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Rocky
Run MS
Renovation
Information for Families
January
10th, 7:00-8:30 PM
PTA and Renovation Information Meeting
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Please plan to attend a presentation on the upcoming renovation of RRMS
to the community and staff. FCPS Design and Construction staff and the
architects assigned to the project will share the timeline for the project and
will be available to answer questions.
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Advanced
Academic Programs –
Level
IV Center Referral
Deadline
– January 12, 2018
 Parents
or guardians of students in grades 2-6 who are interested in having your child
screened for Level IV Center placement next year may initiate the process by
completing and submitting an Advanced Academic Program Level IV Referral Form.
The deadline for submitting the form is January 12, 2018. Please
bring your referral packet to the front office -Attn: Tracey Jenkins.
Parents should complete and sign the referral form (required), parent
questionnaire (optional), and provide up to 4 additional work samples(optional)
and up to 5 letters of commendation, awards, or certificates(optional).
More information can also be found on the AAP website and in the Parent
Information Packet on pages 7- 8 - https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/advanced-academic-programs.
This information can also be found on the GBE/AAP Blackboard link. The packet
contains information regarding the screening process and provides deadlines and
guidelines for submission. If you have additional questions please
contact Tracey Jenkins, Greenbriar East ES Advanced Academic Resource
Teacher at 703-633-6400, or email - tljenkins1@fcps.edu.
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Digital Citizenship
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If you purchased a device for your child this holiday season, FCPS wants to help you support your child in the online world. If the device is internet-enabled, please consider the following tips and resources: |
Educate yourself and your children.
Digital citizenship is learning process and your child will need
sustained support from parents and teachers. Visit bit.ly/fairfaxdigcit for a fun and interactive
parent-child course that can help your family start conversations about
navigating the online world.
Establish rules and expectations.
Have you thought about the rules you want to establish with your
child for setting up accounts and the privacy settings you expect your child to
use? What are your expectations and how will you monitor your child’s
online activities? Not sure where to start? Try these tip sheets, media agreements, and device contracts.
Help your child monitor and manage their screen time.
It’s easy to spend hours on a device, especially when it's new.
Use these guidelines and strategies to help your children learn to
monitor and manage their screen time.
Discuss privacy settings and accounts.
Teach your child to protect their personal information and model
the use of privacy settings. Discuss why these settings are important and
teach them how to make privacy setting choices for every app and service they
use. This resource can help you get started.
Give your child action steps.
Discuss potential situations that may arise before they happen
and give your child action steps. Do they know what to they can do if cyber
bullied, harassed, or if someone sends them something they don’t want to see?
Every difficult situation is an opportunity to help prepare them for life
beyond your home. These short parent advice videos, which can be
filtered by topic and age, can help you identify action steps you can share
with your child.
Teach your child to assess risks and make good choices.
Online communication is public and permanent. Talk with your
children regularly and remind them that what they do online can impact future
opportunities. Their online reputation can also affect their relationships in
the face to face world.
Inclement
Weather and
Emergency
Closing Plans
Cold and wintry weather is on its way! Due to inclement weather or
other emergency situations, it may be necessary to close schools for the entire
day, to open schools late, or to close early.
Parents are urged to make arrangements now for the care
of their children when schedule changes are made (and to provide for the rare
situation when it is necessary to close an individual school because of a power
failure or other circumstances). Children should know where to go if a parent
will not be home.
FCPS has several schedules set up to deal with inclement weather;
these are put into effect when conditions threaten the safety of students and
staff members:
- Keep schools
closed.
- Open two
hours late.
- Close two
hours early.
When Fairfax County Public Schools has a schedule change (closing
or delay) due to inclement weather or other emergencies, the information
is communicated in several ways as soon as the decision is made.
In the case of emergency
for a weather-related closing, delay, or early dismissal, the FCPS
website will
automatically include an alert at the top of each page with
the relevant information (see sample alert above).
PTA News:
Baja Fresh
Please
be sure to join us on Tuesday, January 9th at Baja Fresh for Restaurant
Night from 4:00pm-10:00pm. Located at Fairfax Towne Center, Fairfax, VA 22033
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Remember funds raised at Restaurant/Spirit Night helps the PTA provide financial support for GBE programs, such as Teacher Appreciation Week, STEM Excel, GRACE Arts, Girls on the Run, and Debate Club! Thank you for your support!
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PTA Meeting
Join us Wednesday, January 10th at 6:30 pm for our PTA meeting. We will be meeting in the library. Hope
to see you all there!
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Welcome back from winter break! We're going to kick off 2018 with a fun Snowman Bingo & Pizza Party next Friday, January 12th from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm! Save the date, be on the lookout for pre-order forms in this week's Friday Folder, and if you can volunteer, we'd appreciate just a little bit of your time! Sign up here:http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080848aca728a5fe3-snowman
Looking Ahead:
January
9th:
Baja Fresh Restaurant Night
January
10th:
PTA Meeting 6:30pm
January
12th:
Snowman Bingo 6:00-8:00pm
January
15th:
Martin Luther King Day - No School
January
24th:
McDonald's Restaurant Night
January
25th:
2 Hour Early Release - 2:00pm
January 26th &
29th: Student Holiday - No School
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