Occoquan Elementary School

Reduced funding, increased student enrollment equal $79 million gap for FY2011. Dr. Steven L. Walts, Superintendent of Schools, presented his proposed budget for next year at the Feb. 3 School Board meeting. Read more.

Kindergarten Registration for 2010-11

Kindergarten registration for the 2010–11 school year is set for Wednesday, April 14 and Wednesday, April 28 at individual schools. Parents should contact their school for specific registration times. Read more.

School Announcements

Occoquan Idols Rehearsal

Parents,

Rehearsals will be held after school on Thursday 2/4 and Monday 2/8/10 until 6:00 p.m. Please make sure your child is picked up on time! Each child will be given a letter on which day they are to stay after for rehearsal.

THEY ARE NOT TO STAY AFTER BOTH DAYS!!

Letters on specific dates and times that your child is to stay will be sent home on 2/2 and 2/3/10.

Student Drop Off - Safety Concerns

Hello Occoquan parents. Please read carefully the following message regarding student drop offs at Occoquan Elementary.

Students who are not enrolled in SAC are not allowed in the building until 8:50 am. If you drop your child off in the student drop off line, please do not let your child out of the car until an adult comes to your car to assist your child safely to the crosswalk. If your child arrives after 9:00, please accompany them to the front office to sign them in as tardy. Students are not allowed to enter the building unaccompanied.

Please note, the lane in the front of the building is not allowed for student pick-up or drop off. It is for emergency vehicles and special needs bus pick up only. Safety is our number one concern and we would appreciate your support. Thank you.

Kindergarten Registration Dates Set/La matrícula para niños que entrarán a Kindergarten

Kindergarten registration for the 2010–11 school year is set for Wednesday, April 14 and Wednesday, April 28 at Occoquan from 9:30-3:00. In order to determine the support children need to be successful in school, parents of children who speak or understand a different language, in addition to or instead of American English, will be asked to call one of two Central Registration sites, Coles, 703.791.2727, or Ann Ludwig, 703.491.8432, to make an appointment for an English language evaluation. Beginning April 29, English language learners will be registered and evaluated at Central Registration. Parents will need to call for an appointment.

La matrícula para niños que entrarán a Kindergarten en el año escolar 2010–11 será el miércoles 14 de abril y el miércoles 28 de abril a Occoquan hasta 9:30-3:30. Los padres deben comunicarse con las escuelas para conseguir los horarios de matrícula. Para determinar el apoyo o ayuda que niños puedan necesitar, los padres de niños que hablan o entiendan otro idioma en lugar o además del inglés necesitarán hacer una cita en el Centro de Matrícula más cercano (Coles, 703.971.2727, o Ann Ludwig, 703.491.8432). Para que esos niños sean evaluados en sus destrezas del inglés. Empezando el 29 de abril, niños sin inglés o con inglés como segundo idioma, cuya matrícula no se haya completado en la escuela anteriormente, serán también matriculados en el Centro de Matrícula. Es siempre necesario hacer una cita.
http://www.pwcs.edu/curriculum/esol/cr-wlc/EnEspanol.html

Transfer Students - Process Has Begun for 2010-2011 School Year

2010–11 Student Transfer Request Process Begins

Parents of Prince William County Public Schools students are reminded that the transfer request process for the 2010–11 school year has begun. Requests for transfers must follow all guidelines as defined in Prince William County Public Schools Regulation 721-1, “School Attendance Areas,” available for review online at pwcs.edu.

Parents may obtain a copy of the Student Transfer Request form at school and are encouraged to submit requests as early as possible to allow adequate time for principals to process requests prior to the April 30, 2010 deadline.

Questions regarding the Prince William County Public Schools student transfer process may be directed to the Office of Student Services at 703.791.7258 or 703.791.7265 or Karla Robertson in the main office at Occoquan Elementary.

It is the parents responsibility to pick up a transfer form in order to have your child remain at OES for the following school year. If a form is not received in the office by 4 p.m. on April 30, 2010, your request may be denied. In the past, OES has sent forms home to current transfer students, that will no longer be the case. Please remember to pick up a form at the office.

OES Book Fair

The annual Occoquan Book Fair will be held the week of March 15-19, 2010. More information on family night to come! We hope you can come with the entire family and purchase a new book or two for your child to read! It would be great to see all families come that week.

Tips for Edulink & School Fusion

Accessing Schoolfusion and EduLink
Click HERE for tips explaining how to successfully log into Schoolfusion and Edulink for the 2009-2010 school year.

PTA

The Occoquan Elementary School PTA is looking for parents to participate in leadership positions on the various PTA committees. We are a very active organization and are looking to you for help in putting together another great team so we may have another successful school year in 2009-10. If you are interested please contact the school.

SICK CHILDREN

Attention All Parents! When your child is sick or has a fever DO NOT SEND THEM TO SCHOOL. Sending a sick child to school is not healthy for your child or the other children in the class. Remember that if your child is out ill or has a fever, they cannot come to school for 24 hours after the fever is gone and no fever reducing medicine has been given. Please call the office in the morning when your child will be out sick. Thank you!

School Fusion

Keep up with your child's grades, lunch account balances, upcoming assignments, attendance and much more!

This year a new process has been implemented to centralize the PWCS schools’ online system allowing parents to have one user account for their school Web site log in and the Edulink Intouch log in. To obtain your user account all parents must obtain an authorization letter in person at your child’s school in order to log in to your school’s Web site or to log in to Edulink Intouch. You must present a photo ID to obtain the password.

You can use the same school Web site log in and password to log into Edulink Intouch as well. After you have registered as a “New User” on the Web site, you will be able to log in to Edulink Intouch (also a button on the left of your school’s Web site) and view your student’s information.

Your Edulink Intouch login user name and password will be the same as your school Web site log in. If you have any questions contact the office at 703-494-2195.

OES is a School of Excellence Again!

Occoquan Elementary has been named a 2009-2010 Prince William County School of Excellence! Please see the attached documents for more information on this award and how our school performed in the various scoring categories.

Complete PWC School Rankings

School of Excellence Scoring Rubric

Bus Patrol Announcement

BUS SAFETY PATROL OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to Sophie Andriamanjato from Mrs. Migdal's and 5th grade class for being Bus Safety Patrols for January. Sophie always display Quality Student Attributes!

Congratulations Sophie!

INCLEMENT WEATHER

WHEN WEATHER CAUSES THE SCHOOL TO CLOSE...

Sometimes the weather may require that our schools close early. In this event, we will attempt to contact a parent/guardian of each of our students to inform them of the closing. Please click below to read PWCS Inclement Weather letter giving an explaination of the our procedures for closing the schools due to poor weather conditions.

PWCS Inclement Weather Letter - English version

PWCS Inclement Weather Letter - Spanish version

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