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Dear Freedom Hill Families,
We hope you are well and had a wonderful Spring Break! For those who celebrated, we hope you had a nice Passover and Easter as well. Tomorrow we are excited to return to school for the final week of our third quarter of instruction. This Friday, students will be on a holiday as teachers complete third quarter grading and planning for the fourth quarter.
Due to our week off, we are shifting our annual celebration of Assistant Principal Appreciation Week to this week. We are very luck to have one of the best in the business! Thank you to Mr. Kopacz for his tireless efforts at our school. Despite his many supervisory roles in the areas of testing, special education, emergency drills, evaluations, and more, he still finds time to build the meaningful relationships that help our school to be the place that it is. We encourage you to drop him a note of appreciation this week if you have a moment!
Finally, we are in the process of planning for next year. If you have any new neighbors with school age children that are planning on attending Freedom Hill next year, please make sure to connect them with Ms. Sujo in the office so we can ensure we can secure our staffing as early as possible.
Have a great week!
In partnership,
Nicholas Zapadka, Principal
2022-23 FCPS School Calendar
- April 13 - Q3 Ends, 2-hour Early Release for Students
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April 13 - Kindergarten Orientation, 2:30
- April 14 - No School, Teacher Work Day
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April 18 - PTA Meeting
- April 21 - School Closed - Eid al Fitr Holiday
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April 28 - Staff vs. Westgate Volleyball Game at Marshall HS
2023-24 FCPS School Calendar
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This week, we are focusing on Fairness. You believe that all people have value. You approach situations with an unbiased mindset and treat everyone with respect.
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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
~Oscar Wilde
Questions you might enjoy talking about:
- Do you consider yourself a fair person?
- Would you say that fairness is important to you?
- What would you do if you saw someone being unfair?
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The signups for our daily Watch D.O.G.S. (Dad of Great Students) is ready! You can sign up to volunteer for a day at Freedom Hill with this link. Thank you to our "Top Dog" David Hay for organizing this for our community. If you missed it, you can learn more about the program in this quick video.
The daily D.O.G.S. will report to the front office at 9:00 to receive their schedule. We look forward to it!
 SOL testing will be taking place in the month of May this year for students in grades 3-6. The SOL assessments are content assessments that measure a student’s growth in Mathematics, Reading, and Science (5th grade only). These tests will be conducted during the morning of the dates listed in the table above. It is important that your child attend school on the dates designated for them to test. Please ensure your child gets plenty of rest the night prior. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Kopacz, our school testing coordinator.
The Magnet Program registration window will be open from Wednesday March 1st, through Wednesday, April 12th, 2023. No late applications are accepted.
https://www.fcps.edu/registration/elementary-magnet-school-lottery
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It is already that time of year to start planning for next year. Our Kindergarten registration for the 2023-2024 school year is now open. Please use the online portal to submit your initial information and our registrar, Ms. Sujo, will follow up with you.
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If you have a child at home who will be five by September 30th, please register now. If you have any neighbors with rising kindergartners, please send this information to them, as well.
We hope you all had a great spring break! Thanks to those who joined in the fun for our FDO before Spring Break at Midnight Treats and Noodles & Co. For those who celebrated, we hope you had a good Passover and good Easter!
FHES FACULTY VOLLEYBALL GAME 4/28
It's coming back! Thanks to Rachel Shabica, the Faculty Volleyball Game against Westgate ES will take place on April 28th 6:30-8 pm in the Marshall High School gym. This used to be a great tradition at FHES but hasn’t taken place since 2019. The teachers of Freedom Hill play against the teachers of Westgate ES. The kids LOVE coming to watch and cheer on their school’s team with pom poms and thunder sticks, eat yummy pizza and snacks and wear their FHES spirit wear or red clothing. We highly encourage folks to purchase their tickets online on Pay4SchoolStuff. Check out the flier here. We will need help with volunteers! Sign up here.
SPRING CLEANING = BINGO PRIZES!
Bingo Night is a beloved event that will take place this year on May 12. In order to prepare for it, we'd love to start collecting potential prizes. If you are doing a little spring cleaning, you can drop off prizes at Sahar Javadi's house at 8518 Quaint Lane, Vienna, VA 22182. Just email president@freedomhillpta.org to make sure we know it's a Bingo Prize donation. What makes a good prize? Unopened Games, Toys, Art & Crafts Kits or things remaining from the holidays.
SEEKING GRAPHIC NOVELS
Ms. Rossman is updating her summer Bookmobile collection with kid friendly graphic novels/comic books, early readers (ie: step 1-3 Scholastic books) AND early chapter books (ie: rainbow fairies and magic treehouse). If you have any of these that you'd like to donate to FHES, please drop them off with a note for Ms. Rossman at the front office.
Check out our FHES Calendar to plan further out in the year.
We hope you all had a great spring break! Thanks to those who joined in the fun for our FDO before Spring Break at Midnight Treats and Noodles & Co. For those who celebrated, we hope you had a good Passover and good Easter!
FHES FACULTY VOLLEYBALL GAME 4/28
It's coming back! Thanks to Rachel Shabica, the Faculty Volleyball Game against Westgate ES will take place on April 28th 6:30-8 pm in the Marshall High School gym. This used to be a great tradition at FHES but hasn’t taken place since 2019. The teachers of Freedom Hill play against the teachers of Westgate ES. The kids LOVE coming to watch and cheer on their school’s team with pom poms and thunder sticks, eat yummy pizza and snacks and wear their FHES spirit wear or red clothing. We highly encourage folks to purchase their tickets online on Pay4SchoolStuff. Check out the flier here. We will need help with volunteers! Sign up here.
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