Bonnie Brae ES- Family Newsletter

Calendar Reminders:

Election Day- No School

Tuesday, November 8

Don’t forget to get out and vote on Tuesday, November 8! The day will be observed as a holiday for students and teachers. For more information, visit the Virginia Department of Elections website. 

Thursday, November 10-

Veterans Day Breakfast & Classroom Visits

Bonnie Brae is so excited to be able to host the Veteran's Day Breakfast and Read Aloud event on November 10th beginning at 8:30 am in the Cafeteria for Bonnie Brae families and staff who currently serve or have served in the armed forces.  Following, throughout the day, we encourage any service member able to visit one or more classrooms to either read a book or share about their experience. If you can submit a photo, join us for breakfast, or visit a classroom, please complete this google form. We will use photos submitted from the community to create a slideshow both for the event and for our Bonnie Brae Bark News Show to share with students.  

Donations/Volunteers Needed for Veterans Day Breakfast

We are asking for volunteers to help make this breakfast special and successful.  We ask that you bring the donated items (labeled Veteran's Day Breakfast to the front office) no later than Monday, November 7th and we ask volunteers to arrive at 7:45am on November 10th.   Please consider signing up to help make this event a success. Thank you!

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native Americans. It is also a time to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges they have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges. Learn more about the heritage months, celebrations, and traditions celebrated in FCPS. 

Book Fair Update

Thank you to our wonderful Bonnie Brae community for another successful Scholastic Book Fair! Families generously purchased 120 books for our amazing teachers to add to their classroom libraries. Over $420 was donated by rounding up purchases and funded another 50 books for teachers and students. Mrs. Lewis sends her heart-felt gratitude to all of the volunteers, families, faculty, and especially our students for this record-breaking event.

Outstanding Employee Awards

We are accepting nominations for Bonnie Brae Elementary Staff Members for the 2022 – 2023 school year.  Please review the attached flyer for categories and next steps.

FCPS is encouraging all schools to identify outstanding employees.  This outreach more readily recognize FCPS employees is in response to employee feedback from the school district's annual Working Conditions Survey.

This form will help us to collect nominations for:

• Outstanding Teacher
• Outstanding New Teacher
• Outstanding New Principal
• Outstanding Leader
• Outstanding Professional Employee
• Outstanding Operational Employee

Please consider nominating an outstanding staff member, so that they may be recognized for their day-to-day efforts in supporting our students, staff, and FCPS initiatives. 

The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, November 11, 2022.

Save the Date: Parent Coffee

Join us on Monday, November 21 from 8:40 - 9:25 AM for our Parent Coffee in the Cafeteria. We will spend our time together with Larissa Sheehan, our Advanced Academics Resource Teacher to learn more about Critical and Creative Thinking Strategies. We hope you can join us!  

BBES Parent Course on Schoology: New Update

A new flyer has been uploaded to our Parent Schoology Course.

New this week: Community Meals- Free Meals on 11/8 and every second Tuesday of the month!

In order to access Schoology, you must be signed up for a Parent Vue account and can use those credentials to sign in. Don't have a Parent Vue account? Register today! 

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