 Heritage Night was amazing!
Thank you to our Heritage Night Committee, PTA, families
and community for supporting this event.
Our Mighty Red Birds really shared their culture and hearts.
In this message you will find information regarding:
- CFES Parent Liaison Presents: On the Road to Irving
- 2022 Talent Show!
- Stay Home When Sick
- Kindergarten Registration
- Free Online Tutoring Services
- Lost Student Computer/Charger Fees
- WSHS Basketball Camp
- Parent Resources
- Health Information
- PTA Information
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People with ancestral roots in Asia and the islands of the Pacific have been integral to the story of America. To celebrate their heritage and contributions, in 1992, May was designated Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Adapted from the National Geographic Society
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May is a national month of recognition of the history of Jewish contributions to American culture, acknowledging the diverse achievement of the Jewish community in the U.S.
Adapted from the Anti-Defamation League.
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May 11-22 - West Springfield Pyramid Art Show
May 26 - 6:00 pm - On the Road to Irving!
May 30 - NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
June 3 - PTA End of Year Celebration
June 8 - 6th Grade Promotion
June TBD - Talent Show!
June 10 - Last Day of School - Students dismissed at 1:55 pm
FCPS School Calendar 2021-22
FCPS School Calendar 2022-23
- If you have any questions please contact our Family Liaison Mariel Otero
It’s that time of year again where we begin thinking about the annual Talent Show. Your specialist team is so excited to be providing this opportunity in person this year! As a precaution, we are hosting multiple small shows to keep our student numbers low. Here’s what you need to know:
- The performance will be the last week of school, date TBD
- If your student wishes to perform, they need to show their performance to Mr. Field or Mrs. Lynch no later than June 3rd
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) continues to monitor cases and report COVID-19 outbreaks, as outlined by the Virginia Department of Health. Currently, Fairfax County's Community Level remains low as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and our layered prevention strategies are being implemented based on our COVID-19 Community Level, as recommended by the CDC.
However, FCPS has seen a recent increase in COVID-19 cases and outbreaks and parents/legal guardians are reminded of the daily health screening requirement to check their students for mild, cold-like symptoms each day, such as fever, runny nose, cough, or shortness of breath. Parents and guardians are advised to keep their students home if sick and get them tested to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
VaxUp
We continue to encourage everyone to get vaccinated or boosted as soon as they are eligible. COVID-19 vaccination keeps children safely in school and childcare settings, and also while participating in sports, playdates, extracurricular activities, and other group activities. Strong community vaccination rates help keep our schools safe for in-person learning. To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine, or to find a vaccine provider, visit the Fairfax County Health Department website.
Masking
As a reminder, students may return to school after five days of isolation if they are fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication) and symptoms are improving. As recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) individuals should continue to wear a well-fitting mask around others at home and in public for five additional days (day six through day 10) after the end of the five day isolation period. If individuals are unable to wear a mask when around others, they should continue to isolate for a full 10 days at home. While not required, wearing a mask while indoors is still considered an important way to protect yourself and others. Families are encouraged to discuss mask wearing as an additional layered prevention strategy.
Additional recommendations to prevent COVID-19 are available online.
Children who will be five (5) years old on or before September 30, 2022 are eligible to attend kindergarten next Fall. If you have a child who will attend kindergarten at Cardinal Forest ES next school year, and have not already been in contact with our registrar Karen Stephens, please fill out this online form and she will get in touch with you.
SACC SCHOOL YEAR 2022-2023
SACC offers before-and after-school care for children attending kindergarten through sixth grade in most Fairfax County public elementary schools. Children with special needs are fully included in all SACC centers. In addition, SACC programs at Key and Kilmer centers serve youth, ages 5-21, with multiple types of disabilities. SACC is committed to nondiscrimination and inclusion in all programs, services and activities.
For more information please go to the SACC website
Rising 7th Grade Students
For additional information, visit our online tutoring services website.
Tip Sheet for Parents: Offer Schoolwork Support, Not Answers
Assignments can be a link between home and school. Teachers give them to help children strengthen skills and review class work. At the same time, families can find out what their children are learning by being involved in homework.
Being involved does not mean doing schoolwork for your child. That will give the teacher a false reading of your student's progress. Plus, you'll prevent your child from feeling capable of doing the work alone. Instead, offer support as your child does the work.
Try these tips to support your child’s success with homework.
Copyright 2022, The Parent Institute, a Division of PaperClip Media Inc. All rights reserved. Get more tips for parents and other family engagement resources.
LOST OR DAMAGED LAPTOPS
If you have lost or damaged your laptop or charger, there is a cost for replacement. Checks need to be made out to Cardinal Forest Elementary.
- Charger: $23
- Computer: $481
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Payment for lost or damaged charger and/or laptop can be made using MySchoolBucks.
Please follow these directions to make your payment:
- Sign-on to MySchoolBucks
- Select School Store Payments (School Fees)
- Select the icon for which you are paying “Lost or Damaged Cables/Power Cords” or “Lost or Damaged Laptop”
- Select your child’s name
- Select the item for which you are paying
- Follow the process for payment
Note: If you leave the school, it is your responsibility to return all the above items. Any items not returned will be recorded as debt owed to the school.
More information can be found HERE
Spartan Basketball Summer Camp
2022 Spartan Basketball Summer Camps for girls and COED camps. For more information and flyer with information contact Coach Gibson at: WRGibon@fcps.edu or to register here is the link.
2022 Lady Spartan Summer Basketball Camp
Summer Camps Enrolling (Fairfax County Park Authority)
RecPac registration opens Monday, April 18th!
