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Dear Westbriar Parents,
We are getting close to the end of the 1st quarter and time is flying by for us. Thank you to all parent volunteers on Field Day, we were able to have another successful event because of your help and participation. Thank you to Mrs. Shoop and Mr. Pulliam for their leadership and organization of Field Day.
Please be sure to sign up for a parent/teacher conference with your child’s classroom teacher. Teachers will share or have shared conference sign up links so please be on the lookout for it. Below are several important news and announcements, please do not miss all the great things happening at Westbriar for October.
Take care and I look forward to seeing many of you at our next PTA event - Pumpkin Fest on Friday, October 25th.
Principal Tam
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Library News:
FCPS has launched a new catalog system call Destiny. Go to http://fairfax.follettdestiny.com to access the catalog. Select Westbriar from the Elementary School list. Students can login (use the blue FCPS bar on the left) with their user name and password to see their account, create a favorites list, put up to two books on hold, and see what books they have checked out. These are just a few great features of our new catalog!
The annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest is back! Decorated, but not carved, pumpkins can be dropped off to the library from Monday, Oct 21st to Wednesday, Oct 30th. Judging will take place on Oct 31st. A flyer with all of the details went home in Wednesday folders last week.
Mark your calendars! The Book Fair will be Nov 11th to Nov 14th with late hours on Tuesday, Nov 12th. It is a great opportunity to support the library program and do some early holiday shopping. Please watch for more information on volunteer opportunities.
Please contact Mrs. Fuselier at kmfuselier@fcps.edu with any questions.
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Picture Day is Coming
Picture Day is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019.
Parents can Pre-Pay online by using the following link: Click Here to order!
or copy and paste this link: http://www.barksdalephoto.com/
Please refer to your flyer that will be sent home in Wednesday Folders for your Online Password.
Parents should place their order online or fill out the envelope portion of their flyer. Please return either your receipt or payment envelope on Picture Day. If you have any questions, contact our Customer Service Department at 800-220-7667.
We're looking forward to an AWESOME Photo Day!
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Student-Parent Survey for Federal Impact AID
Beginning on October 21, FCPS will be asking all families to fill out a Student-Parent Survey for Federal Impact Aid. Returning this form is important because information from this survey results in an anticipated $3 million dollars in grant funds each year from the U.S. Department of Education. These funds are used to support all Fairfax County public schools and centers. For each school-aged child in your household, please complete, sign, date, and return the survey to your child's school. If sections 1 and 2 of the survey do not apply to you, just check the box in Section 3. All forms must be signed, dated, and returned by October 30. All results are CONFIDENTIAL.
Video link - https://youtu.be/uPqC3BLf3Ow
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FROM PTA
Did you enjoy Back to School Fun Night? Are you looking forward to Pumpkin Fest? Does your student participate in after-school enrichment activities? Then you are enjoying the benefits of having a strong, highly participatory PTA. If you aren't already a member, please JOIN your Westbriar PTA today and help us do more great things at Westbriar!
As the holidays near, please use Amazon Smile for Westbriar whenever you're ordering from Amazon!
PTA Dates At-a-Glance
10/16 -- Chick-fil-A Dining for Dollar$
10/25 -- Pumpkin Fest!
11/4-8 -- 5th Grade Stock the Staff Room
11/6 -- Walk to School Wednesday
11/11-11/14 -- Book Fair
11/12 -- 529 Presentation
11/13 -- Foster's Grille and Ben & Jerry's Dining for Dollar$
11/13-11/14 -- Thanksgiving Lunches
12/2-6 -- 4th Grade Stock the Staff Room
12/5 -- December PTA meeting
12/13 -- Skate Night
10/16 -- Chic Fil A Dining for Dollar$, 5-8PM at Chick Fil A Tysons West In-line
Ready for a night away from the kitchen? Join us for some fun and some Westbriar socializing (and "eat mor chicken," since the PTA gets 15% of the proceeds when you mention Westbriar at the register!)
10/25 -- Join us at Westbriar PTA's Pumpkin Fest! WAIT TO BUY YOUR PUMPKIN from our Pumpkin Patch! Take a family picture at our professional Fall Photo booth! Enter as many times as you like for your child to win raffles for special activities with their teachers! Dinner and dessert available for purchase. Trick or treat and a MAZE in the gym! It's going to be big fun!!!
