Fox Tales
September 22, 2024
Calendar Items at a Glance:
- Sept 26th-Interim Report Card Sent home in Backpacks
- Sept. 27th-Folk Festival Performer comes to Fox for a School-Wide Assembly!
- Oct. 3rd-NO SCHOOL-Rosh Hashanah Holiday
- Oct. 7-11-Natinal Bully Prevention Week-Stay tuned for activities!
- Oct. 10th-Bike to School Day! Details Coming!
- Oct. 24th- PTA Fall Festival and Community Movie Night--Mark your calendars now!
School BEGINS at 7:45!
All students should be in school by 7:45 am.!
HELP! Too many students are being dropped off AFTER 7:45 am. Students should be IN THEIR CLASSROOMS at 7:45!
If your child is eating breakfast at school, please have your student arrive at 7:30 am so they can be in class to participate in Community Circle and the Morning Announcements!
Early Dismissals:
We have noticed an increase in the number of students being signed out just a few minutes before the end of the school day. To ensure that all students remain engaged in valuable classroom time and to minimize disruptions, please be advised that early dismissals will not be allowed after 2:15 PM.
If you need to pick up your child early for an appointment, please make arrangements to do so before 2:15 PM. After this time, students will need to follow regular dismissal procedures. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in helping us maintain a smooth and productive end to the school day.
Interim Report Cards Coming home on Thursday, Sept. 26
Can you believe we are half way through Marking Period 1? Interim Reports will be sent home in back packs on Thursday. Please review, sign one copy and send it back to your child's teacher on Friday (the next day!)
Kindergarten Students to take the VKRP Sept. 16- Oct. 4
Kindergarten students will participate in the Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program (VKRP). The Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program (VKRP) aims to build a more comprehensive understanding of school readiness. As an assessment system, VKRP adds measures of mathematics, self-regulation, and social skills in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten to complement Virginia’s statewide assessment of literacy skills (VALLS: Pre-K and PALS-K). Kindergarten Students participate in the VKRP in the Fall and again in the Spring.
Lost and Found- Label your students sweatshirts/jackets!
As we wind down summer, it is starting to be chillier in the mornings; and frankly, it is often cold in the building. Many students bring jackets/sweatshirts to wear. PLEASE label your child's sweatshirts and coats. This helps us to return them to the owner. We are starting to get a lot of items in the Lost and Found. If your child is missing something, have them look in the Lost and Found (it is outside the clinic/cafeteria).
Career Day is Coming! We Need Volunteers to Share their Careers!
Fall Picture Day Was on Fri., Sept. 20th-Make Up Day on Dec. 12!
A Photographer from Strawbridge Studios was at school on Sept. 20th to take Fall Pictures. If you child was absent, the Make-up Picture Date is on Dec. 12.
PTA Krispy Kreme Fundraiser
Let's raise some dough! Treat your friends to a dozen (or more) Krispy Kreme donuts and 50% of your purchase will be donated back to our Fox PTA. Simply buy online via our link, visit your local store & redeem using your code. Now until Nov. 3, donuts here: grouprai.se/krispykreme44801sa. Thank you!
Seasonal Roots: Your Online Farmers Market
Join Seasonal Roots for only $25/year (1/2 off!), using code FOXES and the
PTA earns $20 for each sign up.
Once you are a member, you place weekly orders on their website which get delivered to your door.
Sign up here
Read the Caregiver Handbook Now-Follow all School Procedures!!
'24-'25 Parent Handbook
A hard copy will came home with your students on the first day of school in the "First Day Packet"! Please sign and return the last page of the Handbook!
2024-25 School Year Calendar-Make note of dates NOW!
Fox Hanover Updates
Principal Jacobs and AP Crutchfield had the opportunity to walk the inside of the building--here are a few photos---some SNEAK PEAKS of the work on the inside!
We are still on track to be back in the Hanover Building for the 2025-26 school year!
Rebuild of the Auditorium from the Outside
Front office
Auditorium
HOMEWORK: EVERY STUDENT SHOULD READ/BE READ TO FOR 20 MINUTES EVERY NIGHT!
Research shows that READING EVERY EVENING is the one thing that WILL SET YOUR CHILD UP FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS.
3rd, 4th, 5th grade students will have up to an additional 30 minutes of homework as well (math practice, comprehension practice, studying etc). Teachers/grade levels will communicate homework to their class.
Have you joined our PTA yet?
Your $10+ donation and volunteer support make it possible for us to have valuable student programs, teacher appreciation, and community events like the Fall Festival. Join here: Thank you!
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WIlliam Fox Elementary
Email: djacobs2@rvaschools.net
Website: wfes.rvaschools.net
Location: 1101 Dance St, Richmond, VA, USA
Phone: (804) 780-6259
Facebook: facebook.com/WilliamFoxPTA