Wednesday Folder Information
Please find electronic copies of your child's Wednesday folder items on the PTA website. Thanks for going green and accessing these items online each week! If you would like to change your preferences for paper or electronic copies, please contact the office.
3-hour Early Release on Friday, 12/14
Please note students will be released three hours early on Friday, December 14. Belvedere students will be dismissed at 1:05 p.m. Find a complete list of holidays and other events on the Belvedere website.
Emergency Communications
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.
Photos of the Week
 Take a look at what's going on inside and outside our classrooms by viewing last week's Photos of the Week on the BES website!
Upcoming Events
- Wednesday, 12/12: AAP Level IV Screening Information Session (6:30 p.m., cafeteria)
- Thursday, 12/13: AAP Level IV Screening Information Session (2:45 p.m., Parent Center)
- Thursday, 12/13: Winter Strings Concert (7 p.m., Gym)
- Friday, 12/14: Three-hour early release
- Winter Break: December 24-January 4
Find a complete list of events on the Belvedere website.
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