Timberwolf Times -June 13, 2022

School Wide Focus for June: Focusing on all the Habits

"We truly do Everything Better Together as a

Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence"

Dear Timberwolf Families,

Can you believe it is the LAST WEEK of SCHOOL? We have had an amazing year!! See below for the Lunch Menu for the last week.

THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS JUNE 15, 2022 - Dismissal TIME WILL BE 12:20 pm

Monday, June 13, 2022

Breakfast Choices: Breakfast Pizza or Cereal and sides for all choices.

Lunch Choice (This is our Read Out Picnic Day): Beef Hot Dog, Cheeseburger, Morning Star Nuggets (Vegetarian), or Yogurt (Cold choice) and sides for all choices.

For the Read Out Picnic, please send students with a hat, blanket to sit on, and a good book to read. You may want to add sunscreen on your child before sending them to school.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Breakfast Choices: Pancake Puppy or Cereal and sides for all choices.

Lunch Choices: Pepperoni Pizza or Cheese Pizza(Vegetarian) or Yogurt and sides for all choices.

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (Last Day of School – Early Dismissal)

Breakfast Choices: Ham and Cheese Croissant or Cereal and sides for all choices.

Lunch Choices: Crispy Chicken or Cheesy Bread (Vegetarian) or Yogurt and sides for all choices.

THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS JUNE 15, 2022 - Dismissal TIME WILL BE 12:20 pm

This is the time of the year, where we need your help to remind our students to stay focused and to continue to do their best and make thoughtful and positive choices each day! We want a great ending to our school year! Thank you for taking the time by being proactive and reminding students to put first things first and remember the 3Bs: Be Responsible and Ready to Learn, Be Kind and Respectful, and Be Safe Each Day. We started this year beginning with the end in mind and we want to stay focused all the way to the end!! Thank you

We truly do Everything Better Together as a Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Dr. Andrew Buchheit

Principal

#TimberwolvesROCK

“Because YOU are here, ANYTHING is possible”

Provided there are no unexpected closures that impact the school schedule between now and the end of this school year, the last day of school for the 2021–22 school year will be Wednesday, June 15.

• Elementary and middle school students will be dismissed on a half-day schedule. at 12:20pm
• June 15 dismissal times for all schools will be posted to the Transportation Department webpage when they are available.
• Lunch will be served in elementary and middle schools.
• SACC will open at dismissal for all enrolled students and will remain open until 6:30 p.m. in the program only.

Car Rider Tags - Parents can keep their car rider tags if they are returning next year. If you are not returning, please turn in both tags to the front office. This is a huge help to our school to get these tags back. Please contact Mrs. Kanakasabapathy at 703.594.3990 if you have any questions.

Dear Timberwolf Families,

Please have your students check the Lost and Found - we have a lot of awesome jackets and coats and even some water bottles. All items will be donated after the last day of school.
I would like to reunite these lost items with their owners so they can once again become found items and return to their homes.

Thank you,
​​​​​​​Dr. Andrew Buchheit, Principal

Just a few reminders from Mr. Taylor (Tech Coach in charge of student devices) as we begin collecting devices:

Make sure your device is at school. Your child does not need to bring it home anymore as we get close to winding down our school year. Make sure the charger and laptop bag (everyone received a charger, but not everyone got a laptop bag) are at school so they can be collected. Per the device agreement that you signed when you registered, you are responsible for loss or damage to your child’s device if you chose not to purchase the optional insurance. The most common types of damage parents/guardians will be responsible for include:

• A cracked screen
• Missing keys on the keyboard
• Water damage
• A lost charger

As I (Mr. Taylor) begin collecting devices, I will contact you regarding payment if this type of damage is discovered. If you purchased the insurance for your child, there are no additional costs for any damages.

Remember that even without a PWCS device, your child can still access Clever, Office365, Minecraft: Education Edition, and more from your personal devices. You can always reset your child’s password at http://toolbox.pwcs.edu. Clever is a great resource to use over the summer, as your child can practice typing on Typing.com, reading skills on Lexia, math on Dreambox/IXL, and more. There are dozens of useful apps to help keep your child engaged in learning over the summer.

