Fox Tales

• Oct. 3rd-NO SCHOOL-Rosh Hashanah Holiday
• Oct. 7-11-Natinal Bully Prevention Week-Stay tuned for activities!
• Oct. 7- Wear a Blue Shirt for Anti-Bullying
• Oct. 10th-Bike to School Day!
• Oct. 11-National Unity Day-Wear Orange
• Oct. 22-5th grade Middle School Night- 6-7:30 at Munford Elem.
• Oct. 23rd-End of MP1
• Oct. 24th- PTA Fall Festival and Community Movie Night--Mark your calendars now!

To all who celebrate:

Shanah Tovah Umtukah

(May you have a good and sweet new year!)

The Lit Limo is back on Schedule! Check out the Lit Limo to get some books on Fridays starting Oct. 4th

3:00 @ Clark Springs

3:30 @ Randolph Community center

A message from our Counselor, Ms. London:

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. We will be focusing on Anti-Bullying education

and messaging in our school. The purpose of this is to bring awareness of, and attention to, the

bullying that exists in schools across our nation.

We will be doing this through various activities such as social emotional learning lessons,

Anti-Bullying Spirit Week, Blue Shirt Day (October 7, 2024) and UNITY Day (October 16, 2024)

by wearing ORANGE and other activities that will strengthen student’s understanding of why it

is important to be an upstander, not a bystander, and that when they see something, they

should say something!

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.

As we move into Fall, 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) or you can sign into the office and check yourself!

New this year, we will be hosting a regional Middle School Night for all of the Elementary schools that feed into Albert Hill Middle and Dogwood Middle. If you have a 5th grader, please plan on attending so you can be informed of your middle school options. ALL are of course welcome!

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!

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

Please read the Parent Handbook! It is full of important procedures/policies/info that is helpful for families!

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!

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!

Every Fox student has HOMEWORK EVERY day. ALL students should read or be read to for 20 minutes daily! If you need some books to read at home, let your child's teacher, our school counselor, CIS worker know. We are HAPPY to have your child pick out some books to take home. Also, check out and use the "Reading Library" that is located at the front of the school.

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.

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!

You will find lots of information on the PTA's closed facebook group. Search for the group and ask to join! Stay in the loop of what is going on at school!

Have you looked at our school website? It has a lot of up to date information! Have you joined our PTA facebook page?

Email: djacobs2@rvaschools.net
Website: wfes.rvaschools.net
Location: 1101 Dance St, Richmond, VA, USA
Phone: (804) 780-6259
Facebook: facebook.com/WilliamFoxPTA