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News from Bailey's
Welcome Back! We hope you enjoyed time with your family during Spring Break. Mirna, Jillian and I were able to spend time with family and friends throughout the week. It was wonderful to relax and enjoy the Spring weather. We also missed seeing all of you! We were so excited to see our virtual and in-person learners’ smiling faces as they came through the door after a week away from school!
We continue to work on expanding in-person learning at Bailey’s ES using a variety of data points to make our decision. Please remember that you do not need to contact your child’s teacher or the school to request four days of instruction. We will contact families next week to invite children to attend additional days of in-person learning. Over the few next weeks, we look forward to welcoming more of our students for in-person learning.
Thank you again for all you do to support our students and teachers. Have a fantastic weekend!
Mirna, Jillian, and Satonya
Important Dates:
Monday, April 12th: ALL virtual 1st grade students complete the NNAT3 assessment. See schedule below!
Tuesday, April 13th: Kindergarten Virtual Orientation
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1st Grade Virtual NNAT3 Schedule for Monday April 12th:
Dear Parents of 1st grade virtual students,
Please remember to bring your student on Monday, April 12th for their assigned time to take the NNAT3 assessment. Your child will need to bring their laptop and charger with them. Please bring them to Door 1.
Parents are expected to stay and we will have socially distanced seating available for each parent to wait inside the building until your child has completed their assessment.
Below are the times by homeroom teacher. Thank you in advance for your support.
9:00am- Boerner , Brown , Pereira, Harris
11:00am- Morgan, Mauro, Paredes
1:00pm- Hunter, Pena, Sanchez
3:00pm- Freeland, Rodriguez, Rinaldi
2nd Grade Music Celebrates Black History Month
Hello everyone, and welcome to the glorious Springtime. In celebration of Black History and Music in our schools month (in March), all of our 2nd graders worked on learning about some famous black Americans, and an important Civil Rights song too. The result was one of their own creation. We would like to share our video montage with you, as there are children from all of our 2nd grade classes. Enjoy!
Use this link to access the video:
2nd Grade Music Black History Celebration
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Virtual Kindergarten Orientation Date Change!
Attention parents of rising kindergarten students. You are invited to attend our Virtual Kindergarten Orientation which will now be on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021, from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
*Please use this link to join: Kindergarten Virtual Orientation
If you would like to begin the registration process now, please contact our student registrar, Sofia Arias, at 703-575-6800 or SEArias@fcps.edu
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Library Book Information
Hello, Families!
When students return to school, please have them bring in school library books that are in your homes. Virtual students can return books at the meal pickup area Wednesday-Friday 9:30-3:00. We will be happy to see them returned to the library! Thank you!
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Attendance Matters!
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Parent/Student Tech Support!
Check out our Bailey’s Technology Support Page: The Bailey’s tech team has created videos and resources to help you with troubleshooting at home.
Proactive Troubleshooting
We’ve been working hard in our distance learning environment for over 10 months now. Very few problems are new; now it’s just a matter of diagnosing the issue and finding the last message we sent with the solution. The three most useful things that you can do to prevent or troubleshoot issues are as follows:
1. Restart the computer daily.
This simple maintenance task can keep your school laptop performing throughout the school year. It ends processes running in the background and installs available updates. In regular school years, we can easily do this on a regular basis; it’s not as easy when all of our computers are being used remotely this year! Video Directions | Written Directions
2. Clear your browser cache.
The majority of sites that we’re using this year perform best in Chrome. Some will work in other modern browsers like Edge or Safari, but the default on our devices is set to be Chrome. Clearing your browser cache can solve a lot of problems, especially login issues. You can see how to do it here: Clearing the Cache in Chrome.
3. Sign in at school.
Some login problems simply can’t be fixed or prevented by the two steps above. Because our devices now live off of our network for months at a time, the only remedy to sync the computer is to log in at an FCPS school with the device. Bring the computer up to Bailey’s (or whichever FCPS school is closest to your house) at any time. You can stay in your car or simply stand outside the building. No need to schedule an appointment--our wifi is always on!
When you arrive, sign in on your child’s computer with your child’s credentials, wait a few minutes, and restart the computer. Repeat that cycle two or three times, and head home. If you or your child change a password at any point this year, you will also need to come up to school with the device to sign in so that all passwords sync correctly.
More help for troubleshooting other issues you may experience can be found on FCPS’s website: Tech Support for Families OR our Bailey’s Tech Help Website. Bookmark this site, as it can help solve many common problems.
If all else fails, please Call the Parent Technology Help Desk at 833-921-3277 (833-921-FCPS). This will be answered by staff members between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., seven days a week. Please specify if you need an interpreter when you call. You can also submit a request online: IT Support Help Desk. We do our best to resolve them as quickly as possible.
Parental Consent for Digital Resources
Some digital resources like Flipgrid, Padlet & Kahoot require parental consent.
If you have not already done so, please visit this link to give your child permission to use certain tools : Application Permission Form
For directions on how to fill out this form you can reference these Directions for Filling Out Application Permission Form
Description of applications requiring consent can be found on our Bailey's Public Website
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 Use this link to register: https://bit.ly/3hahky7
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