In This Week's Paw Print
1. Principal Message 🐾
2. Senior Graduation Walk 🎓
3. Student Laptop Collection 💻
4. Library Books Due 📚
5. Panther Praise 🤗
6. PTA information ❗
Dear Poplar Tree Families,
It was an emotional week. We share in your grief, fear, and frustration about the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. These events impact us all in personal ways. One thing we all have in common is our condemnation of these senseless acts of violence.
Another thing we have in common is our commitment to keeping our schools, and the students and employees within them, safe. FCPS and Poplar Tree work to make critical safety upgrades to our buildings, plan and practice day-to-day safety and security measures, and respond swiftly to any concern or possible event.
We also know that our students need care, support, and understanding as they learn about acts of gun violence. We have that support in place and encourage everyone to use them. The National Association of School Psychologists has a helpful resource (in multiple languages) for families and educators to support them when talking with students about school violence. If you or your child need additional support, please reach out to our school counselors, Beth Mertens or Shari Hirsch.
We stand together, as the Poplar Tree ES community and in solidarity with the Robb Elementary School community.
Take care,
Sue Andujar, Principal
Carol Larsen, Assistant Principal
Senior Graduation Walk
We are excited to welcome some former Poplar Tree students who are graduating high school this year back for a Grad Walk! Please have your children wear Poplar Tree colors on Tuesday, May 31!
Student Laptop Collection
Each student at Poplar Tree has an assigned FCPS laptop. We will be collecting these laptops and their chargers to reimage for the summer.
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☀️ Summer Programs
- Students in Grades 3-6 attending ESY or Summer SOAR will keep their current laptop and charger to use during the summer program.
- Students in Grades K-2 attending ESY or Summer SOAR will be given a school laptop and charger to bring home and use during the summer program.
- We will collect the laptops at the end of each summer program.
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🔌 Grades K-2
- Please send in the extra laptop charger that was given to you.
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💻🔌 Grades 3-6
- All 5th & 6th grade laptops will be collected on Wednesday, June 8.
- All 3rd & 4th grade laptops will be collected on Thursday, June 9.
- Please ensure your child brings their laptop AND charger to school on that date.
- They DO NOT need to return their cases. Hold onto it for next year!
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💵 Lost Laptops and Chargers - Grades 3-6 ONLY
- If your child has lost their laptop or charger, there is a replacement fee.
- Payment for these items can be made in My School Bucks.
If you have any questions about laptop collection, please contact our School Based Technology Specialist Leslie Leisey - lfleisey@fcps.edu.
Library Books due by 6/3
All library books are due back to the Poplar Tree Library by Friday, June 3 to prepare for inventory. Please look for an email in your inbox detailing a list of library books that your student has checked out. If you feel there is an error on your list, you have any questions, or need to replace a lost library book, email Mrs. Riddile.
Poplar Tree Staff Panther Praise!
We truly appreciate all our Poplar Tree staff and would like to give the community the opportunity to say thank you and/or show appreciation for all of the effort the Poplar Tree Staff is putting in day and night! We will share these praises with the staff members. To submit a Staff Panther Praise, please fill out this form!
Thank you for helping to recognize our amazing staff!
PTA Information
Thank you for supporting
the online auction this year!
We are excited to report that we raised over $6,000 to support PTES. Many thanks to our amazing auction volunteers, room parents, families and teachers and staff that helped make this such a successful fundraiser. If you were not able to participate but would like to make a donation to support the PTES PTA and activities like teacher appreciation, school music and art programs, and technology resources, you can make a donation here.
We hope you enjoyed the block party and a huge thank you to the volunteers who made this such a fun celebration for our community.
We ❤️ PTES!
We would like to announce the
2022-23 Poplar Tree PTA Executive Board!
President: Kate Santoro
Vice President I: Linda Fielding
Vice President II: Brooke Smith
Treasurer: Cat Berta
Secretary: Heather Vineis
We thank our outgoing Board members Esteban Garces and Janice Yang for their dedication to PTES, our nominating committee, and all of our volunteers!
It’s never too early to get involved and join PTA committees to support PTES. Please reach out to us if you are interested and stay tuned for a sign-up!
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