Four Oaks Elementary School -

Just one more sleep until we welcome our students back to school!! We hope all of our students get a good night's rest and are excited to take on the day tomorrow! We can't wait to see you in the morning! ❤️📚🍎

Please enjoy the FOES Elementary Parent Newsletter: https://www.smore.com/q14sb

Orientation is this afternoon (3-6: pm)! We are looking forward to seeing our rising 1st-5th graders tonight! Here are a few additional points of information: -Greeters will be stationed throughout the building who can assist you finding out who your child's teacher and where to locate their classroom. -Parking is limited on our campus. Plan on being patient and please park your vehicle in a safe location. -Our Weapons detection systems will be up and running this evening and will be located at our main entrances. These machines are safe and efficient. Your patience and understanding is greatly appreciated. -Student bus assignments are located in the classrooms. However, if you have questions or if the information is not with the classroom teacher, please visit our gym. There will be staff there to help. -If can reserve a car rider tag in our school cafeteria. This is also where you can register as volunteer. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Good Evening Parents, Orientation for grades 1st-5th will be tomorrow afternoon from 3:00 pm-6:00 pm. This is a floating orientation and you can arrive anytime from 3:00-6:00. By now you should have received a post card identifying your child's homeroom teacher. If you did not receive a postcard you are welcome to call the school tomorrow or you can also find out at orientation. We have shared out various links over the summer to help expedite processes such as downloading the new district wide App, requesting car rider tags, and completing digital beginning of year forms. Here is a link to many of these services.: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTjwCJ-dwL2LRkky8CCH0nBs2XKNtZAuEOjyMMrLQMCQQhvhHGy_CkvaLM453KuLZLvqu3EFU6G4cuo/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p This link and access to laptops computers to complete any of the digital tasks will be available. There are also a few hard copy forms that also must be completed. Hard copy forms include the emergency parent contact form and the Student Accountability Form. Please be aware that parking will be limited so expect to be patient as you secure your vehicle. We will have hallway greeters to help direct anyone not familiar with our campus to find their child's classroom. There will be photo booths set up in the main lobby and at the 3-5 car rider lobby. There will also be tables hosted by our PTA and the Girl Scouts. We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow afternoon!

We're just FIVE days from the first day of school! Can you believe it?! Be sure to check the Johnston County Public Schools mobile app off of your school supplies list! Parents, teachers, and students will use the mobile app for our two-way communication tool this school year! Download it in the Apple or Google Play store today so you're ready for the first day!

Cardinal spirit wear is now available through a new online ordering system! All orders will be delivered to your student’s school and distributed to homerooms by a PTA member by mid October! A special thank you to Creative Caps for designing our shirts and setting up our online store! https://cardinalsfall2023.itemorder.com/shop/home/

FOES PTA Sponsorship Forms 2023-2024 Dear Parents, It's that time of the year! PTA is holding its student fundraiser for the 2023-2024 school year! Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, PTA can help with many of the needs of staff and students that would otherwise not be met. For example, we keep nature's track, buy school items and reward our teachers. With your help, we can do a lot! Please complete the information below to sponsor your student and support our school! Sponsorships must be received by September 30, 2023. If you have any questions, contact Rachel Casteline, PTA President, TJ Parrish, Director at 919-963-2165. Please access the Business Sponsorship Form and the Student Sponsorship Form from the links below! Thank you for supporting our students through sponsorships! FOES PTA Business Sponsor Form (Printable PDF) https://tinyurl.com/Business-Sponsor FOES PTA Student Sponsor Form (Printable PDF) https://tinyurl.com/Student-Sponsor FOES PTA Student Sponsor Form in Spanish (Printable PDF) https://tinyurl.com/Spanish-Student-Sponsor

Orientation for grades 1-5 is this coming Thursday from 3-6 pm. Postcards (including teacher assignments) are in the mail and should arrive either Saturday or Monday. See you soon!

All students enrolled in a qualifying Johnston County Public School (with the exception of 5 non-qualifying schools) will receive a healthy Breakfast and lunch at no cost to the household this upcoming school year through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Households of students that attend a qualifying CEP school will no longer need to submit a Free and Reduced Meal Benefit Application for the upcoming school year. Students that attend a non-qualifying school will still have the opportunity to submit a meal benefits application in order to qualify for free, reduced, or paid eligibility status. Applications for the 2023-2024 school year will be accepted starting July 10, 2023. For more information, click here: https://bit.ly/3P10t3J

Our families seemed to like the one-stop-shop format for Orientation Information on our website - so we thought we'd make school supply lists just as convenient! Supply lists for our elementary and middle schools for the 2023-2024 school year are available now at: www.johnston.k12.nc.us/schoolsupplies We hope this makes you getting ready for the first day of school - August 28th - a little bit easier!

