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Olde Creek Bears Care
Community Outreach Program
Please click on the link
below to sign up for this week's food donations for our Olde Creek Bears Care
Food Program. Your donations provide weekend food provisions to students
in need in our school community. Please drop off your food donations at Olde Creek's
front office during regular office hours by Thursday, November 9th.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/508054aa9af2ca0f49-olde3
Halloween Howl Thank You
We want to thank all of
our volunteers who made the Halloween Howl a success this year! Without
your support, we could not have fun events like this. Thank you to Amy
Fetgatter for getting our contest prizes and thanks to John and Mollie Hunter
for taking care of our food and drinks! We appreciate how much we are
supported by our staff and teachers who helped make this happen!
Family Math Night -
November 9
When: Thursday, November
9th from 6:00 - 8:00
Where: Olde Creek
Elementary School
Who: Kindergarteners -
6th graders and their families
Why: You can…
+ learn about fractions
and how you can help your children at home
+ play math games with
your children that are grade level specific
+ meet with our
specialists to learn how math is related to everything we do
Please RSVP by contacting
Kim Saunders at kasaunders1@fcps.edu
Family Friendly and
Sensory Friendly Events
Looking for family
friendly and sensory friendly events? Here are the DC Sensory Friendly events
for 2017-18. Many great venues to choose from. See link for details! Parent Resource Ctr on
Twitter
Impact Aid Forms
FCPS uses the
Student-Parent Survey (also known informally as the “Impact Aid form”) to
identify federally connected students and to support their request for Impact
Aid resources; the grants from these programs will become a part of FCPS'
general operating budget and are critical to ensuring that all children in FCPS
receive an excellent education. The form asks all parents if they were working
on federal property on October 31, 2017.
Olde Creek has sent home
the forms this week. For each school-aged child in your household, please
complete, sign, date, and return the survey to your child's school by
Wednesday, November 8. You can also drop off the form at your parent-teacher
conference on Monday or Tuesday. If sections 2 through 4 of the survey do not
apply to you, just put a check mark in section 5, sign, date, and return the
form by November 8. FCPS staff will process the information with the utmost
confidentiality.
Please note that there
is an introductory letter on the front side of the Student-Parent Survey form
from Superintendent Dr. Scott Brabrand. His letter provides background
information on the Federal Impact Aid program and role that the Student-Parent Survey
plays in attaining federal funding.
Additional information
about the Federal Impact Aid program can be found at
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/impactaid/index.html.
For questions regarding the Student-Parent Survey, please contact the
Impact Aid staff in Information Technology at 703-329-7655.
Award Nominations
As you may know, every
year Fairfax County Public Schools recognizes outstanding employees at all
levels. Once again this year, all schools in FCPS are encouraged to nominate
Outstanding Employees. We are asking you, the Olde Creek community, to help us
gather names for this process. Thank you for participating and helping us
recognize the outstanding qualities of our staff members. All that is required
for a preliminary nomination is a paragraph or two about how this employee
demonstrates exceptional work in the criteria for that category.
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Outstanding Teacher – a teacher, librarian or specialist with 3 or
more years of experience
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Outstanding New Teacher – a teacher or specialist with
less than 3 years of experience
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Outstanding New Principal – a building principal with
less than 3 years of experience
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Outstanding Leader – a school-based employee with at least one year of
experience in the position – these positions could include an Assistant
Principal, School-Based Technology Specialists, Technology Support
Specialist, Psychologist, Social Worker, School Counselor
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Outstanding Support Employee – a school-based employee with
at least one year of experience in the position – these positions could
include administrative and office assistants, custodial staff, food
service staff, Instructional Assistants, Public Health Assistants,
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Outstanding Hourly Employee – a hourly paid employee with
at least one year of experience working at least 10 hours a week at the
same location – these positions could include parent liaisons, hourly
office staff, other unique hourly paid positions within the school
To submit a nomination
for Olde Creek Outstanding Employee in one or more of the categories, please
complete the nomination using this google form link.
The deadline to submit a
nomination is December 1. After that, a selection committee will meet to discuss each
nominee and determine a winner. The discussion in this process will be
confidential. If the person you nominated is selected by the school
committee, you will be asked to complete a nomination form. These
completed forms will be sent to the Woodson Pyramid Lead. The
pyramid award liaisons will meet, read packets and determine a winner for the
pyramid in each category. The winners of the pyramid, move on to
the region.
We are excited that we
can recognize so many outstanding employees. If you have any
questions, please contact Julie Wilson at jmwilson1@fcps.edu. We
would love to hear from you!
Upcoming Events
Nov. 15—PTA Dinner
Night—Noodles & Co
Nov. 16—Thanksgiving
Luncheon
Nov. 17—Report cards
sent home
Nov. 22—2 hour early
release
Nov. 23-24—Thanksgiving
Holiday
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