Greetings!
This Saturday we were going to have more than 250 FCPS students and parents choose to attend school for the Inspire Conference 2022, but the snow and weather caused us to reschedule for after spring break. The event is funded by some of Glasgow’s share of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief aid, or ESSER III funding – money given to states by the federal government to help address any pandemic-related issues that may be impacting students. The conference is designed to boost reading, math and social-emotional skills, as well as get students and parents alike inspired to think about college and goal-setting for the future. Also, this past week one of our students was interviewed by the news based on her experience at the Inspire Conference we held in the Fall. So proud of our students! We will communicate the new date within the coming weeks.
Glasgow, Holmes, and Poe Middle Schools are located in the Mason District of Fairfax County. They currently house sixth grade students, which is a different set-up from other middle schools across all other neighboring school districts. During the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) process in February 2021, the School Board unanimously approved two follow-on motions to assess a reconfiguration of middle schools with a Grade 6-8 arrangement. Parent/caregiver engagement will be an important part of this evaluation.
Parent/Caregiver Engagement for Poe, Holmes, and Glasgow Middle Schools and the elementary feeder schools is proposed as follows:
- Brief survey in all eight languages
- Parent Meetings (Monday, March 14, 6-7 p.m.: Register now / Monday, March 14, 7:30-8:30 p.m.: Register now )
- Focus Groups
Lastly, parents can now request access to weekly parent reports via the FCPS website: Technology Support for Families.
- FCPS will validate the enrolling parent’s email in SIS, and once processed, the parent will receive a weekly report over each weekend.
- The weekend report will come from IT’s internet content filtering service, Lightspeed.
For more information, including a sample view of the Parent Report and the Internet Use Parent Portal, visit Lightspeed Parent Report information page. As always, if you have any questions or needs, please let me know.
Humbly,
Victor L. Powell, Principal
Contact Information:
Email: vlpowell@fcps.edu
Twitter: @VictorLeonPowe1
Website: http://www.fcps.edu/GlasgowMS/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlasgowMS.FCPS/
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Important Dates
3/31 - 2 Hour Early Release & End of 3rd Quarter
4/1 - No Students, Teacher Workday
4/4 - 4/8 - Spring Break, No School
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Important Information
Lightspeed Parent Report Request: 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.
FCPS Family Engagement Survey: FCPS Family Engagement Survey: The FCPS Family Engagement Survey will be administered to all parents from March 13-April 3, 2022. The purpose of the survey is to provide data to inform the Strategic Plan goal of Caring Culture: FCPS employees will demonstrate cultural responsiveness when supporting families, students, and other staff. Principals are asked to complete the brief Google form (linked below) to identify Points of Contact for the survey, and to identify your school’s web curator. Points of Contact will be responsible for assisting with communication to families, advertising the survey within your school, supporting parents who may take the survey at the school site, and serving as liaison with the Family Engagement Survey team.Once the survey has been released on March 13, please provide access to the survey link or paper copies during the window in order to assist families in completing the survey. In addition to English, the survey will be available in eight languages: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Parents will be able to complete the survey on most electronic devices, including Smartphones.
Academic Advising Academic Advising is almost complete for Glasgow students. For parents of rising 7th and 8th grade students, log in to your ParentVUE account to view your child’s course requests. Rising 6th grade students will have their courses uploaded in the coming weeks once feeder elementary schools are finished with course selections. If you would like to make any changes to your child’s course requests, please contact your child’s school counselor by Friday, April 15th.
Hoop It Up Night is Back: Mark your Calendars! Friday April 22, 2022, 6-9 PM at Glasgow. Featuring the GMS Panther Band; Art from Art Students; Food and Spirit Wear for sale; …and the MAIN EVENT:
- basketball games featuring 6th Grade/7th Grade/Unified Team/8th Grade vs Staff!
- We will need many volunteers the evening of the event, so be on the look out for a Sign Up Genius in April to find out how you can help.
- Food! Music! Basketball! You don't want to miss it!
- Many thanks to Mr. Stuecheli and Mr. Williams for bringing back this long-running favorite community event.
New Spiritwear in Stock!: Exciting news! Our new spiritwear is now in stock. We have grey sweatshirts and blue t-shirts in stock that can be purchased at any time through our website: https://glasgowms.memberhub.co/store. Items will be delivered to your student during Panther Time within a week of placing the order. If you need a paper form and prefer to pay with check or cash, email us at glasgowpta.va@gmail.com. A limited time online store is coming soon with additional Glasgow items that will be shipped directly to you. Stay tuned!
