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Dear Spring Hill Families,
It’s been so fun to see our Spring Hill spirit this week! I’m looking forward to our Cake Decorating Contest on Friday and our annual Fun Fair on Saturday!
Please review the following for the latest updates!
Vision Statement
Spring Hill is working on revising our vision statement to better reflect our school and community goals and to better align with FCPS' Portrait of a Graduate. We wanted to reach out to our community to provide feedback on the current draft of this new vision statement which was crafted with input from the entire Spring Hill faculty. Please share your thoughts on the form linked below. We appreciate your candid input.
Our Vision: "Spring Hill is an international and welcoming community where all learners come to grow. We foster joy and a love of learning through rigorous, inclusive, and innovative learning experiences to elevate global thinkers for their future. #elevate"
https://goo.gl/forms/E5r93q1PHZqbCQfb2
Our Plan
Intentional & Innovative Instruction
Caring & Collaborative Culture
Teacher As Leaders
Sincerely,
Sarah C. Aiello
Proud Principal
Spring Hill Elementary School
As a first year principal, part of the evaluation process comes from survey data collected from staff and parents, identifying areas of strength and growth as I continue this path of life-long learning. I wanted to share this information regarding the process, so you can be prepared to receive the survey.
All Spring Hill parents will be contacted through email or text message with a link to the FCPS Principal Evaluation Parent/Guardian Feedback Form Online. The survey will be collected online between March 13 and March 27.
This survey is part of the Performance Evaluation Program and offers parents an opportunity to provide anonymous input about various issues related to our school. These issues include instructional leadership, school climate, human resources management, organizational management, communication and community relations and professionalism.
Kiss-N-Ride Students: If you are a Kiss-N-Ride family, please make sure that prior to arrival, your child is ready to exit the car. In order to have a smooth flowing kiss-n-ride circle, students should be prepared to exit the car immediately after you have stopped. Please follow the directions of the staff and patrols – if they wave you on, please move forward as far as you can prior to letting your child out of the car. We are going to use as much of the curve of the sidewalk as possible, so your child may have to walk a little to get into the building.
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We held sessions with grade level students and staff on how to use playground equipment safely and which areas would be best for specific sport & games. There are no specific rules, per se, just a better awareness of safety and proper playground equipment usage. |
Spring Hill Elementary School's
Kindergarten Round-up
Friday, April 5, 2019
9:00 a.m.: Registration begins
Parents attend information session
while children visit classrooms
Session ends at 10:30 a.m.
Please complete and bring these enclosed forms with you:
Registration Form
Home Language Survey
Criminal Conviction
Pre-Kindergarten Experience
Emergency Care Information
Health Information
Driver’s License
It is also necessary to present an original birth certificate, proof of residency (original deed or current rental agreement) and registering parent driver’s license as well as a copy of each. Having copies will speed up the registration process.
The Commonwealth of Virginia School Entrance Health Form (yellow)
must be submitted before your child can enter school in August.
Health form must be submitted by August 9, 2019.
Children will not be allowed to start school without a completed health form.
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Yearbook order deadline is March 22nd.
Extra order forms are in the office or you can order online https://ybpay.lifetouch.com using Spring Hill’s yearbook code of 12616519.
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Come cheer on our Spring Hill Teachers at McLean High School on Thursday, March 28! Doors open at 6:30pm, game time is 7:00pm. Tickets are $8 each and are available on the PTO website. Or you can use this printable form. This is NOT a drop off event, parents must accompany children. No tickets will be sold at the door.
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If your child is missing any items, please check the cafeteria. Items will be displayed until Friday, April 12th.
After this date, all items will be donated.
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March is Youth Art Month! Celebrate with us by viewing artwork by Spring Hill students, March 7 through March 19, at the McLean Project for the Arts’ MPA@ChainBridge Gallery, 1446 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22101, located near the Giant Food in downtown McLean.
Please join us for a reception on Tuesday, March 12, 4:30-6:00 PM. The art show features artwork by students at Langley High School, Cooper Middle School, Churchill Road, Colvin Run, Forestville, Great Falls, and Spring Hill Elementary Schools.
Our thanks go out to the McLean Project for the Arts for once again providing a professional art gallery space for our Youth Art Month exhibit. The gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 10 AM-5 PM, Friday & Saturday, 10 AM-4 PM, closed Sunday.
