  • A temperature of 100.4 F or higher
  • Open draining skin areas that have not been evaluated by a healthcare provider
  • More than one episode of vomiting or diarrhea that has not been evaluated by a healthcare provider or child is contagious
  • Rash to skin that has not been evaluated by a healthcare provider
  • Eye appears pink/red with thick yellow discharge (matted eyelid after sleep)
  • Chicken Pox – stay home until blisters are scabbed over or dry
  • Persistent productive cough
  • Extreme fatigue
  • Antibiotics prescribed for an infection (medication must be taken for at least 24 hours before a child can return to school. With a return to school note from prescribing healthcare provider and must be fever free)
  • Students that are treated for a contagious illness, (Healthcare provider must provide a back to school note to the school nurse)
  • Students taking fever-reducing medication to mask a fever

The nurse will contact the parent of a student showing the above signs and symptoms and recommend that he/she be picked up from school.

Please contact Mrs. Latchford, BSN, RN, school nurse at 757-648-3367, should you have any questions.