📅 Join us for Mental Health Spirit Week!
This week is all about self‑care, kindness, connection, and well‑being—and we want students and families to participate together!
✅ Dress up
✅ Try daily wellness activities
✅ Start conversations about mental health
✅ Have fun while supporting healthy minds
🧠💚 Every day brings a new theme to remind us that mental health matters for everyone.
Looking ahead!
Please save the dates for our upcoming Special Education Advisory Committee meetings in October and December.
Please save the dates for our upcoming Special Education Advisory Committee meetings in October and December.
Summer Reading 2026: May 15th - August 15th
Unearth a story this summer with Summer Reading. Track your reading, complete missions, earn badges and points, and enter raffles for chances to win prizes.
Parents and Caregivers: Why should your child join? Reduce summer learning loss! Your children worked hard this school year; don't let them lose ground!
🔗https://www.librarypoint.org/summer/
Mental health matters, and you are never alone.
Students and families can reach out to our mental health staff, counselors, and teachers for support.
If you need immediate help, call or text 988. The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7.
Together, we can support each other and break the stigma. 💚
Students and families can reach out to our mental health staff, counselors, and teachers for support.
If you need immediate help, call or text 988. The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7.
Together, we can support each other and break the stigma. 💚
In January 2025, we launched a new tool called Alongside. This app provides an extra layer of support to provide students with helpful mental health resources and help our staff catch signs that a student might be struggling. It helps by providing access to tools, check-ins, goal setting, and optional chatbot support. It’s meant to supplement, not replace, real human help, like school counselors, therapists, or crisis services.
Since its launch, the app has already helped us identify students in immediate need and connect them with important support services.
Since its launch, the app has already helped us identify students in immediate need and connect them with important support services.
Fredericksburg City Public Schools is committed to building relationships with families. Parents and guardians can help by participating in the 2025-2026 FCPS Parent Survey! Share your thoughts around important topics impacting your students’ success. Survey results will be used to develop a plan to improve family and school partnerships in our schools. Please complete the survey by May 29, 2026.
Visit our website to complete the survey👉 https://www.fxbgschools.us/
Visit our website to complete the survey👉 https://www.fxbgschools.us/
To kick off our animal research project, first grade is learning all about chickens. They learn about what they eat and their physical characteristics. What better way to do that than getting to watch them from inside their eggs, to seeing them hatch and getting to see all we’ve learned about them.
⚾ Play ball this summer, FCPS!
Registration is now open for the Fred Nats Baseball League, running June 1 through August 31.
Open to boys and girls ages 8–18, this league is a great way for students to learn the game, build confidence, and stay active all summer long.
✔ Scholarships available (free entry for qualifying students)
✔ Local fields at James Monroe High School
✔ Welcoming environment for all skill levels
📲 Register using the link below.
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/sunshinebaseball
Registration is now open for the Fred Nats Baseball League, running June 1 through August 31.
Open to boys and girls ages 8–18, this league is a great way for students to learn the game, build confidence, and stay active all summer long.
✔ Scholarships available (free entry for qualifying students)
✔ Local fields at James Monroe High School
✔ Welcoming environment for all skill levels
📲 Register using the link below.
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/sunshinebaseball
Every student deserves support when they need it. Thanks to our partnership with Hazel Health, FCPS students can connect with licensed therapists through free telehealth services, at school or from the comfort of home.
🔗https://www.hazel.co/get-started
🔗https://www.hazel.co/get-started
Earlier this week, Instructure Inc., an international provider of educational software, announced that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident in late April affecting Canvas. Although the security of the Canvas system has been restored, data related to students and educators at hundreds of school systems and universities around the country were subjected to unauthorized access.
Canvas has assured us that they are investigating the matter.
Fredericksburg City Public Schools utilizes Canvas as our online learning system. According to the information currently available, the data potentially involved may include certain personal information; however, Instructure has indicated that passwords, dates of birth, government-issued identification numbers, and financial information do not appear to have been affected.
Planning and preparation have been at the forefront of our actions. We have spent considerable time monitoring and discussing this situation as well as collaborating with neighboring school divisions, insurance companies, and data experts.
Again, the breach was limited to Canvas internal systems, while the security of our network was never disturbed.
We are taking the Canvas data breach seriously and will continue to keep you informed as we learn more.
Canvas has assured us that they are investigating the matter.
Fredericksburg City Public Schools utilizes Canvas as our online learning system. According to the information currently available, the data potentially involved may include certain personal information; however, Instructure has indicated that passwords, dates of birth, government-issued identification numbers, and financial information do not appear to have been affected.
Planning and preparation have been at the forefront of our actions. We have spent considerable time monitoring and discussing this situation as well as collaborating with neighboring school divisions, insurance companies, and data experts.
Again, the breach was limited to Canvas internal systems, while the security of our network was never disturbed.
We are taking the Canvas data breach seriously and will continue to keep you informed as we learn more.