Finally, if your child will be attending summer school, they will be keeping their T. Clay Wood device to use for summer school. When I come to your child’s class to collect all the devices in the room, I’ll make sure to give your child’s device a quick cleaning and make sure it’s in great shape for the summer. If you don’t have a case for your device, but would like one, you can request one (you can email me OR your child can simply ask for one when they see me).

If you have questions, please contact me (Mr. Taylor – taylorbi@pwcs.edu)

Broderick Taylor

Instructional Technology Coach

T. Clay Wood Elementary School

703-594-3990

Kindergarten Registration is open - you start the process online - Registration - Prince William County Public Schools (pwcs.edu)

Parents/Guardians: Do you have a kindergarten student to enroll? Registration is required for all new students. Begin your online registration now. Please visit the PWCS Kindergarten Registration webpage.

Padres/tutores: ¿Tiene usted un estudiante de kindergarten ser registrado? Se requiere la inscripción de todos los nuevos estudiantes. Comience su registro en línea ahora. Por favor visite: https://www.pwcs.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=340225&pageId=775554

If your student has medication in the clinic, please pick it up prior to 2pm on June 15th. If your student is attending summer school and has a health treatment plan on file, please let me know by Monday the 13th, so that I can have a copy ready for you when the medication is picked up. I cannot send medication home with your student, unless we have a doctors order stating the student may self-carry. If you have any questions please call me at 703-594-3990.

Ms. Ousley

President-Maddie Mannion

Vice President-Carsen Daughtery

Community Outreach-Olivia Cannon & Erika Fromkecht

Hospitality-William Yuditsky & Mazzy Marsh

PTO Representative-Sofia Grupposo

Advisory Council Representative-Mia McGuigan

Media Leader- Maggie Grupposo, Xavien Nesbitt,

Vinatak Sundaram & Carlie Quick

*Afternoon Peace Outers- Andre Solisarteaga & Desmond Willis

*Will not be included in monthly Lighthouse meetings

Dear Timberwolf Families,

Just a few reminders about our parking lot and picking up and dropping off each day to help continue to ensure the safety of our students, staff, and other families.

1. Please enter our car rider line in the morning and afternoon through the T. Clay Wood Entrance. We have had a couple of reports and issues with cars entering through the Patriot Entrance.

2. Please only enter through the entrance lane and exit out the exit lane.

3. Please be vigilant as you drive through our parking lot - we have students, staff, and families coming in and out of all different directions.

4. Please do not leave your car in the car rider line unattended. All drivers must be in their cars when parked in the car rider lane.

5. Please follow the posted speed limit.

6. If you park to walk your student in, please park and walk your student to the cross walk if there are still staff out there. If staff has already entered the building, please walk your student into the office and sign him or her in.

Thank you for following these procedures to help keep your child, other people's children, staff, and parents safe at all times.

Thank you,
Dr. Andrew Buchheit, Principal

PWCS has partnered with Paper to provide K-12 students with unlimited tutoring, 7 days a week—at no cost to families.

Students can get help with their homework, receive feedback on their writing assignments, or ask questions about any academic subject. Experts are available to assist students with any subject or content area via a secure, chat-based platform.

Tutors are currently available to help students in English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin.

You can access Paper right from your student's Clever Account. Or you can use this Link to Access Paper: https://paper.co/

Learn how to use the Free Online Paper Tutoring Service by clicking on this PWCS Link: https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/Instructional_technology/paper

Dear Timberwolf Families,

Registration for the Prince William Summer School Program has opened. It will close on June 15, 2022. Families register their children through ParentVue.

Registration for the Prince William Summer School Program has opened. It will close on June 15, 2022. Families register their children through ParentVue.

Directions to Register for Summer School:

Login to ParentVue: https://va-pwcps-psv.edupoint.com/Home_PXP2.aspx

Go to Online Records at the Top of the Screen

Scroll to the bottom of the page, “Please select the online packet you would like to begin” Drop down menu, Select “2021-2022 Summer School Registration”. (If you have any other registrations open, you will need to cancel any other registrations to get back to the selection process.)

