North Plains Hawks News
Principal Newsletter
Sept. 30, 2019
Classes are settled, schedules changed, and we are finally getting some normality to the year!
Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding as we worked through moving kids and classes around. Many of you are anxious to meet your child's new teacher and I've been working with them to find a time. Mrs. Bethune will be available next Thursday, Oct. 10, from 3:30 - 5 PM. Ms. Job and Mr. Keenan will be here Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 3:30 - 5PM. Feel free to come by if you have one of these teachers!
The North Plains Events Committee is hosting a Casino Night at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course and some of the proceeds are coming to NPES! Thank you to Selena Griffith and Arielle Scesa for helping make this a wonderful event! Here are the details:
Come support North Plains Elementary Library/STEM project! Casino Night at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, October 5th. Doors open at 5:30. Appetizers, Buffet dinner and one free play coupon included in $50 ticket purchase. Games, prizes, silent auction, raffles and more!
Purchase tickets here! https://northplainschamber.org/casino-night-buffet-dinner/
Harvest Festival is back! This year we will have the Harvest Festival on Oct. 23 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. There will be a hay maze, face painting, and a lot of fun games! PTO is looking for volunteers, so please use this link to sign up! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B4CACA92AA64-harvest
Our fall book fair is coming soon as well and your help is once again needed! The book fair is Oct. 28 - 31 and here is the link to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B4CACA92AA64-fall
Tomorrow night is your opportunity to see the new sexual health education resources if you are interested. Materials will be on display at the Brookwood library from 6:30 to 8 PM. There is also a link on the district website so you can access things online. Click here if you are interested: https://sites.google.com/hsd.k12.or.us/hsdcshe/home. Mrs. Clayton and I will be there looking at the materials with you
We had our first Lock Down drill this morning and it went great! So thankful that our students and staff take this so seriously.
It's a beautiful Monday, the start of a great week! Enjoy:)
Becky Rios
North Plains Hawks: Embracing growth, diversity and change!
This week:
Oct. 1: 2:15 - 3:45 Choir
Oct. 1: Sexual Health Curriclum Review, 6:30 - 8PM, Brookwood LIbrary
Oct. 2: PTO 6PM
Oct. 4: PBIS assembly - Honesty. Awards from fund run 8:30 AM
Oct. 5: Casino Night at Pumpkin Ridge 5:30 - 10PM
Coming Events:
Oct. 10: No school, staff development
Oct. 11: No school, state wide inservice day
Oct. 17: Great Shake Out - earthquake drill
Oct. 23: Harvest Festival 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Oct. 31: End of quarter 1
Nov. 1: No school, teacher work day
Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Scesa
Fund run fun!
Folk dancing in music!
Lost and Found
Please use the following link to see items in our Lost and Found! Thank you to Mr. Orozco for creating this link and keeping our Lost and Found in order! http://tinyurl.com/npe-lostandfound