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To read this newsletter in other languages, please visit our website.
Para leer este boletín en otros idiomas, visite nuestro sitio web.
ST Math Winter Puzzle Challenge
Dranesville ES students averaged 51 puzzles this week in the ST Math Challenge.
We are so proud of our mathematicians for completing an average of 51 ST Math puzzles during the second week of this challenge, especially during a three day week of school!
Thank you for your support as we work together to meet and exceed our weekly goal of averaging 50 puzzles or more, and for supporting your child as they progress in their personal ST Math journey.
Family Guide to accessing Clever at Home
Dranesville District Strategic Planning Community Forum- February 4
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Please join Elaine Tholen for the Dranesville District in-person Strategic Planning Community Forum. Help shape the division’s future for the next few years!
WHEN: Saturday, February 4, 2023 from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Spring Hill Elementary School Cafeteria
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Please register here
Child care and language interpretation will be provided at this event, and sign up is through the registration link above.
These Community Forums (link: https://www.fcps.edu/strategicplanning-communityforums) provide families, students, staff, and community members with an opportunity to participate in and influence the direction of FCPS’ new Strategic Plan. The goal is to have the final strategic plan by June 2023.
Learn more about our strategic planning process here. If you can’t join the Dranesville Forum, please check out the schedule of Community Forums, including several virtual options, and register for one that is most convenient for you.
What Happens at a Strategic Planning Community Forum?
- Community Forums will provide families, students, staff, and community members with an opportunity to review student achievement, access, and perception data and identify both strengths and challenges within the data.
- Working in small groups, participants will use research-based goals as a framework to transition their observations into recommended goals for the strategic plan that are focused on our desired future state for students.
- As a culminating activity, participants will identify the one guarantee they would like FCPS to make regarding our students’ education.
- The data from the Community Forums will be synthesized and that information will be shared with the Core Planning Team to incorporate those recommendations into finalized strategic plan goals.
What Can I Do to Prepare?
It's not necessary to do anything in advance. We want you to bring your thoughts and experiences to the discussion. If you'd like to review in advance, the data reports shared at the Community Forums are available on the Strategic Planning website.
February Webinars and Events for Parents
FCPS’ Parent Resource Center (PRC) is dedicated to helping adults support the success of all students. The PRC will present the following webinars in February:
Click on the titles above for more information and to register.
National School Counseling Week
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February 6-10 is National School Counseling Week, and highlights the tremendous impact school counselors have in helping students achieve academic success and planning for a career. |
School counselors work with students in a variety of different capacities, whether it is through classroom lessons, group sessions, or individual counseling. Learn more about the role of school counselors in FCPS.
Join us in recognizing our two School Counselors, Mindy Ryan and Rosanna Lucero, who provide tremendous care and support for our students.
Join our Black History Month Celebration
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As part of our celebration of Black History Month, Dranesville will be hosting three nights of teachers and parents reading books to our families. These readings will occur from February 21-23 from 7pm - 7:30 via Zoom. |
If you are interested in reading a book in either English or Spanish please sign up using this Google Form (English and Spanish) . If you have a book you would like to read, please indicate the title in the Google Form. DES also has books in both English and Spanish that we can lend you to read.
Readers can connect at home or from school. If you would like to read/connect from school, please contact Carrie Hester at cmhester@fcps.edu. Thank you for being a part of Dranesville's celebration of Black History Month.
Volunteers Needed to Support Our Salad Bar Reopening
at Dranesville Elementary School
Salad Bar Returns to Dranesville February 28th
Our school salad bar is reopening! Real Food for Kids and FCPS Food and Nutrition Services and we are in need of volunteers willing to dedicate time to help our school have a smooth reopening!
We are in need of two volunteers for our opening day: a station a volunteer at the front of the salad bar to help with trays and one at the back to help with salad dressing and directing students into the serving line. Please in sign up to help our opening day, February 28th.
Teaching and learning takes time. We would love volunteers to support students in accessing the salad bar during lunches throughout the first month of our salad bar reopening. Please email our Family Liaison, Jackson Moscoso to sign up to volunteer.
Thank you for your partnership in reopening our salad bar!
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The FCPS CARES Program is an opportunity for parents, staff, and community members to recognize FCPS employees for going above and beyond to help others and show they care.
We invite you to submit your story, so we can all acknowledge the good work of FCPS employees, specifically at Dranesville.
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Upcoming Events
February 1 PTA Meeting 7:00 pm
February 6 Second Quarter Progress Reports Available in SIS Parent Vue
February 6-10 School Counseling Week
February 7 Progress Reports in Blue Home School Communication Folder
February 14 Dranesville Loves to Read Day
February 16 Group Photos for Yearbook
February 20 Holiday | No School | President's Day
March 2 Early Release | Dismissal at 2:05 pm
March 3 School Planning Day | No School | Kindergarten Orientation 10:00 am
April 3-7 Spring Break | No School| Main Office Closed
2022-2023 School Year Calendar
2022-2023 SACC Calendar
#DranesvilleCARES about each other and the world!
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