Timberwolf Times -May 16, 2022
T. Clay Wood - Facts at your Fingertips
From the Desk of Dr. Buchheit
School Wide Focus for May - Habit 8: Find your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Their
"We truly do Everything Better Together as a
Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence"
Dear Timberwolf Families,
THANK YOU FOR BRING OUR PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ON BEHALF OUR YOUR CHILDRENT THIS YEAR! WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUCH AMAZING PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND FAMILIES WORKING WITH US TO MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL IN A SAFE AND POSITVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT!!
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”
Kindergarten Registration is open
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
LEXIA
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:
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
Summer School Info
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.
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.
SOL Results
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.
Device Reminders
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.
What's Happening at T. Clay Wood during the week of May 16, - 20, 2022
Monday, May 16, 2022- - Day 2 -
- PEP
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - Day 3
- 4th grade Math SOL (Part 1)
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - Day 4
- 4th Math SOL (Part 2)
- Advisory Council; 6:30 pm -
Thursday, May 19, 2022- Day 5
- 3rd and 5th grade Math SOL (Part 1)
Friday, May 20, 2022- Day 6
- KG Field Trip
- 3rd and 5th grade Math SOL (Part 2)
The "Leader in Me" Corner
Leader in Me Info for May - Habit 8
The Top 6 of the week
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.
Information about T. Clay Wood ES
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