1. happy graduation day class of '25! We are still looking for volutneers for ANGP, so if you can spare time tonight, please join us! Sign up and more information here.

2. as the school year ends, we would appreciate a final donation from you to help us support summer efforts of our teachers and get the next year started off on a strong note! We have teachers and staff attending professional development programs this summer – using their summer vacation time to better support our students. Please help us support their efforts! Donate today!  

3. save the date! We will need volunteers to help welcome our newest Langley families on Thurs, Aug 14. Get a head start on next year and sign up to volunteer!  

As we near the end of the 2024-25 school year, it's my pleasure to thank our outgoing PTSA president, Bonnie Myshrall (pictured below). We all deeply appreciate Bonnie's many hours of work on behalf of our Langley community and her determination to leave us stronger and better than ever. From rethinking communications, to restructuring the board, to developing a new fundraising platform and everything in between, Bonnie was constantly thinking of ways to make us more effective. Always a problem solver, Bonnie found creative ways to work through challenges while bringing together the right mix of Langley staff, student and parent volunteers with their limitless capabilities. 

"Bonnie, I'm so grateful that you will continue on as our VP of Fundraising and Membership for your final year at Langley. From a personal standpoint, I'm glad you're not going very far as I'm sure I'll continue to have lots of questions. Get ready to walk MANY laps around Langley Oaks with me!"

Karen Hall

PTSA President, 2025-26

Read below for class news. Click the green class buttons to go to each class's webpage.

rising senior portraits: Lock in your spot now and cross it off your to-do list!

Book your appointment today with Legacy Studios!

Congratulations to Anya Rahman and Seth Ludlow, recipients of the PTSA Scott Stone Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Citizenship. This award is named for a former Langley physics teacher and is given to two Langley seniors who throughout their years at Langley demonstrated qualities of outstanding character, leadership, and humanitarianism. These students have greatly contributed to the community with their random acts of kindness, friendly rapport with peers and faculty, compassion for others, and service as a positive role model. Congratulations to Anya and Seth!  

Congratulations to Langley Reema Patel, the recipient of the PTSA Outstanding Service Award. The PTSA’s Outstanding Service Award is awarded to a Langley junior who demonstrated exemplary service achievement and an ongoing commitment to volunteerism. Congratulations to Reema!  

national latin exam awards: 11 Langley Latin students who participated in the National Latin Exam won awards for their performance.

Congrats to the following members of the National Junior Classical League Latin Honor Society for the 2024-2025 school year:

A huge thank you to the Langley PTSA's Academic Boosters Committee for granting the funds to pay for the National Latin Exam and to Ms. Terry to helping organize and administer the exam.

ncfl tournament: Juniors Jarod Jiang and Lewis Le finished in 92^nd out of 176 teams in the Public Forum competition at the National Catholic Forensics League Grand Tournament on Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Accompanied by coaches Gifford Krivak and Pat Carney, Jarod and Lewis continued a tradition of excellence for our program which has participated at the national tournament in each of the last five years. Next year, we hope to bring more qualifying students for the tournament which will be held just across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

Russell Finelsen is making his mark at Langley as a World History I teacher. After studying government and economics at the University of Virginia, Finelsen decided to pursue a career in teaching, driven by a personal experience from his childhood. Before he decided to teach at Langley, he gained experience by teaching at Sandburg Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools.

His love for teaching began early in his childhood when a teacher inspired him to begin his journey into teaching. “I wanted to go into teaching specifically because when I was a kid, I had a really bad speech disability, and one of my teachers noticed it and went out of her way to give me [the] help I needed, and that really made an impact,” Finelsen said.

When coming to Langley, he decided to teach history for numerous reasons. He thought

that history provided his students with more life skills compared to other classes.

“I decided to go into history because I thought history was a really good way to improve basic skills like reading and writing and compare what their learning about ancient history to today and what they are experiencing around the world,” Finelsen said.

Students love his class for a variety of reasons. Besides always saying good morning to his students, Finelsen has his teaching style narrowed down to a tee in order to support his students as best as possible. He encourages his students to come to their own conclusions rather than relying on him. “A key thing for me in terms of teaching is keeping lectures really short, obviously students can copy off a board and they can listen to a teacher teach but I want them to do their own learning and investigation,” Finelsen said.

Outside of school Finelsen loves to do numerous activities and has worked several side

jobs, including refereeing youth basketball for the past seven years. “I play a lot of disc golf and my goal in my life is to someday play disc golf in all the 50 states, I have 5 down including DC, and I enjoy reading and playing trivia with my friends every week,” Finelsen said.

One notable thing about Finelson is his love for his students, which we viewed when we

visited his classroom to take photos of him teaching. All his students were engaged and

completed numerous different activities in order to solidify their understanding of a new historic concept. “[My favorite part of teaching has] got to be the students and encouraging them to get out of their comfort zone. For instance, maybe they’re not used to working with other people. [I enjoy] getting them to do more and getting them to think critically when they might just want to think at the basic level,” Finelsen said.

