Bonnie Brae Friday Updates
Message From the Principals
Dear BBES Families,
First, let us thank our Bonnie Brae students, parents and teacher and staff for a successful first week of school. It was great to see and hear BBES come alive again with the energy of students and staff coming together again. Even with all of the challenges this year has presented, it felt good to be back in school.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact our families, community and our school. Please know that the staff of Bonnie Brae is committed to working with public health officials and FCPS to limit the spread of Covid. We are focused on ensuring the robust deployment of mitigation strategies in school to keep our students safe and able to access instruction. We are also committed to keeping you informed as much as possible and we appreciate your support as the year unfolds.
We want to thank the many parents who have volunteered to become essential volunteers to assist with supervising student during our lunch period. Half of our students from each class eat in cafeteria during their lunch time. The other half of the class has lunch in the classroom. Our children have adjusted well and in speaking to many of them, they enjoy the change to a smaller setting. As you might imagine supervising students in both settings does create a challenge and that is where we've asked for your support. Thank you again to those who have shown interest in helping us out. We will be in touch soon for next steps.
We also wanted to share our appreciation for the PTO and the volunteers for today's ice cold treat during recess. What a great way to end an exciting first week back!
Thank you once again for your support of the BBES school staff, our PTO and most all, our children, who are great fun and are doing amazing things.
As always, please reach out it we can assist you in any way,
Dwayne Young, Elaine Woo, Scott Hawk
Administration
Bonnie Brae Elementary
Health and Safety
Parents, caregivers or guardians are strongly encouraged to monitor their children for symptoms of infectious illness every day through home-based symptom screening and students who are sick should not attend in-person instruction. As a reminder, any student who is ill or has COVID-like symptoms should remain at home.
Emergency Care Information
Please take a moment to review your child's Emergency Care Form. If any changes need to be made, please follow the steps below:
- Click here to log onto SIS
- Login with your USERNAME and PASSWORD
- On the side bar - CLICK on FCPS Links
- Then - CLICK on WeCare@school - Update Emergency Care Info
To CHANGE emergency information:
- CLICK on your child's name
- Make changes - then CLICK on SAVE CHANGES on the lower right side
- CLICK on SEND FORM, changes will be updated electronically in our Student Information System
Schoology
Students, families, and staff throughout FCPS and in our school community will use Schoology (pronounced /SKOO-luh-jee/) as our learning management system.
Here is what you need to know now:
Digital Resource Consent
At Bonnie Brae Elementary, 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: https://bonniebraees.fcps.edu/adopteddigitalresources. Further, you can find more information about approved digital resources in FCPS here: https://www.fcps.edu/resources/technology/digital-resources.
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 for digital resources form as soon as possible, as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission. Please reach out to the school if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.
To provide your parental consent for each student in your family, please follow this link and follow the provided directions.
Student Rights & Responsibilities
The Student Rights and Responsibilities document explains expectations for student behavior and adult responses to enhance school safety and to create a fair, equitable and supportive school environment. We ask that you use this document as a framework for discussing these expectations with your child or teen so that he or she is well prepared for success when the school year begins. You will also find that this publication includes information that you may need throughout the school year, including contact numbers and other resources. These links are also available on our BBES Website.
All students in FCPS should review the Student Rights and Responsibilities.
- Review the Student Rights and Responsibilities and related resources
- After reviewing the information, fill out the SR&R Acknowledgment Form
- The form must be filled out for each child/student in grades K-6 in the household digitally or on paper
- Parent/Guardians can acknowledge receipt of the SR&R in ParentVue in your child’s SIS account or sign the Parent Signature Sheet to acknowledge that you have received this document. Please e-sign through ParentVue or return the signed signature sheet to your child's school by October 29, 2021.
Birthday Treats
Given the current situation with COVID-19 and the prevalence of allergies within our building, we are no longer allowing birthday treats at this time. We recognize birthdays can be a joyous time to celebrate with friends and classmates and out of an abundance of caution, we are going to limit opportunities for students to be eating within close proximity of one another. We appreciate your understanding.
Child Pick Ups
If you need to pick up your child early, please notify the office and email the classroom teacher. We ask that early sign outs are limited as students thrive on routine and constancy. We request students not be signed out anytime after 2:45pm. This helps to alleviate any confusion prior to dismissal for students and school staff.
Picture Day
Fall Picture Day is on Wednesday, September 8 throughout the day! Students will attend picture day with their teachers. Flyers and order forms were sent home via Tuesday Folders and are also available on our Bonnie Brae ES Website. Online ordering is available through the Lifetouch Website with Picture Day ID: EVT6JK4DP
Bonnie Brae STRINGS and BAND!
We are excited to once again offer live “In-Person” instruction for strings and band. This opportunity is available to ALL interested 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade students!
- ALL interested 4th Grade students may choose to sign up for STRINGS!
- ALL interested 5th & 6th Grade students may choose to sign up for either STRINGS or BAND!
Students had an opportunity this week to see and hear a variety of the instrumental choices that are offered at Bonnie Brae from student performers from Robinson Secondary. Information regarding sign-ups, forms and how to rent an instrument will be shared with students.
We are so excited to be together in our schools once more! Please consider signing up for Band or Strings – making music together in a live setting will really make this year special for all!
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Mr. Miller, Strings edmiller@fcps.edu
Mr. Freeman, Band nrfreeman@fcps.edu
Bonnie Brae PTO
Be on the lookout for Bonnie Brae Spiritwear coming from the PTO from September 7th - 22nd. More information to come soon on where and how to order.
Upcoming Events
- September 3 - No School Student Holiday
- September 7 - No School- Labor Day
- September 8 - Fall Picture Day
- September 16- PTO Meeting (6-7 pm)
Bonnie Brae Hours of Operation
Our office hours of operation are 8:00am-4:00pm, and our instructional hours are 8:20am-3:15pm and you can always reach us at 703-321-3900.
These messages are also archived on our website. In addition, Bonnie Brae also has a TWITTER feed @BonnieBraeES and Facebook Page.
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