 Our Mustangs earned a schoolwide reward for earning Mustang Marks for exhibiting respectful behavior at school! Classic Game Board Day was a great success! Thank you Ms. Kelley's class for sharing these awesome pics!
MUES will host our annual fall Scholastic Book Fair next week, October 23rd-October 27th! Students will have the opportunity to preview Book Fair items as well as purchase them throughout the week.
Ms. Soni, our wonderful school librarian, cordially invites families to join us for Family Night at the Book Fair on Thursday, October 26th from 4:00-6:00 PM.
Virginia’s three-day sales tax holiday starts Friday, October 20, and ends Sunday, October 22. During the sales tax holiday, you can buy qualifying school supplies, clothing, footwear, emergency preparedness items, and Energy Star™ and WaterSense™ products without paying sales tax. View the Sales Tax Holiday Guidelines for more information.
We are excited to share that McNair ES & McNair Upper ES are bringing back our Storybook Character Parade! Please join us on Tuesday, October 31st at 9:15 AM to celebrate our staff and student’s favorite storybook characters.
Participation in this event is optional for students. If your Mustang chooses to participate, please ensure that the character they choose to dress up as is an actual storybook character and not just a movie character. School appropriate props that compliment a costume are welcome for this event. Masks and props that look like weapons should not be worn or brought on school property. We strongly encourage students to be creative and design their own storybook costume by looking for things already in their home or hanging in their closet.
Because many families love to see the creative costumes that reflect storybook characters our staff and students love, we will parade outside on our field area located on the backside of both of our school buildings.
For families who would like to join us, please go to the main entrance (door #1) of your child’s school. You will be given a visitor’s badge by a member of our office staff. We ask that you wear your visitor’s badge at all times while on school property. After obtaining your visitor’s badge, please walk to the back of our school buildings and stand outside of the fence that surrounds our field area. Please do not stand on the field as this space is where our Mustangs and staff will parade. If it is raining on the morning of this event, sadly, we will not parade outside.
We are hoping to collect 40 large or medium-sized pumpkins so that each of our homeroom classes and Specialists at McNair Upper ES can have one for a project we will be completing during the month of November.
If you are able to donate a pumpkin, please fill out the very brief Google Form below. Pumpkins can be dropped off at the main office no later than Wednesday, November 1st.
Thankful & Grateful Activity
If you have questions, please email Ms. Goddin, Principal, at MMGoddin@fcps.edu. Thank you in advance for your help!
FCPS uses the Student-Parent Survey for Federal Impact Aid to identify federally connected students and to support our request for Impact Aid resources, which become part of FCPS' general operating budget. FCPS anticipates receiving approximately $3,000,000 in Impact Aid funds.
McNair Upper Elementary School will be participating in this annual survey. Families are encouraged to complete the survey through ParentVue beginning October 16 through October 31, 2023. Information on parent access to the online survey is available at https://www.fcps.edu/node/49068.
Full Time Advanced Academics Screening Information Session
This information session will be hosted by Kaitlin Burg (McNair ES Advanced Academic Resource Teacher) and Mallory Janofsky (McNair Upper ES Advanced Academic Resource Teacher). We will provide detailed information about the Full Time/Level IV Screening Process, including how to make a referral and which documents families can submit. The deadline for families to submit the referral and supporting documents is December 15 and 11:59 p.m. Spanish translation will be available at this event.
- Tuesday, November 14 – 6:00-7:00PM in the cafeteria at McNair Elementary School (PreK-2 building)
- Friday, November 17th –9:00-10:00AM in the cafeteria at McNair Elementary School (PreK-2 building)
McNair PTA Needs Your Help!
Do you have fresh ideas? Looking to get more involved? Enjoy meeting new people? Then Get involved with the PTA today!
We have the following open Board positions:
- Secretary: Attend monthly meetings and keep meeting notes, occasionally send out email reminders about upcoming PTA meetings, etc.
-Committee Chair Positions: We have several open committee chair positions. Each chair is in charge of planning one specific event. They are able to select which event they would like to chair and will work with the assistance from the rest of the board. Open Committee Chair positions include: Movie Night, Fun Run, Staff Appreciation Events, PTA Engagement, and more!
- Technology Chair: Attend monthly meetings and help set up the slideshow/virtual meeting for those attending online, assist with the PTA website as needed, etc.
If you are interested in helping or want more information, please email Miranda at president@mcnairespta.org.
Upcoming Fundraisers!
Harris Teeter - Fundraiser
Option 1: Please use the annual sign up form for the TIE program from Harris Teeter using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/mcnairharristeeter
Note: You need to re-register every year for this program.
Option 2: You can also sign up in-person at the counter using our school code: 5090
Shoe and Clothing Drive on Now!
The McNair PTA is raising funds to support our school and all you have to do is clean out your closets! We are collecting gently used shoes, clothes, and soft goods. There are collection tables at each school -- simply drop off your donation of shoes, clothes, purses, backpacks, blankets, sheets, towels, and more!
DROP OFF DATES: Tuesday September 5th to Tuesday October 31st
Upcoming Competitions!
We have a lot of upcoming competitions at McNair!
Fill out interest forms below for more information!
Virginia Science Olympiad Division A (Grades 3-5)
Virginia Science Olympiad Division B (Grade 6)- We are in need of a head coach to lead this competition.
First Lego League (All Grades)
American Computer Science League (All Grades)
Odyssey of the Mind (All Grades)
Get Involved with the PTA!
The PTA supports our schools through help from our community. One way we do that is through the help of our wonderful volunteers! Whether you're available for an hour a year or an hour a week to pitch in - we have opportunities that meet everyone's busy schedule!
If you join before October 1st, you get a discount on the membership price and you are entered to win a raffle of Amazon gift cards, spirit wear, and more!
Thank you,
Miranda Butzlaff
President, McNair ES PTA
Support PTA: Become a Member or Volunteer
October 23rd-October 27th: Fall Scholastic Book Fair
October 26th: Family Night at the Fall Book Fair from 4:00-6:00 PM
October 31st: Storybook Character Parade at 9:15 AM
November 3rd: End of 1st Quarter of School; Two-Hour Early Release/1:30 PM Dismissal
November 6th & 7th: Parent-Teacher Conferences/Teacher Workdays; no school for students
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