Life In the Library
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Lunch GuestsWe are always glad for parents to come to school for a special treat to have lunch with their child. If you do this at any time, please be sure to allow enough time to check in at the front office with your ID to get a visitors badge. Also parents must sit at the designated parent tables with their child or may go outside to the picnic tables. Other students may not come to the parent table with a friend. Please help your child to understand that they you are there to eat lunch with them and not with other students. Thank you for your assistance. | STAAR TestingSTAAR Testing season is upon us! Our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students will begin STAAR testing THIS week on Wednesday. Please make sure they are at school on time testing days and please do not make any plans to leave early. The campus will be closed to all visitors and volunteers on these days. Please mark your calendar for the following dates: April 19 - 3rd, 4th, 5th grade STAAR Reading April 26 - 5th grade STAAR Science May 9 - 3rd, 4th, 5th grade STAAR Math Please click on THIS link for a letter with more important information. | Pre-Registration If you have not yet done so, please return the purple pre-registration form that was sent home last week, We are beginning to make plans for next year and need to know if you are planning to return. Please fill this form out and return it to school as soon as possible. Our goal is to have 100% of the forms returned. |
Lunch Guests
We are always glad for parents to come to school for a special treat to have lunch with their child. If you do this at any time, please be sure to allow enough time to check in at the front office with your ID to get a visitors badge. Also parents must sit at the designated parent tables with their child or may go outside to the picnic tables. Other students may not come to the parent table with a friend. Please help your child to understand that they you are there to eat lunch with them and not with other students. Thank you for your assistance.
STAAR Testing
STAAR Testing season is upon us! Our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students will begin STAAR testing THIS week on Wednesday. Please make sure they are at school on time testing days and please do not make any plans to leave early.
The campus will be closed to all visitors and volunteers on these days.
Please mark your calendar for the following dates:
April 19 - 3rd, 4th, 5th grade STAAR Reading
April 26 - 5th grade STAAR Science
May 9 - 3rd, 4th, 5th grade STAAR Math
Please click on THIS link for a letter with more important information.
Pre-Registration
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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
Catherine Harper, Northwood Elementary