The following students have artwork on display in the show: Kindergarten: Isabelle Oduntan & Douglas Ruan; First Grade: Aleksandra McCarthy & Jonathan Titus; Second Grade: Philip Chen & Andrew Du; Third Grade: Serene Chung, Thomas Haith, Ronen Mishulovich, Dat Tran and Shanne Zeng; Fourth Grade: Tanisha Chintalapati & Mackenzie Ross; Fifth Grade: Addison Barks, Artem Kazhala, Brendan Li, Sophie Li, Daniel Lim, and Ann-Margaret Luhman; Sixth Grade: Birka Chen, Jadyn Ford, Maha Jiwani, Jaeyoung Lee, Gabriel Mitchell, Melody Mortazie, Jake Moser, Kristina Naydonova, Divyanshi Raut, and Cat Tran.
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Registration is now open for the Value In Prevention (VIP) Summer Program at Carson Middle School. Families can register on MySchoolBucks. The program is open to all rising 7th graders attending Longfellow, Cooper, Herndon, Hughes, and Carson Middle School. The cost of the entire program is $50 and includes breakfast, lunch, transportation, and 4 field trips. The program will take place July 1st-August 1st and students can choose from a variety of activities including Basketball, Cooking, Soccer, STEAM, and Theatre. If you have any questions, please contact Riley Barrows rtbarrows1@fcps.edu
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Spring photos are Thursday, April 25th.
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED:
Please volunteer to assist during spring portrait day. We need volunteers all day or if you can only do half day from 9-12:30 or 1:00-3:15 pm that would be great. Vouchers are given to volunteers to use toward their pictures. Please email Yearbook Committee members Barbara Kyttle @ bkyttle@gmail.com
Judy Harney @ jeharney@gmail.com
or Nelda Hirji in the front office @ njhirji@fcps.edu if you can help out.
Thanks
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Please join us Tuesday, March 26th at 6:00 PM in the cafeteria to explore foreign language programs that would meet the needs our students and community. A specialist from FCPS World Languages office will facilitate the presentation. Please join us!
A team representing Spring Hill Elementary School achieved Highest Honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually. The third grade team scored an impressive 178 points out of a possible 200 in the second of three meets this year, placing seventh in the nation.
Competing in the very difficult Gold Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, students from Spring Hill Elementary School who achieved outstanding results in the meet include third graders Jacob Gocke, Brian Han and Anya Tong, and fourth graders Edward Guo, Inger Logan and Shveta Sunkar. The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Merideth Fisher and Jean Lee.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge™ materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
The WordMasters Challenge™ program is administered by a company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com.
You can follow Spring Hill at @SpringHillFCPS.
We hope to use this account to share some of the terrific activities that are happening in our classrooms and around the school with our families and community. We will also use the account to promote and provide updates/reminders about upcoming events. Our Twitter account is NOT intended to replace our current forms of communication, including our school website (https://springhilles.fcps.edu/) and Panther Press newsletters, but rather to provide a supplement to further engage our community. We’re aiming to post a few tweets per week, so please check us out.
Please be aware that we will honor any student opt-outs that families have requested and only student first names will be shared in relevant announcements.
If you have any questions about the Twitter account or our use of social media, please contact Bill Mosher at wkmosher@fcps.edu.
Calling all bakers!! The annual Cake Decorating Contest is March 22nd, at Spring Hill. The theme is “Panther Pride!” The winning cakes will be prizes for the Cake Walk at Fun Fair on March 23rd. For more information, please go to: Springhillpto.org/events/fun-fair.
If you are planning on withdrawing your child from Spring Hill ES and require Verification Of Enrollment documentation, please contact Mrs. Belcher, Registrar/Office Manager, at least one week prior to your departure. She will have you complete a withdrawal form and prepare your documents which you will be able to pick up on your child’s last day of school.
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Fun Fair is this Saturday!
March 23
10am – 3pm
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That’s right, the time as finally come! Fun Fair is this Saturday!
Everything you need to know about Fun Fair can be found in an awesome online guide on the springhillpto.org website! It includes information about the Faculty Experience Raffle, prize raffle, cake decorating contest and cake walk, games, activities, food, parking and free events at the Fun Fair.
Tickets
Early bird pricing on tickets is still available.
Front Lobby, Monday through Friday, 8:30am – 9am
Cafeteria, Monday through Thursday, 3:30pm – 4pm
We Still Need Parent Volunteers!
Early indications are that we'll have many more students at Fun Fair than we did last year, so we need to fill as many remaining volunteer slots as possible this week to ensure a fun and safe day for our kids! Please visit our signup genius and take a shift to help out.
Faculty Experience Raffle
New this year, you can enter the Faculty Experience Raffle ONLINE. That means if you can’t make it to Fun Fair or you want to spend the whole day at Fun Fair winning at Soda Toss, you can still participate! Check out the Faculty Experience Raffle on the PTO website to see all the details of how to enter and the full list of Experiences offered! Online entry closes this Thursday, March 21 at 5pm.
