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Hello BVES Families,
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! This past week we had storybook character day. We had so many wonderful costumes and sharing all about the student's favorite books.
I hope you were able to have constructive parent-teacher conferences over the past month. Those conferences are a wonderful time to discuss progress, any learning challenges, and home/school supports.
Our teachers have been hard at work teaching with the new Language Arts curriculum, and we are excited to help all of our students become strong readers and writers! This year we also have new assessments, which is how we check if your student needs extra help with reading and writing, and new Standards of Learning (SOLs).
Because of these changes, we are now teaching all of the Language Arts skills your child needs to know (and checking if they need extra help) throughout the whole school year, instead of different skills each quarter. While these skills will be new to your child in the beginning of the year, the goal is for your child to grow strong in all of their new skills by the end of the year.
This means that when you get your child’s progress report next month, it might look different. Your child’s teacher will give you more information on the new progress reporting and how we’re making sure your child is getting any extra help they might need. You can also find more information on FCPS’ Grading and Reporting webpage.
We hope to see you all on Thursday for our STEAM Night! We have a bunch of amazing stations and STEAM activities for your kiddos to explore. Free pizza and our SCA will be selling baked goods.
Proud Principal,
Katie Pluntke
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