Important Dates
Thursday, December 6th
Grades 4-6 Strings Concert at 7:00 pm (6:30 student arrival [tuning])
Monday, December 10th-Friday, December 14th
HWES SCA Hat, Mitten, and Glove Drive (more information below)
Friday, December 14th
3-Hour Early Dismissal, 12:40 pm
SCA Spirit Day-Wear Your Pajamas to School
Drop Everything and Read Day
HWES PTA Movie Night, 6:30pm
Thursday, December 20th
AAP Parent Information Coffee, 9:30 am
Monday, December 24th-Friday, January 4th
Student Holiday-No School
HWES SCA
Hat, Mitten, and Glove Drive
 The HWES Student Council Association (SCA) will be accepting donations of new hats, gloves and mittens from Monday, December 10th--Friday, December 14th.
The donations will given to Cornerstones, a nonprofit organization that promotes self-sufficiency by providing support and advocacy for those in need of food, shelter, affordable housing, quality childcare, and other human services.
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Hunters Woods PTA Presents: Family Movie Night at the Woods Featuring Paddington 2 (rated PG)
- Join the PTA as we host a family movie night at the school on Friday, December 14! Please note that is a family event - children may not be dropped off.
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If you are able to lend a hand at the event, please sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d49a9ad29a3f49-movie
- All proceeds will go directly to the PTA, to support all of the amazing programs we have planned for the year.
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Pricing: Adults: $5, Children: $3, Family Bundle: $15 (2 adults, 2 children, 4 bags of popcorn) Popcorn & Candy for Sale at $1 per bag. Donations are always welcome.
- Doors open at 6:15 pm and the movie will start promptly at 6:30 pm
- The movie will be showing in the gym, and there will be no seating provided. Portable chairs, blankets, and cushions are welcome for a more comfortable experience.
- Contact presidentsm@hwpta.org with questions.
Family Life Education Information
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) provides a comprehensive, sequential Family Life Education (FLE) program for students in grades kindergarten through grade twelve. Instruction is seen as a partnership among parents and guardians, the school, and the community in supporting the learning essential to the development of strong families, positive relationships, and a healthy community.
Beginning on Thursday, December 13, 2018 the Human Growth and Development portion of the Family Life Education program will be taught at HWES. Please see the dates below for each specific grade level.
- All Opt-Out forms are due back at school by Tuesday, December 11, 2018.
- FLE lessons for 4th graders will be taught Thursday, December 20, 2018.
- FLE lessons for 5th and 6th graders will be taught Thursday, December 13, 2018 through Thursday, December 20, 2018.
Parents/guardians may choose to opt their child out of all or part of the Family Life Education program. Students who are opted out are provided with age-appropriate, nonpunitive alternative health instruction, and every effort is made to foster respect for family choices. If you wish to opt your child out of all or part of FLE for this school year, opt out forms will be included in your child’s back-to-school/orientation packets and are available online for Elementary (K-6).
Detailed grade-level program descriptions are available online at Elementary (K-6). FLE grade level-specific lessons and media that FCPS has streaming rights for are available for parents online in FCPS 24-7 (Blackboard) Parent View https://fcps.blackboard.com/. Account information is available at your local school or online at http://www.fcps.edu/is/instructionaltechnology/247help/parents.shtml. Grade level-specific lessons are also available at the Fairfax County Regional Library in the City of Fairfax (this location does not have media). Grade level-specific lessons and media that is not streamed online are available for review at your child’s school library. Due to copyright permissions, we are unable to stream all media online.
Program questions may be addressed at your child’s school or by contacting Instructional Services at 571-423-4550 or by contacting Elizabeth Payne, Health and Physical Education Coordinator at etpayne@fcps.edu.
For questions specific to Hunters Woods contact Ipsa Stringer, Assistant Principal, at ibstringer@fcps.edu or Garry Carter, FLE Lead Teacher, at glcarter@fcps.edu.
