Hunt Valley Calendar
Oct. 30th - End of First Quarter - 2-hour Early Release - 1:15pm
Nov. 2nd - Student Holiday/School Planning Day
Nov. 3rd - Student Holiday - Election Day/Teacher Work Day
Nov. 4th - PTA Mtg - 6:30pm - via Zoom
Nov. 11th - 2-hour Early Release - Veteran’s Day
Nov. 17th - Kindergarten In-person Students Return
Nov. 25-27 - Holiday - Thanksgiving
Online Instruction or In-Person Instruction
We will honor the choice you made in the FCPS July survey to determine the setting for instruction. If you chose in-person instruction, we will assume your student(s) will return to in-person instruction. If you chose all-virtual instruction, we will assume you will continue in that format. If your circumstances have changed, please go to this enrollment link and update your choice by
11:00 p.m. tonight, Oct. 30th, and we will do our best to accommodate your request based on the availability of staff and space.
View your Student’s Return to School Status
Parents can review their original return to school selection (made before FCPS pivoted to “All Virtual”) through their SIS ParentVUE account.
To review, Parents will log in to their parent account, click on “student info,” and scroll down near the bottom to “Return to School Responses.”
"Go Paperless" for Online Progress Reports
The “Go Paperless” option is now available to all our parents to allow you to receive only online progress reports starting the first quarter of this school year. This will not impact any other mailings from FCPS other than the progress reports. To take advantage of the paperless options, you will need to log into ParentVUE, then click on “My Account” in the upper right hand corner and select "Go Paperless."
Each parent who has a ParentVUE account must select the paperless option to prevent mailing of the printed progress reports. The “Go Paperless” option will apply to all their students, no matter what school level. If the parent has already selected “Go Paperless” for their secondary student, the option will now apply to any ES siblings as well.
Veterans Day Celebration
In lieu of our traditional Veterans Day Celebration, we will honoring our service members virtually this year. Typically we have students create a "Thank Your Service Member Note."
This year, we will be creating short videos of thanks. This is totally voluntary. If you would like to have your child honor your family's service member, please complete a FlipGrid clip below.
Please not these videos will be shared publicly in our News You Choose for families at Hunt Valley to view. When making your video, it is best to write down your thoughts ahead of time.
Please Complete the video by Nov. 5th
Some guiding information to include in your child's/children's video:
Student Name
Grade & Teacher
Service Member's Name & Relationship to the Student
When and where did your Service Member serve
Show a closeup picture of your Service Member
FlipGrid Link https://flipgrid.com/5b3e8dfd
We will update you on the Veterans Day Celebration Virtual Event next week!
Parental Consent for Select Digital Resources
At Hunt Valley 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: Parent Consent
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 now as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission. Please reach out to the classroom teacher if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.
Reminder for Parents/Guardians about SIS ParentVUE
This year more than ever, SIS ParentVUE (PVUE) is an essential tool for parents/guardians to keep up with their student’s attendance, progress report cards, and more. This will be the first quarter that we have offered a PDF version of the progress report and ES parents/guardians now have the option to “Go Paperless” for all report cards and progress reports. We want to start establishing the PVUE habit early with ES school parents/guardians. At the end of last school year, we reached a high of 80% of FCPS students with at least one parent/guardian with a PVUE account. We want to keep those account numbers and the usage going up so we can rely on it as a communication tool with parents/guardians.
Please access PVUE periodically to check in on your student(s) attendance and to view progress reports at the end of each quarter. If you have not yet created a PVUE account, please do so by reaching out to the school SIA to provide an activation code. Details on what can be found in PVUE and how to activate a new PVUE account using your activation code can be found here - Student Information System - SIS Parent Account Overview.
Important Information about Grab and Go Meals
Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) continues to update times and locations for grab and go meals posted on the website. It is important for families to have this information. Grab and go meals are available to ALL students. In addition, FNS will offer breakfast and lunch meals for Saturday during distribution on Fridays. Please help communicate this information to your families. Food distribution locations and times are posted and updated frequently on the website: https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/food
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AAP Update
AAP Information:
Welcome to the new school year! Hi, I am Mrs. Alt! My role as AART is to support the implementation of the continuum of Advanced Academic Ser-vices. Please refer to the information on this page, which details Level I through Level IV services for elementary students. For more detailed information on the FCPS Advanced Academic Programs, please visit their web-site at https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary-school-academics-k-6/advanced-academics
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- Earlier Level IV deadline (Dec. 1st)
- Parents may still contribute up to 4 work samples – must be submitted electronically, with a referral by deadline
- DISCONTINUED- Awards, certificates and letters of recommendations will no longer be part of the screening process
- No CogATs be offered this school year
- The one-time retest option for CogAT or NNAT will not be available this school year
- There will be a process for students without an abilities test on file to take the NNAT in December 2020. The testing coordinator will determine which students require the NNAT and will reach out to families to schedule safe and socially distanced testing.
- Parents must view the AAP Overview video and/or the AAP Level IV Screening Process video prior to attending the specific Q&A Sessions.
