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Help FCPS Reach 1 Million Minutes of Math FCPS Family Math Week starts on Monday, January 8! Participate in games and stories online. FCPS is working toward a total of 1 million minutes logged by families. The event is free, with activities from ST Math geared toward students in grades K-6 and their families.
Math Week offers families an opportunity to experience math, literacy, history, and geography in a fun and positive way. All content will be available for families in English and Spanish beginning Monday, January 8. Visit the Math Week website.
Conversation to Raise Awareness of Fentanyl and Other Drugs In this video, Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid interviews the Fosters, a family who tragically lost their son Cayden to a half pill of fentanyl mistaken for Percocet. This heart-wrenching yet eye-opening video of their experience is essential to raise awareness among parents/caregivers and students about the dangers of fake painkillers.
Please join Dr. Reid on Wednesday, January 10, at 6:30 p.m., at Edison High School for a community conversation about opioid awareness. You may register to attend. However, registration is not required; it is simply for space considerations.
The evening’s program is appropriate for parents/caregivers and students in grades 6-12. All attendees will receive free REVIVE! Narcan training during the event and learn about support services currently available within FCPS and Fairfax County.
FCPS’ website also has resources to help you to start the conversation and additional support for families struggling with substance misuse.
 Panther PTA
Restaurant Night, Wed Jan 10 @ Chipotle:
🌯 Come support this fundraiser at the Kingstowne location from 4-8pm and don’t worry about cooking dinner! See flyer below for full details.
Winter Enrichment Signups, going on now!:
See flyers below for full details.
Your Best Chess: Does your child want to learn how to play chess? Sign up for Wednesday mornings starting this week, running for 8 weeks!
Kidcreate: Is your child interested in art? Sign up now for Thursday after school starting this week, running for 7 weeks!
🚨 We are looking for PTA volunteers to help make sure kids are accounted for. You can sign up for one day or multiple days here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4BA4AD2DA0FCC07-47107640-bhes
Volunteer Judges Needed!
Odyssey of the Mind Program is looking for individuals to serve as volunteer judges for the regional Odyssey of the Mind tournament on 3/9/24 at Wakefield High School in Arlington. Anyone 18 years old and older can serve as a judge. This requires a half day training on 2/24/24 from 8am-1:15pm at St. Louis Catholic school on Popkins Lane (off route 1). Our teams cannot register for the tournament without finding 4 more volunteer judges. Please contact the Bush PTA by January 10th to volunteer. Thank you very much for your consideration!
Stay tuned for some upcoming events:
- Read-a-thon
- Silent Auction/Bingo Night (Do you have a business, can you offer an auction item, or do you have an idea of a business we can contact? Let us know by emailingptabushhillelementary@gmail.com)
- Continuing restaurant nights each month
PTA Meeting January:
The next PTA General Membership Meeting will be held online January 18th @ 7:00pm. A link to the meeting will be sent via Givebacks.
Ideas, thoughts, questions; want to volunteer or assist? We take donations via Givebacks and always need help from volunteers! Look for flyers in Tuesday folders from us! https://bushhill.memberhub.com/store?limit=21&live=true
Email us anytime at: ptabushhillelementary@gmail.com
 
Calendar Reminder: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday
FCPS schools and offices will be closed on Monday, January 15, for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Learn more about Martin Luther King Jr.
Registration for the countywide lottery for Dual Language Immersion (DLI) programs will open on Monday, January 22. Current pre-K students may apply for the kindergarten immersion program, and current kindergarten students may apply for the first grade immersion programs for the 2024-25 school year. Programs are available in French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Parents/caregivers who are interested may want to attend an informational meeting. Meetings are held at the school site. Check the FCPS events calendar for updated information. Meetings will begin on Tuesday, January 16.
One virtual meeting hosted by the World Languages Office will include general program information. Access to this virtual meeting will be made available on the FCPS events calendar and the Dual Language Immersion registration site on the day of the meeting.
Get more information on the immersion program webpage and registration page.
Upcoming Webinars and Events for Families
The Family Resource Center offers free webinars for adults to support the success of all students, including those with learning challenges, special needs, and disabilities. The following events are currently scheduled for January:
For more information and to register for the webinars, click on the linked titles above.
When bad weather or other emergency situations occur, it may be necessary for FCPS to cancel, delay, or close schools early. Parents and students should have a well-communicated plan in place in the event of these emergency situations. Children need to know where to go or what to do if a parent will not be home.
The safety of our students and staff is our number one priority any time a decision must be made regarding school closures and delays during a weather situation. We review information from emergency management and state highway administrators about road conditions, and school personnel also go out and inspect the conditions of roads, sidewalks, and FCPS parking lots and bus lanes.
Where to Find Weather-Related Information
In the case of emergency for a weather-related closing, delay, or early dismissal, the FCPS website will be updated first, and will automatically include an alert at the top of each page with the appropriate information (see sample alert below). This information will remain posted until normal operations have resumed, or you click "Close This Alert" to remove it. If you have closed the alert, a red exclamation mark will remain (highlighted by red circle below) to indicate that the alert is still active.
FCPS tries to make decisions in the evening, taking into account that parents need time to make proper arrangements. But when there is a lot of uncertainty, we wait to get the latest morning forecast. In that case, the superintendent makes the decision of whether to delay or close schools by approximately 4:30 a.m.
FCPS provides information about closings and delays in many ways including:
- Posted to www.fcps.edu.
- Posted to the FCPS Twitter and FCPS Facebook pages.
- Email and text messages sent to parents (using the parent contact information listed in the SIS parent record).
- Email sent to employees (using the employee's FCPS email address).
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Email sent to News You Choose subscribers of Delayed Openings and School Closings.
- Posted on FCPS cable Channel 21 (Cox Communications, Reston Comcast, and Verizon (channel 11) cable customers only).
- Area radio and television stations.
Please be aware, due to the large volume of emails sent there will likely be a lag between the website, social media and news station updates and the receipt of an email in your inbox.
Unclaimed items will be DONATED!
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