LHMS Weekly News and Updates

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Parents and Caregivers,


We’ve enjoyed the fall temperatures this week as we gather for our Middle School break on the fields and outdoor spaces. Soon we will have a brand-new turf field to use for break and PE classes!


Next week your student will be sitting for the Virginia Growth Assessment (VGA) in their English and math 7 and 8 classes. These results will guide our instruction for each child to maximize their learning during the school year. Please support your child by reinforcing that they try their best to show what they know. The test shouldn’t take longer than a 90 min block.


Also, on Monday, we hope to see many of you at the September PTA meeting. The meeting will begin at 7 pm with School Psychologist, Miranda Carlson, and School Counselor, Marissa Brooks. They will discuss the annual mental health screener as well as the social-emotional lessons our students and teachers will tackle together this year. Spanish and Arabic translating services will be available at the meeting.


This Sunday it’s a perfect day for MOD Pizza. Proceeds will support your PTA. Order anytime Sunday from MOD Pizza in Plaza America and part of the sales will go toward our school! Click here  for details on how to order.


Aimee Monticchio


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Chaperones needed! Our 7th graders are scheduled to participate in a fun, hands-on science field trip Weds-Thurs, Sep 28-29. Chaperones are needed to escort students to stations set up down by Glade Stream/Snakeden Branch (behind South Lakes High School) and to move them between stations manned by professional scientists and naturalist from U.S. Geological Survey and Reston Association. We are running unusually short on volunteers this year.  Our most desperate need is for the following sessions: (1) Weds Sep 28 session (7:15-10:45am), (2) Weds Sep 28 afternoon session (10:30-2:15pm), and (3) Thurs Sep 29 afternoon session (10:30-2:15pm).  Please consider supporting our school and community by enabling us to offer our students this unique opportunity to engage in real world science guided by real world scientists .... You may even learn something yourself!  (NOTE: Chaperones will need to be able to walk ~1mile round trip and handle low hills.)

To volunteer or obtain more information, contact Jeanette Thomas at sjthomas1@fcps.edu


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Please contact Sharon DuncanHudspeth at SDDuncanHuds@fcps.edu if you think you can support this program. Donations of $5 or $10 gift cards are ideal and can be delivered to the school: Attention – Sharon DuncanHudspeth.


World Language Credit Exam

The 2022 World Languages Credit Exam will be administered on November 3, 9, and 10, 2022. Thirty (30) languages will be included: American Sign Language (ASL), Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

Registration opens on Tuesday, September 6, at 8 a.m. and closes on Thursday, October 6, at 4 p.m. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Please contact your school counselor to register.

7th Grade Counselors

Last Names A-K – Karen Bach kabach@fcps.edu

Last Names L-Z – Phyllis Degraffenried pjdegraffenr@fcps.edu

8th Grade Counselors

Last Names A-K – Marissa Brooks mlbrooks@fcps.edu

Last Names L-Z – Mark Blocker mfblocker@fcps.edu

 

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Admissions

Are you interested in learning about the TJHSST admissions process?  Please view this TJHSST Freshman Admission Overview video.  The THJSST application will be available on Monday, October 24 at 4:00pm, to current 8th grade students.  The application portal, course prerequisites, GPA requirements, and deadlines can be found here: TJHSST Freshman Application Process.

If you have any questions about the TJHSST admissions process, please contact the Langston Hughes TJHSST Liaison Counselor, Marissa Brooks.

Social-Emotional Learning with Second Step

Next week we will continue our unit on Mindsets and Goals.  Our next lesson, on September 19, is Learning from Mistakes and Failures.  When your child does difficult things, they may initially make mistakes and fail, but these mistakes can be chances to learn and grow.  Family conversation starter: Tell your child about a mistake you made in the past and what you learned from it. Ask your child to tell you about a mistake they made and what they learned from it.

