PRIVATE SCHOOL APPLICATION PROCESS
Students who plan to apply to private school should follow instructions detailed on our website:
https://longfellowms.fcps.edu/student-services/record-request-and-private-school-application-process
Please contact your school counselor with any questions.
WELLNESS WEEK
January 16th through 19th
The end of the first semester can be a stressful time for everyone, kids and teachers alike. Wellness Week activities will be ongoing for students during the week of January 16th and we need your help in making sure teachers are able to enjoy this time as well. Please sign up here to donate food to the Student Services Wellness Week teacher snack cart for a day of healthy eating. As you know, healthy snacking has a number of benefits that include:
• Reducing stress, improving focus and productivity: Healthy snacks can give anyone a boost of energy. In fact, studies show that what employees eat during the workday has an impact on mental acuity, energy, and overall performance.
• Increasing nutrient levels: Studies show that employees who participate in wellness programs at work reported improved physical health and fewer hospital stays because they maintained a more balanced nutritional diet.
• Overcoming the afternoon slump: Maintaining energy levels throughout the day by fueling your body right will help to prevent the afternoon slump.
• Maintaining your metabolism: This is beneficial for anyone trying to lose a few pounds.
All donations will be collected in the LMS main office on Tuesday, January 16th for distribution throughout the school day.
Please sign up here
MITTEN COMPETITION
In honor of LMS Student Service’s mini wellness week (Jan 16th – 19th), we want to promote generosity as a way of promoting wellness within our school. Multiple studies, year after year, highlight that generosity benefits both our physical and mental health by reducing stress, enhancing one’s sense of purpose, and increasing resiliency.
Many families within our community go without the necessary items that protect their physical well-being. Students are being asked to donate new gloves, mittens, hats, and scarves of various sizes to then be shared with those in our community. Items will be collected by 1st period teachers and those with the most donated items at the end of the week will receive a breakfast party.
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP MESSAGE TO FAMILIES
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.
MCLEAN HS PTSA PARENT INFORMATION PRESENTATION
Are you familiar with “vaping” and “juuling”?
Many parents are not, but our teens are.
Vaping and juuling are forms of e-cigarette use on the rise among suburban teens. Incidents of use on MHS school grounds are up this year and are a growing concern among McLean teachers and administrators.
Vape pens and juules are the battery-operated devices that produce vapors for inhalation by heating liquids containing flavorants and other chemicals. Some liquids available include highly-addictive nicotine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The flavor varieties appeal to teens, and the devices are small and inconspicuous, often resembling USB drives.
To learn more about vaping, its potential health effects and consequences, as well as how to initiate a conversation with your teen:
Join McLean PTSA for “Vaping and Juuling, What’s That?”
An information session for parents
Brian Maslowski, FCPS Office of Student Safety & Wellness, Presenter
The first step to helping our teens navigate risky behaviors is to become informed ourselves.
Friday, January 19th
8:00-9:00am
Lutheran Redeemer Church Fellowship Hall
1545 Chain Bridge Rd, McLean, VA 22101
Come early for coffee. Doors open at 7:45am
We are also very pleased that Assistant Principals for the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 will be on hand to introduce themselves and briefly share information on their four-year role as class administrators.
ALL CHOCOLATE LOVERS!!
The McLean High Interact Club and the Rotary Club of McLean are partnering to hold McLean's seventh annual chocolate festival on Sunday, January 28, from 11-5 PM at McLean High School. The cafeteria will be filled with vendors selling anything chocolate: candy, cakes, ice cream, cupcakes, etc. American Heritage, a Mars company, will demonstrate how chocolate was made in the 1750's. MHS Interact Club students will lead children in chocolate-related games. For the kids, there will be three half-hour performances by musician Mike Mitchell at 11:30, 1:30 and 3:30. Admission to the Chocolate Festival is $2. Children aged 3 and under get in free. Twenty-five percent of all proceeds will support local community organizations like the Falls Church-McLean Children's Center, Homestretch, Literacy Council, Timber Lane Elementary School, high school senior scholarships, the Safe Community Coalition's 6th Grade Ethics Days, and many others. For more information, please visit www.McLeanChocolateFestival.com
FAIRFAX ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE
Tuesday, February 6th, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Meet our teachers, visit the classrooms, converse with students and learn about our classes!
Arabic Fashion Careers
Chinese Professional Photography
Korean Professional TV Production
Dance Music & Computer Technology
Musical Theatre Social Media Marketing
NEW COURSES: Acting Methods, Musical Theatre Workshop, & Arabic 3
ALSO OFFERING: Broadway Dance & Hip Hop Dance
SNOW DATE: Monday, February 12, 2017 6:30-8:00pm
HTTPS://FAIRFAXACADEMY.FCPS.EDU (703) 219-2226
LANGLEY HS FRESHMEN ORIENTATION PROGRAM
The Parents of rising freshmen are cordially invited to attend a Freshmen Orientation Program on February 8, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. in the Langley High School Auditorium
(Snow date: 2/15/18)
SUPER TRANSITION SATURDAY
Planning for Middle School, High School, & Beyond!
For parents and educators of students receiving special education services
February 10, 2018*
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lanier Middle School
3801 Jermantown Road Fairfax, Virginia
*Snow date: February 24, 2018
Join us for Super Transition Saturday! Learn about Career and Transition Services (CTS) programming and course options for students with disabilities. Breakout sessions will cover postsecondary support services, student self-determination as an evidence-based predictor of post school success, and in-school CTS supports that are available to all Fairfax County Public School students as they progress through the secondary years toward graduation and beyond. This event also includes a student/parent panel where members describe their personal experiences as they navigated Fairfax County Public Schools and the transition process.
FREE CHILDCARE available for ages 3 and up! Advance registration REQUIRED
Register online or call 703-204-3941
FCPS Educators: Register on MyPLT to receive 4.5 recertification points!
MyPLT Course IS-910144
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