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- September 23rd, Monday - 3 hr Early release
Powell families,
It has been an exciting week at Powell!
Thank you to all of the families that attended BTSN. We appreciate the time shared to learn about the school year ahead!
We would like to give a big shoutout to Ocean, 2nd grade student, for creating our inaugural display in the YOU-seum to showcase what makes him unique! When you are visiting, please check out the showcase in the lobby outside the cafeteria. It will be redecorated everyone two weeks by different students to showcase what makes our students unique. This month, we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. If your child or friendship group would like to sign up to share makes you Uniquely You, please sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y3sn2uca
We will be hosting our first PTA General Membership Meeting this Monday, September 9th at 7PM via Zoom. Join today and we hope you all of our members will login for the meeting on Monday evening. The Zoom meeting link will be shared by the PTA with members prior to the meeting.
Best,
Jamie Luerssen
Principal
Spread the love! Show your appreciation for our fantastic staff by submitting a recognition on FCPS Cares. Every kind word counts!
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.
Parent Ability Retest Requests: If your child is in grades 3-6 and you would like your child to be retested, please send an email to our testing coordinator Eun J Cho, Echo1@fcps.edu, or the Advanced Academic Resource Teacher (AART) Kathleen Bach, kmbach@fcps.edu. The email should include your child’s full name, student ID, and a statement indicating a request for a retest. The deadline to submit a retest for CogAT is September 15th. The deadline to submit a retest for NNAT is October 15th. You may only have one retest on one ability test, not both.
  
This week students finished their Uniquely You Hands artwork for Original Works! We are so proud of what our Puma artists have accomplished! They will look amazing as a keepsake! The next step is to package and send all the artwork to Original Works for processing. Each artwork is scanned, and uploaded into our school’s Online Gallery. Once we receive the ordering instructions, we will send them home in Tuesday folders. The ordering window will run from October 24th to November 7th. Continue to look for updates here in the Puma Press and on your students Art Schoology page. Any questions? Please reach out to one of our art teachers, Maria Gangitano at mgangitano@fcps.edu or Margret Washington at mswashington@fcps.edu
Thank you for supporting this unique and creative program!
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What to expect on picture day
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- When an order is placed online, the parent/guardian will receive a camera pass via email. This can either be printed or texted to the student and brought to picture day. The photographer will photograph the printed camera pass along with the student.
- If a student is not able to print their camera pass, that is not a problem. We will match up the student to their order manually in the production process.
- A parent may order from the flyer up until 24 hours after picture day. After 24 hours, the online ordering access may close. This will allow our imaging team to "Pull" all orders submitted and match them with the students photographed.
- When pictures are returned to school, all students that purchased pictures will receive their prepaid package. Any student that was photographed but did not order a package, will receive a "Proof" (PX) of their picture that was taken on picture day.
All proof packages offer parents a second opportunity to order prints. All orders are subject to shipping and handling costs of up to $8.50 and will be shipped directly to home.
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Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) believes in supporting social and emotional learning (SEL) for all students. In FCPS, students use a tool called the SEL Screener to think about their own SEL skills and experiences at school. Powell ES students in grades 3-6 will be participating in the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener in the Fall and Spring.
After each screening, results are available in the Documents tab of SIS ParentVUE and mailed to families without a ParentVUE account. For more information about the SEL Screener including information on opting out please see below Notification of Testing. You can also learn more on the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener webpage.
 2024 Tag Day is Saturday, September 14!
Support the Centreville High School Music Department!
Our Band, Choral, and Orchestra students will be knocking on neighborhood doors on Saturday September 14 throughout the Centreville HS pyramid asking for your support of the CVHS music department. The donations are used to purchase uniforms, instruments, equipment and first-class guest instructors.
In case you are not home, our link to donate is https://tinyurl.com/CVHS-Tagday
Thank you for supporting the Centreville High School Music Department!
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