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In this Paw Print:
- Principal's Message 🗣️
- Uniquely YOU Spotlight💡
- YOU-Seum 🧩
- Solar Eclipse Glasses 🔅🕶️
- Kindergarten Registration 🏫
- Fire & Ice Basketball Game 🏀🔥🧊
- Fairfax County Health Department School Health Services Survey 🩹
- PTA Support - Why it Matters! 💸
- Chantilly High School Basketball Camp 🏀
- PTA Announcements
- 🏃🏼♀️ Running Club
- 💻 PTA Meeting
- 🫶🏼 Calling for Community Donations (Silent Auction)
- 📣 Join the PTA!
- Staff Panther Praise!🎉
- Follow Us! 👍🏽❤️
Dear Poplar Tree Families,
We want to extend warm wishes to all those who celebrated Eid al-Fitr. We hope your your Eid was filled with joy, peace, and togetherness with loved ones.
This week we were able to meet with each colored house for a closing circle! It was fun to have all the classes in each house together, meeting and greeting each other, and sharing the ways our students have been Ethical & Global Citizens!
Being an Ethical & Global Citizen is one of 5 Portrait of a Graduate attributes that FCPS hopes for all students to have by the time they graduate from high school. The other attributes include Communicator, Collaborator, Critical & Creative Thinker, and Goal Directed and Resilient Individual. FCPS is celebrating 10 years of Portrait of a Graduate and even came to Poplar Tree to record some of our students talking about it! We are very proud of the work that our school does around Portrait of a Graduate and are excited that FCPS recognizes this work at Poplar Tree! You can see the video by clicking the image below!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sue Andujar, Principal
Amy Alley, Assistant Principal
💡Uniquely YOU Spotlight 💡
As we are helping ensure everyone at Poplar Tree has the opportunity to celebrate their uniqueness, we also want to highlight what makes our staff members unique! This week's spotlight is on Romney Short, our Administrative Assistant.
Think about it...what makes YOU Uniquely YOU!?
YOU-seum
Final chance to sign up!
Does your student have a cool collection, awesome art, terrific trophies, lotsa Lego builds, or anything else they’d love to share with the school? Iyour last chance to display them in the YOU-seum! In line with our school motto this year, “Uniquely You,” the display cases next to the front office and at the top of the stairs are being dedicated to showcasing all the ways Poplar Tree Panthers are unique and special. Every two weeks, 3 students will be able to curate a collection of items they want to show off! Grown-ups can sign their student up for one slot on a first-come, first-served basis. Please do not sign up if your students has already been a curator this year. Students may also collaborate if they choose. This is the final sign-up for the year. Click HERE to sign up!
🔅 Solar Eclipse Glasses 🕶️
Our SCA is collecting used Solar Eclipse Glasses to send to South America so that children and families there can experience watching the Solar Eclipse safely in October! There is a bin in the front lobby and we'll be accepting glasses until April 26th!
🏫 Kindergarten Registration 🏫
We are so excited for our littlest Panthers to join our school for the 2024-2025 school year!
It's time to register your child for Kindergarten! To do this, fill out the forms linked HERE. Then, please contact our School Information Assistant (SIA), Claudia Guitjens-Munson (caguitjensmu@fcps.edu) to schedule an appointment!
🔥Fire and Ice Basketball Game🧊
The 6th grade invites you to join us for the Fire and Ice on Friday, April 26, 2024. Fire and Ice is two basketball games. One between 6th grade students and one between 6th grade students and Poplar Tree Elementary teachers. There will be a fun half-time show, the Poplar Tree band, and a sprit squad. There will be food, drinks, and novelties sold. It is a fun, exciting, family friendly event. All Poplar Tree Student's and their families are invited to come!
🍕 Pre-Order Pizza 🍕
Need dinner on the night of Fire & Ice? Just click HERE to pre-order pizza for the night of the event, and your pizza will be ready and waiting for you to enjoy! A flyer was sent home in your student's Friday Folder with the QR code too. If you have any questions please reach out to Rachel Cabero at rachel.cabero@gmail.com.
Our PTA's fundraising efforts include giving the school grants for supplies. While most supplies are not big or flashy, they are greatly appreciated!
Thank you for participating in the PTA's fundraising efforts!
Your support benefits our students and staff!
Fairfax County Health Department School Health Services Survey
The Fairfax County Health Department (FCHD) employs school health aides and public health nurses who provide school health services to the students in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). To determine the quality of these services, a survey has been developed by the FCHD to be shared with all parents or guardians of FCPS students. Parents/guardians will be asked for feedback on the level of satisfaction with School Health services provided to the school community. The survey will be distributed electronically via FCPS This Week. The survey window is April 15 - April 26, 2024. Survey link: www.redcap.link/FCHDSchoolHealthSurvey.
Survey results will provide a basis for quality improvement of School Health services. The data-driven process is in alignment with the FCPS Strategic planning process, and the survey results will contribute positively to the FCPS Strategic Plan that reflects a shared consensus among stakeholders.
🏀Chantilly Boys Basketball Camp
Chantilly High School will be sponsoring a boys basketball camp the week of June 17th to the 21st from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm. They will have pizza and snacks available to purchase for lunch as well as t-shirts and trophies for those who excel during camp. Register HERE!
🏃🏾♂️ Running Club 🏃🏼♀️
It's time to get your running and walking shoes on! We are continuing the before school Running/Walking Club for all students grades 1-6. If a Kindergartener wants to join, please have a parent come and run/walk too. Best of all, it's FREE!
Sign up HERE!
Meet at the blue playground, behind the gym from 7:45am to 8:20am.
❤️ PTA Meeting 💻
Please join us for the next PTA meeting on Thursday, April 25th at 7:00 pm. Join us via Zoom HERE. Hope you can join us!
🫶🏼Call for community donations!💰
The annual PTES PTA Auction will be held from April 29 - May 1! If you or anyone you know has an item you'd like to donate to be auctioned off, please send an email to poplartreesilentauction@gmail.com. Previous donations have included artwork, vacation home rentals, household items, and gift cards just to name a few!
Thank you for all your support to make the 2024 auction the best one yet!
📣 Join the PTA!!!
If you haven't renewed your membership yet this year, you can renew here: http://www.poplartreepta.org/membership!
🎉 Staff Panther Praise
We are so grateful for all of our awesome staff who keep our students engaged and learning everyday. If you would to recognize one of our staff members for all their hard work, please give them a Staff Panther Praise!
Another option you have is to complete an FCPS Cares. You can do that HERE!
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