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September 22:Academics Program Family Information Night, 4:30-5:30 pm
September 22: Back to School Night, Grades 3 & 4 - 6:00-8:00 pm
September 23: Back to School Night, Grades 5 & 6 6:00-8:00 pm
September 23: FLE Question & Answer 5:30 pm
(Link can be found below)
September 24: Back to School Night Grades PreK-2 6:00-8:00 pm
September 30: Counselors' Town Hall Discussion 2:40-3:40 pm
Back to School Night
Welcome to our first ever virtual BTSN! The leadership team at Fort Belvoir Upper School consists of the administrative team, Jamey Chianetta and Karyn Kayes; the Special Education Department Chair, Jessica Grice; as well as Dr. LaDonna Tate, Instructional Coach; Ms. Katie Wakeley, Reading Specialist; Ms. Kara Fahy, STEM Coach; Ms. Alex Nietert, Advanced Academics Resource Teacher; Ms. Brandi Florence, Library Media Specialist; Mr. Patrick Hoffman and Ms. Bri Jiles, Specialist Team Leaders; and Dr. Rejane Martinez, School Based Technology Specialist. Together, we plan and collaborate to provide supports to teachers and a vision for the school that will align with FCPS goals and strategic plan.
Our resource teachers and specialists encourage you to get to know them here: https://sites.google.com/fcpsschools.net/fbesspecialists/home. Please do meet them by viewing the video clips for each group.
Our school board representative, Ms. Karen Corbett Sanders has prepared a video clip for the opening of school and welcome you to the school year. Our three At-Large School Board Members also welcome you (please click names for links to their welcome videos): Karen Keys-Gamarra; Abrar Omeish; and Rachna Sizemore Heizer.
Meeting links will be sent directly by your children’s classroom teachers. Session times are noted below and will be recorded so that you may access later as needed. Sessions will be repeated after a short break. Our Parent Liaison, Ms. Florence Newsome, will also be available throughout each evening to answer any questions you have. You may access her virtual link by clicking here.
- Tuesday, September 22nd (Grades 3 & 4)
- Session 1 – 6:00-6:45 pm
- Break (6:45-7:00 pm)
- Session 2 – 7:00-7:45 pm
- Tuesday, September 23rd (Grades 5 & 6)
- Session 1 – 6:00-6:45 pm
- Break (6:45-7:00 pm)
- Session 2 – 7:00-7:45 pm
Interested in joining Band or Strings?
Would you like to be involved with the FBES Strings Program?
Type the following address into any internet-enabled device to fill out the easy interest form!
https://tinyurl.com/FBESOrchestra
Please be sure to read each question carefully!
Any questions contact Mr. Hoffman: wphoffman@fcps.edu
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Would you like to be involved with the FBES Band Program?
Type the following address into any internet-enabled device to see what instruments we have available!
https://tinyurl.com/y4usp4dx
Please be sure to read each question carefully!
Any questions, contact Dr. Hussel: nhussell@fcps.edu
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Family Life Education Instructional
Program Information
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) provides a comprehensive, sequential Family Life Education (FLE) program for students in grades kindergarten through grade twelve. Instruction is seen as a partnership among parents and guardians, the school, and the community in supporting the learning essential to the development of strong families, positive relationships, and a healthy community.
Parents/guardians may choose to opt their child out of all or part of the Family Life Education program. Students who are opted out are provided with age-appropriate, nonpunitive alternative health instruction, and every effort is made to foster respect for family choices. If you wish to opt your child out of all or part of FLE for this school year, opt out forms will be included in your child’s back-to-school/orientation packets and are available online for Elementary (K-6) https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary-school-academics-k-6/elementary-family-life-education. Parents/guardians wishing to opt their child out of instruction may complete and return the opt-out form or scan and email a copy of the completed form. An opt-out request can also be made in an email which indicates the lesson(s) the child will be opted out of. The actual opt-out form is not required.
Detailed grade-level program descriptions are available online at Elementary (K-6). FLE grade level-specific lessons and media that FCPS has streaming rights for are available for parents online in FCPS 24-7 (Blackboard) Parent View https://fcps.blackboard.com/. Account information is available at your local school or online at http://www.fcps.edu/is/instructionaltechnology/247help/parents.shtml. Grade level-specific lessons are also available at the Fairfax County Regional Library in the City of Fairfax (this location does not have media). Grade level-specific lessons and media that is not streamed online are available for review at your child’s school library. Due to copyright permissions, we are unable to stream all media online.
