Neabsco News

Neabsco Families,

We are off to a strong start this school year, and I want to take a moment to share some exciting updates with you about our school’s progress and future Continuous Improvement Goals.

📊 School Data & Accreditation Update

At our first Advisory Council meeting on Wednesday, we reviewed last year’s HMH Growth Assessment data and our official accreditation results. Thanks to the hard work of our students, teachers, and families, Neabsco Elementary showed steady growth in both Reading and Math, with more students moving into the “pass advanced” range. These results are a reflection of our commitment to strong Tier 1 instruction and targeted support for all learners. Our school is fully accredited by the Virginia Department of Education, and we are proud of the progress we’ve made.

🎯 Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) Goals

For the 2025–2026 school year, our staff is focused on three main areas through our Continuous Improvement Plan Overview:

Reading:

Increase phonics skills in K–2 and comprehension skills 3-5 focusing on our all students; including our English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities.

Math:

Continue to increase pass advanced and focus on math vocabulary and student data

Science:

Continue to increase pass advanced and focus on 5Es and Scientific reasoning skills for students

Family & Community Engagement:

Leader in Me program implementation
Advisory Council, family nights, and hands-on workshops.
Attendance mentorship and monitor attendance

🌱 Leader in Me – Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

This year, we are proud to launch Leader in Me, a school wide program that empowers every child to see themselves as a leader. Through weekly lessons, students will learn the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, focusing on responsibility, goal setting, teamwork, and making positive choices. Our goal is for every Neabsco Star to feel a strong sense of belonging and to have opportunities to lead in the classroom, around the school, and in our community.

💫 Thank You, Families!

Your support makes all the difference. Together, we will continue to celebrate student growth, challenge our learners to reach new heights, and ensure Neabsco remains a place where every child shines. I will see you Thursday at Back To School Night, beginning at 5:30 for our annual Title I Meeting.

Mrs. Brooke LeVecchi
Principal, Neabsco Elementary

leveccbb@pwcs.edu

IMPORTANT Dates for Neabsco Families

Monday, September 8th - Friday, October 3rd - Stars Attendance Challenge, students with 1 day or less of absences will be celebrated!
Tuesday, September 23rd: No School (in observance of Rosh Hashanah)
Thursday, September 25th: Back to School Night

5:00-5:30pm - ECSE Pre-School Meeting
5:30-6:00pm - Annual Title I Family Meeting
6:00pm-7:00pm - Classroom Family Meeting

Thursday, October 9th: Kindergarten Field Trip to Cox Farms
Saturday, October 18th: 9th Annual Title 1 Family Camp, 8:30am to 12:30pm, hosted at Hampton Middle School, register by October 3rd (additional details in attached flyer). Visit the Neabsco Website for more information and additional link to register: PWCS Neabsco
Thursday, October 23rd: Picture Day
Thursday, October 23rd: Trunk or Treat 5pm to 6pm

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Register today!

All in Tutoring starts October 6th, please register your student today using this form. This is a wonderful opportunity to receive the support needed and help your student continue to thrive.

Program Dates:

Monday, October 6, 2025 - Wednesday, December 17th

Mondays - Wednesday

Morning Sessions: 8:10am - 9:10am

Afternoon Sessions: 4:15pm - 5:15pm

For questions regarding the All in Tutoring program, please contact Mrs. Morrone, email morronbm@pwcs.edu or phone, 703.670.2147

A Guide to Student Illness

Please take a moment to review the attached guidelines about when students should stay home from school due to illness. Following these helps keep our school community healthy and safe. We want everyone to feel their best when at school.

Remember to report your student's absence to the school by either calling the front office 703-670-2147, email office@pwcs.edu, or entering the absence in the Parent Vue.

For information related to Student Health Services please visit the PWCS Student Health Services website.

If you have any questions or concerns related to your student's health please feel free to contact me at depalmkc1@pwcs.edu or 571-589-4718.

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Neabsco Club Sign-Ups

Would you like your fourth or fifth grade student to participate in fun learning opportunities after school on Thursdays? Make sure you sign up your student today! the clubs for fourth and fifth grade students are volleyball, robotics, and K Club which focuses on developing service and leadership skills, Spots are limited so make sure you sign up today. Bus transportation will be provided for students in the boundary range. https://forms.office.com/r/tjUaYUCRQL

Program Dates run Thursdays only from Thursday, October 9th through Thursday, December 18th after school from 4:15-5:15pm.

🫐 Fruit Fight 🍎

How can these peaches and cherries grow on the same tree? A guy named Sam Van Aken “grafts” trees together, meaning he cuts off one tree’s branch and ties it to a cut in another tree’s trunk. If it works, they grow into one happy tree. Peaches and cherries work because they’re cousins — they’re both stone fruits (they have a pit inside). Sam’s trees can bear up to 40 kinds of fruit, and flowers to match!

