Welcome Back to School - 2023-2024

"It's A Great Day to be a Timberwolf""

Please check our Lost and Found by April 5, 2024. After April 5, we will donate the Lost and Found clothing to Boxes of Basics.

March 25 is the first day of spring break. I hope you have a wonderful and restful spring break. Please remind your students to read for 20-30 minutes each or you can read to them. We look forward to seeing all our Timberwolves when they return on April 1st (And I am not foolin')

Transfer requests can be made for students in grades 1 through 5 between January 2, 2024- April 30, 2024 Kindergarten transfer requests can be made starting from the first day of Kindergarten registration through 30 days after the kindergarten student registers. Please contact your child's school for more information.

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

“At T. Clay Wood, Everyone Belongs”

Future Ready Week will be April 1st-5th! Students will be looking ahead at their futures and thinking about the many opportunities that lie ahead. Students will focus on their skills, interests, abilities, and how their current learning will be important to their future success. Tuesday 4/2 will be College Wear Tuesday. Friday 4/5 will be a schoolwide Career Dress Up Day and the Career Fair for 3rd-5th grades. We can't wait to see what our students want to be when they grow up!

Kindergarten Registration is now open for the 2024-2025 school year. Please register your rising kindergarten students using the below link as soon as possible.

If you have neighbors and friends who have rising kindergarten students for next school year, please let them know as well.
We look forward to meeting all our new Kindergarten Timberwolf Pups.

https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/student_services/registration__new_students_and_transfers_/kindergarten_registration/index

Are you passionate about creating a warm and inviting atmosphere for students, parents, and visitors? Do you love helping others and being the first friendly face, they see when they step into our school? If so, we’d love to have you as part of our Welcome Desk Volunteer Team!

Here is signup genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FAFAD28A4F5C52-welcome1

April 1 - April 17, 2024 PWCS will conduct their annual Division Wide Satisfaction Survey with 4th and 5th grades.

April 8, 2024 - Link Up Assembly. This is a fun, energetic, interactive school assembly program that mixes music, video and activities to introduce elementary students to Rachel Scott and her challenge to reach out to others with deliberate acts of kindness. Link-Up focuses on the following five challenges: Be Kind, Accept and Include Others, Choose Positive Influences , Dream Big, Set Goals, Keep A Journal and Start a Chain Reaction of kindness. Here is a link with more information: https://rachelschallenge.org/our-programs/rc-live/ If you have any questions, please reach out to our school counselor, Mrs. Amy Cunningham who arranged it to bring this assembly to our school.

April 18, 2024. DJ Wood will be celebrating the end of the 3rd quarter with our students during their lunch time. He has performed a couple of times for our students last year and this year.

April 23, 2024 - We will hold our annual I Can Assembly. The focus will be on reminding students that they can if they work hard, try their best, and persevere.

May 3, 2024 - The PTO has arranged for a Reptile Assembly. Students will have an opportunity to see a wide variety of reptiles -including snakes.

If you do not want your student to participate in any of these activities or assemblies please let your child's teacher know.

Social Media Reminders: T. Clay Wood ES only puts up photos or videos on the Official T. Clay Wood Social Media Sites - on the T. Clay Wood Facebook, X(Twitter), Instagram, and You Tube.

You will see the following Notice on our Official Site -

“This PWCS social media account has been approved by the PWCS Communications Department.”

Social Media sites have to be approved annually by the PWCS Communication Department. Regulation 790-3 , Section B of the Attachment provides further information as well as information about Opt-Out. When filling out the Back to School Packet, information is included that discusses and references this regulation.

Are you interested in volunteering to participate in our T. Clay Wood Elementary School Career Fair? We are excited and know that your willingness to share your profession will have a tremendous educational impact on our students. The Career Fair will take place on Friday, April 5 from 12:00- 3:30. We will have a space for each presenter. Students in grades 3-5 will interview different presenters and use what they learn to complete a variety of projects. Please bring any visual aids/hands-on materials that might help elementary age students better understand your job. Please let us know if you need extra space, access to an outlet, or other needs which we might help to accommodate. Once we receive the online form, we will include you in our program. Please plan to arrive at school by 11:45 (or earlier if needed) so we can be ready to start at 12:00. Please let us know if you have any other questions. We are looking forward to a great day!
~T. Clay Wood Elementary School Counselors

Presenter Sign-Up Form: Please feel free to share this form with family or friends who may be interested in sharing their career with our students.

Career Fair Sign Up Form

Our Service Leadership Crew is collecting for Boxes for Basics:

Our Boxes of Basics clothing drive will run from March 11th through April 5th.

We will be collecting gently used clothing and NEW socks, underwear and shoes of all sizes.

There is a specific need for boys' pants in all sizes and girls' pajamas in sizes 6-16.

We will be collecting new and gently used clothing and new socks, underwear and shoes for Boxes of Basics between March 11th to April 5th and there will be a container outside the front office to drop -off items. They accept infant sizes all the way up to size 16 kids and are currently particularly in need of boys pants in all sizes and girls pajamas in sizes 6-16. Boxes of Basics is a local organization that provides full wardrobes with clothing, pajamas, socks, underwear and shoes for local children in need. Many PWCS school social workers and school counselors make referrals for our students and Boxes of Basics has provided wardrobes for some of our Timberwolves.

