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Friday, August 30th - Labor Day Break (Holiday)
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Monday, September 2nd - Labor Day Break (Holiday)
Want to show some love for your child's amazing teacher or staff member? Let's fill FCPS Cares with positive vibes! Submit your recognition today and let them know how much you appreciate their hard work.
Dear Powell Families,
It has been an amazing first week of school for our Pumas! It has been incredible to see our students joyfully learning new routines, catching up with friends at lunch, and building relationships with teachers, staff, and other students. Thank you for sharing your child/ren and partnering with us to ensure it is a successful year!
Best, Jamie Luerssen
Principal
     
 
Back-to-School Night is an opportunity for parents to attend an informational session presented by the teacher to learn about the year ahead and the grade level expectations. This event is intended for parents/guardians only.
New this year, each BTSN presentation will be given twice so it occurs during Session A & B on the scheduled night for the grade level. This will provide flexibility for parents needing to attend multiple grade level sessions or multiple sessions within a grade level such as immersion and non-immersion or immersion and local level-IV.
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Wednesday, September 4
- PAC, K, 1, 2 & 6
- 6:00-6:45 Session A
- 7:00-7:45 Session B
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Thursday, September 5
- EAC, 3, 4 & 5
- 6:00-6:45 Session A
- 7:00-7:45 Session B
We hope everyone has enjoyed this first week back to school!
Colin Powell is proud to be able to offer the full continuum of AAP services for our students. If you would like to learn more about AAP please consider attending our first AAP Parent Night. This meeting reviews what AAP is, the different services offered, and how screening works.
Tuesday, September 10th, 6pm
The Library at Colin Powell ES
Our second AAP Parent Night is focused only on the full-time AAP screening process. This meeting is intended for parents of current 2nd-6th graders who are interested in full-time AAP services for their child.
Tuesday, October 8th, 6pm
The Library at Colin Powell ES
You can also find important information about the Advanced Academic Program on the FCPS website.
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Last year was an exciting year as we established our Guardians of Green club at Colin Powell! We wanted to send out the interest form one more time in case students may have missed it last spring. If you are a 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grader, and you are interested in making positive change towards taking better care of our environment and making connections between learning and nature sign up! We will keep the interest form open through August 29th.
**The interest form is for students to complete and must be accessed using the student’s FCPS account.**
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Please be aware that all of us are getting used to new routines at the start of the school year. Thank you for your patience as those routines are established. We continue to welcome parents to join their kids for lunch during the school year. These visits may start on September 3rd. We ask that parents refrain from bringing in outside fast food .
Parents and guardians that visit during lunch, please take a moment to review these important reminders:
- Due to the limited seating, as well as assigned seats in some classes, please allow all students to be seated before sitting at a table with your child. At times, there may not be extra seating for parents and guardians and we appreciate your understanding if and when this occurs.
- Parents and guardians are welcome to eat while visiting in the cafeteria, and while at lunch please help our cafeteria attendants and school staff by assisting all students in the class, as needed. This might be to retrieve a forgotten fork, napkin or ketchup or simply open something for a student.
- For safety and accountability of our students, students may only leave the cafeteria or go to the bathroom if school staff give permission. If a student asks a parent or guardian, please ask the child to continue to raise their hand so school staff can address their need.
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Outside (restaurant) food is not permitted during lunch. Please do not bring these items for your child.
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Students may only pass through the lunch line one time. Once seated, please do not permit students to leave their seat to return to the line for additional food, drink or lunch items.
As always, as questions arise please don’t hesitate to ask the cafeteria hostesses for clarification. Together we can do this!
Fairfax County Schools (FCPS) offers the opportunity for nonprofit organizations to make their materials available to students and parents. Each school principal has the option of how they want to distribute to their individual school.
During the 2024-2025 school year, there will be two (2) opportunities for community nonprofit groups (related to children/families and education) to distribute flyers via the Powell Tuesday folders.
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Occurrences
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Date of Tuesday folder
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Date materials are due in Main Office
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1st
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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2nd
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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To ensure that schools remain neutral, do not appear to approve or disapprove any particular religious or political viewpoint, and do not sponsor or endorse the classes or activities sponsored by any community organization, all non-school and nongovernmental materials made available through the schools must include the following disclaimer:
“These materials are neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Fairfax County School Board, the Superintendent, or this school.”
If you would like to submit a flyer for distribution approval, please contact Shwetha Prabhu, our Tuesday folder coordinator at sbprabhu@fcps.edu.
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