Click Begin Online Packet: Follow the prompts to complete the registration.

Video directions- https://flipgrid.com/s/1H1FAZ5ToMD1

This year there is no tuition cost for summer school. Summer school will be free of charge for all students who apply.

The T. Clay Wood Summer School Program will take place at Victory Elementary School.

The Summer School Program will run from July 11- July 29, 2022. Hours are 9:00 am - 12:30 pm.

Transportation services is provided. However, bus stops may be different from regular school year bus stops.

Here is a link with lots of information about Summer School - https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/student_management___alternative_programs/summer_school/elementary_school_summer_school_information

Summer School is a great opportunity for our students to improve necessary skills through interactive and engaging activities. Students will receive instruction in Language Arts and Math.

I will also be sending out letters specifically to students who teachers are recommending attend summer school. However, this year summer school is open to all kg-5th grade students in Prince William County for no charge.

Dear Parents,

T. Clay Wood ES and Prince William County Schools has purchased an incredible reading program for your student for this school year. It is entirely free for your student to use this year. We are encouraging all students to use the program each day.

Lexia is a program to help your student with reading. We are encouraging all students to use Lexia for 10-20 minutes per day. (at least 40-60 minutes a week). Lexia is engaging and works at your students personalized reading level.

All students have been shown how to access Lexia. Please help your student remember to log on to Lexia and work on Lexia each day.

Below are the 3 step directions to access Lexia:

1. Go to https://clever.com/in/pwcs

Log in - Clever

https://clever.com/trust/privacy/policy. https://clever.com/about/terms

clever.com

2. Log in with Office36

3. In Clever, scroll down until your see the blue globe for Lexia Core 5- Click on the Lexia

Families will now be able to log into their ParentVUE accounts and see their student’s SOL test scores. Test scores from the current test administration (Spring 2022 SOL Non-Writing) will be posted to ParentVUE sometime in June. In addition to scores being listed in ParentVUE, T. Clay Wood Elementary School will be emailing the SOL test results as they become available to the email address listed in the Hub. Please note that it may take a few days after your child takes the SOL for the scores to be available and emailed. If you have any questions, please contact our test coordinator, Melissa Yuditsky at yuditsml@pwcs.edu.

Monday, June 13, 2022 - Day 2.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - Day 3

• Hooray for K; 2:30 pm - Cafeteria
• 5th grade Promotion Celebration - 6pm - Patriot HS

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - Day 0

• Last Day of School - Dismissal 12:20pm
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Thursday, June 16, 2022 -

• Get some books from the public library to read this summer.

Friday, June 17, 2022-

• Enjoy your summer

I wanted to send a reminder out to all families to be sure to know what your students are doing when they are on the internet, using devices to complete their school work, using social media, texting with friends, or playing online games. We continually are reminding our students about appropriate and acceptable use of technology. I encourage all parents and guardians to regularly check what their students are doing on the internet and while using technology -(school devices, gaming systems, home devices, phones, etc). Just as you monitor where your children go in person, I encourage you to monitor where they go on the internet. I would also encourage all families to consider adding parental controls on their personal devices that students use. If you have any questions about student devices, please feel free to reach out to Mr. Taylor, our Instructional Technologist at TaylorBi@pwcs.edu. Thank you.

Phones - Reminder: If students bring in phones to school they must remain in their backpack and turned off. Please let all your family members know not to call your elementary school student during the day. If you need to change dismissal, please let our front office know by calling 703.594.3990.

Also I recommend that all parents and guardians turn off the Air Drop feature on their Iphones. I have heard of students at secondary schools air dropping inappropriate photos into all phones that can receive airdrop and then other students accepting those photos. You can turn this off on your students' device.

1.Phones/Smart Watches - Please remind students they should not be using their phones or smart watches to call or text during the school day.

