Fuller Falcon Reminders - October 6, 2025

Greetings Fuller Falcon Families, 

The following are important reminders: 

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🎓📸✨ Fall Picture Day is Coming! ✨📸

A photographer from Strawbridge Studios will be on campus at Fuller Magnet on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 to capture your child’s fall pictures! 🍂

💻 Families can view packages and order online by visiting:
👉 Click here to order

Helpful tip: Please send students in their best smiles and on-time so they don’t miss their session! 😄

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Did you miss our Virtual AIG Meeting?

No worries! You can catch up on everything Mrs. Owens and Ms. Gonzalez shared during the session by viewing the presentation here:
👉 AIG Information Night Presentation

Stay informed and stay inspired, Fuller Falcons! 

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🎨 Final Call: PTA Reflections Entries Due This Friday! 🎶

Hey Fuller Families!
The National PTA Reflections contest is back, and this year’s theme — “I Belong…” — invites students to show their creativity and voice through art! Find more details here.

Students can submit entries in dance, film, literature, music composition, photography, or visual arts.
✅ Remember to include:

• The entry form
  
  

• The Google form submission
  
  

• The artwork itself!
  
  

🗓️ Deadline: Friday, October 10, 2025

Let’s celebrate our Falcons’ creativity and see how they express belonging in their world. We can’t wait to see their amazing talent shine! 💫

Questions? Reach out anytime:
📧 reflections@fullerpta.org

Warm regards,
Padma Iyer & Anjana Shrivastava
Fuller PTA Reflections Co-Chairs

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🌍✨ Get Ready for Fuller Magnet’s Multicultural Night! ✨🌍

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. for one of our most vibrant and beloved traditions! 🎉
It’s a celebration of the incredible cultures and traditions that make our Fuller community so special.

🍱 Taste delicious foods
🎶 Enjoy music and performances
👘 See cultural clothing and displays
🎨 Experience art and traditions from around the world

Would you like to be a Cultural Ambassador this year? Share your heritage through food, music, clothing, art, or traditions — we’d love to have you!
👉 If you’d like to be an Ambassador and share food, clothing, music, art, or traditions, please fill out this quick form by November 7th: Form

Let’s come together to celebrate diversity, unity, and the many cultures that make Fuller shine!

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Parents – Are you interested in volunteering at Fuller this school year?

Whether you’d like to help in school or join us on field trips, you’ll need to complete both steps in the WCPSS volunteer process.

✅ Register or renew your volunteer status here: Parent and Community Volunteers Registration

Thank you for partnering with us to support our students and staff! 

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Apply for Free & Reduced Meals – Action Required Each Year
This is a reminder that the Free and Reduced-Price Meal application must be completed every school year.
🍎 Meal Benefits Expiration Date
Benefits from last school year will continue for the first 30 school days of the new year.To continue receiving free or reduced-price meals, please complete a new application by October 7, 2025 (Traditional Calendar deadline).
📌 Apply here: Free & Reduced-Price Meals Application
We encourage all eligible families to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid any interruptions in meal benefits.

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Important Update: Educational Leave Requests at the Start of the 2025–2026 School Year

🚫 Educational Leave will NOT be approved during the first 20 days of school.

📖 See Attendance and Absences in the Fuller Student/Parent Handbook for the required form: https://bit.ly/FullerHandbook2526

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🎉 Fuller Fundance & PTA Fundraiser Announcement! 🎉

Mark your calendars—our PTA Fundraiser is back!
Students will learn all the details at a Pep Rally on October 17, and info will be sent home that day.

The fundraiser will run up to our Fuller Fundance—a 30-minute dance session for each grade level, in costume! We especially encourage book character costumes. 📚✨

🚫 Not allowed: scary costumes or any costumes with weapons.
✅ Not sure if a costume is school-appropriate? Reach out to Mr. Hernandez at ghernandez2@wcpss.net.

Let’s go, Falcons! 💙🦅
#FullerFalcons #PTA #Fundance

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Campus Beautification Day at Fuller Magnet! 🌿

Join us on Saturday, October 25, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM as we come together to make our campus shine! 💚
Whether you can stay for the whole morning or just an hour, every helping hand makes a difference.

We’ll be mulching, weeding, raking, and sprucing up our grounds — and if you have them, please bring along gloves, rakes, gardening tools, or wheelbarrows (they’ll help a lot!).

Let’s show our Falcon pride and make Fuller even more beautiful! 🦅✨

👉 RSVP here: bit.ly/FullerBeautificationDay

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🎉 Checkmate! The Fuller Falcon Chess Club is Back for 4th and 5th Graders! ♟️

We’re excited to announce the second year of our Afterschool Fuller Chess Club — open to all 4th and 5th grade students who are ready to challenge their minds and level up their strategy skills!

🧠 Sponsored by three talented Enloe High School students and Fuller’s own Mr. Manick, this club is a great way to build focus, patience, and critical thinking — all while having fun!

⚡ Limited spots available! Only the first 30 applications will be accepted. Once the limit is reached, the form will close.

👉 Sign up now: https://bit.ly/Chess2526

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Follow us on Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/FullerMagnetES
https://www.facebook.com/fullerpta
https://www.instagram.com/fullermagnetes/

GOOOO Falcons,
Gerald Hernandez, Principal