Clothing Drive Poster Boxes of Basics.pdf

Need a Receipt QR Code Boxes of Basics.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact mchughkh@pwcs.edu."

Thank you for your support and for helping the people in need.

Service Leadership - Box for Basics - March 11- April 5, 2024

Please remind your students to read 20 minutes a day

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - Day -

Please remind your students to read 20 minutes a day

Wednesday, March 27, 2024- Day -

Please remind your students to read 20 minutes a day

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - Day -

Please remind your students to read 20 minutes a day

Friday, March 29, 2024 -Day -

Please remind your students to read 20 minutes a day

Our 2023-2024 PTO BOARD

President - Kate Case

VP - Kelsey Fisher

Treasurer - Beth Feliciano-Rivera

Asst Treasurer - Cooper Waterman

Secretary - Sandra Oviedo

Director - Amelia Hunter

Teacher Director - Tiana Marshall

Upcoming Dates:

Moving forward we have decided to merge the Advisory Council meetings with the PTO meetings to offer families one combined meeting to get all the information they need for happenings at the school and in the community. Due to this change, some of our meeting dates have changed. Please see the schedule posted for new meeting dates. We hope you'll be able to join us!

Email tclaywoodpto@gmail.com for more information!

PTO Membership is still open!

Membership (tclaywoodpto.com)

As always, keep an eye on our T Clay Wood PTO facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/timberwolvesrock) and our website (https://www.tclaywoodpto.com/) for up to date information

*Every Tuesday - Every Tuesday during the school year Gainesville Papa Johns will give you 40% off your order and donate 10% back to the PTO!

PWCS has a late bus link for buses that will be late 15 minutes or more - https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/transportation/bus_delays

You can also sign up for the Here Comes the Bus App at - https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/transportation/here_comes_the_bus

For more information about buses - please the Transportation Website -

https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/transportation/index

We are reminding all our School Community to treat our school staff, our students, and one another with civility. Our students are always watching!

In case of inclement weather when school is closed, PWCS will provide live virtual (Synchronized) instruction to all students through ZOOM. PWCS Expectation is that all students participate. Attendance will be taken. Students must keep their cameras on to be counted as present. Instruction will take place between 9am - 2pm with 1 hour for lunch and recess time.

Prior to late fall/early winter, please make sure you are able to access the internet. Any family needing assistance with home internet should contact their school during the first month of school to receive a school-issued take-home “hotspot.” If you are not able to access the internet, please reach out to Mr. Taylor at taylorbi@pwcs.edu or 703.594.3990.

At T. Clay Wood Elementary School, we love to have visitors and volunteers every day. To help ensure the safety of our students, visitors to Prince William County Schools are expected to report promptly to the school’s main office when entering school buildings. Visitors and volunteers will be asked to provide a valid government issued photo identification. There are no exceptions. Every visitor to our school must bring with them a photo id. Visitors will then be issued a temporary identification badge. We will not permit any visitor or volunteer into the building without this identification. Our main goal is to ensure the safety and security of our students and staff at school.

If a situation occurs which makes it necessary for your child’s transportation home to change, please send in a note with your child in the morning giving clear directions as to how your child should go home at the end of the day. Only a parent/guardian can change their child’s transportation plan for any given day. A note from the parent must be received by the office AND the teacher before noon that day indicating the change. This is for the safety of the children and will alleviate any confusion at the end of the day.

Changing Dismissal Routine – Parents, if you are changing your child’s dismissal, you must send an email/note to the office or notify the office by 3:30 pm. The teacher and bus driver cannot accept a change if a student just tells him or her about the change without a note. In these cases, students are sent home the original way. In addition, please try to avoid changing dismissal procedures in the middle of the day and please send all dismissal changes to our office by calling our office at 703.594.3990 or sending a note in the morning. Emails sent to the teacher in the middle of the day may be missed if there is a substitute that day or if the teacher is not able to check his or her email.

3:30 pm - If you must pick your student up early, please arrive before 3:30 pm. We will not be able to call students to the office after 3:30 pm until all car riders are picked up. Students called for dismissal after 3:30 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 3:30 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.

2023-2024 – Calendar link: https://www.pwcs.edu/calendars/school_calendar/index

You can also subscribe to the PWCS Calendar. To learn how, you can go to this PWCS Site and then follow the directions - How to Subscribe to the PWCS School Calendar

Code of Behavior link: https://www.pwcs.edu/about_us/code_of_behavior/index

Link to Family Life Education objectives and Opt out - https://www.pwcs.edu/academics___programs/science___family_life_education/family_life_education

Please take a moment to view our 2023-2024 T. Clay Wood Continuous Improvement Plan by clicking this link: T. Clay Wood 2023-2024 Continuous Improvement Plan

We have three Academic Goals this year - Increase Reading, Math, and Science Achievement Rates for all students at T. Clay Wood to at least 85% or higher.

We also are focused at increasing student satisfaction rates to 90% or higher and increasing number of active business partnerships at T. Clay Wood.

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: 9:20 am – 4:00 pm

(Office hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)

SCHOOL SCHEDULE

Doors Open: 9:10 a.m.

Students tardy after: 9:20 a.m.

Dismissal: 4:00 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 @TClayWoodElem

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