Calendar Reminder:
Students Dismissed Three Hours Early on December 14th
Students will be dismissed from school three hours early on December 14 for a school planning day. Classes will resume on Monday, December 17. See the complete 2018-19 school year calendar.
e-Notify Emergency Messages Will Be Communicated via New Vendor Beginning December 14
Fairfax County Public Schools will be moving to a new vendor to provide emergency and essential email, text, and phone notifications beginning December 14, 2018. If you currently receive emergency and essential communications via email, text, or phone, you do not need to do anything as you will continue to receive this information.
Parents and guardians who have included a cellphone number (in the cellphone field) on a student’s emergency care card will receive a text message on December 14 to confirm the account is set up to receive text messages from FCPS. You do not need to do anything when you receive the text message from the new vendor, School Messenger, on December 14th. If you do not receive a text message, please check the contact information listed on your child’s emergency care card in weCare. Your cellphone number must be listed in the cellphone field in order to receive text messages from FCPS.
New this year, parents can enter their student’s cellphone number in weCare so that their student will also receive text messages for delayed openings, school closings, and late bus notifications. The student’s cellphone number will need to be entered in Section 4, under Additional Information. If the student’s cellphone is listed in weCare, they will also receive the text message on December 14.
Emergency and essential information includes:
- Emergency
- Delayed openings/school closings
- Attendance
- Early release
- Buses running late
- Low lunch balance
- Power, telephone, internet outages or facility repairs
- Back to school information
- Important testing dates
If you have recently changed your contact information, please be sure to update the emergency contact information in weCare.
As a reminder, in addition to email and text messages, all FCPS weather delays and openings are also posted on Twitter, Facebook, FCPS website, school websites, and local radio and television broadcasts. Read more about Weather Cancellation Procedures.
Advanced Academic Program (AAP) Referrals for Full-Time
AAP Level IV (Grades 2–7)
Deadline: January 10, 2019
Parents or guardians of students not in the second grade screening pool may initiate the full-time AAP Level IV screening process by completing and submitting an Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form to the Hunters Woods ES Advanced Academics Resource Teacher, Ms. Villers, no later than January 10, 2019. No late referrals will be accepted. Second grade students not in the pool and all students in grades 3-7 are screened only by referral. Forms are available on the AAP website (https://www.fcps.edu/registration/advanced-academics-identification-and-placement/elementary-school) and in the Parent Information Packet available at the local school. Parents or guardians of students who are in the second grade pool will be notified by the school. Students who are not in the second grade pool will not receive notification. The benchmark score used to create the second grade pool will be published on the AAP website mid-January.
Please do not wait for test scores before submitting a referral for your student in grades 2-7 as there will be no referrals for Level IV screening accepted past the deadline of January 10, 2019. If you are waiting for test scores and would like your student screened for Level IV please submit the referral by the published deadline (even if you have not received the test scores for your student). Student test scores will be added to screening files when they become available.
Mrs. Villers will be hosting a parent information coffee on December 20, 2018 at 9:30 AM to respond to final questions and procedures for the level IV referral process. This meeting is intended for those parents who are completing the referral process for the January 10, 2019 deadline.
 Hunters Woods has become a partner school with the Positivity Project (P2) for the 2018-2019 school year. We are so excited to join many other FCPS partner schools. The mission of The Positivity Project is to empower students to build strong relationships -- by understanding, appreciating, and living out the 24-character strengths in us all. This past week the character strength we highlighted was Kindness. Teachers and teams highlight these themes through morning meetings, books, class discussions or other class activities. Each week there is a different character strength highlighted, the P2 calendar will help you follow along with what our focus is each week. There are character cards which may be helpful to you as a parent when talking with your students about the specific character strength.
Next week’s character strength: Humility
Stay tuned for more information about the Positivity Project! Students will be learning about 24 character strengths and discussing #OtherPeopleMatter.
Check out this video on the meaning behind #OtherPeopleMatter!
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