Normandy Park School
Principal's Corner
Senior Mentors
At NPS, we are fortunate to have opportunities to utilize are 4/5 (Senior) students as mentors. Throughout the year, Senior helpers mentor are younger students in and out of the classroom.
Check out Senior helpers (picture below) helping Primary students with a coding activity!
Cultural Arts Residency for the Intermediate Unit
This week, we continued our Intermediate Cultural Arts residency program with tile artist, Kathy Casper. Students began creating and painting their own tiles.
With this mosaic project, we want to highlight the power of embracing and being ourselves! I am very excited to work with the students and Kathy Casper on this project.
The final tile mosaic project will be installed in the Intermediate hallway/wing. Please feel free to check it out during conferences!
Thank you to all our parent volunteers who helped out last week! We truly appreciate your time and support!
Grow It Green
This week, Farmer Tina will have her first visit with the Intermediate Unit.
Throughout the year, Farmer Tina will be teaching Intermediate classes about nutrition, gardening, and sustainability throughout the year. At the end of the school year, Intermediate students will visit the Urban Farm.
Thank you to Grow It Green for their continuing partnership!
*As of 10/28/19, first visit has been rescheduled to November.
STEM Kits
Thanks to our HSA we were able to order each K/1 teacher STEM kits for their morning centers. The STEM kits support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics development and inquiry for young learners.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on November 4th and November 6th.
This year, we will continue to use the online app, MyConferenceTime, to schedule conferences.
Normandy Park School will have Parent-Teacher Conferences on November 4th and 6th. We will be using MyConferenceTime for scheduling conferences.
To schedule your preferred time for a parent-teacher conference, please visit:
https://www.myconferencetime.com/normandypark/
Click on the name of your child’s teacher. Select the desired date/time for your conference by
clicking on “Sign Up.” Submit the requested information. If you have several children attending our school, click on “Register for Multiple Conferences” and follow the prompts to schedule your children for several conferences. After you schedule a conference online, the date and time are reserved for you. You will receive email confirmation of your conference.
If you are unable to sign up for a time and date online, please contact the main office at 973-
889-7960.
Scheduling will be open from 10/14/2019 (6:30am) to 11/1/2019 (11pm).
Normandy Now
Mrs. Vazquez, Ms. Murphy and Mrs. Tulli presented on reading strategies for Primary students (K/1). They had centers set up to review different reading domains. Mrs. Feo, our speech therapist, went over strategies and tools to support language at home. Mrs. Ortiz and Mrs. Sommer provided reading strategies and resources for Intermediate and Senior students.
Normandy Now events are always a great opportunity for teachers to share classroom strategies and activities with parents.
If you have any feedback on we can continue provide meaningful Normandy Now sessions, please feel free to reach out to me or the H.S.A!
2020-2021 Kindergarten Parents Information Session
On November 15th at 9:30am, parents interested in having their child attend NPS next year will have the opportunity to learn more about our school and programs, as well as take a brief tour. We will have students from the Student Council helping out!
If you know any families that would be interested, please let them know. They can RSVP by calling the main office at (973) 889-7960.
Upcoming Events
- November 4th and November 6th: Parent Teacher Conferences
- November 7th and November 8th: School Closed for Teacher's Convention
- November 15th: Information Session for Incoming K Parents (9:30am)
- November 15th: HSA Meeting (11am)
- November 27th: Early Dismissal
- November 28th and 29th: School Closed Thanksgiving Break
- December 3rd to December 6th: Winter Scholastic Book Fair
- December 13th: Winter Concert