Mark Your Calendars!

February 22: Resilience, Healing and ACEs Parent Workshop 5:00pm

March 5: 2-hour early release

March 8: Student Holiday (staff development day)

March 26: End of Third Quarter: 2-hour early release

March 29- April 2: Spring Break

 

 

 

 

Parent Approval Needed for Digital Resources!

At Fort Belvoir Elementary, our teachers will use a variety of digital resources to support student learning and promote communication and collaboration with students and families. Some of the digital resources your child may use this year will require your consent before they can be used. You can find our school’s list of the resources that require parental consent here.

Included on this page is also a link to a form where the enrolling parent or guardian will need to indicate whether or not their student is allowed to use the list of digital resources this year. Please note, that the form will need to be filled in for each enrolled child. This page also provides more information about how FCPS carefully reviews digital resources for approval and why we must request your consent before using certain tools. We encourage you to complete the parental consent for digital resources form as soon as possible, as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission. Please reach out to your child’s teacher or our School Based Technology Specialists Rejane Martinez (Upper School) or Lauren Damico (Primary School) if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.

Return to School

Dear Families,

We are absolutely thrilled to finally welcome our students back to school! Please take a close look at the timeline for your students’ grade level. Notice there are specific dates that are designated for teacher planning and prep. On these dates your child will complete asynchronous tasks. 

As our students transition back to school, we realize that although a joyous time, it can also be stressful. Please begin having conversations with your child(ren) about the return. Not only are they coming back to a new building, they are also coming back to a warm, welcoming environment and to people who want to see them! We are looking forward to having our Fort Belvoir Dolphins back to make our school alive.

As you know students will need to wear a mask all day (with exception of lunch), wash hands frequently and stay their distance. Take a moment to view this Stop the Spread video with your child.

As we would say at the beginning of every school year, make sure your child has a good night’s sleep to be ready for their school day. A warm breakfast will be available for all students. Every student will also receive lunch. Feel free to pack a lunch for your child if you prefer, we will ask that you not send peanuts until we are sure there are no peanut allergies in your child’s class. Thank you for lending your child to us for a few hours each day.

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February 16th: All students begin their new bell schedule. New hours are
9:45am-4:15pm; Preschool, PAC, EAC return (4 days/wk).

February 23rd: PreK and Kindergarten Return- 2 Days/Week;
Select special education classes return (4 days/week).

March 9th: 1st and 2nd Grade Return- 2 Days/Week.

March 16th: 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grade Return- 2 Days/Week.

 

Did you miss the Virtual Town Hall?

Please click here to watch the recording!

A copy of the presentation is available here.

Technology Support for Families

The FCPS Technology Resource page provides tip sheets and support in multiple languages. These tip sheets provide answers to basic questions about FCPS technologies. Often you can find the answer to your question in these resources. For technical support questions about your online parent accounts, your student’s FCPS laptop, or technology your student uses for online learning, contact the Parent Technology Help Desk (toll free) at 833-921-3277 or enter a support request ticket via the Parent and Student IT Portal.

The Parent Technology Help Desk will be answered 7 a.m.-11 p.m., seven days a week. Parents who need help in a language other than English should let help desk staff know, and an interpreter will join them on the line. (FCPS has Parent Information Phone Lines available in eight languages to assist with general questions about FCPS.)

Parent Resources

Is it Over Yet? How to Help your Child Cope with the Pandemic and the Eventual Return to Normalcy: A Webinar for Families

Join licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Bateman for a webinar focused on parenting strategies to help children cope with the challenges of the pandemic. 

Strategies include: 

• Coping with general stress, changes in daily life/routine, uncertainty about the future, loss of regular activities and social interaction, virtual school, etc.
• Executive functioning to assist with the challenges of virtual school
• Managing anxiety about health and safety
• Building resilience in children to reduce risk of separation anxiety, social anxiety, etc. once the pandemic ends

Friday, February 26, 2021 10 – 11:30 a.m.

Register for Is it Over Yet? How to Help your Child Cope with the Pandemic and the Eventual Return to Normalcy: A Webinar for Families

Grab and Go Meals

Did you pick up your grab and go meal today?

FCPS is excited to begin offering nutritious breakfast and lunch meals, along with snack and supper at select sites when you pick up grab and go meals. Fort Belvoir is one of the sites chosen to offer supper and snacks.  These meals are available at no cost to ALL students through June 30, 2021. Please check the FCPS website for locations offering supper and snacks. 

Meals for Saturdays and Sundays will be distributed at all sites and on bus routes every Friday.  Grab and go breakfast and lunch, as well as supper and snacks at the selected locations, are served at school sites and community locations from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) with both breakfast and lunch being served at the same time. 

Buses are delivering grab and go meals throughout the county. Several new bus routes have been added and some bus stop locations have changed. Any changes to bus routes are posted on the website by 5 p.m. each day. Bus Routes for Food Distribution

If there are bus delays while distributing grab and go meals, the information will be posted here: https://busdelay.fcps.edu/. FCPS will send a message to the affected school communities if a bus route is delayed.

Please visit https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/food for more information.

Community News

Please register for COVID-19 Vaccine Community Conversation- Mt. Vernon High PTSA on Feb 24, 2021 6:30 PM EST here.

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