|
Mr. Germain and Mr. Herring after shaving their heads in support of Oak Hill Sixth Grader, Reed Morgan.
Dear Parents,
The Chantilly Pyramid will be hosting a “Spotlight on Student Learning” this Thursday night at Franklin Middle School from 6-7:30pm. This event will celebrate student learning in the digital age and Oak Hill will be well represented. Mrs. Bowers (1st grade) will be a member of the student/teacher panel. Mrs. Bennett (4th Grade), Ms. Bowe (5th Grade), Ms. Cosby (6th Grade), Mrs. Fredericks (5th Grade), Mrs. Glass (6th Grade), and Ms. Wright (6th Grade), along with students from their classes will be participating in the Share Fair. We are looking forward to this great event. I am proud of the work that our teachers and students show every day in the classroom.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to further support your child’s learning and experience at Oak Hill. My door is always open!
Sincerely,
Holly DeVore, Principal
 When: Thursday, March 28, 2019
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Where: Franklin Middle School
Join us for a Chantilly Pyramid community event where we will celebrate student learning in the digital age. An opening presentation will be followed by a student/teacher panel, choice sessions, and a student/teacher share fair in the gymnasium. Students and teachers will be represented from the various Chantilly pyramid schools, including 7 of our Oak Hill teachers! There will be an opportunity to learn more about these topics:
- What student learning looks like in our FCPSOn classrooms.
- How to safeguard student’s health and well being while using devices for learning.
-
Students perspective on learning in the modern classroom.
- The role of the teacher in the modern classroom.
This Saturday, March 30, we will begin cleaning up our garden at Oak Hill to prepare for spring planting! If you are able to come and help, please respond to the evite link included here. We will meet by the garden at 9:00 Saturday morning. Click here to view the evite.
 |
|
Calling all 4th, 5th and 6th graders. If you are interested in auditioning for this year’s talent show, the application is now available and can be found here. The audition form is due no later than March 29th at 4:00 PM. If you are in a group act, ALL members of your group must fill out a separate application. Please email Mrs. Hood (kshood@fcps.edu) with any questions. |
 |
|
As a reminder, Friday, April 5, is a teacher workday and a holiday for students. The last day of the third quarter is April 4. Classes will resume on Monday, April 8. Spring Break will be April 15-19. The Oak Hill office will close for Spring Break on Friday, April 12th at 4:30 and will re-open at 8:00 on April 22nd. See the complete 2018-19 school year calendar here. |
The 2019 Special Education Conference will be held Saturday, April 6, 7:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Lake Braddock SS. The focus of this year’s conference is on building inclusive and postsecondary practices to support the development of 21st century skills and Portrait of a Graduate attributes. Register here.
We need your help in letting us know if your child will be returning to Oak Hill next year. This will help us in projecting our total enrollment for the next school year. Student’s Intention for the Next School Year forms are being sent home today, March 27th. Please complete the form (directions are on the back of the form) and return it to your child’s homeroom teacher by April 30, 2019.
Oak Hill's 6th grade Odyssey of the Mind girls team coached by Ginger Hawkins won first place at Odyssey of the Mind regional tournament. They competed in Division 2 this year against middle school students and still won the 1st place and advanced to the Virginia State Championship. This is the same team that won 1st place at last year's state tournament too and competed at world championship tournament representing our state.
 |
|
Over the past weekend several Oak Hill students participated in the March Madness Chess tournament at Floris ES. Apart from their individual trophies, the students placed second in the tournament. Congratulations to the following students: Shourya Ahuja, Ealbu Nithilaselvan, Salban Nithiaselvan, Abijith Ramesh, and
Brian Wong |
STEAM Camp will be held this year at McNair Elementary, with focus on Robots and Rollercoasters. Please join Mrs. Cosgrove and Ms. Payne for a week of amazing times as your child thinks like an engineer to design and build solutions to real world problems, works with robots such as Ozobots to expand programming skills using scratch and other languages. In addition, students will design and build a variety of roller coasters, (the sky is the limit)!
Campers must be rising 3rd - 6th grade. Camp will be held the weeks of July 15, 22, and 29 - pick one! To sign up please register here.
|
Oak Hill Kindergarten Orientation for children living within the Oak Hill Elementary School’s boundary is on April 5, 2019 from 9–10am with doors opening at 8:45 for check-in. The program will start promptly at 9. All parents/guardians and children who will be 5 years old by September 30, 2019 are invited to attend. Registration forms can be downloaded from the FCPS website.
Please contact our school registrar, Vicki Baron to schedule a registration appointment at vjbaron@fcps.edu or 703-467-3500.
|
Over the past few months our lost and found has continued to grow. Now that winter is almost over, please check your closets to see if you are missing any of your children’s coats. There are other items such as water bottles, lunch boxes, umbrellas, etc. Please remind your son or daughter to check here if they are missing any items. We plan to donate any items not picked up by April 12.
This quarter students in grades 1-6 worked on Content Area Research in Reading and Writing. The projects that students did with this were nothing short of amazing! Choice and research skills were embedded into all units. Some of the projects included a Virginia PBL in first grade where students are persuading travelers to visit Virginia. In 3rd grade students did a PBL where they created google sites on any topic of their choosing from their science and social studies curriculum. 6th grade teachers gave students a choice on how to present information learned from science and social studies unit, anything from writing a paper to teaching the class. We all learned a lot during this unit!
 |
|
March 28: Spotlight on Students (1:1 presentation) at Franklin MS, 6pm
April 5: Teacher Workday/No School
April 5: Kindergarten Orientation for rising kindergartners and their parents, 9am
April 9: 2nd Grade Musical, 9am
April 11: 5th Grade Field Trip to Medieval Times
April 11: AAP Orientation, 4:15-5:15pm
April 12: Fun Run Race Schedule
Grades 3 & 4: 9-10am
Grades 5 & 6: 10:15-11:15am
Grades K - 2: 1:45-2:45pm
April 15-19: Spring Break, No school, Office closed
April 25: STEAM Night, 6-7:30pm
April 26: Chantilly Pyramid College Day, 8:45-10:30am
April 30: 6th Grade Panoramic, 2pm, Strings Concert at Franklin MS, 7pm
|
Visit the Oak Hill website and FCPS website for updates.
Follow Oak Hill on Twitter @OakHillES.
Access Oak Hill's News You Choose.
School lunch menus are located here.
|
