Northpoint Elementary
September 8, 2021
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Hello to our Northpoint Families,
The school year is officially underway, and it is wonderful to have the halls and classrooms full of activity! Our teachers and the entire Northpoint community are excited to be able to work with your children once again. We are spending valuable time this week in creating a classroom culture in which relationships are being created. We want each child to feel valued, inspired, and that they belong.
Thank you to our families for ensuring that your students are coming to school with a face mask. The children handle this expectation with ease. I am proud of their ability to adapt to the safety practices to ensure we are able to all be healthy and keep learning at school.
As a reminder, please review our arrival and dismissal information in the Need to Know section of the newsletter. Thank you to everyone for following these routines, they help make drop off and pick up both safe and efficient.
This coming Monday evening our PTO will be meeting at 6 p.m. here at Northpoint. We will be gathering outside in the main playground area. Please stay tuned in the case of poor weather. Should the weather not cooperate, we will notify you of the change of plans.
We’re excited to be underway and are looking forward to all the 2021-2022 school year has to bring. We’ll be in touch each Wednesday with this newsletter with updates as routines and learning get underway. We ask that you keep in contact, too. Your voice is valued, and your input is necessary to help us have the best year ever! Have a great week!
Judi Kahoun
Principal
Voluntary, free COVID-19 testing
Voluntary COVID-19 testing will be offered every other week at Spring Lake Park Schools. Students whose families wish them to complete a test may stop by the health office in their school building on scheduled test days to pick up a test kit. Saliva tests will be taken home and completed online via Zoom with a Vault supervisor. Test kits will then be returned to the health office the next day for shipment to the lab. Late test kits cannot be accepted. Instructions on how to login to Zoom are included with each test kit. The first test day is Monday, September 13.
Please contact the Lead Nurse, Becca Williams, with any questions.
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Important Arrival & Dismissal Information
As a change to our initital communication, we will only be offering a drive-up line for both arrival and dismissal. There will be no parent walk-up this year.
If you live in close proximity to Northpoint and want to walk your student to or from school, you may wait on the sidewalk at the end of the drive-up line for a staff member to assist you.
Parent Drive-up/Arrival
- Students may be dropped off starting at 9 a.m. Students will be supervised by a school staff member until they enter the building at 9:10 a.m.
Parent Drive-up/Dismissal
- Students will be dismissed from the gym under the supervision of school staff to meet their parents in the drive-up line. We ask that parents post a sign on their windshield with their child’s first and last name, and their homeroom teacher during dismissal. We count on this information to help the process go as efficiently as possible. Parents may begin to line up in front of the building no earlier than 3:35 p.m.
Please practice the following in the drive-up line during arrival and dismissal:
- Stay in your car while dropping off students
- Pull as far forward before dropping off your students
- Students must exit curbside
- Please follow the traffic flow and do not pass other vehicles
- Do not block neighboring business driveways when waiting
PTO Kickoff– New year, New PTO
When: Monday, September 13, 6-7 p.m.
Where: Northpoint Elementary– Outside by the west playground—bring a chair or a blanket! You may either park in the main parking lot and walk around to the playground or you may park in the bus area behind the school.
Purpose: Get to know each other, learn more about the PTO and discuss PTO events for the year
To help celebrate this year’s kickoff, we will be raffling off prizes. Everyone who attends is entered!
Fall Elementary Programs Starting Soon - Register
Each elementary school is offering a variety of after-school classes. Refine your chess skills with Twin Cities Chess Club, investigate some urban legends with Science Explorers, or learn to draw a rainbow giraffe and stylized Eiffel Tower with Young Rembrandts. These programs are starting soon, register today.
Pantherette Petite Dance Clinic 2021
Students in grades K-6 are invited to register for the 2021 Pantherette Petite Dance Clinic. The Community Education Department is partnering with the Spring Lake Park High School Fall Dance Team to put on a fall dance clinic where participants with work with the Panther Dance team to learn a routine that will be performed at a SLP Varsity Football game. Learn more and register today.
Adults - Play Badminton at Westwood this Fall
This fall, the Community Education Department is pleased to offer Open Badminton to adults in our community. Join us at Westwood Intermediate and Middle School to learn the sport or refine your badminton skills. Rackets and shuttlecocks will be provided. Register here.
Matthew 25 Free Food Distribution
Matthew 25, a nonprofit organization, is holding a free monthly food distribution drive-thru on the second Sunday of every month from noon-2 p.m. at the Coon Rapids United Methodist Church. There are no requirements, and no data will be collected. Everyone is welcome. The next distribution date is this Sunday, September 12.
First Day of School Photos
It has been beyond amazing to see happy faces back for the 2021-2022 school year!
Check out the First Day of School 2021 Photo Gallery
- September 13 - NP PTO Meeting, 6 p.m. (see above for more information)
- October 11-12 - NP Picture Days (more information to come)
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Spring Lake Park Schools has recently updated its processes related to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act which provides protections to individuals with disabilities. The updated Notification of Procedural Safeguards and Grievance Policy and Procedure can both be found on our website. Additional information about Section 504 plans can be addressed to Anthony Mayer, Student Services Director.
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