Important Dates
Attendance Matters
Attendance drives everything! It is tied to almost every aspect of school performance and future outcomes. Please visit the Falls Church High School website attendance page for updated policies and procedures.
A note about Monday attendance:
Please remember that while there is no bell schedule on Mondays, attendance is still required. Students are responsible for logging in to their 4th period/Advisory teacher’s Google Classroom and completing the Google attendance form posted by the teacher between 8:10 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. in order to be marked present.
Good attendance will help your children do well in high school, college, and at work.
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Your children can suffer academically if they miss 10 percent of the school year or about 18 days. That can be just one day every two weeks, and that can happen before you know it.
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Some absences are unavoidable. We understand that children will get sick and need to stay home occasionally. The important thing is to get your children to school as often as possible.
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Sporadic absences, not just those on consecutive days of school, matter. Before you know it just one or two days a month can add up to nearly 10 percent of the school year.
Asynchronous learning and PSAT
Thursday, October 29th
Thursday, 10/29 will be an asynchronous learning day for all students who are not participating in PSAT testing. PSAT testing was opt-in by registration only, no walk-ins are permitted due to Health and Safety planning. Those students that registered will receive an email to their FCPS google email (@fcpsschools.net) account prior to Thursday.
Students not testing will be provided asynchronous learning opportunities from each of their Green Day teachers (Periods 1, 3, 5, 7). Students should check Google Classroom, Blackboard 24/7 or their @fcpsschools.net Gmail for instructions from their teachers.
2-Hr. Early Release Bell Schedule
Friday, October 30th
Student Holidays on 11/2 & 11/3
Monday, 11/2 and Tuesday, 11/3 are students holidays. Teachers will not be available for office hours and students are not expected to complete new asynchronous assignments. Classes and operations will resume on Wednesday, November 4th.
Report Card Information
Action Requested: Help save trees and FCPS $$ on postage by opting in to receive “Paperless” Report Cards (that can be printed through ParentVUE)
Parents/Guardians may opt into “Go Paperless” for report cards by following the below instructions:
Parents/Guardians can take advantage of the paperless option, by logging into ParentVUE, then going to “My Account” and selecting "Go Paperless!". This is the only way to keep a paper report card from being generated for students at the secondary level. All parents who share the same address as the student must have a SIS ParentVUE account and must select the paperless option.
 For those that do not opt to go Paperless, we’ll be mailing the report card home the week of November 16, 2020.
If you have questions about report cards, transcripts, or school records, please contact Jessica Grenfell, Jmgrenfell@fcps.edu
FCHS Spotlight Theatre Company presents
THE INVISIBLE MAN by John de Lancie
The following was written by Lilian Smith (grade 9)
Tune in to this immersive audio experience full of mystery and suspense!
October 30 & 31 at 7PM on the airwaves! The password protected audio link will be posted on our website www.fchsdrama.org
This story is great and appropriate for the Halloween season!
Starring: William Clock (12) as Dr. Kemp, Jack Child (12) as The Inspector, Laurel Gilbert (12) as Mrs.Hall, Trip Jones (12) as Teddy, Allison McCombs (12) as Rebecca, and Nico Andino (12) as Griffin
Due to COVID-19 our remarkable student Thespians are unable to perform on stage. However, we’ve found ways to work around all that. After all...THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
The Invisible Man is a story about a science experiment gone terribly wrong. In the story young scientist Griffin comes upon a formula that makes him invisible! Come to the show to hear what happens when Griffin risks everything to get the cure! Will Griffin do whatever it takes? Join us on the airwaves (www.fchsdrama.org) to find out. Experience “radio” as people once did around the 1930s. Full of music and sound effects, you’ll keep wondering what will happen next!
Get your tickets today through the following link: event.etix.com/ticket/e/1015458
On the morning of your show date, you will receive an email from eademarco@fcps.edu with a password to get into the show!
This is a two-nights-only engagement. All proceeds will go to support The Falls Church High School Theatre department. Thank you for your support!
SEEDFOLKS AUDITIONS, October 26 and 27!
SEEDFOLKS: A spoken musical by Paul Fleishman
My hope is that the students with diverse backgrounds who might have been shy to get up in front of people to perform before the pandemic, will be willing to lend their voices to a story about a young Vietnamese girl who plants seeds to honor her dead father in her urban neighborhood. As the neighbors see her garden grow, they too decide to sow some of their own seeds and share their stories.
Please see the link to audition for SEEDFOLKS, a week from Monday, Oct 26. They don’t have a monologue prepared? No problem. They don’t know what a monologue is? I’ll teach them! I’d like students to come with a story to tell. It can be what happened to them over the last six months or even before that.
As soon as they fill out the form (below), I will add them to the Spotlight Theatre Company google classroom. All auditions are on google meet.
https://forms.gle/uVrcFHb3jaDyZ9sB6
Have them check what time they would like to meet with me (two minute meeting) in the form. It also asks for email and cell phone.
Call backs happen Oct 27 and include reading from the script (please email eademarco@fcps.edu for a copy). All students should have a copy of the script to help them with callbacks.
Student Rights and Responsibilities (SR&R)
Parent/Guardian Acknowledgement
Parents and guardians, please review the Student Rights and Responsibilities and related resources at www.fcps.edu/srr. After reviewing the information, please help us by filling out the SR&R Parent Acknowledgement Form. The form must be filled out one time per student.
Technology Help @ FCHS
In-person Help: Entrance #2
- Monday
- Tuesday thru Friday
All other requests, please use the Parent and Student Technology Support portal
Useful Links/Information
FCHS Return to School & Virtual Learning
FCPS Return to School
FCPS Technology Support for Families
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