YEARBOOK PICTURES NEEDED: Attention Glasgow Community. The Yearbook crew could really use your help. We are in desperate need of photos for the yearbook. It is our goal to represent EVERY single student from Glasgow in our book, The Pride. We are lacking a great number of people and student populations. We would absolutely love more candid pictures, of students having fun and being themselves. Examples of this could be sporting events, competitions, friends playing in the back yard or at a get together. If you can snag some pictures of your student AND their friends without masks, that is even better. Please take some pictures of your students and submit them using this form. Please be sure to include your email, names of students, and what is happening in the pictures to ensure accuracy. Thank you so very much for your help. If you have any questions, please email our yearbook adviser, Rushel Grillo: rngrillo1@fcps.edu. Thank you.
Glasgow Yearbook: Do you need to order a Glasgow Yearbook? Watch this quick tutorial on how to order a yearbook online - https://youtu.be/Y7c9W8hhZds
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¿Interesado en jugar voleibol? Venga a ver las clínicas de Starlings @ Glasgow Middle School en abril y mayo. Abierto a todos los atletas interesados en aprender a jugar. No se necesita experiencia. El costo no debería impedir que los jugadores participen, así que comuníquese con starlingsfallschurch@gmail.com si necesita ayuda. ¡TODOS SON BIENVENIDOS! *La entrenadora Corey habla español.
Interested in playing volleyball? Come check out Starlings clinics @ Glasgow Middle School in April and May. Open to all athletes interested in learning how to play. No experience needed. Cost should not prohibit players from participating, so contact starlingsfallschurch@gmail.com if you need help! ALL ARE WELCOME!
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Afterschool Updates
Hello Glasgow Families. Our annual Mitch Goldman Hoop it Up Night tryouts were this past week. Grades 6, 7 and 8 each had their tryouts, rosters will be posted on Monday, March 14th, 2022 outside of Mr. Williams’ door. We will also start practice on Monday, March 14, 2022. 7th Grade practice will be held Mondays, 8th Grade practice will be on Wednesdays and 6th Grade practice will be held on Thursdays during the 2nd block. Please remind your students to wear the appropriate attire.
Due to Hoop it Up Night practice, our normally scheduled Basketball clubs for each grade will be put on hold until Friday, April 22, 2022. We will resume our Basketball Clubs on Monday, April 25, 2022! Our Soccer Clubs will be affected as well. If there’s inclement weather, Soccer will be canceled. If we have good weather, Soccer will be held outside on our fields. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Williams gwilliams@fcps.edu.
Glasgow PTA News
The PTA is seeking 3 volunteers to serve on the Nominating Committee to help find candidates to serve on the PTA Board for next school year. Your responsibilities would be to: 1) Coordinate with the current PTA Board members to find candidates to run for next year's officer positions; 2) Be available to provide descriptions of the various Board positions to potential candidates (this information will be provided to you); and 3) Present the nominees for Board positions at the April 26, PTA meeting. Your responsibilities will be over after this meeting.
Elections for PTA Board positions will be held on May 31, 2022. As the terms are for 1 year, we will be seeking candidates for all positions. Our current Treasurer and Secretary are moving up to Justice, so only the current President is eligible to remain on the Board next year. We welcome any and all questions about what the positions entail and look forward to your participation for next school year.
Contact us at glasgowpta.va@gmail.com to volunteer or with any questions. Check out our website at www.glasgowms.memberhub.co to find links to recent meetings or purchase spirit wear, and it's never too late to join the PTA. Your $10 Membership goes a long way to supporting our school. You can join here: https://glasgowms.memberhub.co/store.
Check out the Glasgow PTA website to find out how you can help at Glasgow! glasgowms.memberhub.co
To stay in touch and in the know, sign up for the PTA listserv by sending a request to glasgowpta.va@gmail.com. Or join the PTA at https://glasgowms.memberhub.co/store. It’s only $10!
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FCPS Cares
Do you know a Glasgow Middle School staff member who went beyond what is expected? If so, then click here to submit a brief description so we can all acknowledge the good work of Glasgow faculty and staff members.
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Be Informed, Stay Involved!
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