📰Fredericksburg School Division Chosen to Participate in National Student Mental Health Initiative📰
🔗https://www.fxbgadvance.com/p/fredericksburg-school-division-chosen?utm_source=publication-search
🔗https://www.fxbgadvance.com/p/fredericksburg-school-division-chosen?utm_source=publication-search
💻 FREE Virtual Mental Health Series for Families – May 💚
Families are invited to join a FREE virtual mental health series this May, presented by ParentGuidance.org through The Cook Center for Human Connection.
🕖 All sessions are offered at:
👉 7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m. ET
⭐ Special Highlights Include:
• Ask a Therapist LIVE – May 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET
• The Effects of Screen Time & Your Child’s Mental Health – June 1
✅ Expert‑led
✅ Virtual & convenient
✅ Free for families
Families are invited to join a FREE virtual mental health series this May, presented by ParentGuidance.org through The Cook Center for Human Connection.
🕖 All sessions are offered at:
👉 7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m. ET
⭐ Special Highlights Include:
• Ask a Therapist LIVE – May 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET
• The Effects of Screen Time & Your Child’s Mental Health – June 1
✅ Expert‑led
✅ Virtual & convenient
✅ Free for families
🌟 Mental Health Spirit Week Is Coming! 🌟
📅 Join us for Mental Health Spirit Week!
This week is all about self‑care, kindness, connection, and well‑being—and we want students and families to participate together!
✅ Dress up
✅ Try daily wellness activities
✅ Start conversations about mental health
✅ Have fun while supporting healthy minds
🧠💚 Every day brings a new theme to remind us that mental health matters for everyone.
📅 Join us for Mental Health Spirit Week!
This week is all about self‑care, kindness, connection, and well‑being—and we want students and families to participate together!
✅ Dress up
✅ Try daily wellness activities
✅ Start conversations about mental health
✅ Have fun while supporting healthy minds
🧠💚 Every day brings a new theme to remind us that mental health matters for everyone.
📰‘We are playing catch up’: FCPS hatches plan to go from zero to hero in CTE📰
🔗https://bit.ly/4uv128M
🔗https://bit.ly/4uv128M
📰Transportation Opt-In, Walking Zones On the Table for Next School Year in Fredericksburg 📰
🔗https://www.fxbgadvance.com/p/transportation-opt-in-walking-zones
🔗https://www.fxbgadvance.com/p/transportation-opt-in-walking-zones
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. 💚
Did you know 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health condition this year?
All month long, we will be sharing tips to support your family’s mental health.
Green is the official color of mental health awareness and represents hope and renewal.
Did you know 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health condition this year?
All month long, we will be sharing tips to support your family’s mental health.
Green is the official color of mental health awareness and represents hope and renewal.
Afghan Family Engagement Night: Huge Success!
د افغان کورنیو د والدینو د غونډې شپه: لویه بریا!
شب نشست والدین خانواده های افغان: موفقیت عظیم!
⚾ Play ball this summer, FCPS!
Registration is now open for the Fred Nats Baseball League, running June 1 through August 31.
Open to boys and girls ages 8–18, this league is a great way for students to learn the game, build confidence, and stay active all summer long.
✔ Scholarships available (free entry for qualifying students)
✔ Local fields at James Monroe High School
✔ Welcoming environment for all skill levels
📲 Register using the link below.
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/sunshinebaseball
Registration is now open for the Fred Nats Baseball League, running June 1 through August 31.
Open to boys and girls ages 8–18, this league is a great way for students to learn the game, build confidence, and stay active all summer long.
✔ Scholarships available (free entry for qualifying students)
✔ Local fields at James Monroe High School
✔ Welcoming environment for all skill levels
📲 Register using the link below.
https://clubs.bluesombrero.com/sunshinebaseball
🚌Happy National School Bus Driver and Aide Appreciation Day! 🚌
The job is not done when the last stop is complete. Post-trip inspections help ensure every student has safely exited and each bus is secure for the next day. Thank you to our drivers for your attention to detail.
Take a moment to see everything that goes into a post-trip inspection.
👉https://youtu.be/upvbp6kolKw
The job is not done when the last stop is complete. Post-trip inspections help ensure every student has safely exited and each bus is secure for the next day. Thank you to our drivers for your attention to detail.
Take a moment to see everything that goes into a post-trip inspection.
👉https://youtu.be/upvbp6kolKw
Join us as we celebrate National School Bus Driver and Aide Appreciation Day on April 28. 🚌
This week, we are highlighting the important work our transportation team does each day to keep students safe.
Before the first stop is made, safety comes first. Our drivers carefully complete pre-trip inspections each day to ensure every bus is safe and ready to roll. Thank you to our drivers for starting every route with care.
Take a moment to see everything that goes into a pre-trip inspection.
👉https://youtu.be/ELdrcs1Vxaw
