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🌍✨ Sign Your Child Up for the Multicultural Night 2025 Fashion Show! ✨🌍
Multicultural Night 2025 is coming soon, and we’re looking for students to walk the runway in our annual fashion show!
Last Thursday, flyers were sent home with students interested in modeling traditional clothing that represents their culture. If your child would like to participate, please fill out the form that was sent home and return it to school by April 10.
✅ Students must have their own traditional outfit to wear.✅ Confirmation letters with rehearsal dates and details will be sent home on April 10 or 11. ✅ First rehearsal: April 11✅ Multicultural Night: Thursday, May 1
This event is open to Dogwood students only. If you need another form, email Ms. Armstrong at karmstrong@fcps.edu or call our main office. We can’t wait to celebrate our diverse community on the runway! 🌎💃🕺
Dogwood Action April
At the heart of being an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School is agency and empowering our students to take action. Throughout the month of April, we will engage in Action April in which our students will be presented with different ways to take action every day. Our students will also reflect and share ways that they took action and how it made them feel.
Please ask your child, “How did you take action today? How did it make you feel?”
Register your Dogwood Dragon for Kindergarten
Please join us on Thursday, April 24th from 4:30-6:30 PM for Dogwood kindergarten registration.
**Please note, families are encouraged to register their child as soon as possible for kindergarten. This date accommodates families after typical office hours to register their child.**
🏫 Helping Your Child Prepare for KindergartenWe recognize that parents are their children’s first teachers. Explore the resources on FCPS’ School Readiness and Transition to Kindergarten webpage for ways to help ensure your child starts kindergarten with confidence.
Excellence Is at a Crossroads
Fairfax County residents believe in the value of a strong public school system. Residents live here because of the excellence of Fairfax County Public Schools, even our community members with grown children. Excellence in FCPS comes from its people — dedicated teachers and support staff who make sure that our students are ready to learn. Today, that excellence is at a crossroads.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will finalize the budget on Tuesday, May 6, and the current advertised budget underfunds FCPS by $150 million.
Now is the time. Do we want continued excellence, or are we ready to consider cuts to important programs that we have come to expect from FCPS?
Do you believe in the power and promise of public education? Go to fcps.edu/crossroads.
⏰ Share Your Thoughts on School Start Times
FCPS would like to hear from all families on the possibility of adjusting school start times across the division. Please check your email for a survey link from Fairfax County Public Schools. It was also sent to staff as well as to students in grades 5-12. The confidential survey will be open through Saturday, April 12.
Military-Connected Family Support
FCPS welcomes all of our new and returning military-connected families throughout the year! Whether your family is moving permanently to the school district or living here for a short time, our schools and support staff welcome you and will be able to assist with your transition into and/or out of our district.
Visit the FCPS Military Families webpage and sign up to receive the Military Families newsletter. Follow FCPS Military Families accounts on Facebook and Instagram for support and resources throughout the year. If you have any questions, please email the FCPS Family and School Partnerships team.
FCPS News
In case you missed it in FCPS This Week, the school division shared updates on the following topics and others:
- FCPS Budget
- School Start Times Survey
- Month of the Military Child
Read FCPS This Week to learn more about these topics. If you are not already receiving this weekly newsletter, please sign up today.
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April 14-18: Spring Break: No school for most. Spring Sprouts and Blooming Readers will be on campus
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April 24: Kindergarten Orientation at 4:30-6:30.
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April 25: Stuff the Bus Event (SLHS Food Pantry donations)
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April 26: Dogwood Cleanup Day 9:00 AM
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April 28: Three Hour Early Release Dismissal 12:35 PM
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April 29: Class Photos
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May 1: Dogwood Multicultural Night at 5:30-7:30
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May 4: Dogwood Color Run at 10:00
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May 5- 9: Teacher Appreciation Week
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May 6- 21: Standards of Learning (SOL) Grades 3- 6th
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May 19: Three Hour Early Release Dismissal 12:35 PM
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May 29: 6th Grade Basketball Game at 5:30-7:30
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June 2: Field Day
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June 3: Strings and Band Concert at 6:00 Gym
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June 5th & 6th: PYP Exhibition (PYPX)
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June 11: 6th Grade Promotion at 9:00 Gym
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June 11: Last Day of School Early Release 1:35 PM
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