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Dear Cardinal Families,
Thank you to the families that joined us for Back to School Night on Tuesday. Your partnership with us means a lot and our teachers put a lot of effort into their presentations so that you for kicking off the school year with us! Please continue reading for an important announcement from James Madison High School.
Madison County Fair Cancelled
Due to the forecast of severe weather late this afternoon and into the early evening, our County Fair is cancelled this afternoon. We will communicate the new date in the coming weeks. The football game will kick off as planned.
Warmly,
Allison Hoak, Principal
Jon Kemmerer, Assistant Principal
📆Labor Day Holiday
Friday, August 30, and Monday, September 2, are Labor Day holidays for all FCPS employees and students. Virginia legislation requires that schools opening prior to Labor Day must be closed the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day. We hope everyone takes the long weekend to celebrate a strong start to the school year and enjoy time with family and friends. Students return to school on Tuesday, September 3. See the complete school year calendar.
We want your child to be successful in school and that means supporting and encouraging their whole development. While excelling in academic classes is important, children also need skills to take on learning challenges, make good decisions, manage strong emotions, and get along with others.
In September, we’ll begin Second Step® Elementary, a research-based social-emotional learning program designed to improve children’s social-emotional skills. Second Step skills and concepts are designed to help children both in and out of school. Four units will cover the following:
Growth Mindset & Goal-Setting: Children learn how to pay attention and manage distractions, develop a growth mindset, and apply goal-setting strategies to their social and academic lives.
Emotion Management: Children learn how to identify and label emotions and use emotion management strategies—including stress management for older students—to calm strong feelings.
Empathy & Kindness: Children learn how to recognize kindness and act kindly, have empathy for others and take others’ perspectives, and recognize kind acts and empathy as important elements of building and maintaining relationships.
Problem-Solving: Children learn how to identify and state a problem, recognize if a problem is an accident, and use the STEP problem-solving process:
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S: Say the problem
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T: Think of solutions
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E: Explore the outcomes
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P: Pick a solution
You’ll receive weekly communications from your child’s teacher to help you reinforce Second Step language, skills, and goals at home. If you have any questions about Second Step Elementary, please don’t hesitate to contact our school counselor, Lisa Lujan at lklujan@fcps.edu for more information. Thank you for your support as we work to build a safe and supportive school community.
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