Rocket Review for FVES Families
Welcome Back Newsletter 21-22
Dear Rockets,
The 2021-2022 school year is almost here! We are all very excited to begin a new school year. We are so thankful to have YOU as part of our FVES team and are happy to call you FAMILY. This year will be a family reunion of sorts with most of our students coming daily to school for live instruction.
Our first opportunity to meet this year will be at Meet the Teacher on Thursday, August 19th from 3:00-5:00 PM for first through fifth grade students. We will split our Meet the Teacher into two sections with family last names starting with A-L coming from 3:00-3:45 PM and families with last names starting with M-Z attending from 4:00-4:45 PM. Parents and students will be able to meet their teachers and visit classrooms. Parents may also register students for Before and After School Care and check bus routes in the media center. In the cafeteria, parents may sign up for carpool numbers and set up meal accounts.
For our Kindergarten Students only, Meet the Teacher will be Friday, August 27th from 10:00-11:00 AM. Monday, August 23rd is our first day of school for all 1st-5th graders. Kindergarteners will participate in staggered entry and will have an assigned day to attend the first week of school with their first FULL week of kindergarten beginning Monday, August 30th. There will be many updates in the coming weeks that will come home in Monday folders or will be posted on our school website: http://fuquayes.wcpss.net. Please make sure you check the Monday folders every week and take time to review the information sent over the coming days. You will also receive bi-weekly messages that will include school updates and important information. We hope to clearly communicate with you each and every day at FVES. We are sure this will be a great year for your child at FVES. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Wishing you Well,
Heather Johnson
Principal
Arrival/ Dismissal/ Transportation
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. If your child is riding the bus, please make sure you have registered your child for transportation. You can find this information on our website: https://www.wcpss.net/fuquayvarinaes and then by clicking on the transportation tab a little further down on the page.
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.
Teacher Assignment Notification
Technology Provided By WCPSS
Arrival/ Dismissal Procedures
Carpool students are to be dropped off between 8:45 AM and 9:15 AM and be picked up from 3:45-4:05 PM in the carpool lane. Each carpool student will receive a carpool decal to hang in their car and students will have an assigned carpool number. Please assist your child in learning their carpool number. We ask that drivers adhere to our safety procedures, which include moving in a single file through the carpool lane (not in the bus lane) and parking only in the designated parking lots when needed. Please refrain from using your cellphone and from using all tobacco products while driving through the carpool lane and while on campus in the car. Please do not park in the handicapped parking spots unless you have a handicapped parking decal. It is also very important not to send students unaccompanied through any carpool or parking lots on campus. Our safety procedures and policies will be strongly enforced to ensure that our students and staff can enter and exit the building without risk of injury. Check out our map below for entry/exit points and traffic flow directions.
Before and After School Programming
Again, this year, FVES will offer an on-site “Before and After School Care Program” for those families who need a structured childcare setting between the hours of 7:00 AM- 8:45 AM (before school) and between 4:00 PM-6:00 PM (after school). Program staff are listed below and can be reached via email for questions about this program and they will be on hand during all “Meet the Teacher” events.
Before School Care
Registration: $15.00
Monthly Fee: $94.65
Director: Pam Morman
After School Care
Registration: $15.00
Monthly Fee: $108.17
Director: Donna Myers
Payments can be made online OR by contacting the director for more information on additional payment options. You may go to our website to register at the link below:
Medication
PTA DATES and EVENTS- August and September
August 2021
17th – Welcome Back Teacher Luncheon
19th – Meet the Teacher
23rd – 1st Day of School
27th - Kinder Orientation
September 2021
6th – No School
7th – No School
14th – Spirit Night – TBD
16th – No School
16th – TA Appreciation Day
28th- Open House General Meeting
School Meals
For the 21-22 school year, all meals for breakfast and lunch are free.
Breakfast: please have your carpool student at school by 8:55 for them to have enough time to eat breakfast.
Lunch: for students bringing their lunch to school, please try your best to provide some healthy choices that can be opened independently.
Volunteering
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/fveskindergartenPrincipal: Heather Johnson, hmjohnson@wcpss.net
Assistant Principal: Kelly Bradshaw, kbradshaw@wcpss.net
School Secretary/Bookkeeper: Missy James, mjames6@wcpss.net
Front Office Receptionist: Amanda Dial, adial@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.net