Wee ones: If Sam’s tree has flowers in white, pink, purple, orange and magenta, how many colors is that?

Little kids: If you pick fruit to bake a cherry pie, then a peach pie, then a cherry pie, then a peach pie…what should you bake next to keep the pattern? Bonus: How would you count up the tree’s 40 fruits by 10s?

Big kids: What if a tree could grow snacks? If your tree grows potato chips, pretzel sticks, and Cheetos, and you pick 1 snack type each day cycling in that order, how many days until you’ve picked 25 of each snack? Bonus: If it grows 40 snacks and you pick a new snack each day, then after the 40 you start over in the same order, how many full times will you cycle through all snack types in 1 year? (Reminder: A year has 365 days; a leap year has 366.)

Answers:
Wee ones: 5 colors.

Little kids: A cherry pie. Bonus: 10, 20, 30, 40.

Big kids: 75 days. Bonus: 9 full cycles, since that brings you to 360 and you can’t then fit another cycle.

At Neabsco, we are doing our part to promote school health and wellness and following the PWCS Regulation 275-1 Wellness Plan. We all know birthdays are important to children. At school, children celebrating a birthday will be gifted a birthday pencil.

Sending a food treat to the classroom to celebrate can exclude children who have life-threatening food allergies and other dietary restrictions, who can be triggered to a medical emergency.

We are trying to make Neabsco a healthy and safe place for all of our Stars, so instead of sending in food treats, we have some additional ideas on how you can recognize your student on their birthday.

An alternative to food treats for your child’s birthday celebration at school:

· Pencils, erasers, fun stickers, temporary tattoos, stencils, stampers

· Small puzzles, Bubbles, fun superhero rings, rubber bracelets

· Donate a book in your child’s name to the classroom or school library

· Donate a game in your child’s name to the classroom

Please do not send balloons, flowers, or other celebratory bouquets to school for safety reasons.

Finally, please note, teachers can pass out birthday party invitations only if the entire class is invited. Parents are still welcome to send in small treats, although we would like to discourage items like donuts, oversized cupcakes, soda, and juice/juice boxes. Foods such as mini-cupcakes, cookies, sliced fruit or vegetables, etc., will be shared at lunch time. Food items must be store bought with a food label on them to avoid any allergic reactions.

We are looking forward to a happy and healthy school year. We appreciate all that our parents do to support their children in making healthy food and snack choices at home and at school.

Here at Neabsco, your child gets to explore reading by listening to a variety of stories throughout the day every week. Help your child to explore deeper into reading by asking them questions about the books that were read to them that day. Share with them a favorite story that you read as a child and talk about what made it a special memory. Reading should be a fun experience. Be sure to laugh along with your child as you experience the magical joy of reading together.

Don’t forget we have a few events coming up that will help you promote partnerships and support your scholar’s success.

Annual meeting and Back-to-School Night on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 5:30.
PWCS Title 1 Family Camp will be held on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at Hampton Middle School from 8:30-12:30.

We hope to see everyone at these events. We want to thank you for your enthusiasm to support literacy and learning.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Carolyn Matthews Matthecj@pwcs.edu , Jessica Monahan Monahaje@pwcs.edu or Jessica Hesser Hesserj@pwcs.edu.

Currently seeking peer models for Early Childhood

Neabsco Elementary School is currently looking for peer models for their Early Childhood

Special Education (ECSE) General 6x6 Preschool Class(es) for SY 2025-2026. Our ECSE General 6x6 preschool classrooms consist of 6 students that have IEPs for a variety of developmental delays and 6 typically developing children from the community to act as peer models. All students are ages 3-5 years old. Peer models must be 3 or 4 by September 30th of the attending school year. They should also have developmentally appropriate language, social skills, behavior, impulse control and they must be toilet trained. Potential peer models will participate in play groups and be selected before the first day of school. There is no cost for registration or enrollment in the peer model program. It is a half day program.

If interested, please email Benedicta Tsogoo at AddaiB@pwcs.edu, or

Houda Toloa at ToloaH-@pwcs.edu

PARENTAL RIGHT TO INFORMATION ABOUT TEACHERS:

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most recently reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act, states that parents in Title I schools have the right to request certain information about their child’s teachers. The information that you have a right to request about your child’s teacher is:

a. Whether the teacher has met state qualifications and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subjects the teacher is teaching.

b. Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or licensing has been waived.

c. The baccalaureate degree major of certification or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree.

d. Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.

At Neabsco Elementary School we are extremely proud of our teachers and paraprofessionals, and are happy to provide you with any of the information above pertaining to your child’s teacher(s). If you have such a request, please call the school at 703.670.2147 and ask for the information you are interested in.

For more information on Title 1, you can visit the PWCS page, click here