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Dear Dogwood Families,
As we continue the work around PEACE (peace, equity, access, connection, and excellence) at Dogwood, we are so thankful for your continued partnership. If you haven’t already done so, we want to encourage every family to connect with our teachers through the Talking Points app. If you need assistance in setting it up, please give us a call and we are happy to support you!
We are excited to provide access to all students and families in the next few weeks through the Bus Delivery program! We will have more information coming in the next few days...please be on the lookout.
Sincerely,
Mie Devers
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Dogwood will be running a Math Supplies Bus to three stops starting next week. The stops are: The Springs, Southgate, and Winterthur. The drop off time will be from 12:00 -1:00 pm on the following dates:
Oct. 20th, Oct. 22nd, Oct 23rd, Oct 27th, Oct 30th, and Nov 5th and Nov 6th. Please come by and pick up, take home Math Supplies, school supplies, and grab and go snack. Any questions please call 703-262-3100. Come on by and grab some supplies!
Also, starting the week of October 19th, we will have 3 busses to deliver Library and free books to Southgate, The Springs and Winterthur. We will be delivering books Mondays 11:00-12:00 pm and Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 pm!
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Dogwood will be running a Math Supplies Bus to three stops starting next week. The stops are: The Springs, Southgate, and Winterthur. The drop off time will be from 12:00 -1:00 pm on the following dates:
Oct. 20th, Oct. 22nd, Oct 23rd, Oct 27th, Oct 30th, and Nov 5th and Nov 6th. Please come by and pick up, take home Math Supplies, school supplies, and grab and go snack. Any questions please call 703-262-3100. Come on by and grab some supplies!
Also, starting the week of October 19th, we will have 3 busses to deliver Library and free books to Southgate, The Springs and Winterthur. We will be delivering books Mondays 11:00-12:00 pm and Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 pm!
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The Reston Public Library will be at the Southgate Bus Stop on Tuesday, October 20 at 12:00pm. All Dogwood students are eligible to check out books. Books can be kept for 6 weeks and returned to any public library or the Bookmobile. |
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An important maintenance task that can keep your school laptop performing throughout the school year is regularly restarting it. This both installs updates and ends background processes that accumulate over time and cause slowness. We would like to recommend shutting down at the end of the school day. On Tuesday nights, leave it on, but plugged in, and restart the device on Wednesday mornings. Microsoft uses Tuesdays to push out updates, and this will ensure that they are installed in a timely manner.
More help for troubleshooting other issues you may experience can be found on FCPS’s website: Tech Support for Families. It may be very helpful to students to bookmark this site, as it will help solve most common problems. Like you, we want our students to have the best experience possible in this virtual environment!
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As you know, your partnership with Dogwood is valued and critical to the success of our school community, and we want to hear from you! Our vision is for PEACE for our entire school community: P- Peace, E- Equity, A- Access, C- Connection, E- Excellence. Please take a few moments to provide your feedback HERE around how we can best support PEACE with your Hopes & Dreams for your child or children this school year, and ways we can best engage with you. Thank you so much!
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Parents, we need your help! As you know, there are several forms that are required to be completed at the start of each school year. We are requesting that these beginning of the year forms be completed virtually, if possible. However, we know it may be more convenient to receive a paper copy to return to the school. You have received paper copies in the mail and now can safely return them to our green Drop Box outside of the front of the school. If you are new to Dogwood, you already completed most of these forms when you registered your child. |
Fairfax County Public Schools is excited to begin offering nutritious breakfast and lunch meals, along with snack and supper at select sites when you pick up grab and go meals. Our school is offering supper and snack too.
These meals are available at no cost to ALL students through December 31. Please check the FCPS website for locations offering supper and snacks. Our school is offering supper and snack too.
Meals for Saturdays and Sundays will be distributed at all sites and on bus routes every Friday.
Grab and go breakfast and lunch are served at school sites and community locations from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) with both breakfast and lunch being served at the same time.
Buses are delivering grab and go meals throughout the county. Several new bus routes have been added and some bus stop locations have changed. Any changes to bus routes are posted on the website by 5 p.m. each day. Bus Routes for Food Distribution
If there are bus delays while distributing grab and go meals, the information will be posted here: https://busdelay.fcps.edu/. FCPS will send a message to the affected school communities if a bus route is delayed.
Please visit https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/food for more information.
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Families, we are so glad you have been logging on with us everyday. As you know, teachers are working hard to engage students throughout the school day. If you have technology issues arise, please come by the school building to visit our Dogwood Technology Solution Station.
The Solution Station will now be available from 9:00 am - 11:00 am on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and no appointment is necessary.
*Please note - If you’re reaching out to teachers for support during school hours, they are in the middle of class and will not be available to assist you right away. However, teachers will get back to you within 24 hours.
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Our local community has partnered with the USDA to provide food boxes for families. The program supplies food boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat products and a combination box of fresh produce, dairy or meat products. Our USDA Food Box Distribution will take place in October at the Dogwood Bus Loop:
Saturday, October 17th - 10:00-11:30 am
Saturday, October 24th - 9:30-10:00 am
Saturday, October 31st - 9:30-10:00 am
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Until 12/31/2020, families can enroll in Comcast Internet Essentials for $9.95/mo. +tax. The first 2 months are free. Families are still eligible to enroll even if there is an outstanding bill with Comcast. You can apply from your smartphone and choose your language of choice.
https://www.internetessentials.com/Apply
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Friday October 30th - End of First Quarter
Monday November 2nd & Tuesday November 3rd - Student Holidays
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