VOLUNTEER for Pumpkin Fest -- help us put on this new event!!
11/4-8 -- Fifth Grade Stock the Staff Room
Fifth grade families, this is your opportunity to show some love and appreciation to our Westbriar staff! Send in individually packaged treats (homemade or store bought), teas, coffees, etc. for our staff to enjoy for the whole month of November. You have a whole week to participate!
11/6 -- Walk to School Wednesday! It's good for the kids, it's good for the environment -- let's walk to school!
11/11-14 daytime (evening hours 11/12) -- Westbriar Book Fair
Come out and get your kiddos some old-fashioned, no-tech books! And support our Westbriar library while you do it!
11/12 -- 529 Presentation, 6PM Westbriar cafeteria
Come to our cafeteria to learn more about college savings and how things work with a 529 plan. Get started early -- college comes a lot quicker than you might think!
11/13 -- Foster's Grille and Ben & Jerry's Dining for Dollar$
Both of these Vienna businesses team up to give our Westbriar families a delicious dinner and dessert, and to give back 20% of their proceeds to our PTA!
11/13-14 -- Thanksgiving lunches
12/2-6 -- Fourth Grade Stock the Staff Room
Fourth grade families, this is your opportunity to show some love and appreciation to our Westbriar staff! Send in individually packaged treats (homemade or store bought), teas, coffees, etc. for our staff to enjoy for the whole month of November. You have a whole week to participate!
12/5 -- December PTA meeting
Join us to vote on our proposed bylaws changes, get to know other parents, and stay informed about all the happenings in our school!
12/13 -- Skate Night @ SkateQuest, Reston, VA
Come out for this annual night of fun on the ice! Tickets include skate rental and skating for the evening ...
Thank You Notes
Thank you to Jennifer Sellers, who managed our spirit wear orders this year. She designed the options, managed and promoted the ordering process, collected all payments, and sorted and handed out all of the different orders. Now we're all decked out as Falcons! Thank you, Jennifer!
Thank you to Elisa Clifton, our Walk to School chair. Elisa organized and promoted a very successful Walk to School event on October 2nd. We will have several more Walk to School Wednesdays this fall and spring, during which students who walk to school can pick out tokens for their W2S necklaces. Keep on walking -- it's so much better for our environment than driving in your car!
Thank you to Anahita Kamjou, who has set us up for our first Falcon Arts program this year (the replacement for GRACE Arts.) Anahita recruited volunteers from every classroom, edited artist info and projects for presentation, and ordered all the art supplies for the year for the entire school to enjoy the program. Special thanks as well to Stenwood PTA, for sharing their Creative Bee program with us, so we didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Thank you, Anahita! And thank you, Deanna Heier(Stenwood PTA President) and Lisa Mak(Stenwood PTA VP of Social Affairs.)
Thank you to Angie Gutenson, Hina Jumani, Gulcin Ross, Trish Vanstory, and Valerie McFalls, our bylaws committee, for putting together a new set of proposed bylaws for our PTA to adopt this year, nicely in time for our bylaws revision due date!
Thank you to Natalie Lueders, Brooke Edwards, Olga Feschenko, and Hina Jumani, our Display Case committee. They are doing an excellent job of creatively decorating our PTA display case in the front hallway. Their work informs, sparks interest, and lightens up the hallway for all to see!
Thank you to Jenni Bae, who organizes Westbriar's #iCare inclusion program, for her work in putting together a school-wide curriculum teaching inclusion for all.
Thank you to Crystal Petersen, Valerie McFalls, and Jessica Chen, who are our parent volunteers for Science Olympiad this year. They have recruited students for teams and are organizing and prepping them to compete in the regional Science Olympiad this fall. Good luck, Westbriar!
Thank you to Roopa Chowbey, our Odyssey of the Mind chair. Roopa has recruited teams and coaches who will prep throughout the year and then compete in the spring. The student teams gather regularly with their coaches. They learn how to solve complex problems in a group setting, and they get to know one another, too.
Thank you to Nandita Kalyan, our Spelling Bee chair. Nandita has registered Westbriar in the Scripps Spelling Bee competition. Soon you'll hear more about registration for our Westbriar Spelling Bee, which is set for February 20th.
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Trish Vanstory
Westbriar PTA President
wesptaprez@gmail.com
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