Browse past news stories for Valley View Middle School in Simi Valley, CA.

• Simi claims Pony crown (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 08:00:16 am
  Tommy Costello looked around at his teammates after their first practice together and predicted they were going to do something special.
• Sea Cadets learn more than the ropes (Ventura County Star)
  posted on June 28, 2009 at 07:03:43 am
  He’s only 14, but Hayden Slocum of Simi Valley has already been to boot camp and plans on enlisting in the Navy.
• Grad would let nothing stand in the way of getting his diploma (Simi Valley Acorn)
  posted on June 19, 2009 at 05:09:40 am
  Simi High graduate Dario Jasso exudes a sense of maturity far beyond his 19 years. But it's not his focused and motivated demeanor that sets him apart from his class. Rather, it is the place that those traits are borne out of, one that has made him committed to creating a better life than the one given to him.
• Simi native headed to elite jazz school (Ventura County Star)
  posted on June 9, 2009 at 07:10:02 am
  While he was growing up in Simi Valley, Victor Gould’s parents were gratified to see he shared their passion for jazz. It wasn’t unusual for young Victor to dash off to the piano and finger out a melody he had composed.
• Local AAUW names five girls to attend math/science camp (Simi Valley Acorn)
  posted on April 17, 2009 at 01:48:50 am
  The Simi branch of the American Association of University Women has selected this year's group to attend Tech Trek, a prestigious one-week math and science summer scholarship camp for girls entering eighth grade.
• Got to know the globe (Simi Valley Acorn)
  posted on April 3, 2009 at 01:55:27 am
  Ventura County will send three youngsters to a geography competition April 3 in Sacramento, where the winner will receive $100 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest in May.
• Winners of 'Real Women' writing contest honored at Sinaloa Middle School (Simi Valley Acorn)
  posted on April 3, 2009 at 01:55:17 am
  The winning student authors of the "Real Women" Writing Competition and the women they wrote about, along with the authors' teachers and families, were honored at an awards presentation on March 30 in the Sinaloa Middle School Library.
• VC students to compete in statewide geography bee (Camarillo Acorn)
  posted on March 27, 2009 at 03:59:21 am
  Ventura County will send three youngsters to a geography competition April 3 in Sacramento, where the winner will receive $100 and an allexpensespaid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest in May.
• Inquisitive Ventura County students show heir research at Science Fair (Ventura County Star)
  posted on March 25, 2009 at 08:12:36 am
  Beth Rosenberg did all the work on her science project herself, but her parents supervised “so I didn’t burn the house down.” There were a few close calls when she learned the hard way that Styrofoam and a coffee can lid were not effective ways to insulate her homemade calorimeter from the open flame. But her project eventually made it to the Ventura County Science Fair intact on Tuesday ...
• Called to the Torah (Simi Valley Acorn)
  posted on March 20, 2009 at 02:22:38 am
  Brandon Westhoven was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Feb. 28 at Temple Etz Chaim in Thousand Oaks. Brandon is a seventh-grade student at Valley View Middle School and the son of Brenda Westhoven of Simi Valley.
• County spelling champ's Zen focus stings rivals (Ventura County Star)
  posted on March 10, 2009 at 07:46:08 am
  Cory Klingsporn’s response to the final two words of the Ventura County Star Spelling Bee was the same: a quick, confused “Sorry?” But he wasn’t. The 14-year-old Oxnard home-schooler sailed through “yiddishkeit” and then “deprecatory” to claim his second straight county spelling bee championship Monday night and a trip to Washington, D.C., for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
• Britney Christian tours U.S., singing the praises of milk (Ventura County Star)
  posted on February 22, 2009 at 08:07:47 am
  As a 19-year-old recording artist and the official spokesperson for the Milk Rocks! campaign, Britney Christian hopes to promote healthy living and a healthy lifestyle when she performs this week at six schools in and near Ventura County, on the Southern California leg of her national tour.
• Simi Valley girls buzzing after spelling bee win (Ventura County Star)
  posted on February 20, 2009 at 08:48:07 am
  The final spellers in Wednesday’s spelling bee in Simi Valley were so focused on the words they were spelling that not even an ice cream truck passing by could deter them.