Good morning, Wakefield!

Here are your morning announcements for Thursday, January 23rd. Students going on a field trip to Marymount University please come to the Town Hall at 9:15 today. It’s Principal Appreciation Week! We celebrate Virginia School Principals Appreciation Week. To recognize our Principal go on Twitter and Facebook, and use the hashtag #ThankAPSPrincipals and let us know why you love Dr. Willmore! 

Warriors, Asian Club is celebrating the year of the rat (and the end of the quarter) with our Lunar Year Festival next Thursday, the 30th of January after school in A-134. If you’re interested in playing fun games, watching a live dance performance, and eating good food, come to Asian Club’s Lunar New Year Festival. Come for your chance to win a red envelope with the “golden ticket prize”. $5 for food with drink. Free admission!

Students, this is a reminder that you need a pass from your current period teacher when you want to go to the library. The only exceptions are before and after school and during your lunch period. Thank you! 

Wakefield Sports Events for Today: Girls Basketball at Colgan High School – Jr Varsity at 6:00pm and Varsity at 7:30pm. Please note that Colgan does not have a Freshman Girls Basketball team. Wrestling Jr. Varsity Jamboree at West Potomac High School – 6:00pm. Go Warriors!

Want to try out for the Heritage Assembly? Have a cultural talent you or your friends want to showcase? Come to auditions Thursday, January 30 at 3:30pm in the Blackbox theater! Offsides, handballs, Dropballs, Penalty Kicks. Come outside with the Refereeing club to play a small sided game and practice refereeing. No cleats required. We will meet in A-301 for snacks before going out to the tennis court.

A reminder that students should not be ordering food. If you do, it ends up in the main office and you can get it at the end of the day.

Have a great day, Warriors!