Husky Headlines Jan 20-24 2025

On Jan 20 there is no school for MLK Day. On Jan 21 we invite you to attend our PTA monthly meeting at 7:00. On Jan 22 we invite your family to join us for our next PTA Family Fun Math/STEAM Night taking place at Bethia Church from 5:30-7:30.

The Chesterfield County School Board has appointed Dr. John Murray as the new superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools, effective Jan. 17. After a nationwide search, Dr. Murray was selected for his commitment to academic excellence, exceptional leadership skills and innovative vision. During a Jan. 16 meeting, the School Board voted unanimously to appoint Dr. Murray to lead central Virginia's largest school system.

Dr. Murray is the first superintendent since at least 1921 to have been a student in Chesterfield County Public Schools. He attended Chalkley Elementary, Jacobs Road Elementary and Manchester Middle before graduating from Manchester High. #oneCCPS #CCPSproud

To learn more about Dr. Murray and his appointment, visit bit.ly/40nm8IK.

This is an after school program for girls in grades 3-5. Girls on the Run is a girl-empowerment organization that inspires participants to be joyful, healthy, and confident using evidence-based lessons that combine relationship building, community strengthening, and goal setting with physical movement. Online registration opens January 15! See PDF below for registration instructions.

Practice Schedule: Mon/Wed, 4:00PM - 5:30PM Season Dates: Feb. 24 - May 4

Program Fee: $25 - $185, sliding scale

Parents, please share with your students that we are kicking off a month long "I LOVE LEXIA" student challenge to help promote and encourage student's use of Lexia to support their reading literacy. This challenge will run from Jan 12-Feb 14 for all students in grades K-5. At the end of the challenge the student with the most units gained in Lexia in each grade will receive their own special lunch delivered to them during their lunchtime from Mr. Hart from a choice of restaurants on Hull St and the runner up student will receive some cool Spring Run Husky Swag. Students may access Lexia at school and at home on their chromebook or any internet enabled device by logging into their rapid identity account and going to their student backpack. Need help logging in to Lexia? Please check out these directions her https://bit.ly/SRESLexiaHelp

The online gifted services referral and review form must be submitted to begin the gifted evaluation process. Verbal or email communications do not serve as a substitute for this form. Here’s who can refer a student:

• Parent, legal guardian or community member

• Teacher or other professional staff member

• The student or a peer

  
  

Evaluation for gifted services occurs during specific times to ensure students are tested at the most appropriate time for their grade level and to allow results to be considered in Center-Based Gifted Academy decisions. A student may be evaluated once per school year.

This year’s referral deadlines are Oct. 25, 2024 for students currently in grades 2-12, and Feb. 28, 2025 for students in grades K-1 who are enrolled in Chesterfield County Public Schools.

Referrals are processed after the referral period ends. Once this occurs, parents/guardians receive:

• Notification from the school that their child has been referred for evaluation for gifted education services

• Information about gifted education services and the assessment process

• Contact information for staff members who can answer questions

• An opportunity to opt their student out of evaluation process

• Instructions for completing the online home perception inventory

School attendance is vital to academic achievement. Every day counts! Good attendance boosts academic success and prepares students for future employment. Absences add up, and excessive absences may affect receiving credit for classes or promotion to the next grade.

Students are expected to attend school daily on time. Send your children to school every day unless they are sick. This creates good habits and shows that school is important to your family.

• Avoid arriving late and leaving early.

• Create morning and night routines for school days and stick to them.

• Set out clothes and backpack at night.

• Have a regular bedtime and wake-up time.

Please notify the school if your student will need to be absent from school. If you are having difficulty sending your child to school for any reason, please contact your school’s social worker or counselor. For more information, please see School Board policy 4020.

You can check your child’s attendance in the Synergy ParentVue portal. Login to ParentVue, click on your child, and then click on Attendance. A calendar will show excused and unexcused absences. You can toggle on details for more information on absences. Click here for a visual of how to check attendance in Synergy.