Prize Raffle Early Entry
The Fun Fair Raffle is the place to win prizes like an iPad, an Xbox, a free party at the Hamlet Pool, and more! New this year, Enter the Prize Raffle early for some of our most exciting prizes. Some raffle boxes will be at the ticket sales table in the morning the week before Fun Fair! So buy some extra discounted tickets and enter the raffle early — you can participate even if you won’t be able to join us for Fun Fair day.
Spirit Week
Spirit week has been fun so far for the kids. They’ve had Pajama Day on Monday and Super Hero Day on Tuesday. Have your kids participate the rest of the week! See the schedule below.
Wednesday – Sports Day – Show your love for your favorite sport or sports team
Thursday – Wacky Hair Day – Make your hair crazy for school
Friday – Panther Pride Day – Wear your Fun Fair/Spring Hill shirt or our school colors, maroon and gold
Spirit Basketball Kickoff
Come join us at 9:30 am on the blacktop behind the school for a Spirit Kick Off Basketball Contest featuring Teachers vs 6th Graders. Afterwards, our Panther mascot will lead our students to the front of the school to officially start Fun Fair.
Teacher Team Bill Mosher, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Lindsey Devylder, Cecilia Smith, Christy Margeson, Mary Kenely, Aneshka Szesney
6th Grade Team – One child was selected from each homeroom Jase Fitch (Szczesny), Pierce Pryce (Margeson), Sierra Page (Smith), Maha Jiwani (Kenely), Ben Pham (Minutoli), Kelan Janneck (Papa)
Know Before You Go
Parking - There will be limited parking at the school and Spring Hill Rec Center. The Hamlet Pool and has kindly offered additional parking. Feel free to use the lots at these locations or consider walking, biking or carpooling. In the past, tickets have been given for parking in illegal, undesignated spots around the school and in subdivisions.
Food – If having fun makes you hungry, stop in the cafeteria where pizza, popcorn, cotton candy and beverages will be available to purchase.
Free Events at Fun Fair – Visit the free events offered this year. Take a break in the Lego station, visit Monarch Madness where students can do a craft and take home a planting that attracts pollinators or take a picture at the selfie station in the cafeteria.
For more Fun Fair information, visit the online guide!
Don’t miss the fun! We’ll see you on Saturday at the 53rd Annual Fun Fair!
Student Intention forms went home a few weeks ago. If you haven't already done so please fill out and return.
03/18-03/22 B Week
03/21 4th Gr Orchestra Concert, Cafeteria, 7:00 pm
03/22 PTO Meeting, Lg Pod 8:45 am
03/23 Fun Fair
03/25-03/29 A Week
03/25 6th GR FT (Rising Longfellow students), Longfellow MS. 10:00am-12:00pm
03/27 Principal Coffee: 1st GR, Lg Pod, 9:00 am, Cafeteria 6:30 pm
03/28 SHES vs. Haycock Staff Basketball Game, Langley HS, 7:00 pm
03/29 5th GR FT (All), Reston Bowtie Cinemas, 9:30 am-12:30 pm
04/01-04/05 B Week
04/04 3rd GR Chinese Folktale Author Celebration, 10:00 am -Noon
3rd Quarter Grading Period Ends
Harmony Ensemble, School Board Meeting, 7:00 pm
04/05 Student Holiday: Teacher Workday
04/05 Kindergarten Round-up, Cafeteria, 9:00-10:30 am
04/08-04/12 A Week
04/09 3rd GR Simple Machines Project (Chang, Ferek & Fisher), Cafeteria, 9-10 am
1st Grade FT (All), Mount Vernon, 9:30 am-1:45 pm
04/10 4th GR FT (All), Jamestown/Yorktown, 6:30 am-7:15 pm
3rd GR Simple Machines Project (Alfano, Burns, Munroe & Nalley), Cafeteria, 9-10 am
04/15-04/19 SPRING BREAK
04/ 22-04/26 B Week
04/24 Field Day
04/25 Spring Individual and Class Photos, Gym 9:00 am-3:30 pm
PTO Meeting, Cafeteria, 7:00-8:30 pm
04/26 Field Day: Rain Date
04/28 Fun Run
04/29-05/03
04/29 Kindergarten FT (All), Kidwell Farms, 9:15 am-12:30 pm
04/30 Spring Parent Chorus Concert, Cafeteria, 7-8pm
05/01 Dig It Performance (Ferek), Cafeteria, 7-8pm
05/02 Dig It Performance (Fisher), Cafeteria, 7-8pm
05/03 Taste of Spring Hill
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