Fantastic talk from our favorite author today! Thank you so much to alex kershaw for coming to GHS to speak to our students about the heroism and lessons of WWII! Mr. Kershaw inspired students with the story of Felix Sparks of his book The Liberator and VA’s own Bedford Boys. 🇺🇸

Our director, Mrs. Tate, spent the day VA Holocaust Museum for the Teaching About World War II Using Personal Stories Workshop including MacArthur Memorial, National D-Day Memorial, Virginia War Memorial, NavalAviationMuseumFoundation, Military Aviation Museum, & HR Naval Museum! So many new stories, resources, & ideas for our students!

Our director, Mrs. Tate, spent a week Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. experiencing Marine recruit life firsthand. She’s bringing back valuable insight to help students understand veterans' experiences & military opportunities! Thank you so much to Recruit Station Richmond for hosting! ❤️💛🇺🇸💪 #SemperFi

We are so proud of our senior interns who have presented their senior projects over the past two weeks! Their internships and time at GHS are almost over, but we appreciate all of the hard work they have done this year! We are so proud of our interns!

We had a great author visit today from Robin Traywick Williams telling our students about her book The Last Romantic War and her parents' experiences and love story during World War II! Our students thoroughly enjoyed the talk, artifacts, and books Mrs. Williams shared!

Join us for an event at Chick-fil-A on May 27th from 3-6pm! We will have exciting opportunities for community members to connect with our veterans!

Tonight our GHS Veterans Project interns joined local heroes for a special interview night hosted by Chick-fil-A 288! Community members got to hear firsthand from our veterans—real stories from those who served. A powerful first event for our new 2025-26 interns! 🇺🇸🐔

Tonight we graduate our seventeen 2024-25 senior interns! I could not be more proud of each of them! They are destined for great things in this world!❤️ Thank you for all of the tireless hours you put in for our project this year!🇺🇸 I love you all! -Mrs. Tate

This AM our director Mrs. Tate flew in a Blackhawk with Virginia National Guard and brought Goochland High School friends along. Tonight 8 of our new interns joined Virginia Museum of History & Culture 81st D-Day anniversary event w/ Virginia National Guard VirginiaNationalGuardMuseum - our students got to wear WWII uniforms to teach!

Our very own, Goochland Veterans Project (GCPS & Region 1 Teacher of the Year), representing Goochland and throwing out the first pitch tonight with the Richmond Flying Squirrels! 🐿️🐾⚾️ Goochland High School

Just a snippet of our Bulldogs Goochland High School diving into History lessons on September 11th - such a day of remembrance for our country! 🇺🇸

Today’s Interview Day brought 88 students + 40 veterans together for a morning of stories, service, and connection. Students practiced oral history skills, learned from living primary sources, and built intergenerational friendships with our veterans. 🇺🇸

The festivities continued for our 1st home game of the season! 🇺🇸🏈 We honored both those who served our country and those who serve our county for First Responders Night. And we got to honor SSG Maupin (Goochland County, VA Sheriff’s deputy and U.S. Army veteran) with the coin toss!

A special Homecoming Friday night at GHS! 🇺🇸🏈 Fourteen veterans joined us on the sidelines for the National Anthem, and we were honored to have U.S. Army veteran Mr. Marvin Farmer perform the coin toss. What a great day to be a Bulldog! 🐾

This week, our students mailed 75 handwritten cards to their veterans, as a small way to say thank you for their service and friendship. 🇺🇸✉️ We’re also sending thank yous to our amazing sponsors, including Chick-fil-A, Inc. 288 & Broad, for their continued support!

Yesterday morning, four of our senior interns and Mrs. Tate had the honor of speaking to the Richmond Marine Corps League about the GHS Veterans Project. 🇺🇸 They shared how our veterans inspire, teach, and make a lasting impact on our students.

Friday night, we had the honor of hosting U.S. Army veteran, Donald Owens as an honorary Goochland Football captain! 🇺🇸 He was joined on the field by his granddaughter, Maya, a senior intern. Thank you for your service, Mr. Owens!🏈

We’re excited to share that Chatham High in Pittsylvania County Schools has officially launched its own Veterans Project under the mentorship of our director, Mrs. Tate! Honored to see this work grow and empower even more students to learn from the heroes in their communities. 🇺🇸✨

Before heading out on their Thanksgiving break, 64 of our students took the time to create cards to celebrate U.S. Marines WWII veteran, Mr. Frank S. Wright’s 💯th birthday! #HonoringHeroes 💌🎉🎂

24 students, 3 families, and one of our veterans all joined us at the Virginia Veterans Cemetery at Amelia for Wreaths Across America America to honor our service members who have passed by laying wreaths on veterans graves. A great day for #CommunityService 🌲