Hornet Happenings
December 14, 2018
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Good News for Halley's Preschool!
Our Halley Preschool team will embark on an exciting instructional opportunity. All nine of our preschool teaching team will participate in the Wolf Trap Institute Residency program (WTIRP). The WTIRP is a partnership between a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist and an early childhood educator to provide professional development for teachers while helping children learn through active participation. Classroom experiences in a residency focus on performing arts-based strategies that teachers can use to foster young children’s learning and development. These 16-session classroom experiences in the residency will support early childhood curriculum and outcomes.
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 am - 12pm
Register for Coping Strategies for Anxious Children, National Institute of Mental Health
FCPS e-Notify Emergency Messages Will Be Communicated via New Vendor Beginning, TODAY, December 14
Fairfax County Public Schools will be moving to a new vendor to provide emergency and essential email, text, and phone notifications beginning, TODAY, 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.
Winter Chess Registration! Chess Club is taught by experienced Silver Knights instructors using a curriculum developed by National Masters. Each weekly session is a mix of learning and play. Playing chess is a great way to develop a child’s critical thinking skills, sportsmanship, and patience — all while having fun!
Chess Club Details:
SAVE THE DATE EVENTS:
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January 14, 2019 – Restaurant Night at Chipotle (Lorton)
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February 5, 2019 – PTO Webinar at 6:45 p.m.
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February 11-15, 2019 – Hearts for Halley
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Have you been clipping your BoxTops? Help Halley earn FREE MONEY!!! The Spring Challenge is just around the corner. The class who submits the most Box Tops earns a pizza party!
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 ID: William Halley PTO - Every item available for purchase on Amazon.com is also available on Amazon Smile, and the Amazon Foundation will donate .5% of the purchase of eligible products to the PTO.
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Giant Rewards: ID 03257 |
- Winter Break, Monday, December 24 - Friday, January 4th.
- School Resumes, Monday, January 7th.
- 3 Hour Early Release, Friday, January 18th.
- MLK Jr. Holiday, Student Holiday, Monday, January 21st.
- Teacher Workday, Student Holiday, Friday, January 25
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