Forestville Elementary School

Click on the headline to find out, well, what Forestville families need to know. You'll find when class lists will be posted, Back to School Night and Bell Schedules, links to the Parent Handbook and more! This season’s Chess Club will start Wednesday, September 17th, 2008! Registration will begin Tuesday, September 2nd and will end Monday, September 15th. Please click on the headline above for more information and to register. The Club is open to children in grades 2-6 and welcomes players of all skill levels. The Chess Club is taught by a professional chess instructor and lasts for 15 weeks. The Club meets on Wednesdays immediately after school until 5:15pm in the cafeteria. Students cannot begin school in the fall without documentation of having had the TDAP booster or having had a tetanus-containing vaccine within the past five years. For medical exemptions including students who will turn 11 in September, a note from the doctor is required. For religious exemptions, you need to submit the Commonwealth of VA Certification of Religious Exemption form notarized. If you have received the TDAP booster, you need to bring in the documentation to the office as soon as possible. Forestville has received approval to begin its keyless entry program designed to increase school safety and security. Beginning Tuesday, May 20th, the front school entrance and SACC entrance(7) will be open until 9:15 AM. After that, all school doors will be locked and will require parents and visitors to press a button near the entrance to gain entrance. Monitors in the building will allow staff members to "buzz" in the parents/visitors based on an audiovisual system. When you approach a school entrance, you will know based on the security hardware if it has keyless entry access. Not every entrance is accessible through this new method. Given that Forestville has hundreds of volunteers and visitors each year, we expect there to be a learning curve as we adapt to this new system. We also expect it to improve school security. Forestville will work with the FCPS Security Office and Facilities to insure a smooth transition to the new system. Thank you! The new keyless entry system will affect SACC in a few ways:

1. The doors will be open in the morning for Before School SACC, so those of you who use only this service will not be affected.
2. During the After School session, the door will be locked at all times and SACC staff will have to "buzz in" all parents and pick up persons.
3. On occasions when all SACC staff and children are on the playground, a staff member will walk you to the door and let you in. This will be the practice until a better solution is reached.

This will be a transition for all of us and we appreciate your patience and understanding as we all adjust to this new system. Thank you, Forestville SACC Team Parents now have the opportunity to create an FCPS 24-7 Learning account of their own.  The parent’s access into FCPS 24-7 Learning is called Parent View. The Parent View account gives parents the opportunity to view all of their childrens’ homework and other assignments online.  Parent accounts will also give parents access to other important features like weCare@schools.  weCare@schools is the online system that allows parents to submit emergency care information for their children online. Click on the headline to create your Parent View account. Read about the Forestville Teacher Leadership Program, B.L.O.O.M. (Building Learning through Original and Optimal Means) to learn about the higher order thinking strategies that are developing. Click on the headline to read the School Improvement Plan for this school year. Fairfax County Public schools has partnered with Microsoft to participate in a program that will enable students, staff members, and Adult and Community Education students to purchase Microsoft software titles at discounted prices.Purchases will be made through a fulfillment partner, Journey Education Marketing (also known as Journey Ed). Click on the headline for additional information. Over 375 families have signed up! Have you?
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