Harmony Newsletter

Feb 24 - Ms. Mattingley' s Students to JL Simpson MS

Feb 25 - Guitar to Blue Ridge MS for practice assessment

Feb 26 - LCPS Spelling Bee

Feb 27 - Choral Clinician Here to Work with Students

Mar 7 - Picture Day (see article below)

March 12 - BINGO Night (through our SCA)

March 18 - 7th Grade Career Day

March 19 - 8th Grade to WHS to Visit (9:30 to 1:30)

March 19 - Family Arts Night (6 PM to 8 PM)

School Website Link

Please periodically review these "Safety Scenarios" with your children. Our most recent Fire Drill was February 21. Contact names are below for any questions.

• School Security Officer, (SSO), Josh Stillwell (joshua.stillwell@lcps.org)
• School Resource Office (SRO), Loudoun County Deputy Chris Salter (christopher.salter@loudoun.gov)
• 7th Grade Dean and School Safety Contact, Justin Dailey (justin.dailey@lcps.org)
• Principal, Eric Stewart (eric.stewart@lcps.org)

School Phone is 540-751-2500 (then dial zero to reach the main office)

Please join us in Congratulating the following students as they were chosen to represent Harmony Middle School at the 2025 LCPS Middle School All-District Guitar Ensemble.

Alannah Treadwell, Stella Wilcox, and Cole Wilkinson. Zack Rexroad was selected as the Alternate.

Congratulations to all four!

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Week of: Feb 17

The 2025 All-Virginia Middle School Honor Choir has been determined after a record 1,364 submissions from 131 teachers.

TWENTY of the Harmony singers submitted auditions and over half were selected or are alternates. We are very proud of EVERY SINGER who participated in this process. Just preparing for the audition and submitting your best recording is a GROWTH EXPERIENCE and we are very proud of all of you! Selected students and alternates are listed below. CONGRATULATIONS!

Mixed Choir

Soprano 1 - Aurelia Buhler

Soprano 1 - Faith Hartley

Soprano - Sammie Nickerson

Tenor 1st Alternate - William Kamakawiwoole

Bass 1 - Ben Verhey

Bass 2 - Jose Castillo

Bass 1 - 2nd Alternate - Will Porta

Treble Choir

Soprano 1 - Emma Washam

Soprano 2 - Evan Owen

Soprano 2 - Trystan Schaeffer

Alto 1 - Atticus Pacheco

Alto 2 - Georgia Kakouras

Get ready for an exciting opportunity for rising sixth through 10th-grade students to explore their creativity this summer! Loudoun County Public Schools’ Summer in the Arts program is just around the corner, offering engaging classes in instrumental and vocal music, theater, visual arts, dance, creative writing and robotics.

Save the Dates: June 24 to July 3, 2025 / Location: Briar Woods High School

The 2025 Summer in the Arts catalog is now available with details about class offerings, schedules, fees and registration. Stay tuned for updates and be ready to secure your spot in this dynamic summer program.

Don’t miss the chance to spark creativity and discover new talents! Keep an eye on the Summer in the Arts website for more information.

Congratulations to The Citizenz, the Harmony Middle School rock band as they were awarded the Audience Favorite Prize at the Potomac Falls High School Battle of the Bands this past Saturday! They did a great job in performance and quickly won over the crowd getting folks out of their seats and up to the stage!

The members of The Citizens are Connor Malone, Luke Billingsly, Rydar McCarron, Oscar Knicely, Gavin Graham, and Cooper Wood.

6th Grader, Miles Diffenderfer, is heading to Montana for a ski race and training. Attached is a pic of two weeks ago where he won both classes of Giant Slalom (GS) and Slalom.

Good luck in Montana Miles!

Next month is Youth Art Month! Save the date for Family Arts Night on March 19 from 6-8 PM.

In preparation for our annual art show, the Art Department is looking for parent volunteers to help during the school day the last week of February with mounting and displaying student artwork throughout the school building. We will be showcasing hundreds of artworks in celebration of Youth Art Month. Please see the attached link to volunteer with the art show display:

Volunteer Sign-Up. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4BA8AF28A0F85-artshow#/

Parents, if you are an artist and are interested in participating as a guest artist at our event on March 19, please respond to this email for more information. Volunteers will also be needed at Family Arts Night; a Signup Genius will be emailed out closer to the date.

The amazing 8th Grade team has successfully named every student in the grade with 100% accuracy! Congratulations, Jeff Jacobson, Christy Pierson, Stephanie Buckley, Kristen Hepner, and Bryan Pecoraro.

They now join the 100% at 6th grade and await the results of 7th Grade.

This year's spring pictures are scheduled for Friday, March 7th. For spring pictures, only those students who intend to purchase pictures will leave class to have their picture taken. Those students not purchasing pictures will not need to visit the photographer.

Order forms will be sent home on Monday and Tuesday next week, through P.E. classes, for you to select which package you would like. Students can bring their order forms with them on picture day, or you can pre-order pictures at mylifetouch.com with your picture day ID: EVTGC9TPQ.

Please direct any questions to eric.mcgrady@lcps.org

Congratulations to the new (Parks and Rec) Harmony Travel Softball team:

Addie Pratt, Allie Eicholtz, Brynnly Thomson, Chloe Sparks, Claire Ridgeway, Gianna Saprito, Mia Jones, Maddie Petrella, Mackenzie Shull, Nia Monnet, Kamryn Peacock, Liv Dietz, Rylee Sleutsky, Jules Robles, Kendyl Dabkowski, and Mary Pearson.

Some adults are sharing two slang expressions that a few kids are using. Turns out they are very positive ones.

1. "Lit" - This means something good. An example might be, "That show was lit."

2. "Bussin" - This is another good thing and usually used when talking about food. A sample is, "Pizza dinner is going to be bussin tonight."

Update of our hockey team: Good luck to the local hockey team (with many Harmony students). They play at ION in Leesburg tonight. Current record is 2 - 3 - 1 and remaining games are:

February 21 - 7:00 PM @ Ion

February 28 - 9:20 PM @- Ashburn Ice

March 3 - 8:00 PM @ Ashburn Ice

March 6 - 8:20 PM @ Ashburn Ice