The Rocket Review
December 13-17
Updates and Reminders
As I send out this newsletter the last week of school for 2021, I hope that all of our families have a safe, fun, and healthy holiday season. We are all very thankful for your family here at FVES. We look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday, January 3!
PTA Holiday Lunch: Thank You to our PTA for sponsoring our staff's lunch on Friday, December 17! We are so thankful for the gift of food and fellowship on this day!
School Needs: We are looking for new packages of size small underwear for students that have accidents at school! Boys and girls in sizes 5-8! You can drop off any donations to the front office. Thank you!
Coat Needs: We have a number of new boys coats that we would love to distribute to our families in need! Please email or call our Dawn White our Social Worker (info below) if you are interested.
Dawn White, MSW
School Social Worker
Fuquay-Varina Elementary School
919-557-2566 office
Ext: 20720
Holiday Roll: We are planning some fun things for our staff the last week of school (December 13-17). If you want to donate to this fun event, feel free to send in a grab bag of prizes that you think teachers would love (supplies, gift cards, chocolate, etc). Each day, teachers and staff will spin the wheel of fun for prizes and fun activities. On the 17th, the PTA is sponsoring a Staff Lunch to cap off the fun! If you send items, please label them for Heather Johnson.
School Volunteers: We know you that you are ready to get in our school to support our teachers and students and we are SO ready to have you here! Although we don't know when, we are hopeful that it could be as soon as the new year that volunteers are welcome back into our school. In preparation for this, please stop by any WCPSS school to complete the online volunteer registration process. Once this step is complete, you will receive an email to complete a background check. After this step and your approval, you will be ready to jump in here when the time comes! We are encouraging all of our families to be proactive and register if you anticipate wanting to come help in our school and/or go on field trips.
Arrival/ Dismissal/ Transportation/Attendance Reminders: You may arrive as early as 8:45 AM and our day will begin at 9:15 AM. Please be sure you are here on time. Please arrive to pick up your child at 3:45 PM. Your child’s educational achievement is directly related to his/her attendance in school. When your child must be absent, please send written communication into school within 2 days of their return in order for the absence to be excused. If we do not receive communication from you about the absence, it will be unexcused. Please refer to the WCPSS Student/Parent Handbook for a list of excused absence reasons. If you need to pick up your child early, please send a note to your child’s teacher that morning. To be considered present at school, students must be in attendance at least one-half of the school day. Half day is 12:30 PM. To ensure the safety of all students and provide an orderly dismissal, we ask that you check out students by 3:15 PM if you have appointments requiring an early check out.
Transition to New Receptionist: Thank you for your continued support and patience as we train new staff members in the office. We are thrilled to welcome Ms. Leach to the front office, however, it does require a learning curve. If you call the front office and the line goes to voicemail, please leave a message and we will call back. We are checking messages frequently throughout the day.
We appreciate you and will see you in 2022!
Wishing you Well,
Heather Johnson
Principal
Staff Breakfast Sponsors
- McDonald's of Fuquay: Donated breakfast biscuits
- Flowers on Broad Street: Donating our beautiful centerpieces for our tables
Please consider supporting these local businesses as a Thank You for their support of us!
myOn - Keep Reading!
Student can:
- Annotate texts
- Listen to story read aloud
- Speed up or slow down read aloud options
- Look up unknown words to increase their vocabulary
- Read texts that are interesting and considered "just right" for their current reading level
myON Resources:
Winter Family Letter (English)
Online Book Fair
We are holding an online Book Fair. Flyers should come home with your child soon if it hasn't already. Our school's code is FVES1 that you have to enter to shop the book fair. You can enjoying shopping through December 8.
Anything that you would like delivered to our school by the last day of school (Friday, December 17) needs to be ordered by December 8. Shipping is free to the school, but the books will be delivered unwrapped. If you would like your child's gift hidden, please email your child's teacher(s) directly to arrange this. All orders will be 10% off. Just go to bedfordfallsusa.com/login and register with the code FVES1 to begin shopping!
Fall Picture Day!
Spring Individual + Classroom Picture Day
- Friday, March 25, 2022
Volunteer Opportunity!
We would LOVE your help and NEED your help! Our instructional assistants are being pulled to cover classrooms and already cover lunch duty. Would you be willing to volunteer some time 1x (or more) a week to help in the cafeteria? You would walk around and encourage students to eat, keep things clean, and help with supervision!
If You're Willing:
1. Make sure you are a registered volunteer! Come by during school hours to sign up in our Media center if you haven't already.
2. Be ready to wear a mask while you are on campus!
3. Please be on time:) so the coverage is helpful!
4. If you can, sign up for a buddy slot to help another grade level.
Your 45 minutes to 1.5 hours will change our day and help us keep focused on teaching and learning! This would be a life changer! Sign up here ONLY after you have Volunteer Clearance Status! Email Mrs. Johnson after signing up online at hmjohnson@wcpss.net to check to see if you're cleared to volunteer.
Join Our FVES PTA!
Click here to join online!
Fuquay-Varina Elementary School Resources
Front Office Number: (919) 557-2566
School Fax Number: (919) 670-4210
School Website: https://www.wcpss.net/fuquayvarinaes
Kindergarten Website: https://sites.google.com/wcpss.net/fveskindergarten1st Grade Website: https://sites.google.com/wcpss.net/fvesfirstgrade
Principal: Heather Johnson, hmjohnson@wcpss.net
Assistant Principal: Kelly Bradshaw, kbradshaw@wcpss.net
School Secretary/Bookkeeper: Amanda Dial, adial@wcpss.net
Front Office Receptionist: Remikka Leach rsleach@wcpss.net
Data Manager/ Attendance: Lisa McNeill, mmcneill2@wcpss.net
Cafeteria Manager: Stefanie Morales, cns420@wcpss.net
Special Education Lead Teacher: soquendo@wcpss.net
School Counselors: Kristen Bush: kbush@wcpss.net & Michelle Brick, mbrick@wcpss.netKelly Bradshaw, Assistant Principal
Our School
Heather Johnson, Principal
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