e-Notify Emergency Messages
Will Be Communicated via New Vendor Beginning December 14th
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 cell phone 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 cell phone 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
Bus Delay Notification System
Stay up-to-date on school bus arrivals with FCPS' bus delay notification system. This system provides parents with timely notification of late bus route information. Access it directly online. Morning bus route information will be available until noon. The afternoon bus route information will be available from 1 to 5:30 p.m.
E-Notify (BlackboardConnect) email messages will also be sent to announce bus delays.
Need assistance or have questions? Visit the FCPS Transportation page for more information.
Pre-Arranged Absences
Please plan ahead and let us know as soon as possible, if your child(ren) will be out in the coming weeks, please call the attendance line at 703-764-5656 or send us an email at CanterburyWoodsESAttendance@fcps.edu.
AAP Dates of Interest
All AAP level IV referral files (including work samples) are due to Canterbury Woods on Thursday, January 10th by the end of business.
Parents interested in completing an AAP Level IV referral are welcome to attend our Parent Information Night on Wednesday, December 19th at 5:30 pm in the CWES library.
Coping Strategies for Anxious Children, National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will present this important workshop for parents of anxious children ages 8-17. Highlights include how to help children with anxiety, when anxiety becomes a disorder, strategies for treating specific anxiety disorders and stress reduction tools. Participants will also hear about current NIMH studies on anxiety in children.
Friday, January 11, 2019, 10 a.m.-noon
Register for Coping Strategies for Anxious Children, National Institute of Mental Health
Mark Your Calendar
December 14 3 Hour Early Release, dismissal at 1:05
December 17 Strings Concert, 7:00
December 20 Chorus Concert, 7:00
December 21 SCA Spirit Day - Pajama Day
December 24 - January 4 Winter Break
January 15 Band Concert, 7:00
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