Happy School Psychologist Week
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During National School Psychology Week, we want to take a moment to recognize our School Psychologist, Dr. Samantha Sommer for the tremendous impact she makes in supporting our students daily. She is an integral part of our support team, collaborating closely with staff, students, and families. Thank you Dr. Sommer! |
FCPS Outstanding Employee Awards - DUE Tomorrow (11/9)
Please take a moment to nominate Mantua staff members in order recognize their exceptional work! Nominations are now open for 2023-2024 FCPS Outstanding Employee Awards! This is an open form that can be used by Mantua staff as well as community members to nominate Mantua employees for outstanding service and achievement. Categories currently open for nominations:
- Outstanding Teacher
- Outstanding New Teacher
- Outstanding New Principal
- Outstanding Leader
- Outstanding Professional Employee
- Outstanding Operational Employee
**The Mantua School Culture Committee will be reviewing nominations and selecting the school winners.** If you have any questions, please contact Award Liaison Susan Song (sssong@fcps.edu).
Veterans Day
With November approaching, our Mantua school community would like to celebrate our veterans and thank them for their sacrifices for our country. We would like to honor your family’s veteran(s) in our veteran slideshow that will be played in our front lobby throughout November. Please submit a digital photograph to Jane Dunfee (pjdunfee@fcps.edu) with the following information:
Name and Picture of your Veteran
- Rank
- Branch of the military in which they served/are serving
- Wars, Conflicts, or Places they served
In addition, we are holding a breakfast for our veterans and their families on Friday, November 10th, at 8:30 in the library. Families and students are welcome to attend the breakfast with their Veterans. After breakfast concludes, we would like to honor all service members with a victory lap (walk) in our hallways at 9:15 so that our students can recognize and cheer on our attendees as they walk by classrooms. Please indicate if your veteran and their family members can attend by RSVPing through this link.
As a school-wide community service project, we are collecting items for Walter Reed Medical Center in October and November. The families and patients at Walter Reed are appreciative of the following items:
Salty snacks
- Individual-size cookie packages (such as Oreo, Nutter Butter, etc.)
- Ladies body wash (individual travel size)
- Men’s body wash (individual travel size)
- Hard candy individually wrapped
- Small packages of tissues (pocket size)
- Keurig regular, not decaf pods (Starbucks and Peet’s are desired favorites)
- Beef jerky
Boxes for items are located in the lobby. Items will be collected from October 10th through November 20th. The grade that fills their box the fastest will receive a prize.
It is our pleasure and honor to recognize all veterans' sacrifices to ensure our freedom as Americans. Thank you for your continued support of our efforts to teach caring, civic duty, and responsibility to our Mantua Elementary School students. If you have any questions, please email Elizabeth Murphy at esmurphy4@fcps.edu.
Thanksgiving Luncheon
We are excited for our luncheon next week! Please see our schedule of lunches for that day and complete the RSVP form so we can prepare for seating and meals. In addition to completing the online form, you will also need to make arrangements to pay for the meal. To purchase a meal using cash or check, make meal purchases of $4.75 for any non-Mantua student by November 10. You can also pre-load money onto your student’s account and use that student account at checkout on November 15th.The most efficient way to purchase your lunch is to pre-load money onto your student’s MySchoolBucks account and use that student account pin at checkout.
On the day of the event, all guests will need to sign in at the front of the building. The Luncheon will take place in the Cafeteria with overflow seating in the Library. Purchased tickets will be distributed to students immediately prior to the luncheon.
 Movement Mondays
Please join us for our last two Movement Mondays of the Season on November 13 and 20 at 8:30 AM. We will see you on the track!
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