Jan 6-31 VALLS Mid Year Testing Grades K-3

Jan 17-Feb 28 WIDA Testing Window

Jan 20 MLK Day No School

Jan 21 PTA Mtg 7:00 Library meet.google.com/kjp-uakc-jaa

Jan 22 PTA Family Math/STEAM Night 5:30-7:30 Bethia Church

Jan 29 Gr 5 Visits Bailey Bridge MS

Join us for Math & STEAM Night at Bethia UMC on Wednesday, 1/22! If you’ve RSVP’d for pizza, it will be served from 5:30pm-6pm. All games begin at 6pm and run until 7:30pm! Mathnasium, Bricks 4 Kidz, Club SciKidz, and our very own Spring Run STEAM teachers will be present and hosting math games, LEGO building, science & robotics activities, and creative projects! The Clover Hill Library will also be on site to help families sign up for library cards and explore loads of library resources. Come join us for a night of community, fun & learning! This event is held at Bethia United Methodist Church located at 10700 Winterpock Road, Chesterfield, VA 23832.

Join us for our next PTA Meeting on Tuesday, January 21st at 7pm. We meet in the library at the school or you can join us virtually on Google Meets. Video call link: https://meet.google.com/kjp-uakc-jaa

Purchase Your Yearbook! To guarantee your student a yearbook, we recommend that you pre-order one. We will have a small quantity available for sale at the end of the year but they are limited! Use the link listed below and search for Spring Run Elementary: jostens.com/backtoschool

Have pictures to submit to the yearbook committee? Use this link:

Yearbook Pictures Submission The deadline to submit pictures for review is February 15, 2025.

We Sell Spirit Wear! Check out what's in stock today at the PTA Store !

Enjoy treating your staff members? Every year we create a “Staff Favorites List” to take the guesswork out of treating our wonderful staff members! Check out the list here: Teacher / Staff Favorites

Important PTA Dates

01/15 5th Grade Baby Pictures Due

01/21 PTA Meeting

01/22 STEAM Night @ Bethia UMC

Spring Run Football will be participating in CQL's Spring 7x7 flag season. This is a five week season with practices starting first week in March, games in April and Flag Tournament being held in May

Total cost is $150 per player and includes a game day jersey & shorts.

** Early Registration running now through January 17, 2025 with cost only being $135 ! **

The 4 Divisions: (Age for all levels as of 7/31/25)

7U ages 5-7

9U ages 8-9

11U ages 10-11

13U ages 12-13

15U ages 14-15 ** new this spring season**

Have you heard about this easy and important way to honor outstanding teachers and staff members of Chesterfield County Public Schools? You can nominate them for the Superintendent’s Game Changer Award! Everyone is encouraged to use this simple online form to recognize employees who go above and beyond to connect with students, build relationships, provide engaging learning opportunities and help families.

Nominations are accepted throughout the school year. Then each month, 21 remarkable employees will be chosen and will receive their awards when the superintendent and a School Board representative stop by to surprise them.

But before any teacher or school employee can receive the Superintendent’s Game Changer Award, they first have to be nominated by a parent, student, colleague or community member.

So how about it? How many game changers do you know? Please nominate them by answering the five easy questions on the nomination form. By spending five minutes of your day to fill out the form, you can spark great joy throughout Chesterfield County Public Schools.

Free online tutoring is available for students in grades 3-12 via Stride Tutoring.

Students can reserve time for online video meetings with tutors licensed in subject areas in which they need additional support. Students do not need a teacher referral or recommendation and there are no fees for families.

To access Stride Tutoring, students along with their families should go to the backpack icon on the RapidIdentity dashboard using their CCPS-issued Chromebook. Click the Stride Tutoring icon under the “District Applications” heading. No additional login credentials are required.

Stride tutors are certified teachers who develop instruction to help students succeed. Tutoring sessions may be scheduled for any subject/topic/concept where additional instruction is needed. Students may share materials from class and representations of their work to help the tutor best align the session with the work being done in the classroom.

At this time, there is no limit to the number of tutoring sessions a student may use. Additional information, including FAQ and a quick-start guide for logging on to the Stride platform, is available at oneccps.org/tutors.

