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Gentle Reminder: When you are dropping
off your student at Kiss and Ride – Door 11, please drive forward as far as you
can in the circle. Your student should
leave your car quickly and safely.
Traffic is very heavy at Kiss and Ride and not driving as far forward as
possible before dropping off your student causes delays in other parts of the
parking lot and on Stonecroft Blvd.
New Custodian Supervisor
Rosa Cruz – New Custodian
Supervisor. Please join me in welcoming
Rosa Cruz to the Westfield family. Rosa has worked in FCPS for 18 years. She is currently the Custodian Supervisor at
Kilmer MS. Rosa and her husband are the
proud parents of twins – a boy and girl.
She will start at Westfield on October 8.
New PH Nurse
Dawna Poyner
is Assistant Nurse Manager and School Public Health Nurse with the Fairfax
County Health Department. She provides PHN support for Westfield HS,
Terraset ES and Forest Edge ES.
Ms. Poyner
has been a Public Health Nurse in the School Health Program since 2014 and has
worked as a Care Coordinator and Health Promotion Specialist. She has
participated in Road DAWGS (Don’t Associate with Gangs) for several years and
led, organized, and analyzed a new health promotion program at the Fairfax
County Juvenile Detention Center to promote healthy choices.
She holds a
B.S. degree in Health Science from James Madison University and completed the
ABSN Nursing program at George Washington University in 2013. Prior to
becoming a nurse, she worked in systems development and management at
Electronic Data Systems. In the years between careers, Ms. Poyner raised a
daughter and three sons and was an active volunteer in the Langley pyramid from
Kindergarten through high school as a class parent, PTA volunteer, athletic
booster and “drama mama”.
Reduced Fees Program
Free and reduced-price meal applications may
be completed online or by submitting a handwritten, paper application
for the 2018-19 school year. THESE APPLICATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED EVERY
SCHOOL YEAR. Electronic meal applications are quick, easy,
and available in the following languages: English, Spanish,
Arabic, Chinese, Tagalog (Filipino), French, and Vietnamese.
Both the online application and paper application now
include a designated section with the consent to share information for other
programs. This update allows parents and guardians to complete the free and
reduced-price meal application and the consent to share information in the
same document. This consent form may qualify your student for
free/reduced fees to include testing, class or athletic fees.
Paper applications must be the original red print forms,
which are available at school offices, school cafeterias, and other FCPS
buildings. Copied application forms cannot be accepted.
The last day to receive free/reduced meals, based on
2017-18 SY, is October 10, 2018.
More information is available on the Free and Reduced-Price Meals web page.
Mental Health and Wellness Conference
There is just one week left to register for
the FCPS Mental Health and Wellness Conference. For the first time, the conference will include an Our Minds
Matter Teen Summit, designed for middle and high school students, and hosted by
the Josh Anderson Foundation. The conference will be held from 8:00 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. at Fairfax High School on Saturday, September 29, 2018. Dr. Scott
Brabrand, FCPS Superintendent, will open the conference, and Dr. Amy Przeworski, Associate Professor in the
Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, will
present the keynote message: Using Stress to Your Advantage in Achieving
Academic Success and Emotional Well Being. Participants in this
conference, which is free to staff, parents, and community members, will
be able to choose from 35 breakout options, offered across three sessions, many
of which will be available more than once. There will also be more than
50 resource tables available, representing public and private agencies
providing wellness-related services within our schools and in our community.
Vaping, Juuling, and E-cigarettes
Information and resources addressing
E-Cigarettes, Vaping, and Juuling are available for varied audiences. The
public page, found here,
contains parent-focused resources, articles, and videos.
Dress Code
On June 14, the
Fairfax County School Board updated the dress code language in the Student
Rights & Responsibilities regulation. The School Board voted to remove
gendered language in the dress code and require that dress code conversations
be held in private to respect the dignity of the students.
FCPS respects
students’ right to express themselves in the way they dress. It is important,
however, that their appearance is appropriate for a K-12 school setting.
As outlined in the
dress code, any clothing that interferes with or disrupts the educational
environment is unacceptable. Clothing with language or images that are
vulgar, discriminatory, or obscene; or clothing that promotes illegal or
violent conduct, such as gang symbols, the unlawful use of weapons, drugs,
alcohol, tobacco, or drug paraphernalia; or clothing that contains threats is
prohibited.
More information
about the dress code is available in the FCPS Guide for Families section which
has been updated since the original print version was distributed and can be
viewed here:
FCPS Team Excellence Award - Westfield Cares
Congratulations
to the Westfield Cares Team (Mrs.
Bragg, Mr. Allen, Mr. Carragher, Mrs. Dorr, Ms. Kim, Mr. Mahan, Mrs. Whiteash,
& Mr. Thimons) who was selected to receive a 2018 FCPS Team Excellence Award! This honor recognizes and
celebrates the team’s commitment to serve FCPS with the highest degree of
dedication and professionalism. To celebrate this award, the team will attend
a reception and recognition ceremony in honor of all Excellence Award
recipients on Tuesday, October 16, at
Fairfax High School.
School Board Student Leadership Development Program
The School
Board is accepting applications for the Student Leadership Development Program,
open to any high school sophomore or junior in good academic standing.
The program is for students interested in a future in law, government or public
policy. Twelve students will be chosen to work closely with the School Board to
see how FCPS is governed and will give the students opportunities to participate on
various advisory committees to the School Board, and even to seek election as
the student representative on the School Board.
The Student Leaders attend and
participate in:
- Group
orientation (December 2018)
- School Board
forum work session (January 2019)
- Mock Forum
(March 2019)
- Mock Work
Session (April 2019)
- Program
Completion Ceremony (May 2019)
Applications for this year’s program are available on the
FCPS website under School Board. Students should submit the brief application
and one-page statement of interest to their principals by October 15, 2018.
Principals will submit applications to the School Board Office by October 29, 2018.
Each School Board member will select one student from their magisterial
district, and the at-large members will select one student from all the
applications received. The selected student leaders and remaining applicants
will be notified by email in late November.
Action
Required: Principals are encouraged to help advertise the program in the
following ways:
- Include it in the daily announcements
- Request that the government teachers provide the information to
their sophomores and juniors
- Request that the guidance counselors and career center specialists
provide the information to their sophomores and juniors.
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