Rec-PAC (Pretty Awesome Children), operated by Fairfax County Park Authority, is a six week structured recreation program with emphasis on leisure skills designed for elementary school children.
Participants will have an opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of activities such as: fun and fitness, indoor and outdoor games, team sports, nature, crafts, storytelling, sports festivals, talent shows and supervised play sessions. Each location has a ratio of 1 staff person to 18 participants.
For more information go HERE
¡El registro de RecPac abre el lunes 18 de abril!
Rec-PAC (Pretty Awesome Children), operado por la Autoridad de Parques del Condado de Fairfax, es un programa de recreación estructurado de seis semanas con énfasis en las habilidades de ocio diseñado para niños de escuela primaria.
Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de disfrutar de una amplia variedad de actividades tales como: diversión y ejercicio, juegos de interior y exterior, deportes de equipo, naturaleza, manualidades, narración de cuentos, festivales deportivos, espectáculos de talentos y sesiones de juego supervisadas. Cada ubicación tiene una proporción de 1 miembro del personal por cada 18 participantes.
Curious to Know Where Your Child Spends Their Time Online?
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.
Are you looking for resources to assist with parenting in the digital age?
Please feel free to check out the following resources from Common Sense Education.
Parenting in the Digital Age
Are you struggling to keep up with the media and technology your children are using? Common Sense’s Parents Ultimate Guides can help keep you up to date and answer questions regarding new social media and tech trends.
Parent’s Ultimate Guides
Sign up for the Common Sense newsletter to get up to date information sent to your email.
Here Comes the Bus Mobile App
Know when your bus is approaching your stop. Here Comes the Bus® app is a school bus tracking app that can simplify morning and afternoon routines for parents and students by giving them real-time bus location and text or email notification alerts, helping them get to the bus stop on time. Here Comes the Bus® utilizes our GPS data and an easy-to-use customizable map that works on one or multiple devices, such as a tablet or smartphone.
How to Get Started using the App
Identity Awareness, Protection, and Management Guide
The Identity Awareness, Protection, and Management (IAPM) Guide is a comprehensive resource to help you protect your privacy and secure your identity data online. The IAPM Guide is divided into chapters detailing key privacy considerations on popular online services, mobile apps, and consumer devices available in the market today. Each section provides you with tools, recommendations, and step-by-step guides to implement settings that maximize your security. The guide is updated periodically. While some of the chapters in the IAPM Guide deal with technical issues, they do not require a technical background to follow. The U.S. Department of Defense creates this guide to provide recommendations for readers to keep their identities private and secure online. Please note the information presented here is subject to change.
weCare@school - Emergency Care Information System
It is important that Emergency Care Forms and Health Forms for your student be up-to-date at the beginning of each year and throughout the year.
Please find more information by clicking here .
In ParentVUE you will click on the FCPS Links on the left hand side menu.
 FCPS Multilingual Family Podcasts
Listen and subscribe to a FCPS Multilingual Family Podcast to hear timely, important information related to school news! The podcasts are produced in conjunction with the Office for ESOL Services and the Office of Professional Learning and Family Engagement. The goal of every podcast is to help families access key resources and understand how to best support their children’s education.
Listen and Subscribe Here
Student Medication End of Year Pick Up
The school health room is reminding parents and guardians that all medication stored in the health room must be picked up no later than the student dismissal time on the last day of school June 10, 2022. Medication left in the health room after that time will be discarded. It is school policy that medications must be picked up by the parent or guardian. Medication cannot be sent home with your student.
Medication authorization forms for next school year may be obtained from the school or online at https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/school-health-services
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Five Day Isolation: FCPS has changed from a 10 day student isolation period to a 5 day isolations period.
Beginning May 1, 2022, your child may return to in-person instruction and activities, including athletics, when your child has met the following criteria:
- Student has completed at least five days of isolation; AND
- Student is fever free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication; AND
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Student’s symptoms have improved or resolved
- Student wears a well-fitting mask for 5 additional days (day six through day 10) after the end of the 5-day isolation period, in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance
If students are unable to wear a mask when around others, they are to continue to isolate for a full 10 days at home.
Children who are in isolation will continue to have access to our StreamIn/CheckIn during this time.
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Rising 7th Grade Students
Immunization Requirement
While the COVID-19 vaccination is NOT required by schools for the 2022-23 school year, many other vaccinations are.
Seventh-grade students need:
- One dose of Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) given at age 7 or older.
- One dose of Meningococcal Vaccine (MenACWY, Menactra, or Menveo) given at age 10 or older.
More information on immunization requirements is available online.
Parents May Submit Child's Vaccination Status
If your child has been vaccinated, you may wish to voluntarily share your child’s COVID-19 vaccination information with Cardinal Forest ES. However, we do not require your child’s vaccination information and no school employee will ask for your child’s vaccination status. The only exception is student-athletes, who are required to share their vaccination status to participate in their sport or activity.
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 school and ask for our registrar, Mrs. Stephens. COVID-19 vaccination documentation contains protected health information and should not be emailed.
Albuterol in Schools
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 board employees (to include local health department employees assigned to public schools) who have received training in the administration of albuterol inhalers.
Upcoming Events:
June 3 - 5:00 pm - End of Year Celebration!
VOLUNTEERS/DONATIONS NEEDED:
- It's time to think about our next year's PTA board members! We are looking for a volunteer to serve as PTA Secretary next school year. If you are interested in learning more about being a board member, or serving on any of our other committees, please email cardinalforestpta@gmail.com.
- The school workroom, library and art classes can use extra hands. Dates and information for volunteering during school hours are available on our website.
- Looking for help coordinate our end of year celebration in June
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