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It's been an exciting last week before winter break. None of this would have been possible without the help our our amazing staff and amazing parent volunteers. We hope you all have a relaxing Winter Break!
Congratulations to Vincent Q. and Stella W. for being selected as INOVA's Holiday Card Challenge winners. Normally INOVA chooses only one winner, but they were so impressed with their creations and decided to have two! Their cards will be on display at INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital and in our main lobby through the holidays.
Navy will have the following office hours between December 18th and January 2nd.
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December 18th-22nd: 9 am – 1 pm
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December 25th and 26th: Closed
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December 27th and 28th: 9 am – 1 pm
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December 29th: Closed
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January 1st: Closed
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The Oakton High School Marching Cougars, a prestigious 25-year Virginia Honor Band, has submitted an entry into Metallica's inaugural marching band competition, "For Whom the Band Tolls." Metallica has brought their legendary presence to the world of marching bands by inviting high schools and colleges from across the nation to showcase their musical prowess in this unique online competition. The Marching Cougars will be competing for $15,000 in prizing in the category for high school bands with less than 75 members. You can view the Marching Cougar’s online submission of “Parade to Black” here. Oakton High School encourages the school and local community to proudly vote in support of the Marching Cougars as “Fan Favorite” on this national stage.
Vote for the Oakton Marching Cougars by texting #HSOAKTON to (833) 609-0330. Voting ends on 12/31. Go Cougars!
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For the last several weeks we have been highlighting the 5 Portrait of a Graduate Attributes. Goal Directed and Resilient is the last of the 5 attributes.
As students grow as goal-directed and resilient individuals, they have skills to successfully address challenges that they will encounter throughout their lifetime.
Goal-Directed and Resilient Individuals:
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Engage in healthy choices to help their physical and emotional well-being
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Problem-solve difficult tasks
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Manage time and resources to accomplish goals
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Recognize their own strengths and growth
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Advocate for themselves
Ideas for Discussing Goal-Directedness and Resiliency at Home
Pay attention to when you utilize goal-directed and resilient skills in different situations throughout your day. Try to regularly share these examples with your student and explain how you used specific goal-directed and resilient skills to help navigate scenarios. Over time, you might share examples of how you used skills well and opportunities for you to grow, too. Sharing your stories will help model the skills, demonstrate the importance of reflection, and build understanding of how skills can be used in and beyond school.
You might ask your student questions such as:
- Why is it important to identify challenges and work to overcome them?
- If you want to ___, what’s a goal you might make? What could be your plan to meet the goal?
- How might you take responsibility for your actions, completing work, mistakes, etc?
- How might you take responsibility for
- your actions?
- completing work?
- mistakes?
- From the mistake ___, what did you learn?
- How can you be a good goal-directed and resilient individual when you are ___ (ex: trying something new; making choices about how to spend your time; in need of help)?
- What do you want to remember to be a goal-directed and resilient individual tomorrow?
Thank you for taking the time to learn about all of our POG skills. We hope you have found ways to incorporate them into your daily conversations.
Here’s a one pager that you can print and keep handy to remember the five attributes and ways you can discuss them at home.
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