Dear Woodburn Families,
We hope you are staying healthy and well. We continue to stay the course at Woodburn and are celebrating the academic and social gains our students are making each and every day.
Next week brings a multicultural celebration! Our Equity Committee has planned opportunities for us to learn about different traditions and cultures. We hope you will join us next Friday, March 18 for our Multicultural Event and for our PTA Movie Night. We look forward to watching Encanto as a community!
Together We Grow,
Katy and Bridget
Upcoming Events
March 14-18 - Multicultural Week
March 18 - PTA Movie Night & Multicultural Event
March 23 - Bangkok House Lunch Truck at Woodburn, 11-1pm
March 29 - PTA Clean Kitchen Night at Panera, 4-8pm
March 31 - 2 Hour Early Student Dismissal & Partners in Print Event
April 1 - Student Holiday/Teacher Workday
April 4-8 - Spring Break
FCPS 2021-2022 School Year Calendar
Positivity Project
We will focus continue to focus on fairness.
Don’t forget about the P2 for Families website: P2 for Families. The password is P2.
Multicultural Week
We are celebrating Multicultural Week at Woodburn next week, March 14-18. During this week our students will share and learn about the heritage and cultural traditions of our students’ and families. We will be sharing about places, traditions, dance, and clothing of cultures throughout the world. We will end the week with an opportunity for families to share about themselves by engaging in activities in the cafeteria before Movie Night on March 18th, from 6-7pm. We look forward to celebrating our community’s diversity!
Access to School Grounds and Tennis Courts
We have noticed an increase in community members walking on school grounds during school hours to access the tennis courts and/or to pass through to other parts of the neighborhood. As a reminder, visitors are not permitted on school grounds from 9:00-4:05 each day. Thank you for keeping our students and staff safe.
FCPS Family Engagement Survey
Our Family Engagement Survey is coming to your email the afternoon of Sunday, March 13. Please participate—your feedback is critical in helping to inform and improve FCPS’ practices to best support our students.
Taking this survey will also help strengthen the partnership between your family and your school. When that partnership is strong, students can experience a range of benefits including improved school readiness, higher student achievement, and better social skills and behavior.
FCPS is partnering with independent firm K12 Insight to administer the survey, and it will be available in eight languages. For more information, please watch this short video from Superintendent Brabrand and visit the Family Engagement Survey webpage. Your voice matters!
Albuterol Availability for K-12 Students
In accordance with the Code of Virginia 22.1-274.2 each school in FCPS will have stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers available to be administered to K-12 students with no known history of asthma who are believed to be having a respiratory emergency.
Stock albuterol inhalers are not to be administered to the following:
- Students below the age of four
- Staff
- Visitors
The stock albuterol inhalers will be administered by school employees (to include local health department employees assigned to public schools) who have received training in the administration of albuterol inhalers.
Lightspeed Parent Report on Child’s Device Activity
FCPS has new tools to help parents and guardians know more about their child’s activity on any FCPS device. These tools are provided by Lightspeed, our internet content filtering service, at no cost to families. You may sign up for a weekly Parent Report, which will provide a list of the top sites your child visited. If you want more detailed information, sign up for the Internet Use Parent portal and log-in anytime to see more detail about your child’s browsing and “pause” access to the internet during non-school hours. Find out more and sign up for these services on our website.
Kindergarten Registration
Do you have a child at home who will be five by September 30th? Please start your registration now. If you have any neighbors with little ones, please send this information to them as well. These are the 5 steps you need to take to register your child. If you have questions regarding kindergarten registration, please reach out Ms. Garcia or call our main office at 703-641-8200.
Your Feedback is Important
This spring all Woodburn parents/guardians will be contacted through email with a link to the FCPS Principal Evaluation Parent/Guardian Feedback Form Online. This questionnaire is part of the Performance Evaluation Program and offers parents/guardians an opportunity to provide anonymous input about various topics related to our school. These topics include instructional leadership, school climate, human resources management, organizational management, communication and community relations and professionalism. Understanding that this has been another unusual year, the impacts of COVID-19 will be taken into consideration when reviewing the feedback.
The questionnaire will be collected online between March 7 and March 18. When you receive an email from FCPS Surveys, please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire. Your opinions matter!
Mark your Calendars Outdoor Movie Night on March 18, Encanto
Woodburn is bringing back Screen on the Green just in time for spring. Join us for concessions and a 7:00 showing of Encanto. This is a family night and all children must be accompanied by a parent during the entire event. The movie will be shown with Spanish subtitles. Buy your family ticket online here or print out a form and submit payment (English, Spanish)
Vote for School Dance Theme!
Our spring dance is scheduled for April 29th. We have a DJ and we are getting ready to cut up the dance floor! We need a theme! Please vote for the best idea (or write in your own) here!
Mark your calendars for upcoming Clean Kitchen Nights and Food Trucks!
Volunteer for the PTA!
The PTA provides critical supports to our community and we need your help. Please sign up to volunteer for movie night, spring outdoor classroom clean up, or the spring dance.
PTA Spring Calendar
The PTA updated our Spring Calendar. Mark these dates on your schedule!
March 18 – Movie Night
April 21 – PTA Membership Meeting
April 23 – Earth Day Outdoor Classroom Refresh
April 29 – Spring Dance (Tentative)
May 1st-7th – Teacher Appreciation
May 19th – PTA Membership Meeting
May TBD – Fun Run
June 10th – Last Day of School - Kona Ice Truck
Health & Safety Reminders
Vaccination Status
You may wish to voluntarily share your child’s COVID-19 vaccination information. However, we do not require your child’s vaccination information and no school employee will ask for your child’s vaccination status.
If you would like to provide us with your child’s vaccination status, please bring your child’s COVID-19 vaccination card or a photocopy of the card to Ms. Garcia, our student registrar in the main office.
Monitoring Your Child's Health
Please continue to you use the FCPS health screening questionnaire to monitor your child's health each day. This will support our efforts to keep all students and staff as safe as possible. If your child has Covid-like symptoms at school, you will be asked to pick them up immediately.
Please use the health screening questionnaire to screen your child for Covid-19 symptoms before sending them to school each day.
Where to Find a Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine
FCPS is encouraging all parents whose children are eligible to get vaccinated. We know that vaccination is the way out of this pandemic, and we are asking you to help us continue to make our schools as safe as they possibly can be.
The Fairfax County Health Department’s webpage has resources for finding and scheduling a vaccine appointment. Up-to-date information about vaccination opportunities is available on the FCPS website.
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