Goochland Elementary

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Take Care of Yourself

A NOTE FROM NURSE SHORT

Cold and Flu season is among us! Please follow these guidelines when deciding when to keep students home and return them after illnesses. Students should not be in school if they have the following symptoms and should remain home for 24 hours after they subside:
  • A fever of 100.0 degrees or greater (May return 24 hours after fever free without the use of fever reducing medication)
  • Vomiting or diarrhea because of illness.
  • An unknown rash or possible contagious condition.
  • Are unable to focus due to: pain, chronic health condition and acute illness.
  • Flu-like illness (with or without fever) – headache, fatigue, cough, aches, weakness and sore throat.
Please be prompt when picking up your ill or injured child in order to minimize his or her chance of spreading or acquiring a contagious illness. Feel free to contact Nurse Short with questions or guidelines on returning to school.  Wash those hands!!!

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A November to Remember

Here are some important dates in November to Remember:

1 – Fourth Grade to Jamestown/2nd Grade Learn to Swim

6 – Lighthouse Lead Election Assembly/2nd Grade Learn to Swim 7 – Work Out Wednesday/Speaker Day with Mr. Wilcox from Game and Inland Fisheries 8 – 2nd Grade Learn to Swim/Noetic Math 3:15-4:15/Fall 7 Habits Family Night 6pm-7pm 9 – 5th Grade Field Trip to the Science Museum/Fall Book Fair Preview Day

11/12-11/16 Fall Scholastic Book Fair 13 – Grandparent’s Day Grades K, 3, 5/2nd Grade Learn To Swim 14 – Work Out Wednesday/Grandparent’s Day Grades 1, 2, 4/GES Hosting Leader In Me Community Coaching Day for Principals 15 – 2nd Grade Learn To Swim/PTA Meeting and 1st Grade Performance 6:30 16 – Spelling Bee 9-10

20 – 2nd Grade Learn To Swim 21 –  Students/Teacher Holiday 22 –  Students/Teacher Holiday 23 –  Students/Teacher Holiday

28 – Work Out Wednesday/Covey Clubs 29 – Class Picture Day and Make-Up Picture Day

12/1 –  Holiday Brunch and Craft Day Sponsored by the PTA 8:30 AM-11:30 AM

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Enter the Enchanted Forest

It’s that time again…..

Let Your Imagination Grow at the GES Fall Book Fair!

The GES Fall Book Fair will be held November 12th – November 16th!

Information about the book fair will be coming home in the next few weeks.

Preview Day will be held Friday, November 9th. All classes will attend during their Encore time to come to the fair to check it out and create a book fair wish list!

Purchasing Days at the Enchanted Forest Book Fair will be during their regularly scheduled library times November 12th – 16th.  ALL students will visit the library. There will be no Guidance this week. The Fair will also be open daily from 8:00 – 8:30.

Other purchase times at the Enchanted Forest Book Fair include Grandparents’ Days Tuesday, November 13th and Wednesday, November 14th during lunch. The Book Fair will also be open the evening of November 15th before and after the 1st Grade Performance and PTA Meeting.

The Book Fair will also be Online beginning November 6th – November 24th. You can shop online before and after the fair!  To use our e-wallet feature click here.

Please considering volunteering at the book fair. You can sign up here or contact Mrs. Smith. 

Thank you for supporting the GES Book Fair.