Bike To School Day
Bike to School Day is on Wednesday May 8th, 2019. Students are encouraged to walk, bike or scooter to school throughout the school year. Haycock participates in Walk to School Day in the fall and Bike to School day in the spring.
Please talk with your student about:
- A safe route to take
- How to be safe around vehicles AND pedestrians as they come to school.
- Helmets are ALWAYS a good idea.
- Locking their bike or scooter at a bike rack at the front of the school or near the fenced blacktop next to the playground.
- If we run out of bike rack space please feel free to use the fence around the blacktop to lock your bike or scooter.
- Give your child plenty of time to ride to school and lock their bike or scooter but still have time to enter the school ON TIME!
- Teachers are available at the bike racks to help with the locking
- A Teacher will be at the front of school handing out book marks, pencils and wrist bands to participants (as supplies last).
Congratulations to the Haycock Math Team!
On Friday, April 12th, Haycock competed in the 2019 Carderock Math Contest held at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland.???? Over 200 students from across 25 schools in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia participated in the 10th anniversary of the event.?? The Haycock Pi-lots team with members Deven Hagen, Hudson Keeler, Henrik Mills, and Andrew Mu placed third overall in their division.?? The Haycock Bombers team consisting of David Lu, David Sheng, Patrick Shi, and Leah Zhang also competed in the contest.??
Deven Hagen and Hudson Keeler ranked in the top ten individual scorers in their division.
ADVANCED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (AAP)
SCREENING FOR SCHOOL-BASED (LEVEL II-III) SERVICES
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) offers a continuum of advanced academic services for all students in grades K-8. Learning experiences are designed to develop higher-level thinking through enrichment, acceleration, and extensions of the Program of Studies (POS). Teachers, administrators, and advanced academic resource teachers (AARTs) work together to provide the following levels of school-based services in each elementary school:
- Critical and Creative Thinking Lessons, Grades K-6 (Level I)
All students in kindergarten through grade six receive level I services which consist of model lessons that are designed to teach critical and creative thinking skills. The lessons are modeled in all classrooms by AARTs and the thinking strategies are then used throughout the year by classroom teachers and other teachers who work with students. Student responses to these model lessons are used as part of the identification process for AAP services. Parents may also practice the thinking strategies during family conversations and activities. A description of the nine critical and creative thinking strategies can be found at https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary-school-academics-k-6/advanced-academics/critical-and-creative-thinking.
- Differentiated Lessons in Areas of Academic Strength, Grades K-6 (Level II)
The AART collaborates with classroom teachers to provide additional challenge through lessons and resources that extend and enrich the POS. Students are rescreened annually for this level of service.
- Part-Time Advanced Academic Programs, Grades 3-6 (Level III)
Students identified by a local school screening committee for part-time advanced academic services are challenged through models and strategies designed to extend and enrich the POS in the four core subject areas. Students receive direct instruction from the AART at the local school using curriculum from the AAP Curriculum and Resources to Support the Differentiated Framework. Students identified for Level III services continue to receive level III services through grade 6.
Screening for school-based services will occur for all students in the spring to determine services for the next school year. Parents or guardians may initiate the screening for school-based (level II and III) services by submitting the AAP School-Based Services (Level II-III) Referral Form (available at https://www.fcps.edu/registration/advanced-academics-identification-and-placement/elementary-school/current-fcps at the bottom of the page in Forms) to the AARTs at Haycock ES by May 17, 2019. Multiple criteria are used to screen students for all levels of AAP services. Parents or guardians who submit a referral will be notified by Haycock ES of their student’s eligibility status by June 7, 2019.
If you have any questions, please contact Loren Brower (lsbrower@fcps.edu) or Andrea Trumbull (astrumbull@fcps.edu).
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