Northwood News March 20-24
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Thank you for Choosing Northwood!
Dear Northwood Community,
Welcome Back! We hope you had a wonderful Spring Break and enjoyed the time to rest, relax and have some fun. We are officially into our last grading period of this school year. Be sure to check your child's Skyward Family Access account to see their grades for the 3rd 9 weeks later this week.
When you drive by Northwood down Rockhill Dr. be sure to check out the mural on the side of our old gym building. This project was funded through this year's Greenback Night. Thank you Northwood PTA and the community for this beautiful addition to our campus!
As we enter the last 9 weeks, you will be hearing a lot about Carnival (just two weeks away!), STAAR testing, summer plans and end of year events.
Please be sure to read the Northwood News each week and read all the way to the end of the newsletter to find out about everything that is going on at Northwood and for important reminders.
Have a great week and thank you for your support!
Mrs. Harper
Life In the Library
Plastic Bag Recyling HEB is holding a plastic bag recycling contest with local elementary schools. Please bring your plastic bags, no matter the retailer, to school any day this week and drop them off in the box in the front foyer. Clean out your cabinets, help the environment and help Northwood win the contest! We have a ton of bags already, but HEB has extended the contest into this week! | Join the Fun!Our Northwood Spring Carnival is less than two weeks away on Saturday, April 1st from 2-6pm! This is our largest fundraiser & event sponsored by the PTA & is a wonderful community event with lots of fun for the whole family! Please see below for more detail on how you can help make this event a success & we hope to see you all there. | Pre School Story Time Our Pre School Story Time are so much fun! Do you have a child ages 2-5 (or younger)? or do you have a friend or neighbor who does? We would love for you to come to the Northwood Library this Friday, March 24 at 10:30 am for a special spring time story and craft with Ms. Philippus! Please send her an email at sphili@neisd.net to let her know you are coming. |
Plastic Bag Recyling
Join the Fun!
Our Northwood Spring Carnival is less than two weeks away on Saturday, April 1st from 2-6pm! This is our largest fundraiser & event sponsored by the PTA & is a wonderful community event with lots of fun for the whole family! Please see below for more detail on how you can help make this event a success & we hope to see you all there.
Pre School Story Time
News and Upcoming Events
Carnival: Northwood's Spring CARNIVAL will be held on Saturday, April 1st from 2-6pm! There will be lots of fun, food & laughs for April Fool’s Day:) There are many ways to help, please see below & keep watching for flyers in backpacks over the next two weeks.
A HUGE thank you to our amazing sponsors: Home & Patio, Park Place Recreational, Britton Orthodontics, American Bank, Theory, Real Estate Muses, AIM, Screaming Goat Yard & Tap, The Law Office of Lisa S. Miller, Mindful Kindness Counseling LLC, Mission Bell, ACE Five Oaks, Integrated Shredder Technology, The Beignet Stand, Next Level Urgent Care, Kumon, Austin Flipsters, Vivroux Sports & Dryline Partners for supporting the 2023 Northwood Carnival! We truly appreciate all of your generous support!
*Donate an item or service for our Silent Auction, please contact Robbie Shepherd at texrobbie1@aol.com or 806.438.5827. Donate an item for grade-level baskets that will be available in the auction (there is a bin in the front entryway), please reach out to Blythe Boeck with questions at boeck.blythe@gmail.com.
*Advanced ticket & t-shirts will be available at our sidewalk sale starting Monday, March 27th through Friday March 31st at drop-off from 7:15-7:45am & pick-up from 2:20-3pm! (Tues. March 28 early release sales from 12:10-12:45pm) Tickets will available at a presale rate of 12 tickets (1 ticket = $1) for $10 total & t-shirts will be $12 each, limited sizes available so first come, first serve! Cash, check & Venmo will be accepted.
*Donate an item for Food Alley based on your grade-level requests, there is a bin in the front entryway. Please reach out to Kerry Pape with any questions at kmdanelle@yahoo.com or 817.690.3251.
*Want to Volunteer?! Please click the following link tinyurl.com/northwoodcarnival or email Miller.LisaG@gmail.com to sign up!
