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Announcements

Fall Picture Day Is Coming!!!

We are happy to announce that Strawbridge Studios will be offering two days of appointments for individual school portraits on Monday, December 7 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm and Monday, December 14 from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Wakefield Forest. Photography set up will follow social distance guidelines, and the photographers will complete a COVID-19 check before they enter a school. They will be wearing masks the entire time as well as cleaning any touched surfaces and using hand sanitizer often. Further information is available by clicking on the heading.

Submit Your Yearbook Photos

The 2020-21 school year has and will always be a year like no other. To help us capture and celebrate these moments for all time, please consider submitting a candid family photo for our WFES yearbook.

FCPS Breakfast and Lunch Distribution at Wakefield Forest

Grab and Go service hours are available at Wakefield Forest Elementary from 7:25 – 7:35 am Monday through Friday with both breakfast and lunch being served at the same time.  Please look for the school bus in the Kiss and Ride line.

COVID-19 Health Metrics

In making determinations regarding in-person instruction, FCPS will consider the Centers for Disease Control Core Indicators. View the data.

Reminder: Referral Window for Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) Level IV Screening Consideration Ends December 1

Tuesday, December 1 is the close of the window (Sept 8-Dec 1) for parents to submit a referral form for their student to be screened for full-time Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) Level IV. The parent referral form, submitted to the school, is one pathway to have a student screened for AAP Level IV. Parents should not wait for an announcement of the second grade screening pool if they want to make sure their student is screened for AAP Level IV in the coming cycle. Parents of students in grades 2-7 will need to submit the referral form by December 1.

In-School Instruction – Form Needed

Parents/guardians who chose in-school instruction for their child will receive a health screening commitment form where you will agree to completing a daily health screening prior to sending your student to school. Forms must be received at school electronically or by hard copy before your child returns to in-school instruction.  Students whose parent/guardian have not returned a signed form will be required to complete a health screening and have their temperature taken daily by school staff until the form is received.

No-Cost Meals for All FCPS Students through June 30, 2021

Grab and Go service hours are 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays). Bus routes for food distribution are operating Monday through Friday. Breakfast and lunch will be available at no-cost Monday-Friday at all schools with in-person instruction.  Specific information about meal distribution locations and bus distribution schedules are available.  

Parent Technology Help Desk

To support families who are working with their children during distance learning, Fairfax County Public Schools now has a Parent Technology Help Desk. The number is 1-833-921-3277 (833-921-FCPS). It will be answered by staff 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. If the help desk is unable to solve the issue on the phone with the parent or guardian, they will enter a ticket on the parent’s behalf and the request for help will be transferred to the appropriate FCPS team.

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Wakefield Forest Elementary School Features

Wakefield Forest Halloween Howl 2020-21

October 30, 2020
This fall our WFES community came together virtually and marked the end of the first quarter by sharing their creative costume choices.

Wakefield Forest School Building Renovation Design!

September 02, 2020
Principal Sharyn Prindle, Architect Rebecca Bostick, FCPS Project Coordinator Godson Nwosu, School Board member Megan McLaughlin, and Board of Supervisor member James Walkinshaw recently joined the Wakefield Forest community and shared the design plans for our future building renovation!

Parents Return to Math Class at Wakefield Forest Elementary School

December 02, 2019
After Back to School Night in September, Wakefield Forest Elementary School third grade teacher Jessica Yaman realized something: parents were having problems supporting their children in math.

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FCPS News and Features

Town Hall Meetings with Superintendent Brabrand

Dr. Brabrand is holding several town hall meetings about the return to school for parents, staff and the community.

Arts Alive: Cappies Review of Ink by Annandale High School

The Cappies is a program through which high school theater and journalism students are trained as critics, attend shows at other schools, write reviews, and publish those reviews. In this review, Aren Iverson of South County High School gives her take on Annandale High School's virtual production of Ink.

FCPS Publications, Student Journalists Win 2020 NSPA Pacemaker Awards

The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) has awarded Pacemaker Awards to two Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) publications.

Community Combines to Donate Thanksgiving Baskets

Families from Mount Vernon Woods Elementary and Whitman Middle received baskets of nonperishable food for Thanksgiving, thanks to local food bank United Community, Fairfax County Supervisor Rodney Lusk, and students from Langley High.
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