Calendar Reminders Aug 28 - Back to School Night 🌟*see below for more information Aug 30 - No School (Labor Day Holiday) Sept 2 - No School (Labor Day Holiday) Sep 20 - PTA Fall Carnival 🍂🎉 Sept 23 - Early Release Monday #1 Oct 3 - No School (Rosh Hashanah) Oct. 4 -No School (Teacher Work Day)

✅Early Release Mondays Survey

Please complete this form for each of your children who are enrolled at Forestville Elementary. The form covers the first two early release Mondays, scheduled for September 23, 2024, and October 28, 2024. If you have multiple children, you will need to submit multiple forms.

Our instructional staff will be in professional development and will not be available, so we need to plan for student supervision and again ask you complete the survey as soon as possible!

🌟Back to School Night 

Wednesday, August 28th

• Session 1- 6:00 - 6:40 p.m.
• Session 2- 6:45 - 7:05 p.m. (Specialists in Cafeteria) 
• Session 3- 7:10 - 7:50pm

Session 1 and 3 will be hosted by your child's teacher, in their classroom, and contain the same information in each session. The additional session is for families who have multiple children at Forestville.

This is an adult-only event; we ask that you arrange childcare for your children so you can attend fully to the information being presented.

📝Opt-Out Information

The 2024-25 Annual Notice of Survey, Records, Curriculum, Privacy, and Related Rights and Opt-Out Forms flyer is now online. If you wish to opt your child out of any of the activities mentioned in the opt-out booklet, you must complete and return the appropriate forms to your child’s school or online through the Parent Digital Consent system.

🚨Emergency Care Card Form - Update 

Emergency Care Card Forms are important in helping us contact you in case of an emergency. Parents can help by assuring that the school has the most up-to-date information. 

Please update any information by using the ParentVue/Online Verification Update system.  To read more about the OVU, visit the OVU page on the FCPS site. To access your ParentVue to update/verify, visit the ParentVue Login page. 

🍴Cafeteria Hostess Needed

Dining Room Assistant : $13.11 per Hour 

Hours: Monday - Friday 10:30 - 2:00 p.m. 

Description: Assists students during lunch time. Supervises student clean-up, keeps order, and dismisses students to their teachers.

Qualifications: Friendly, energetic, and assertive in maintaining expectations of cafeteria behavior, and loves working with children.

Please email Ms.Carlson if interested. 

🔍 Lightspeed Parent Report on Child’s Device Activity

FCPS has tools to help parents know more about their child’s activity on any FCPS device. These tools are provided at no cost to families by Lightspeed, the school division’s internet content filtering service.

Parents may sign up for a weekly Parent Report, which will provide a list of the top sites their child visited. The report also offers parents the ability to sign up for free access to the Internet Use Parent Portal. Through the portal, parents may pause their child’s access to the internet on their FCPS device during non-school hours.

Learn more about Lightspeed Parent Reports.

Update Your Child’s Immunizations and Records

Please check with your healthcare provider as soon as possible to make sure your child is up-to-date on the immunizations required by the state of Virginia. Starting Monday, September 30, students who have not provided proof of immunization will not be allowed to attend school.

📰FCPS News

In case you missed it in FCPS This Week, the school division shared updates on the following topics and others:

• Everything You Can Do Through SIS ParentVUE
• Updating Immunizations and Records
• Transportation Patience and Safety
• Superintendent Reid Welcomes Everyone Back to School

Read FCPS This Week to learn more about these topics. If you are not already receiving this weekly newsletter, please sign up today. 

🍂Fall Carnival Committee

Dunk Tank, Cotton Candy and Games, Oh My!

Many thanks to our Fall Carnival Chairs, Denise Gramsky, Janina Inselman and Jeanette Rachman, for volunteering to plan one of our biggest events of the year. 

If you would like to help out and join our committee, please email social@forestvillepta.org.  There are so many ways you can help out so please consider joining our fun team :)

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