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Oak Hill appreciates our wonderful staff.


Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Thank yous are in order to my fabulous staff at Oak Hill!  As you know, our teachers, specialists, instructional assistants, itinerants, assistant principal, custodians, food workers and office staff work hard every day to support the students at Oak Hill.  Their day doesn’t end at dismissal.  They are taking professional development classes to learn new instructional strategies, they are meeting in collaborative learning teams to plan instruction or discussing students who are needing more opportunities to learn standards.  Many are firing up their computers at home to assess student work in Google Classroom or to work virtually with teachers across the county and the state to work on lessons together.  But don’t forget that each evening the mom and dad hats have to go on as well! 

So, I ask that you pause for a moment and let someone at Oak Hill know what it is that you have recognized and appreciated this school year.  One thank you goes a long way!  And finally thank you to our wonderful PTA and all the parents who donated items or sent a monetary donation to be used this week.  The Oak Hill teachers and I are so appreciative for the thoughtfulness shown this week.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to further support your child’s learning and experience at Oak Hill.  My door is always open!

Sincerely,

Holly DeVore, Principal


SOL Schedule 2018 (Grades 3-6)

As you know we will begin SOL testing next week.  Please help your child to perform their best by ensuring they get a good night’s rest and eat a healthy breakfast.  

During testing, students will not be permitted to have access to any device (other than their testing laptop) that has internet access.  Please consider keeping phones, watches, readers, or any other internet capable device at home on your child’s testing day.  Any devices that students bring to class will be collected by the teachers for the duration of the test.

Please click here to view the complete SOL Testing schedule.


Children's Mental Health Matters

May is Children's Mental Health Awareness Month.  Please consider joining the Parent Resource Center for a workshop as they highlight the importance of children's mental health.  Some of the selections include the following:

Irritability in Children

Dr. Melissa Brotman from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will present this workshop to discuss common signs of irritability, how parents can help a child with severe irritability, treatment options, and ongoing irritability research conducted at NIMH.

Depression in Children and Adolescents

Join Dr. Michael Axler, FCPS Senior Supervising Psychologist, to learn important information about depression including signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors, treatment options, and available resources.

Strategies and Supports for Children and Teens with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Join Dr. Lisa Bateman, Neuroscience, Inc., for this important workshop. Highlights will include:

  • Signs of OCD that can be identified by parents and teachers
  • Causes and identification of OCD
  • Treatment options for OCD
  • Parents' role in addressing OCD
  • Available resources

Click here for more information and to register.


Lost and Found

We have an abundance of jackets that are left at school each day.  Please have your son or daughter check to ensure they claim their missing items.  Any items not picked up by Friday, May 18th will be donated to charity.


Literacy News

It is testing season in Reading this month!  In grades 3-6 students have been learning about testing as a genre.  This means students have been learning about how reading passages and answering questions is a different type of reading then they are used to. In grades K-2, students are preparing to be assessed using the DRA2 (Developmental Reading Assessment) which assesses students’ oral reading fluency as well as how they use different reading strategies.  All of this information helps our teachers to inform their instruction while working with your children.  It is also a nice way to see how much they have learned and how much they’ve grown this year.


Crowning

Mrs. DeVore and Mr. Credle with Mrs. Muerlin and PTA President Hari Kalahasti as part of Staff Appreciation Week. (The theme of the week is giving teachers and staff the "royal treatment").


PTA News

SUMMER CAMPS AT OAK HILL ES

STEM Camp with Mrs. Cosgrove

Rising 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th graders

Money Camp with Mrs. O'Malley

Rising 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th graders

Camps begin the week of July 9th with three sessions offered.  The cost is $265 for the week and the sessions run from 8:30am - 3:30pm.  Click here to register.   

Science Olympiad - SUCCESS

PTA sponsored 45 kids for this year's Science Olympiad Division A. The tournament was conducted on 4/28/2018 at Mercer Middle School, Aldie and 17 schools participated.

The competition was tough and Oak Hill teams received many awards. It was fun event for the kids and they rocked.

Winners from each events are as follows:

Anatomy: Anish Magipudi and Aditi Bhattacharjee
Astronomy: Joshua Selvathambi and Raagav Bala
Matter of Atoms: Aneesh Surapaneni and Parth Dhingra
Balloon Car: Aneesh Surapaneni and Parth Dhingra
Chopper Challenge: Ishaan Mantraala and Nicolas Espinal Dapic
Dynamic planet: Anika Manda and Myra Goyal
Orienteering: Ashrita Moola
Rocks and Minerals: Sahana Kumar and Neha Ranjith
Straw Egg Drop: Arjun Garg, Ved Patil, Karthik Jeyaraj, and Aryaman Singh
Thermodynamics: Risha Krishnan and Sanchali Banerjee
Virginia Herpetology: Vedhasri Bana, Vishwa Rakasi, Abijith Ramesh, Vikram Rudraraju, Rashmika Omtri, and Srikruthi Gannavarapu
Weather or Not: Ishaan Mantraala and Nicolas Espinal Dapic
Write it, Do it: Anshika Mantraala and Ria Joseph

Congratulations to all the teams who participated.


Calendar

Calendar Items

May 7 -11: Staff Appreciation Week

May 10: PTA Meeting in the Cafeteria, 5:30pm

May 17: 5th & 6th Grade Chorus Concert, 7pm

May 23: Interims sent home in Wednesday Folders

May 28: Memorial Day: No school