Level IV Screening and Referral Q&A Sessions:
Tuesday, November 10th 12-1pm using BBCU LINK: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/77b6ccc1d4404089b317667f1794649f
Wednesday, November 18th 12-1pm using BBCU LINK: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/77b6ccc1d4404089b317667f1794649f
Tuesday, November 24th 1-2pm using BBCU LINK:
https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/77b6ccc1d4404089b317667f1794649f
Level IV referral deadlines for the 2020-2021 school year:
Spring deadline (for those seeking placement in the 2021-2022 school year) - December 1, 2020 – Available for students in grades 2-6
Tech Support for Parents and Students
To support families who are working with their children during distance learning, FCPS has launched a new Parent Technology Help Desk, effective Monday, August 24. 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.
Parents or guardians can call this number for basic tech support with parent accounts, help with FCPS student devices and technical assistance with other FCPS applications. If help desk staff members are unable to solve the issue, they will enter a support ticket on behalf of the parent/guardian to escalate the issue to the appropriate FCPS team. Parents who need help in a language other than English can inform the help desk staff when they call of their preferred language, and an interpreter will join in on the call.
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.
Library Updates
Pumpkins (virtually) Paraded
What a way to end our Creativity week – you all were very creative!
Video, Slide Deck (located in library Blackboard page), Library Google Site (in fcpsschools.net account).
Curbside Checkout
Curbside Checkout is our way of getting the Hunt Valley ES library books into the hands of readers. It is completely voluntary and is a service to the students and families of Hunt Valley. We are open on November 2nd.
Three steps:
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Pick your book(s). If you know what you want, put the books on hold in Destiny (the library catalog). If you need some advice or aren’t quite sure the titles you’re wanting, use the Google Form to get assistance from the librarians.
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Pick your time. Pick a time that works for your family on the SignUp Genius. If it’s after 3pm on Friday – pick a time on the FOLLOWING Monday.
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Pick up your books. Monday, Hunt Valley ES (door 8), between 2pm and 6pm
Have a question? Please email your librarian at crbartlett@fcps.edu.
First Chapter Fridays
Celebrate the end of the week by experiencing the first chapter of a book. Check the HVES Library Google Site for this week’s First Chapter Friday. (You’ll need to be logged in to your fcpsschools.net account.) This week's chapter is from Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland, recorded with permission from Scholastic. (Book 14 comes out March 2021 – get reading now to be ready!)
Check Destiny for more Wings of Fire books today!
PTA
Veterans Day Care Packages
In honor of Veterans Day, HVES PTA is sending care packages to deployed service members. Please consider donating some of the following items to include in care packages. We will collect items the week before and week of Veterans Day at designated days/times (TBA) in the Hunt Valley Swim Club parking lot.
We've reached out to some deployed units and these are the most-needed items:
Lifesavers
chewing gum
beef jerky
coffee creamers
oatmeal
protein bars
granola
crackers
powdered drink flavors (to add to water for flavor)
canned nuts
sunflower seeds
coffee
tea
baby wipes
sunscreen
chapstick
deodorant
socks
hand sanitizer
hot sauce
Please email crystal.hurley317@gmail with any questions.
November 4th PTA Meeting
Your IT questions answered! Mr. Lemmerman, HVES School Based Technology Specialist, will join us for our November meeting and is in need of your input. Please use the link below to help inform our discussion. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddN42bpvD-1clRz6EOMVQBq1Tyyr6Lvr04_GMdJNclVD69WA/viewform
Please take a few minutes to fill out this THREE QUESTION survey to help Mr. Lemmerman focus his comments on your most pressing questions.
Thanks! See you November 4th at 6:30 pm.
Zoom Link:
PTA Membership Meeting Time: Nov 4, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89775020847?pwd=bU9ybEFhZkI3NzdVdHhkNi85TVpxUT09
Meeting ID: 897 7502 0847
Passcode: HVHawks
Meeting ID: 897 7502 0847
Passcode: 1812279
Virtual After School Programs
Given school is starting virtually this year, there will be no in-person after school programs taking place at Hunt Valley in the fall. However, several of our trusted vendors are offering virtual after school programs! If you are looking for some extra activities for your children this fall, please check out the PTA website to see offerings from Acting for Young People, C3 Cyber Club, JST Athletics, Mad Science, Robot Works, and RunFit Kidz: https://www.huntvalleypta.org/after-school-programs/.
HVES PTA Cares About our Active Duty Families!
We would like to support our deployed service members by sending treats and goodies to our deployed family members. Please send an email with your contact information to president@huntvalleypta.org if you would like to add your deployed service member to our list.
PTA Open Roles!
The PTA is run by volunteers like you! Open roles include: Room Parent Coordinator, Community Engagement Committee Chair/Activity Volunteer and After School Programs Chairperson. Many of these activities are well underway and just need a volunteer to help see them through.
Join the PTA!
Our membership is open (https://huntvalleypta.new.memberhub.store/store). Please consider joining.
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FCPS Cares
Do you know a Hunt Valley ES staff member who went beyond what is expected? If so, then click here to submit a brief description so we can all acknowledge the good work of Hunt Valley faculty and staff members!
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Have a great weekend everyone!
Mr. Fee
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