Mark your calendars for class picture day at Carysbrook!
Great news! The Smile Virginia in-school dentist is coming to our school on March 10th and 11th. Even better, dental care is usually at no cost to you. All insurance is accepted including Medicaid and Virginia FAMIS. Keep your child healthy, in-school and learning. Sign up online NOW at www.myschooldentist.com.
Papers are coming home with your child today.
Kindness Week February 10-14
Carysbrook's Title I Night is coming soon. Mark your calendars and join us for Safari Night!
Please help us in celebrating our wonderful School Counselors this week. Carysbrook is fortunate to have both Ms. Carter and Mrs. Pace working with us.
Title I Safari Night is coming to Carysbrook!
FCPS Food Services Announcement
Congratulations to all of the contestants of the Carysbrook Spelling Bee! We look forward to seeing you compete tomorrow at the district Spelling Bee!
Carysbrook Fourth Grade Families,
We will be sending home an individualized report of your child's third grade SOLs. This report will allow you to see how your child's performance compared to other students in the Commonwealth who took the same test. Letters are going home with fourth graders, today.
Thank you and have a good evening.
Parent-Teacher Conferences:
FMS and FCHS: 1/27 - 2/21
Central and Carysbrook: 2/10-3/17
Recruitment Fair
February 14, 2025
Please add the Carysbrook Curriculum Night to your family calendars.
All schools and offices will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2025, for a scheduled holiday.
Join us for Family Movie Night on Friday, January 31st. Doors open at 5:30.
Sign up for Girls n the Run! Join our team at Carysbrook for girls in 3rd - 5th grade. Make new friends, get your body moving, set and achieve goals at your pace, gain new skills and have TONS of fun!
Save the date to join us for Village Safari Night at Carysbrook!
Dear FLUCO staff, parents, students and community,
I want to make you aware of a recent cybersecurity incident involving PowerSchool, the software vendor which provides our Student Information System (SIS).
On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, PowerSchool informed our leadership team that they experienced a nationwide cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to thousands of PowerSchool SIS customers’ data. The unofficial timeline of this incident occurred between 12/19/2024 - 12/28/2024. PowerSchool is actively investigating this incident with its incident response team. They have confirmed that some of the information belongs to some of our families and educators but because this is an ongoing investigation cannot confirm all who have been impacted. Ultimately, this was a breach of PowerSchool's systems and we are subject to their investigative timelines. Powerschool will be providing an official report once their investigation is completed.
PowerSchool informed us that the taken data primarily includes student, parent and teacher contact information with data elements such as name and address information. Across their customer base, they have determined that for a portion of individuals, some personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security numbers (SSN), was impacted. They assure us that they are working with urgency to complete their investigation and determine whether PII belonging to our students or teachers was included.
FCPS does not store Social Security Numbers for students in PowerSchool. FCPS does not store Social Security Numbers for staff except for teachers who are waiting for their provisional license. We are communicating with those few specific individuals whose SSN’s have potentially been compromised.
Protecting our students and teachers is something we take very seriously. PowerSchool has implemented safeguards to prevent this incident from occurring again from their end. Additionally, FCPS has verified that our data network, and server environment has not been compromised. Additionally we have implemented a password change for all PowerSchool staff accounts to make sure no Powerschool account credentials have been compromised. Parent PowerSchool accounts are view-only and thus do not require a password reset.
With PowerSchool’s help, more information and resources (including credit monitoring or identity protection services if applicable) will be provided to you as it becomes available. FCPS will share additional information as we receive it.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
Peter M. Gretz, Ed.D.
Division Superintendent
PowerSchool, PowerTeacher, and the Parent Portal will be down for system maintenance on Thursday, January 2nd, from 8:00PM to 11:00PM.
Third graders were impressed with seeing some inventions of Thomas Edison. We are very thankful for volunteers in our village who will share their passions and collections.
FCPS Winter Schedule