Good Evening JCPS Families, We hope you will join us at one of our Summer Information Fairs, happening this Monday and Tuesday. We’re hosting a Summer Information Fair at eight of our schools on July 31 and August 1st. We invite families to attend the information fair in their student’s feeder pattern. The Information Fair will provide parents an opportunity to request, verify, and ensure your student has bus transportation and receive meal service information prior to the opening of school. While students won’t receive their bus number at the Information Fair, attending and signing up for transportation guarantees that the student will have transportation on the first day of school. Bus information is expected to be shared at Orientation. If your student does not ride a bus, back to school information will be provided at Orientation. We’ll also have staff on hand for families who need assistance with enrolling their student for the upcoming school year. The Summer Information Fair will be held from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Monday, July 31st at North Johnston Middle, Cleveland High, Corinth Holders High, and South Johnston High. We will hold Information Fairs the following day, Tuesday, August 1st from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Clayton Middle, Smithfield-Selma High, Princeton High, and West Johnston High schools. You can find more information by visiting the home page of our website. We hope to see you there!

We will be hosting our Back to School Orientation on Thursday, August 24th for grades 1st -5th. Meet your child's teacher for the year, join/rejoin the PTA, and much more! A postcard will be mailed to your home the week prior that will remind you of this event and notify you who your child's teacher will be.

Join us for Kindergarten Parent Night on Tuesday, August 8th at 6:00 pm. Childcare will be provided. We will be mailing out postcard invites to all currently registered rising kindergartners. We are excited to add our new Cardinals to the Nest!

The 2023-2024 school year is just one month away! Orientation information is available now! Find your school's orientation information by visiting: www.johnston.k12.nc.us/orientation

We're so excited to introduce our new and improved mobile app to our JCPS community! We've been hard at work to overhaul our mobile app and offer our users an even better experience. We're offering a NEW app in the Apple and Google Play store - that our parents and students alike will want to download before the start of the school year! We'll use our mobile app to send you important information about your school, share athletic schedules, and post our lunch menus every day! The most important feature: our mobile app is going to house our new two-way communication tool for students, teachers, and parents. It's called Rooms - and you're going to love it! Download the JCPS mobile app today so you're ahead of the game!

Parents, Here is our 23-24 School Supply List. We hope you find this useful during all of the current sales. *Grade Level Supply List 2023-2024 https://tinyurl.com/SupplyListFOES

Johnston County Public Schools (JCPS) will hold its second annual Summer Information Fair for families on Monday, July 31 and Tuesday, Aug. 1. In preparation for the 2023-2024 school year, JCPS Transportation Services, School Nutrition, Communication, and Student Information will host a Summer Information Fair at schools throughout the Johnston County community. The information fair will provide parents an opportunity to enroll their student, and request, verify, and ensure your child has bus transportation and receive pertinent back to school information from school nutrition and communication services. The summer information fairs will be held on July 31 and Aug. 1 from 1:00 - 7:00 PM. Please see below for dates and locations. Monday, July 31st North Johnston Middle (Cafeteria) Cleveland High (Cafeteria) Corinth Holders High (Cafeteria) South Johnston High (Cafeteria) Tuesday, August 1st Clayton Middle (Cafeteria) Smithfield-Selma High (Cafeteria) Princeton Middle/High (Cafeteria) West Johnston High (Cafeteria) Families are invited to attend the Summer Information Fair at the school and date that is most convenient for their schedule, and are not required to attend the fair in their student’s feeder pattern.

Our wonderful custodial staff were hard at it and learning new strategies to keep our schools environments in tip-top shape. Last week's team building and training exercises were informative, interactive, and a great opportunity for the entire team to grow closer. Way to go team! ✨

Free summer meals for students provided by JCPS School Nutrition As part of its efforts to ensure kids have access to healthy meals during the summer months, JCPS School Nutrition is pleased to announce its summer meals sites that will be serving kids and teens. Beginning June 19, all kids and teens 18-years-old and under can receive meals free of charge, no registration needed. Meals will be served from June 19 through July 13. Breakfast will be served from 7:00 AM- 8:00 AM and lunch will be served from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Please note that times may vary depending on the site and participation and that additional locations may be announced after July 13. Locations opening on June 19 are: Archer Lodge Middle Benson Elementary Benson Middle Clayton High Clayton Middle Four Oaks Middle McGee’s Crossroad Elementary Micro Elementary North Johnston Middle River Dell Elementary Selma Elementary Selma Middle Smithfield Middle Smithfield-Selma High South Johnston High West Clayton Elementary West Smithfield Elementary For kids who rely on school meals, summer can be the hungriest time of year, and hunger has short- and long-term consequences for a child’s health, education and well-being. Making sure kids and teens have access to nutritious summer meals is especially important this summer. The Summer Meals program is funded by the USDA and run by school districts and local organizations, and sites can be found throughout the community. We’re always happy to see you at various locations throughout Johnston County, but there may be more convenient locations closer to you. Families can text “FOOD” or “COMIDA” to 304-304 and type in a zip code to find nearby summer meals sites, along with operating days and times. No application, registration or proof of residency or citizenship is required at sites.