  Scenes from our first week of school.
The forms listed below are due. If you haven't already completed and sent these forms in, please do so as soon as possible. Please call the office at 703-467-3500 if you have any questions about the forms.
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Digital Resources Permission Form. The enrolling parent must give permission for students to use digital resources in the classroom. Please click here to complete the form if you have not already done so. Reach out to your child's teacher with questions about the resources.
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Student Rights and Responsibilities Form
The Student Rights and Responsibilities document (SR&R) explains expectations for student behavior and adult responses to enhance school safety and to create a fair, equitable and supportive school environment. Changes to the 2021-22 S&R include:
- Edited language throughout the document to reflect gender neutrality.
- A new section entitled Notable Changes for Students and Parents that highlights changes in the SR&R from last school year.
- Restructuring of the Rights and Responsibilities Chapter with student rights prominently featured.
- Language that further defines interaction of law enforcement and students.
- Additional terms in the glossary to increase understanding.
The SR&R Parent/Guardian signature sheet is due by October 29. More information about the SR&R is available online.
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Emergency Care Form - Please make sure you have signed and returned the emergency care form sent home with your child or updated the information in weCare@School and let the teacher know you have updated it.
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Health Information Form - Please make sure you have completed, signed and returned the one page health information form that was sent home with your child.
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Band- open to 5th and 6th graders
Contact Teri Davis, tadavis@fcps.edu, for more information.
Strings- open to 4th, 5th, and 6th graders
Last week your child heard a strings demonstration assembly from Mrs. Field and Mrs. Taylor. This is a wonderful opportunity for your child to learn a musical instrument this year at Oak Hill ES. Contact Holly Taylor (hataylor@fcps.edu) or Tori Field (varehder@fcps.edu) for more information.
Registration is open and will close at 11:59pm on Sunday, August 29. To register, please submit this form.
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Parents/Guardians will be able to preview FLE lessons in Schoology. A folder, Parent Preview- FLE Instruction, contains links to the lessons, slide presentations, and media for which FCPS has purchased streaming rights. Some media titles may only be available for parents to view at the school.
Login
1. Go to https://lms.fcps.edu.
2. Enter your username and password (same as your SIS ParentVue account).
3. Click Sign in.
4. Click Courses (see red arrow in the picture below)
5. Click All Parents folder to access the FLE lessons (see picture below).
FCPS’ layered prevention strategies are working to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our schools. Pausing, quarantining, and isolating are tools we use to keep schools safe when a positive COVID-19 case is reported. Understanding the difference between the three scenarios can help families be prepared.
Pause
A pause to in-person instruction is a short-term safety measure used by FCPS and the Fairfax County Health Department (FCHD) to allow time to investigate and determine the safest way to address a positive case within our school community. The pause will be initiated by the FCHD for anyone who interacted with an individual who reported a positive COVID-19 case.
- A pause typically lasts between 24-48 hours while FCHD verifies vaccination status and completes contact tracing.
- Vaccination status may reduce the time spent in a pause, but must be verified every time an individual is put on a pause.
- The FCHD does not accept a negative COVID-19 test to release an individual from the pause.
- You will be contacted by the FCHD with a date they can return to school or work.
- This flowchart best explains what happens when there is a pause.
Close Contact
A close contact is any person, regardless of vaccination status, who is within six feet of a COVID-19 positive individual for equal to or greater than 15 minutes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) K-12 Exception indicates that students will not be identified as close contacts if they are at least three feet apart and are consistently wearing masks in the classroom setting. Adults are not included in this exception.
Quarantine
When a student is identified as a close contact, there are two things that may occur as a result:
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Not fully vaccinated students who are identified as a close contact with someone with COVID-19 must remain home for 14 days after their last exposure. FCPS will notify a student of their return date.
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Fully vaccinated students must remain home until their vaccination status is verified. Upon verification of vaccination status by the FCHD, and if the student/staff is asymptomatic, they may return to in-person learning and activities once notified by FCPS of their return date.
Isolation
Isolation is the response when someone tests positive for COVID-19. Students who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 may not return until:
- It has been at least 10 days since the student first had symptoms, AND
- The student must be fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication, AND
- The student’s symptoms are getting better.
FCPS is committed to providing students with opportunities to remain engaged in learning when they are in a pause, quarantine, or isolation period. This chart outlines the ways students receive instruction and materials.
It is important to note that more than one case reported by a student, staff, or visitor to a particular school or building does not always mean there is an outbreak. An outbreak is defined as two or more laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases with onset within a 14-day period who are epidemiologically linked (a case in which the person has been exposed to a confirmed case in a way that a known transmission can occur), do not share a household, and were not identified as close contacts of each other in a setting outside of school during the health department investigation.
FCPS’ goal is to keep students learning in-person all year. We are doing our part by implementing layered prevention strategies and working with FCHD to address positive cases and potential exposures. Every FCPS student and family can do their part by wearing masks, getting vaccinated when they are eligible, practicing healthy hygiene, and staying home when sick.
To learn more about COVID-19 case notifications, watch this video.
On Friday, Oak Hill put additional prevention strategies in place. All of our students in grades 1-6 are sitting at individual desks all facing the same direction allowing for more elbow room and social distancing. Teachers are also looking for opportunities to eat snack outside and getting creative with arrangements when snacks are eaten indoors. We are in the process of outfitting our outdoor tent with chairs so that students and staff can utilize this space for learning or eating.
We request that if you are picking up your child early from school, you are at the office no later than 3:10 pm. Both the office and classroom teachers are busy with end of day procedures and it is less disruptive to the class if students are called for dismissal before 3:10 p.m. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Thinking about substitute teaching? Oak Hill ES would love to have you join our list of wonderful substitutes. Get more information about substitute teaching here. If you have additional questions or need assistance, please contact Denise Russ by phone 703-467-3503 or by email at doruss@fcps.edu. |
Dates to Remember |
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Sept. 3-6 Student Holidays (Labor Day)
7 Rosh Hashanah
16 Yom Kippur
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