Unicorn Watch: Watch Dogs is now Unicorn Watch! If you would like to volunteer please use the following link: Unicorn Watch Sign Up . You will also need to order a Unicorn Watch shirt which can be purchased using this link: Unicorn Watch Shirts . If you would like to volunteer, please make sure that your DPS clearance is current. You can do that here: DPS Clearance There will be no orientation meeting this year. If you have any question please email them to nwunicornwatch@yahoo.com
Join PTA: When you join the PTA, you join a community that encourages student achievement and builds a partnership between our families and our school. PTA organizes teacher appreciation, provides classroom grants, supports student enrichment programs, and so much more. We believe that together we can help our children be successful. Go to joinpta.org and sign up online or submit cash or check to the front office. Payment envelopes are available. The membership fee is $7.00 per person and there is an additional $1.50 transaction fee for joining online. Consider having both parents, grandparents and even your child join! If you have not already joined, please join today.
Upcoming Dates:
March 24 - 10:30 am - Preschool Story Time
March 25 - Campus Beautification Day
March 28 - Early Dismissal @ 12:30/Staff Development
March 30 - Young Master's Art Show
March 31 - Carnival Set Up
April 1 - Carnival
April 7 - Student/Staff Holiday
April 13 - Purple Up! Wear Purple for the Military Child
Morning Routines and Drop OffOur school day is from 7:30 am - 2:45 pm. Students may enter the building as early as 6:50 am to eat breakfast. Please drop of your child next to the curb in the school parking lot. Student Safety Patrols will open your car door and assist your child. Please do not drop off your child on Pike Rd. or in the drive through lane. If your child arrives before 7:23 am they will wait in the following location K-1: Cafeteria, 2-5: Gym. Please have your child put a book in their backpack, so they can read while they wait. At 7:23 am the teachers will pick up the students and go to class. The tardy bell rings at 7:30 am, so please allow plenty of time. In order to ensure the safety of all our students, we ask that parents not come into the building in the mornings. We will make sure that everyone gets to class safely. | School AbsencesOur goal is for all of our students to maintain outstanding attendance (at least 95%). Our current attendance rate is 93.3%, We have had a little drop over the past couple of weeks. We are close, but every child, every day makes a difference! The best way to learn is by being present at school! If your child needs to be absent due to illness, please be sure to send a note to school the day they return explaining the reason for the absence. Absences for illness and medical appointments will be excused with a written note. | Pick-Up ProceduresEveryone picking up a student from school at dismissal is required to present an official Northwood Dismissal Tag. Official green tags with your child’s name and grade were passed out the first week of school or when you registered. If you need an extra one, please let your child’s teacher know. If you do not have a dismissal tag, you will be required to come to the front office and present an ID to receive a dismissal tag.
All car pick and parent pick up must present their tag and wait for their child to be called at dismissal. Please do not walk over to where the children are waiting to get your child before they are called, as we cannot confirm your identity. We understand that this may take a little longer, however, we want to ensure that everyone goes homes safely. Thank you for your cooperation |
Morning Routines and Drop Off
Our school day is from 7:30 am - 2:45 pm. Students may enter the building as early as 6:50 am to eat breakfast.
Please drop of your child next to the curb in the school parking lot. Student Safety Patrols will open your car door and assist your child. Please do not drop off your child on Pike Rd. or in the drive through lane.
If your child arrives before 7:23 am they will wait in the following location K-1: Cafeteria, 2-5: Gym. Please have your child put a book in their backpack, so they can read while they wait. At 7:23 am the teachers will pick up the students and go to class. The tardy bell rings at 7:30 am, so please allow plenty of time. In order to ensure the safety of all our students, we ask that parents not come into the building in the mornings. We will make sure that everyone gets to class safely.
School Absences
Our goal is for all of our students to maintain outstanding attendance (at least 95%). Our current attendance rate is 93.3%, We have had a little drop over the past couple of weeks. We are close, but every child, every day makes a difference!
The best way to learn is by being present at school! If your child needs to be absent due to illness, please be sure to send a note to school the day they return explaining the reason for the absence. Absences for illness and medical appointments will be excused with a written note.
Pick-Up Procedures
Everyone picking up a student from school at dismissal is required to present an official Northwood Dismissal Tag. Official green tags with your child’s name and grade were passed out the first week of school or when you registered. If you need an extra one, please let your child’s teacher know. If you do not have a dismissal tag, you will be required to come to the front office and present an ID to receive a dismissal tag.
All car pick and parent pick up must present their tag and wait for their child to be called at dismissal. Please do not walk over to where the children are waiting to get your child before they are called, as we cannot confirm your identity. We understand that this may take a little longer, however, we want to ensure that everyone goes homes safely. Thank you for your cooperation
Visitors on Campus
All visitors to campus will be required to present an ID and receive a visitors badge through the Raptor system in order to come into the building during the school day. We understand that this may not be convenient, but it is necessary in order to ensure safety.