If you have any questions about Second Step Middle School, please reach out to your student’s school counselor.  Thank you for your support as we work to build a safe and supportive school community

 


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Attention families - looking for a flexible for a flexible and part-time position at Hughes Middle School? FCPS is hiring AVID tutors for the 2022-2023 school year.  AVID tutors work with small groups of approximately 5-7 middle school students during the school day in an academic elective class called Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) led by Ms. Burke. These groups use higher order questioning strategies to help students develop a variety of college preparatory skills such as critical thinking and problem solving.

Tutors earn $18.42 per hour and must be currently enrolled in college or be college graduates. If interested, please email your resume to Karen Huffman at kshuffman@fcps.edu


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Langston Hughes After-School

Students who plan to attend after school activities must be registered in the after school program. Please make sure your child is registered prior to staying after.

 

Here’s the link to register: https://forms.gle/jkUdc4Hx1cnAE3C46

Here’s the link to the Club List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkDtOVASo9Dvoamwm4h56r84B5gWzoR6dX6iawunMiU/edit?usp=sharing

 

Young Entrepreneurs: Sports, Music, Fashion and more

Thursdays 3:30-4:30

This weekly after-school activity is for boys and girls who may be interested in learning more about business and entrepreneurship, using sports, fashion and music as the primary topics to engage students. Interactive, workshop style sessions would be led by guest speakers from the community with business experience and supported by high school student volunteers who participate in clubs or coursework that focus on similar topics (entrepreneurship, athletic leadership, fashion / ‘merch’ and music recording).

Helping students understand how to connect the dots between whatever they are passionate about and entrepreneurial / business opportunities in the future is a target learning objective for this program. Participants can also learn about the clubs and courses available in high school where they can learn more, build their network, and get involved in extra-curricular activities

Herndon Reston Youth Field Hockey has open registration for players in grades 7 through 9. Most Langston Hughes players will be placed on the same teams. Practices and most games will be at Herndon High School during September and October. Register at www.hryfh.org.


COMPLETE the Digital Consent Form for your student to be allowed to use some approved digital tools that still require parent permission.  More information can be found on our website and the form may be completed digitally, no need to sign the paper form which was mailed home in early August.

Sign-up to receive your students “Screen Activity Reports/Lightspeed Reports.

There is a new online service that is free to FCPS parents who are interested in knowing more about their child’s internet activity on an FCPS device. Parents can sign up to receive a weekly Parent Report from Lightspeed, our internet content filtering service, which will provide a list of the top sites the child visited that week. 

Step 1: Make sure you have a SIS ParentVUE account

Step 2: Request the reports https://itweb.fcps.edu/itsupport/lightspeed/

Need Tech Help?

Resources for parents and students using FCPS technology are available online. Visit this website for quick help resetting passwords; accessing Schoology, Google, Zoom, or activity reports; and basic computer use questions. If your questions are not answered on that page, look for the link to submit a help ticket. 


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We are extremely happy to have your child in our school with us this year!

FCPS’ updated Student Rights & Responsibility booklet is now available online and in the ParentVue section of the Student Information System (SIS). The SR&R booklet explains expectations for student behavior, and adult responses to enhance school safety and to create a fair, equitable, and supportive school environment. 

Each year, we ask parents to review, sign, and return the SR&R to their child’s school. In ParentVue, you may now download and digitally sign the SR&R. Every parent/guardian with a ParentVUE account will see the SR&R upon login to ParentVUE until the SR&R acknowledgement has been completed.

Once you log on, you will see the following message:

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Your name in the digital signature box must match the parent/guardian’s first and last name in SIS exactly before the signature will be accepted.

Please take a moment to log into ParentVue in your child’s SIS account to access the SR&R. Signatures are due by September 30, 2022.


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Sept 19: PTA Meeting @ 7 p.m.

Sept 26: Student Holiday - Rosh Hashanah

Oct 5: Holiday (Yom Kippur)

Oct 10: Student Holiday (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)

Oct 17: PTA Meeting @ 7 p.m.

Oct 21: SLHS Homecoming Parade & Homecoming football game

Oct 24: Holiday (Diwali)

Oct 28: End of First Quarter, 2-hour early release

Oct 31: Student Holiday