If you have questions about the FLE curriculum, you may join representatives from the Upper and Primary schools on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 5:30 at this link.
“Go Paperless”
Progress Report Option Now Available
The “Go Paperless” option is now available to all ES parents to allow them to only receive online progress reports starting the first quarter of SY 20/21. This will not impact any other mailings from FCPS other than the progress reports for ES students and report cards for secondary students.
To take advantage of the paperless options, parents and/or guardians will need to log into ParentVUE, then go to “My Account” and select "Go Paperless" All parents and/or guardians who live with the student and share the same address must have a SIS ParentVUE account and must select the paperless option to prevent mailing of the printed progress reports. The “Go Paperless” option will apply to all their associated students, no matter what school level. If the associated parent and/or guardian has already selected “Go Paperless” for their secondary student, the option will now apply to any ES siblings as well.
Assessments
In the next few weeks your child will be taking a variety of assessments across content areas. The purpose of these assessments is to determine students’ areas of strength and growth. This data will help drive the teachers’ instruction and enable differentiation to best support your child this school year. These assessments will not be graded. To ensure equity, these assessments should be completed independently by the student. Below are a few suggestions on ways to encourage your student, rather than help, while they take assessments in the virtual environment.
Remind your student that the assessment is not graded and will be used by their teacher to help them learn this school year. It is okay if they do not know the answer to a question as it will tell the teacher that they need help to learn that concept.
 Thank you for your continued partnership in your child's learning.
We look forward to a great school year!
Tech Support For Families
To support families who are working with their children during distance learning, FCPS has launched a new Parent Technology Help Desk. The help desk can be reached at 833-921-3277 (833-921-FCPS) and will be answered by staff members between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., seven days a week.
FCPS has also set up Parent and Student Technology Support portal at https://itweb.fcps.edu/itsupport/ to allow older students and parents/guardians to request technology help directly. When a support request ticket is entered through the portal, it is auto-routed to the TSSpec at the appropriate site to expedite service.
Consent for Select Digital Resources
At Fort Belvoir Elementary, our teachers will use a variety of digital resources to support student learning and promote communication and collaboration with students and families. Some of the digital resources your child may use this year will require your consent before they can be used. You can find our school’s list of the resources that require parental consent here.
Included on this page is also a link to a form where the enrolling parent or guardian will need to indicate whether or not their student is allowed to use the list of digital resources this year. This page also provides more information about how FCPS carefully reviews digital resources for approval and why we must request your consent before using certain tools. We encourage you to complete the parental consent for digital resources form as soon as possible, as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission. Please reach out to your child’s teacher or our School Based Technology Specialists Rejane Martinez (Upper School) or Lauren Damico (Primary School) if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.
Use this link to access the virtual session
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Student Rights and Responsibilities
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Over the next few weeks your student will participate in Student Rights and Responsibility lessons. Please review the Student Rights and Responsibilities and related resources at www.fcps.edu/srr. After reviewing the information, fill out the SR&R Parent Acknowledgement Form using this link we have provided. The form must be filled out one time per student.
This form is due by October 30th.
Grab and go meals?
Did you pick up your grab and go meal today? FCPS is providing grab and go breakfast and lunch to ALL students Monday through Friday. And you don’t have to pay for it! It is easy to find out where to pick up food by visiting the website: https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/food.
Our school is serving food every day from 8-12:30 p.m. FCPS buses are traveling to different neighborhoods and delivering meals at bus stops. Check the link above for bus stop locations.
Walmart is offering our MVP community
Free School Supplies
Walmart asks that our MVP community parents not share this information with the general public.
They want our communities to be served first.
Mental Health and Wellness Conference
(for Elementary, Middle & High School Parents)
This year we will continue to partner with INOVA and Kaiser Permanente to host the 7th Annual Mental Health and Wellness Conference. The conference will feature multiple keynote speakers who will address social emotional learning and resiliency. Virtual sessions will be offered September 14th-October 3rd. The kickoff panel will be hosted by NBC 4’s Eun Yang. Registration is available at the following website: https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/mental-health-and-resiliency/mental-health-and-wellness
Counselors' Town Hall
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