Northwest Elementary
January 2019
School Day Time Information
Full Day:
8:25 a.m.-3:40 p.m.
Half Day:
8:25 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Early Release:
8:25 a.m.-2:35 p.m.
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Adopt a Family Thank You
Northwest Community Schools would like to thank the Mountie Nation - students, staff, businesses, and community members - who very generously helped with our annual Adopt-a-Family program. This year was incredibly successful. We collected food and toiletry items for 51 families, 43 of those families also received clothing, books and toys for every school age and younger child. An additional 25 families were gifted full holiday meals for their families. Your generous help will touch more than 150 school aged (or younger) children in the Mountie Nation. We greatly appreciate anyone who donated to and volunteered with our program.
Thank you to each of our school buildings, The First Church of the Nazarene, Hankerd Hills, Klavon’s, and the Lost Shoe for hosting giving trees.
A very special thank you to the Hankerd Hills’ ladies golf league, the Lost Shoe ladies’ pool league and the Lost Shoe, the Jackson Area Antique Tractor Club, the Zion United Methodist Church’s Women, NWHS’s Vocal Dimension and Serenade! Choir programs, Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine North Region, the American Legion Post 29, the NWHS Leo Club, Orthopedic Rehab Associates PC, Pro Logo LLC, Peak Manufacturing Staff, Target, Klavon’s staffs (both locations), Northwest School District Staff members, MANY local families, and Crossroads Gas Station for their very generous donations.
Thank you to so many students, families, staff and community members who grabbed ornaments from the trees, made monetary donations, helped sort and write ornaments, wrapped presents and so much more. One toothbrush, one box of mac and cheese, one toy, and one book at a time – our community rallied together to make the holidays brighter for 51 families in our district.
It is such a blessing to be able to count on the spirit of kindness in our community. Thank you very much for instilling the spirit of giving in our community and for being an inspiration to all. WE ARE NORTHWEST!
A Message from Mike Rogers
Before coming to Northwest Elementary as a counselor, I was fortunate enough to be a Student Services Coordinator at a charter school with a high population of at-risk youth. As such, I was in charge of discipline for the entire school. I remember that time fondly even though I hated having to call parents and discuss their child’s poor behavior choices, sometimes on a rather routine basis. Amazingly, I developed very good relationships with our students and their parents despite this. As a matter of fact, the principal would often call me and ask me to talk to specific parents “because they like you.”
One day one of my teachers came to me and asked me “How do you do it?” I gave her a questioning look and she clarified for me saying, “How do you seem to truly love these kids even when you are constantly having to discipline them?” I nodded in understanding and gave this simple answer.
“Every day I am given a fresh start. Each day I am able to get up out of bed is a gift and I don’t carry the previous day’s events into the new day. So, I start each day as a clean slate, giving all my students that very same gift.”
Snowman Fun
ORFFestra News
ORFFestra was busy spreading holiday cheer last month. They stopped at Arbor North Assisted Living, Lyle Torrant Center, Bethany Adult Home, Ridgecrest, and Spring Arbor Assisted Living. A big thank you to all the parents that helped transport instruments.
Please make sure the "like" NWEL Music an ORFFestra on Facebook.
Mark Your Calendar
January 7- First Day Back from Winter Break
January 9- Early Release 2:35 p.m.
January 14- Board Meeting 5:00 p.m.
January 16- Marvelous Mountie 7:45 a.m., Early Release 2:35 p.m.
January 21 No School Martin Luther King Day
January 22- Lock Down Drill, Bible Release
January 23- Early Release 2:35 p.m.
January 24- Winter Conference 4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
January 28-30- Mobile Dentist
January 30- Early Release
Remember to check your students Friday Folder for teacher specific happenings.
Drop-Off and Pick-Up Procedures
Drop-Off
Pick-Up
If you will be picking your child up, please make sure to send a note to the teacher, or call the office. If calling the office, please do so before 3:00 p.m. This will allow us to get lists finalized and given to the teacher. If you call after this time, your request unfortunately will not be honored. We will not pull children off the bus for late calls. You will need to meet them at the bus stop. When picking up your child please park in a designated parking spot and not along the drop-off curb. Make sure to bring a photo ID. Parents are asked to wait in the cafeteria until students are dismissed. Students will be dismissed by grade starting at 3:32 p.m on full days, and 2:27 p.m. on Early Release days. When exiting the parking lot please do not turn around in the Lansing Avenue Baptist Church parking lot.
Parking Lot
Thank you for your continued patience with the volume of traffic during our drop-off and pick-up times! You are doing a fantastic job of parking in parking spaces, driving slowly in the parking lot and being timely in your efforts. Please remember when dropping off a student to only drop them off when you have reached the sidewalk.
Morning Tardiness
We encourage promptness since tardies affect everyone and disrupt classroom time. One of the most valuable life skills a student can learn from his/her parent/guardian is the responsibility of arriving at school every day on time. Morning is the time when important school news is announced, teachers define the plans for the day, and instructional goals are reviewed and set. The whole tone of a child’s school day is set in the first part of the day.
Main doors open at 8:15 a.m.
School starts at 8:25 a.m.
Students not in their classroom seat by 8:35 a.m. shall be considered tardy.
If the supervisory aides are not present when you drop off your student, they are tardy. Please make sure to come in the office and sign them in.
Students who arrive after 9:00 a.m. will be marked as a morning absence.
Doctor appointments/professional appointments are excused with a doctors note.
Students must be in school at least half of the day, to count as a full day.
Please help support your child in learning habits that will help them be successful at school and throughout life. If you need help or have concerns getting your child to school on time please contact the office. We are here to help.
Medicine Procedures
- Do not send any medication on the school bus. Medication could easily be taken by the wrong child when it is not monitored by an adult. It is the parent's responsibility to bring medication into the Northwest Elementary office and check it in with a secretary.
- Over-the-counter medications (cough drops, Tylenol, Tums) must have a doctors order.
- No staff member will be permitted to dispense non-prescribed, over-the-counter (OTC) medication to any student with out a medication form filled out by a prescribing physician.
Click below for Parent Resources:
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The Direction of Greatness
Website: www.nwschools.org
Location: 3757 Lansing Avenue, Jackson, MI, United States
Phone: (517) 817-4704