With two parents speaking out at Tuesday night’s Falls Church School Board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan confirmed he’d already made the decision to extend the unstructured, open-play recess periods at Mt. Daniel and Thomas Jefferson Elementary Schools next fall. The move is “important for the cognitive and energy levels” of students, Noonan said. He said extending the policy to the middle and high schools is currently being contemplated.

Falls Church’s Trinity Academy Presents Classically Themed Drama
On Friday and Saturday, May 8-9, 2026, at the Pozez Jewish Community Center, the twelfth grade at Fall Church’s Trinity Academy Meadow View is performing “The Trojan War Will Not Take



