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December 23-January 3, 2025: Winter Break Holiday -- School Closed
January 6: First Day Return to School
January 20: Martin Luther King Day -- School Closed
FCPS 2024-2025 Standard School Year Calendar
Congratulations to our GBW Outstanding Employee Nominees!
We had 9 staff members recommended for Outstanding Employees this year as part of the FCPS Outstanding Employee Recognition Program! We are so proud of these 9 nominees:
- Brooke Johnson (2nd Grade Teacher)
- Sara Maiz (Kindergarten Teacher)
- Missy McNeilly (5th Grade Teacher)
- Charlotte Quigley (School Based Technology Specialist)
- Steve Smith (4th Grade Teacher)
- Sara Strohl (4th Grade Teacher)
- Lisa Scott (5th Grade Teacher)
- Tuan Vo (Building Supervisor)
- Andrew Blount (Principal)
Congratulations to our GBW Outstanding Employee Winners!
We also want to offer a special congratulations to the following staff who were selected as our school winners to represent Greenbriar West ES at the next level of awards in the Chantilly Pyramid:
Not Just Another Christmas Video
After almost four months, the students in the Savage Panda after school program finally completed the next video. It premiered on YouTube last Friday after the morning news show. In the video, students celebrate a variety of holidays throughout the year. To see their latest creation go this link: https://youtu.be/xPZ-1NWeHgc
Community Boundary Review Meetings
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- 📍 Comprehensive Boundary Review Update
The Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee held its second meeting on December 16 at Gatehouse Administration Center. View key takeaways from that meeting and access the meeting agenda, slides, and other materials that committee members received. If you did not get a chance to attend an in-person Community Boundary Review Meeting, please consider participating in a virtual meeting:
- Friday, January 10, 2025, 6-7:30 p.m.
- Thursday, January 16, 2025, 1-2:30 p.m.
- Saturday, January 25, 2025, 9:30-11 a.m.
- Monday, January 27, 2025, 6:30-8 p.m.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 6:30-8 p.m.
- Monday, February 10, 2025, 6:30-8 p.m.
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Language interpretation will be available.
All virtual meetings will follow the same format as the in-person meetings that were recently held, and the same information will be shared. Please stay tuned for details on how to register. Visit FCPS’ Comprehensive Boundary Review webpage to learn more. Sign up for FCPS’ School Boundary Review newsletter as well.
Fairfax County Public Schools want to make sure everyone feels safe and respected at school. To support this priority, two lessons were developed for sixth graders about sexual harassment. These lessons teach what sexual harassment is and how to stop it from happening. Students will learn what to do if they or a friend are being bothered in this way. The lessons also explain how schools help students who are being harassed so they can feel comfortable learning again. School counselors teach these two lessons as part of their counseling curriculum in January 2025.
Parents and guardians may choose to opt their child out of the two sixth-grade lessons on the topic of sexual harassment. Students who are opted out are provided with age-appropriate, non-punitive alternative instruction. Every effort is made to foster respect for family choice. Students will be included in the two sexual harassment lessons unless a parent or guardian completes an opt-out form. Please complete this opt-out form by January 6, 2025.
Formed Families Forward is pleased to offer a new training for parents and caregivers to boost family safety and wellness as you prepare for all of the excitement and disruptions of your children’s break from school and their expectations for winter holiday celebrations. Join us for an interactive workshop and get new strategies for managing the winter break and for starting the new year strong!
December 16, 2024
11:45 am-1:00 pm (with a light lunch provided) OR
6:45 - 8:00 pm (with a light dinner provided)
Location: Charles Houston Recreation Center
Address: 901 Wythe St., Alexandria, VA 22314
Simultaneous SPANISH interpretation is available upon request. Register Here.
Protecting Kids Against Digital Exploitation Webinar
Webinar - Protecting Kids Against Digital Exploitation: Keeping Kids Safe Online December 13, 2024, from 10-11:30 a.m.
Register Here
Join us for this important webinar presented jointly by Fairfax County Schools, the Fairfax County Police Department, the Department of Justice, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Webinar Highlights:
- What is Sextortion?
- What are FCPS and FCPD seeing in relation to sextortion?
- How can families help prevent their kids from becoming victims?
How should families respond if their child was victimized
Our school, in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Department of Education, is conducting the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions. We will survey students in grades 6, as well as classroom instructors and staff, beginning in January 2025. The purpose of the student survey is to measure student support, student engagement, school discipline, and safety conditions in each school. This information will be used to guide educational practices that produce a safe and supportive school environment.
The student survey will be completed between January 6-February 28, 2025. The survey does not ask for your child’s name and all answers are anonymous. No one, including teachers and administrators, will know how your child answered the survey questions. You will not have access to your child’s survey answers. You may preview the questions asked in the student survey at this website: https://tinyurl.com/VaSchoolSurveyDCJS .
The survey will ask questions such as how students feel about their school, how students get along with one another and their teachers, how students feel about school rules, and their perceptions of their teachers’ willingness to help them. Please note that there are questions about topics that may be sensitive to some, including questions about bullying, mental health, and suicide. This is a great time to talk to your child about these important issues. For guidance and more resources on these topics, please see https://tinyurl.com/MentalHealthdcjs or https://tinyurl.com/VDOEstudentservices.
All students in your child’s grade level are eligible to participate in the survey. The survey is voluntary, and you and/or your child can decide they prefer not to participate. No action will be taken against you, your child, or the school if your child does not participate. If you do not wish for your child to participate, please complete this form by December 20, 2024.
The Virginia School Survey results are provided to the school around the end of the school year. You can find survey results for your school and division here: https://tinyurl.com/VaSchoolSurvey. The results are used by the school, the division, and the state to identify strengths and to address relevant needs to improve learning environments for your child as well as students across the state.
Thank you for your cooperation in this important study of Virginia’s schools.
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