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  • April 24There will be a marching band interest meeting on April 25 at 7:00 pm in the FCHS auditorium.
  • April 23700 students showed up to the Suicide Prevention Walk on April 19. All profits benefited the ConnerStrong Foundation.
  • April 9Four members of the debate team qualified for States at their Super Regional tournament on April 6. States will occur April 26 and 27 at JMU.
  • April 9Prom tickets are $20 and are on sale before school and during lunches.
  • April 8Culinary will be selling Cake in a Cup, sweet tea, and lemonade during April. Cakes are $3 while sweet tea and lemonade are $1 each.
The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

The S.T.A.R. Club meets Fridays in the Media Center during Fluco Focus.

JROTC Comes to Fluvanna

Kristen Pace, FCHS Journalist February 12, 2020

Last fall, Fluvanna County High School added another club to an already-long list of options, introducing the school’s first-ever Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) club. Called the...

A graduation scene from 2018 at FCHS, in non-Covid-19 times.

Graduation Consternation

Evynne Stafford, FCHS Journalist February 6, 2020

Some things in life seem fixed, like Tax Day, Christmas, and Halloween. FCHS Graduation Day seemed one of those standard dates as well, always falling on the Saturday before Memorial Day. Until now. For...

Sophomore Alexa Divers at lunch

Out to Lunch

Mia Martinez, FCHS Journalist January 31, 2020

Students began the 2020 school year with welcome news--namely, that students would now have 30 minutes to eat lunch, broken up into three longer lunch periods, compared to four shorter lunches. Yet while...

Big Changes for the New Year

Big Changes for the New Year

Maddy Eubank, Fluco Beat Editor January 15, 2020

After coming back from Christmas break, many students were surprised to hear that FCHS had made the decision to go back to an alternating Fluco Focus schedule. Prior to the change, students spent every...

FCHS senior Madelyn Grubbs pictured with her pony, Piper, at the Hanover Heritage Summer show series.

Riding Like the Wind

Lauren Kreitzman, FCHS Journalist December 9, 2019

Have you ever galloped along an empty beach? Nothing but the sound of horse hooves drumming on the sand and the waves crashing on the shore? Many equestrians will tell you it’s the most cherished feeling...

Photo courtesy of Maddy Eubank

Jeans for a Cause

Maddy Eubank, Fluco Beat Editor November 22, 2019

If you've noticed lots of teachers wearing jeans throughout the month of November, it's most likely thanks to a recent fundraiser held by the Math Department. Between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1, teachers were...

Senior Jules Shepherd working outside the convention center.

Flucos Join Virginia is for Learners Initiative

David Small, Contributor November 20, 2019

Last February, Television Production teacher David Small was approached by former Fluvanna Superintendent Gena Keller (who at that time was working for the Virginia Department of Education, or the VDOE)...

Alison Sawyer, Elijah Bullock, Gabe and Tyler Stoy.
Photo Courtesy of Maddy Eubank

Are You About to Lose Your Lunch?

MaryAnn Chittenden November 6, 2019

There have been plenty of changes this school year, and one of those is having three lunches instead of four.  However, there has been a rumor going around that next semester the school is going back...

EMT volunteer KJuan Payne. 
Photo courtesy of KJuan Payne

EMT – First Responder Insight

Maddy Eubank, Fluco Beat Editor October 31, 2019

While many FCHS students spend their free time sitting in front of a computer, senior and EMT volunteer KJuan Payne spends his sitting and waiting for a call.  Every Monday and Friday afternoon, Payne...

Cosmetology students Caroline Haslip, Addie Hamner, and Hailee Shiflett.

Cut, Style, and Dye

Malena Stallard October 28, 2019

Cosmetology and Barbering is a hidden gem at the end of the 1300 hall. Students spend hours a week learning new hair cutting and cosmetic techniques and practicing on themselves and others. “We work...

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