🎓 FCPS seniors who plan to enter the workforce upon graduation traveled to BCTC Leestown yesterday to explore potential employers, participate in mock interviews, and sharpen their resumes at the 2024 Senior Career Fair.

📣 SURVEY DEADLINE EXTENDED - Follow the link in your email or visit fcps.net/survey to share your feedback by May 15. All responses are anonymous and confidential!

🥳 Today is School Principals' Day! We are thankful for all of our incredible, dedicated principals who are hard at work helping our students become the best possible versions of themselves.

🔔 The spring 2024 state testing window in Fayette County Public Schools, which must fall within the last 14 days of the academic year, is May 8 through May 29 for elementary, middle, and high schools.

🤔 Learn more at fcps.net/post-details/~…

🟠 Join us for Empowering the Future, a series of exciting and informative family learning sessions.

🔵 Learn more, explore upcoming events, and register at fcps.net/ricochet

🎉 Shoutout to Lafayette High School for achieving the designation of a Project ADAM Heart Safe School, meaning people have a better chance of surviving a cardiac arrest on campus.

♥ Learn more at fcps.net/post-details/~…

☀ Summer break is right around the corner! Only 20 more days of school!

🎓 Meet Xavier Douglas, a social studies teacher at Lexington Traditional Magnet School and 2017 graduate of Lafayette High.

💭 Read Xavier's story at fcps.net/post-details/~…

FCPS families - you still have time to complete the Family Survey before it closes May 1! Check your email for a survey invitation and link, or take it now at fcps.net/survey.

💚 Congrats to Arlington Elementary for earning the Green Ribbon Schools award!

🔗 Read our story at fcps.net/post-details/~…

🏈 Did you know NFL Hall of Famer Dermontti Dawson is a graduate of Bryan Station High? Dermontti graduated in 1984 before joining the Kentucky Wildcats. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1988, where he started in 181 out of 184 games.

📷 Steeler Nation

📚 Eric Thornsbury has been selected as the next principal for Winburn Middle School.

🔗 Read the full announcement at fcps.net/post-details/~…

🎒 Want to be part of the incredible work happening at FCPS? Find your opportunity at fcps.net/jobs

🎨 The Cardinal Valley Elementary art club is finishing up a mural on a footbridge near Valley Park this week.

🖌 Read our story at fcps.net/post-details/~…

🤔 Looking for a great school for your Kindergartener? GWC is accepting applications for incoming Kindergarteners now through April 26! 

💭 Learn more about GWC at carver.fcps.net or ✍️ apply at fcps.net/apply

🏀 Did you know former UK basketball player and current UK Sports Network co-host Cameron Mills is a Paul Laurence Dunbar High graduate? Cameron graduated in 1994 before joining the KY Wildcats, where he was a member of the 1996 NCAA championship team.

📷 Lexington Herald-Leader

💛🚌💛 Today is National Bus Driver Appreciation Day! Thank you to all of our incredible drivers and transportation personnel who keep our students safe on the commute to and from school!

📸 Highlights from 🎒 Julius Marks Elementary

🌊 Friday was Creek Day at JME, where students explored the aquatic life and conditions at the nearby creek.

➕ Students also worked on strengthening reading and math skills and selected rewards in the school store.

👀 Looking for a great school for your Kindergartener? George Washington Carver STEM Academy for Boys is accepting applications for incoming Kindergarteners now through April 26!

🤔 Learn more about GWC at carver.fcps.net or ✍️ apply at fcps.net/apply

🎭 Rising 9th-12th Graders and 2024 Grads are invited to audition for a districtwide summer theatre intensive!

🍿 Register to audition by April 26 at bit.ly/FCPShairspray