To provide this service, Chesterfield County Public Schools is using funds available through the Virginia Department of Education’s ALL In initiative as well as other funding sources. Free tutoring will be open to students as long as funds are available.

What is Club 3:16?

Started by students in the spring of 2022, Club 3:16 is a place for students grades 3-5th to meet and greet with others who are interested in exploring and growing their faith in Jesus. 3:16 was named by students after the scripture passage John 3:16.

What do we do at Club 3:16? At this club you’ll meet new people, sing songs, play some team games and hear a message about faith that you’ll get to talk about with other students.

How can I attend Club 3:16? If you’re interested in Club 3:16 you can fill out the permission slip in the weekly school parent newsletter. You can attend all or just some of the meetings!

When are Club 3:16 Meeting Dates?

January 8, 22

February 12, 26

March 12, 26

April 9, 23

May 14

When is the first Club 3:16 hangout? Our kickoff for 3:16 will be at See You at The Pole with families on September 25, 2023 BEFORE school at 8:30 at the flagpole.

On regular club dates: when you arrive to school, please enter from the parent pickup loop at the gym entrance no earlier that 8:15.

Before you attend you must submit a permission slip below.

Club Permission Slip

See you there!

Welcome, Husky Families! School season is here which means another year that your PTA supports SRES! The mission of the PTA is To make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. We want to promote an environment at school where teachers and administrators can do their best work and our students can do their best learning. We’re always eager to find more great people, like you, to help us meet this goal. Interested in being more involved with PTA? Send an email to volunteer@springrunpta.com

2024-2025 PTA Board

President-Ashlee Creador

VP Programs-Nakia Taylor

VP Membership-Eva Skillman

VP Ways & Means-Sara Eisert-Wlodarczyk

Treasurer-Matt McCollester

Secretary-Kara Fisher

PTA Meetings: Join us in the library at 7pm on the third Tuesday of each month, or look for the virtual meeting information in Mr. Hart’s weekly email or the Facebook page.

These school wide expectations are modeled and taught by your child's teacher in class, by our counselors when they teach lessons in classrooms, by our administrative team when they visit classrooms and via our AM Husky News Program broadcast in every classroom.

We have developed a new online student absence reporting form. If/when your child will be absent from school you can complete this simple online form instead of calling and reporting your child's absence to the office. When a parent completes this form it sends a notification to the main office so the attendance secretary can record your child's absence in our Synergy student database. We hope you will find this new tool useful and helpful in reporting your child's absences.

Here is the new form https://bit.ly/3TsQjeq

• CCPS In the Know: Chesterfield schools understand the importance of mental health and work to create nurturing and safe environments where teaching and learning thrive. This video shows how schools support student mental health. More information is available at bit.ly/CCPShelp.

This fall, Chesterfield County Public Schools launched the CCPS in the Know video series to give quick-but-helpful insights into central Virginia’s largest school system. You can see all of the videos via this playlist, with captions available in English and in Spanish. If you have a question that you’d like answered, then ask it here. We’ll cover as many topics as we can.

SRES Staff Game Changer nominations are open

Nomination forms are open for Game Changer Awards. Nominations are due by the 21st of each month. Game Changer nominations may be submitted by anyone – staff or community members. Nominations are due by the 21st of the month for upcoming awards. Submit your nomination here.

Interested in volunteering this year? You will need to submit an application to CCPS as a volunteer which goes through a central approval process that includes a background check. This could take two to four weeks, so be sure to allow ample time for your application to be reviewed before you plan to volunteer. Submit your application here: https://apps.raptortech.com/Apply/NDYyOmVuLVVT

You must submit an application if you plan to:

Chaperone a field trip

Advise a club or sports team

Participate in mentor groups

Work with students unsupervised

You do not have to submit an application if you are:

Visiting for lunch

Helping in the library or office

A college student in classrooms for program credit

18 or younger

A supervised classroom helper such as a room mom, assisting with a class party, etc.

Parents, Here is the CCPS county website where you can find forms and publications for back to school such as the CCPS Parent Handbook, Health forms, Free and reduced lunch forms, chromebook device agreements, etc. https://oneccps.org/publications-and-forms/