2. Daily Home Screening - Parents/guardians/caregivers are asked to complete this screening each morning prior to a student boarding a school bus or arriving at school. On the Daily Home Screening webpage, they have also included information about how to make decisions about sending a student to school if he/she has been exposed to another person with COVID-19.Questions about the student daily home screening can be directed to Mrs. Ousley, our school nurse.

3. Medicine – All medicine needs to be dropped off by a parent/guardian to our school office. Students are not allowed to bring medicine into the building themselves.

4. Attendance Email - when your student is absent, tardy, has an early dismissal, or a change to their dismissal, please use our attendance email - cwes-timberwolf-attendance@pwcs.edu

5. DISMISSAL

Please note a change to the Parent Handbook - Starting the week of January 3, 2022, if you need to pick up your student early from school, please arrive prior to 3:15pm. Here is the change. Please do not arrive early and ask to pick up your child unless you have an appointment. Instruction continues until students are dismissed. If you need to pick up your child for an appointment, please plan to arrive before 3:15pm. Please park and report to the office. Please do not leave your car unattended in the pickup lane.

Emergency Card - All parents picking up a student from the office must show a photo ID and be listed on the student’s emergency card. Please inform the office beforehand if someone other than the parent is picking up your child from school for dismissal. The emergency card information is only used by school staff in case of an emergency with your student when school staff is not able to get in contact with the parent or guardian. It does not give the individuals listed on the emergency card the right to pick up your children at any time unless the parent or guardian sends in written permission to school informing us that the individual is allowed to pick the student up from school on the specific date.

3:15 pm - If you must pick your student up early, please arrive before 3:15 pm. We will not be able to call students to the office after 3:15 pm until all car riders are picked up. Students called for dismissal after 3:15 pm will be sent to the car rider area and will be brought up after all car riders are dismissed with the supervising teachers. This way we can reduce interruptions to the classrooms, provide continual supervision for all our students and give our focus in the office to dismissing students. Parents coming in after 3:15 pm will be asked to wait in the vestibule outside of the office and once their students are brought up to come in and sign their students out.

6. Purchasing Device Insurance later in the school year

The best time to purchase device insurance is at the beginning of the school year, within the first 30 days of the device being issued. If you wish to purchase device insurance later in the year, you can purchase from Securranty, but the policy will not become active until our Technical Specialist has a chance to inspect your child's device at school and verify that it has no preexisting damage. If our Technical Specialist determines that your device already contains some sort of damage, it may not be eligible for insurance coverage.

What if I purchase insurance, but after visual inspection my device isn't eligible for coverage?

It depends on the reason your device isn't eligible. If we determine that your device isn't eligible because your child damaged it, you will need to pay for the damage. After the device is repaired, you can then activate the insurance policy against future damage to the device. If your device isn't eligible because it has another issue (not caused by your child), we may be able to swap the device out for a different device and activate the policy for the new device. If we are unable to activate your policy, we will work with Securranty to issue you a refund for your purchase since you're unable to activate it.

A Prince William County School of Excellence

“A Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence”

10600 Kettle Run Road; Nokesville, VA 20181

Andrew Buchheit, Principal - buchhear@pwcs.edu

Melissa Yuditsky, Assistant Principal yuditsml@pwcs..edu

“A Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence”

School hours: 9:15 am – 3:55 pm

(Office hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)

SCHOOL SCHEDULE

Doors Open: 9:05 a.m.

Students tardy after: 9:15 a.m.

Dismissal: 3:55 p.m.

School Phone Number: 703.594.3990

School Fax Number: 703.594.2653

Attendance Email: cwes-timberwolf-attendance@pwcs.edu

Attendance Phone Line:– 703.594.3992

Motto: “I seek to make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE AT SCHOOL”

Website: http://tclaywoodes.schools.pwcs.edu

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TClayWoodES

Twitter #TimberwolvesRock

Email: buchhear@pwcs.edu
Website: http://tclaywoodes.pwcs.schoolfusion.us/
Location: 10600 Kettle Run Road, Nokesville, VA, USA
Phone: 703.594.3990
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TClayWoodES
Twitter: @AndrewBuchheit