Hello Wolftrap Parents,

I hope this message finds you and your children rested after Spring Break. My family and I enjoyed the week unplugged from work and school for some much needed family time.

With only 10 weeks left of the 20-21 school year, the updated CDC guidance brings about some new challenges, and yet some exciting opportunities.

As you saw from Dr. Brabrand’s announcement on Monday, schools in FCPS are making operational and logistical plans to return as many students as possible to in-person learning. After completing an extensive analysis of our capacity as it relates to the updated three-foot guidance, I am thrilled to announce that ALL Wolftrap students currently attending in-person will be attending four days, in-person, beginning Tuesday, April 13. This massive undertaking does not come without complications. Although students may now be three feet apart in the classrooms, they must still remain six feet apart while eating.

Adding so many additional students will require us to change our lunch procedures and a majority of students will be removed from classrooms to eat in the cafeteria or other designated lunch locations. Please make sure your child knows that their class will be rotating students to an alternate eating location. As has been our practice since we returned to school, snack will occur outdoors during the assigned morning mask break time. If the weather does not allow this opportunity, teachers will be assigning students to eat snack in rotations to ensure that students are not unmasked and eating at the three foot distance. This will also apply to the morning meal, if students choose to eat breakfast.

We are not redesigning our master schedule or making changes to staff schedules this late in the school year, with SOL testing beginning in just a few short weeks. It will not be possible at this time to change teacher assignments and unbalance class sizes to allow for virtual students to change their preference.

Special education students may still have some of their small group pullout time scheduled virtually. One of our monitors will be taking students to a small room so they can meet with their virtual teacher/staff member for their virtual small groups. Other changes will occur, including some classrooms being assigned a new location. At all times, adults need to maintain six feet of social distance among other adults and when interacting with students. The updated CDC guidance pertains to the distance among students only.

Please be mindful that this increase of students will inevitably cause more traffic in Kiss-N-Ride, so it is vital that you post your number in your windshield prior to arriving on school property. This will also cause more foot traffic on campus, so please remember to social distance during arrival and dismissal and to please leave the premises promptly.

Thank you again for your understanding and patience as we navigate these new changes. The support of our Wolftrap families has been deeply appreciated!

Sincerely,
Teresa Khuluki

KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

Mark your calendars for our virtual Kindergarten Orientation on Monday, May 10 at 2:00 PM. Please register to attend and receive the link to the meeting here: https://forms.gle/UabXTRuZ8jHAesfX8. If you have any questions about registering for Kindergarten, please contact our registrar, Ms. Kamel, at ckamel@fcps.edu.

LAPTOP BEST PRACTICES

As we enter our last quarter, we want to remind families about best practices for using FPCS School-Issued laptops:

• Plug in and fully charge your FCPS school-issued laptop
• Make restarting (not shutting down) your laptop at least one time a week part of your routine. Depending on the last time you restarted your laptop it might take more than two or three restarts to apply all pending updates.
• After you sign in, click on the FCPSOn Healthcheck icon on your desktop for reboot information
• Make sure you keep your laptop and charger in a safe and secure location

• Registration is still open for the 16th Annual Wolftrap 5k. Click here to register.
• We reached all teachers and staff on our Pie in the Face Meter. Thank you for your registrations to make this happen!
• The final race bag curbside pickup is on Wed. April 7th from 4-6pm at 9513 Macy Ave. Masks are required at pickup.
• Make sure you sign up to receive the link for our Pie in the Face event this Friday, April 9 at 7:00pm. See details below.
• All race participants who post a photo in their race shirts on the PTA Facebook page between April 9-18th will be automatically entered to win a raffle basket of prizes! 
• Look for our Special 5k Edition of the Connection later this week for full details about the Race and Silent Auction.

Friday, April 9th at 7pm the Wolftrap PTA kicks off our Annual 5k Fun Run with the first ever Pie In the Face video event. As we promised, more registration == more pie in the face! The community made it happen.

Register to see our brave teachers and staff have a pie thrown in their face through a video montage format. The video will be debuted on April 9th at 7pm. A link will be sent to you by 6:45pm April 9th for 7pm showing! The link will be available until 9pm. Fill out the form here!

Wolftrap's 2020-2021 Yearbook is now available for purchase. Click here to visit our sales site through Jostens, our Yearbook provider. Yearbooks are on sale from March 1-April 16. April 16 is an absolute deadline, and we cannot take orders past that date. Place your order today! We will distribute yearbooks once we receive them, close to the end of the school year.

For those of you who had your child's portrait taken at school but didn't order a picture package, you can still order here. Reach out to underclass@vosphoto.com with any questions.

Please support NOSTOS Greek Restaurant (near Tysons Corner) who generously offered to partner with Wolftrap ES for their 1st Dining for Dollars $$ on Pick-up Orders on Tues 4/20, Wed 4/21, Thurs 4/22, and Sun 4/25

Address: 8100 Boone (Aline & Leesburg) Blvd,
Vienna, VA 22182
Hours: Tues - Sat - 5 pm - 9:30 pm, 
Sun - 5 pm - 9 pm

**Order Pick-up online here- select "Family Meals" or specific entrees in the dropdown Menu and in the notes comment type "Wolftrap"

BIG THANKS to all the students, staff, volunteers and families who participated in the virtual talent show this year. Everyone who contributed did an amazing job to help put together a really FUN experience for our community during a time when we simply could not experience the show in person!

Overall we showcased 60 acts including: 57 student acts, a 6th grade showcase with 41 student participants, and two staff acts consisting of 12 WTE team members. Between the two broadcasted performances, the show was viewed 465 times (WOW, that’s a lot)! We could not be more proud of our Wolftrap community and are grateful for the outpouring of support for this alternate version of our traditional show. Thank you Wolftrap!!