 Administrator's Note
Oh What a Night! Friday evening was a great time for our community as our 3rd Annual Kickball Kickoff. The staff had a wonderful time in our challenge of the Remer's Rockets and Butler's Blasters. As we celebrate this year's retirements, we cheers Ms. Butler throwing out the first pitch to Mrs. Kohout who kicked the first ball. Congratulations to our amazing staff on a job well done. It was a close game and while Remer's Rockets walked away with this year's victory, fun was had by all. Thank you to our PTA chairs for organizing this wonderful event for our community and feeding the staff prior to the event.
Parent Survey
We would love your feedback! As we work best to support our students, we also want to provide opportunities for connections on topics of importance to you. If there is a way we can further help support your child's experience here at school, we would love to have your feedback. We look forward to working together to help support our Chesterbrook community.
CLICK TO TAKE SURVEY
Tomorrow morning we have a parent coffee to review the beginning of the year assessments. We look forward to talking with families about this work and next steps in supporting our students. Please join us in the cafeteria at 9:15 on Tuesday morning.
We have another spirit day this week to support appropriate digital citizenship and UNITY day. Please have students wear orange on Wednesday. See more details below.
Sincerely,
Stacy Kirkpatrick and Farris Thomas
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UNITY DAY - 10/18
Show Your Support for Chesterbrook's UNITY Day and WEAR Orange |
Unity Day will be held on October 18th. The goal of Unity Day is to bring together students, parents, educators, and the community to emphasize the message that bullying is not acceptable, and that all students deserve to be safe in school, online, and in the community.
The color orange is commonly identified with the month of October and the autumn season. It is also the color that is associated with safety and visibility. Wearing orange on October 18th provides a catalyst for everyone to come together with a visual statement that our actions matter not only on one day, but every day. Show your Chipmunks Spirit of UNITY and our work to support Kindness, Acceptance and Inclusion and that we are all against Bullying of any type.
Digital Citizenship Week
CES will recognize Digital Citizenship Week throughout the week of October 16th - 22nd. It is important to collaborate on our work with students so they understand how to balance and safely use technology in their lives. Common Sense Media has many tools to support our work to help communicate safe and healthy practices of digital tools. Families are encouraged to access the "Family Tech Planners" that can guide conversations with your children to make screen time safe and positive.
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5 Houses
One Chesterbrook Community |
In October all grade levels have now kicked off houses. Each Friday our 1st through 6th grade students meet in house meetings (kinder every other week) to build community outside of their regular homeroom and core classes. This provides students an opportunity to work on social emotional connections, positive character traits and build a positive school community.
We are recognizing students for their positive contributions to the school by earning points for positive behaviors and recognizing positive contributions by students with stars in our front showcase. Furthermore, students who are top point earners receive the "Student of the Month" recognition. They are displayed in our front showcase. We are so proud of our students making good choices and showing the CES has HEART characteristics. We are so proud of our first round of students below. Congratulations to Madeline, Katherine, Jack, Preston, Adam, Anna and Madeline.
Impact Aid: Required Parent Action
Please note that Impact Aid will be completed electronically this year. It officially opens on October 16th. All parents will need access to ParentVue in order to activate and document. It must be completed for each child. If you don't have access to ParentVue, please contact Mr. Troskey in the office to provide an activation code. Note that ParentVue is also where your child(ren)s progress reports will be posted soon.
On October 16th, parents should access their ParentVue and complete the following steps:
- Log into ParentVue
- Select Online Packet (Upper Right Corner Tab)
- Select Federal Impact Aid Survey from Dropdown Menu
The Survey will guide through completion of the form. Note each child who attend FCPS must be completed individually.
Upcoming Dates in October
10/12 - 17 Book Fair
10/17 9:15 AM Parent Coffee - Beg of Year Data; Taco Tuesday at the Bookfair
10/18 An Evening with Dr. Reid, 7PM McLean Community Center (details below); McLean Community Center 7PM
10/23 9:15 AM Parent Coffee Digital Citizenship
10/24 5:30 PM Parent Meeting - Understanding AAP full time service and the Screening Process
10/24 or 10/25 - Our Schools, Our Future Community Conversations w/ Dr. Reid (10/14 Madison HS 6:30PM; 10/25 Liberty MS 6:30 PM)
10/30 Student Assembly - Basketball Jones
10/31 Not your Typical Tuesday - Costume Day
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The Lost and Found Exploded this past week.
Please check for items that may
belong to your family. We even have a pair of roller blades left outside the building. It's amazing all the things that quickly accumulate and we don't have a lot of room to store it.
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FCPS In Case You Missed It
In case you missed it in FCPS This Week, the school division shared updates on the following topics:
- New School Lunch Menu Options
- Know FCPS’ Security Terms
- National Bullying Prevention Month
Read FCPS This Week to learn more about these topics. If you are not already receiving the weekly newsletter, sign up today.
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