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August 15, 2024
Dear Annandale Terrace Elementary School families:
We are so excited for the start of the 2024-25 school year! We’ve been busy preparing for the return of our wonderful students on August 19, 2024. Our theme for the school year is Together, we are amazing!
This theme reflects the power of unity, collaboration, and incredible potential we have when we work together as a community. School hours are Monday through Friday 8:35AM – 3:20PM – Students may enter the building at 8:20AM.
We will have Open House on Thursday, August 15 from 2:00PM to 3:00PM. This will provide you and your child the opportunity to visit the classroom, drop off school supplies, meet your new teacher and reconnect with classmates. Back to School Night will be on September 18, 2024, from 5:30PM-7:00PM. During this time, teachers will share information about the school year and ways families can support their children at home.
Bus information will be sent to you by email and/or text by Friday, August 16, 2024. If you do not receive this information, please call the front office so that we can support you. Please be sure to familiarize your child with their bus stop. For safety reasons, preschool and kindergarten students who ride the bus in the afternoon are to be met at the bus door and asked for by name by a parent, parent designee, guardian, or a responsible middle or high school age sibling. Children will be returned to school if the driver has concerns for their safety.
If your child is a walker, make sure he/she knows if they are to walk home alone or meet you at a school entrance. Preschool and kindergarten must be met at the school.
Car rider students will be dismissed out of door 13 to be picked up in the car line. All parents of students being picked up in our Kiss & Ride will need a car tag number. Two car tags will be available to pick up at the Open House and/or the office. To promote student safety, parents must have a car tag when picking up students during dismissal. Please use the new car tags provided this year. Old tags are no longer valid.
This year, Annandale Terrace will continue to be a Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) school providing all students with free breakfast and lunch at school. Parents/guardians of students attending CEP schools do not need to apply for free and reduced-price meals to receive free meals and no further action is required by the parents/guardians of students attending CEP schools. However, parents/guardians of students attending CEP schools are strongly encouraged to submit a free and reduced-price meal application because:
- Student(s) attending CEP schools may wish to receive a free or reduced-price notification letter that qualifies the student(s) for additional benefits, such as discounts with sports leagues, after school clubs, etc...
- The FCPS Consent to Share Information for Other Programs will continue to be utilized and is included in the free and reduced-price meal application process.
An application is available at school, on the FCPS webpage, or by contacting Food and Nutrition Services at 703-813-4800 or 703-813-4844. For more information, please refer to Food and Nutrition Services at https://www.fcps.edu/node/31049 .
We are looking forward to having a wonderful school year because – Together, we are amazing! And we can wait to see our students’ smiling faces on August 19th!
Warm regards,
Ingrid Badia
Principal
Annandale Terrace Elementary School
Fairfax County Public Schools
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