By: Viviane Hart-Hodgson, Laila McDowell & Madeleine Spaner, Saxon Scope Reporters

langley summer sports camps:

June 16-19, Football

June 16-20, Softball 

July 14-18, Field Hockey

July 7-11 & July 14-18, Boys Basketball

July 21-25, Girls Basketball

July 14-18, Boys Lacrosse

TBD, Girls Lacrosse

Camps are sponsored by Langley Athletic Boosters

Sign up here for all camps except boys basketball.

Sign up here for boys basketball camp. 

CHANGES COMING IN 2025-26 TO ATHLETIC PHYSICALS AND ATHLETIC REGISTRATION

IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING SPORTS PHYSICALS

Legislation introduced in the Virginia General Assembly and recently signed into law will result in two significant changes to the athletic pre-participation examination (physical) requirements for FCPS student-athletes:

• Beginning Jul 1, 2025, athletic physicals will be considered valid for a period of 14 months from the date the form is signed by the medical provider completing the exam. This is the date on page 3 of the VHSL Athletic Participation/Parent Consent/Physical Examination Form (the Jan 2021 form).

• Beginning May 1, 2025, FCPS student-athletes are EXPECTED to have athletic physicals completed on the new VHSL Athletic Participation/Parental Consent/Evaluation Form (revised Apr 2025). Click here to download new VHSL physical form.  ONLY SUBMIT PAGES 1,2, and 3.

Click here for background and scenarios

RSCHOOL REGISTRATION CHANGE

The current athletic registration platform (rSchools i.e. langleyathletics.org ) will be moving. All of the new sites are in the process of being created. Some important information for you while the process is finalized:

• registration sites will NOT open on May 1 this year due to the creation of the new sites.
• there will be a new site address, families will have to create new accounts and the registrations from the current registration system will not carry over at this time.
• details will be sent out once everything is up and running to include instructions.

Please DO NOT register your athletes for the 25-26 season with your old langleyathletics accounts. New information will be sent out as soon as the site is live. 

The latest information can be found here.

last chance to buy a yearbook

Don't let your kid be left out! Buy your yearbook today! There are limited copies remaining. Go to https://yearbookordercenter.com and enter school code 4159. If you did buy a yearbook, make sure your student has picked it up -- Ms. Mulligan's rm 1215.  

medication pickup

Medications kept in the Health Room must be picked up by the end of the school year. Per FCPS regulations, any medications that remain in the Health Room after close of business on the last day of school must be destroyed.

Seniors who have medications may keep them in the Health Room until graduation activities are complete.

For all other students: Pickup your medications by June 11.

Please contact School Health Aide, Andrea Cabral, aleaosantosv@fcps.edu, with any questions. 

12th grade immunization requirement

All students entering 12th grade are to receive one dose of Meningococcal vaccine (MenACWY) before the beginning of school. To meet the MenACWY 12th grade requirement, the vaccination must be administered at age 16 or older. 

sat/psat/nmsqt 2025 day

SAT School Day and PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) exams will be held at each high school on Wed, Oct 8, at no cost to families. The digital SAT School Day exam is offered to 12th grade students, and the digital PSAT/NMSQT exam is provided to 10th and 11th grade students.

Accommodations for Students with Disabilities and Multilingual Learner Supports

Because these exams are operated by the College Board, students do not automatically receive testing accommodations or multilingual learner supports. 

If you have a student with disabilities entering 10th, 11th, or 12th grade, please review the accommodations request process and return forms to the high school by Mon, Aug 4, to request new or updated College Board testing accommodations. 

If you have a multilingual learner (ML) entering 10th, 11th, or 12th grade, please review the ML support request process and return forms by Thurs, Aug 28, if you wish to request ML supports for the October 2025 PSAT/NMSQT or SAT School Day.  

Find out more about SAT and PSAT assessments in FCPS.

student opps

Looking for volunteer or other opportunities? PTSA volunteers maintain this running list of opportunities for our students. The Service and Jobs Opportunities Committee's goal is to help connect students to summer internships, jobs and volunteer opportunities to fulfill community service requirements, gain job experience and explore career paths.

Jun 5: Graduation, 7 pm, DAR Constitution Hall; All Night Grad Party

Jun 6: Underclassmen Exams, Early Release at 12:10 pm

Jun 9: Underclassmen Exams, Early Release at 12:10 pm

Jun 10: Underclassmen Exams, Early Release at 12:10 pm

Jun 11: Last Day of School / Early Release at 10:10 am

Jul 30-31: Saxon Start for 9th graders

Aug 4: First Day for Fall Sports Tryouts (except golf which is Jul 28)

Aug 14: Transfer Family Orientation for Parents and Students (grade 9-12)

Aug 14: Freshman Family Orientation for Parents and Students

Aug 18: First Day of School