 Halley 2nd Graders recently had a wonderful learning visit to Mason Neck Park! Outdoor learning is amazing!
Calendar Reminders
Now-June 9th SOL testing window
June 1st PTO Family Picnic, 6:30-8:30 pm
June 6th Halley Spring Concert, 6:30 pm
(Band, Strings, Chorus)
June 14th
6th Grade
Awards/Promotion Assembly, 10 am
June 15th
Field Day/Last day of
school/2 Hour Early Release (Dismissal at 2:05 pm)
Launch of New Halley Website
On Tuesday, May 29th,
Halley will launch a newly designed website, which will offer several
advantages including:
- Displaying on mobile devices, an important feature because so many
of you are coming to the site through cell phones,
- Enabling the easy sharing of content between school and Fairfax
County Public Schools (for example, emergency alerts about weather
closures etc. from the main site will be promptly displayed on the school
site),
- Translating site pages into 75 different languages,
- Making navigation of sites easier for parents as children progress
through the FCPS schools because all sites will feature similar menus, and
- Featuring accessibility to all users with disabilities (508
compliant).
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If you are not able
to find the information you need on our home page, you can use any of the
following:
- Search Function, similar to the way you would look for information
on Google,
- Top Menu, which links to main topics including About,
Academics, Activities, Resources, and Contact Us, and
- Full Menu, in the upper left hand corner of the home page,
which shows all the items under the main topics.
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If you have
bookmarked our current website, be sure to update that with our new website
address https://halleyes.fcps.edu.
While we have tried
to include all of the information that you come to rely on, there may be
something that we have forgotten. If that is the case, feel free to contact
Jennifer Buchko at jmbuchko@fcps.edu .
Spring Concert Reminder
The Halley Spring
Concert is on Wednesday, June 6th, at 6:30 pm, in the Halley
Gymnasium. Strings (4th/5th/6th),
Band (5th/6th ), and Chorus (5th/6th
) will perform. All performers are asked to wear black pants/skirts and a white
shirt or blouse. Thank you!
Yearbook Online Sales : Now through Friday, June 8, 2018
It’s time to buy
your Halley Yearbook! Price: $17.00
Below are the
instructions on how to use our online payment feature:
• Log In to www.MySchoolBucks.com using Google
Chrome
• Click on “SCHOOL STORE”
• Click on “VIEW ALL”
• Click on Product Icon “YEARBOOK”
VIEW DETAILS
• Put Student’s Name
• Select Teacher’s Name
• Indicate QUANTITY
• ADD TO BASKET
• CHECKOUT
As always, credit
card payments are processed within 24 hours; check payments take 3-4 days
processing.
Lost and Found is FULL – Soon to be donated!
Has your child lost
a jacket or other items? If you’ve been
looking for your children’s personal items and haven’t found them, please visit
our lost and found located in the Cafeteria BEFORE Friday, June 8th. If you plan on coming to the school before
then, don’t forget stop by the lost and found and see if any of these items
belong to your child. All unclaimed lost
and found items will be removed and donated to the LCAC on Friday, June 8, 2018.
Attention
Fifth-Grade Parents: Tdap Booster Required for Sixth Grade!
According to Virginia law, all students in the state must
receive a booster dose of the Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria, Acellular Pertussis)
vaccine prior to entering sixth grade. You must provide documentation to the
school before the end of this school year. This documentation can be a copy of
your child’s immunization record or a note from the doctor listing the date of
his or her most recent Tdap booster shot. If you have questions, please contact
our registrar, Nicole Kendall, at 703-551-5700 or Nicole.Kendall@fcps.edu.
Help us
support our sister school in Uganda, Bumwalye Primary School, by collecting
school supplies!
Through Arlington Academy of Hope, Halley Elementary has partnered with
an elementary school in rural eastern Uganda, Bumwalye (Boom-wall-yay). Our students exchange letters with the students
at Bumwalye and our principals share lesson plans. Uganda’s public school system is desperately
underfunded, which leaves students in decrepit school buildings with too few
desks, classrooms, and supplies to accommodate them. These crowded schools sometimes
have one hundred students in one class with only one, underpaid teacher, who
may or may not show up to instruct them.
Halley has the opportunity to send a suitcase full of school supplies
over to Bumwalye this summer, and basic supplies are most needed.
Pencils,
pencils, pencils!
Handheld
pencil sharpeners
Please drop donated supplies off at the office in the box marked
“Bumwalye”. Monetary donations can be
made online at www.aahuganda.org - be
sure to specify the gift is related to Halley & Bumwalye.
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Halley Teachers & Staff
Appreciation Breakfast
Hello Halley parents! The PTO thanks you for supporting the teachers by
donating breakfast foods! The teachers appeared to be enjoying the food and
Starbucks coffee.
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Halley PTO
Election Results
We would like to thank the Nomination Committee for conducting our
election.
2018-2019
PTO Executive Board
President: Maida
Piggee (2018-2020)
1st Vice
President: Mayumi Whitley (2018-2020)
2nd Vice
President: Sadaf Maiwand (2017-2019)
Secretary:
Not filled
Treasurer: Nikki
Haglund (2017-2019)
If anyone
is interested in becoming the Secretary position, please contact Maida Piggee
at 1stvp@halleypto.com.
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Spring
Festival
The PTO is excited to bring you the last event of the year! The
Spring Festival will include Snow Cones at cost, Music by Magnetic Toxins and
good Hornet Fun. We will also use this as an opportunity to say Goodbye to our
Principal, Mrs. Chianetta and our outgoing PTO President Felicia Breedy. Bring
your blankets and food- no alcoholic beverages as we close out the school
year!
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Seeking Ideas for 2018-2019 School Year
Halley PTO Board is starting to plan for 2018-2019 school year goals, events,
fundraisers and contributions. We want to hear from Halley families on
initiatives you would like us to support, as well as events/fundraisers you’d
like us to execute.
How do you envision our Halley PTO for next school year? Tell us your
ideas!
Your input will give us better ideas of what goals to set for 2018-2019 school
year.
SureveyMonkey has been setup to collect your ideas. Please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G7SPM5X
We appreciate all ideas! Thank you for your time!
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HAVE A QUESTION, SUGGESTION, OR INFO FOR THE PTO?
The Halley PTO Board is here to help. Please feel free to email any of
our Board members at any time for anything!
PTO PRESIDENT: Felicia Breedy - president@halleypto.com
PTO 1ST VICE PRESIDENT: Maida Piggee - 1stVP@halleypto.com
PTO 2ND VICE PRESIDENT: Sadaf Maiwand - 2ndVP@halleypto.com
TREASURER: Nikki Haglund - treasurer@halleypto.com
SECRETARY: Mayumi Whitley - secretary@halleypto.com
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