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April 22, 2022

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT NORTH.....Click on these icons to find out!

Community Backpack

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Dates to Remember

April 22, 2022--Spring Musical 7:30 pm

April 23, 2022--Spring Musical 7:30 pm

April 23, 2022--Senior Yard Sign Distribution 12-1:00 pm Front entrance of SCN

April 24, 2022--Spring Musical 2:00 pm

April 27--Early Release

April 30, 2022--Prom 2022/Post Prom

May 5, 2022--Senior Honors Night 6:30 pm

May 11, 2022--Early Release

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Students who are currently in ninth-grade should submit evidence of a dental examination by May 15th. The submitted exam must be completed within 18 months prior to May 15th. Please submit your forms to the School Nurse.

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Do you have all your yearbooks??

North Stars- check your Yearbook collection- do you have all of your Yearbooks? If you are interested in a previous year's Yearbook, please e-mail Lindsay.Boynton@d303.org with the name of your student and which book they need, and one will be added to their Pushcoin account and delivered to your student.

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SCN Drowsy Chaperone Teaser

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North 2022 Athletic Summer Camps

Our North 2022 Athletic Summer Camp Registration is now open on the Athletic Website.


The brochure can be found under the "Resources" Tab on the website.


There will be no walk in registrations accepted at St. Charles North High School.

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Summer School Registration and Information

Click the grey bar above to be re-directed to the D303 information page.

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Driver Education Summer School

Click the grey bar above for information regarding the D303 Summer Driver Ed Program May 30-July 8 St. Charles North HS or contact Kristy Harrier at 331-228-6268 or kristy.harrier@d303.org

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News From the PTO

To make Post Prom a success WE NEED YOUR HELP. Below are two links for ways you can help:


1. We need volunteers in many areas for the event night. Click the POST PROM VOLUNTEER link and choose an area you would like to help with. Yes, it is late going into the early morning and, yes, you will be tired but it will be a very rewarding tired knowing that you helped provide an event for some very deserving students from North.


2. To make this event special we need your financial support. Please click on the POST PROM DONATION link and dig deep to help make this event special for the North students.



  • Donations are needed to help pay for this event; 100% of all funds received goes towards games, food, and prizes. (On PushCoin!) POST PROM DONATION


For Post Prom questions: contact PTO President Laura Thomas at LauraRThomas@att.net or Chair Tom Mullally at mullally@ix.netcom.com

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Last chance for your Senior to be included on North’s Senior Memory Wall! Deadline is Tuesday May 26!

This banner is displayed at Post Prom and then in the hallway at North until graduation day.
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News From the lrc

April is Keep America Beautiful Month

April is Keep America Beautiful Month “Keep America Beautiful is more than just being clean and green. Beautiful is justice, equity, diversity, and community. As the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with affiliate organizations in hundreds of diverse neighborhoods across the country, Keep America Beautiful® confirms our belief a beautiful America is not only clean and green but also an environment where empathy and justice guide us all.” (Click on highlighted text for more information.)



The goals for Keep America Beautiful Month are numerous and essential to keeping our nation beautiful, they include:

  • Continue to work at shifting public attitudes about litter and littering behavior, and to eliminate waste.

  • Improve recycling convenience, and educate everyone about its critical importance to the planet and economy.

  • Work to ensure that every community is a clean, green and beautiful place to live by planting trees and greenspaces; and cleaning and beautifying all local public spaces.


How can we get involved?

  • BECOME A VOLUNTEER Registration is free and you get a free cleanup kit while supplies last! Volunteerism is the heart and soul of our work and communities across the country count on your support. Please register to contribute to our vision of a country where every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live.

  • Sign up for the Keep America Beautiful newsletter to stay up-to-date with programs and events happening around the country and in your community.

  • RECYCLE! Click on the following link to download the Kane County Recycling Guidelines so that you can be sure to recycle everything possible to keep our town and nation clean and beautiful.

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We encourage you to read our selection of books on this topic and to explore more ways to keep America, and our planet, beautiful. Please click on any highlighted and underlined text to find links to place a book on hold or to read a full book review.

Garbology: Our Love Affair With Trash By Edward Humes Humes offers plenty of surprising, even shocking, statistics—e.g., one in every six big trucks in America is a garbage truck; according to the EPA, from 1980 to 2000, “the average American daily trash load increased by a third.” This is more than 50 percent higher than in other countries with a similar standard of living. Humes discusses the problem of pollution caused by the proliferation of trash, specifically hazardous, non biodegradable waste. He uses the example of Coca-Cola’s mid-1960s substitution of plastic for reusable glass bottles to show how companies have cheapened their cost of production at the expense of the environment. KirkusBookReview

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide For Trying Times By Jane Goodall

Many people understand the dire state of the planet—but do nothing about it because they feel helpless and hopeless.” She adds that achieving a lasting sense of hope requires four components: attainable goals, realistic pathways to pursue them, confidence that we will succeed, and confidence that others support us. Goodall emphasizes that hope is a survival trait that every child possesses, but it must be cultivated. She illustrates this point with anecdotes from her life as a naturalist and teacher as well as many mystical, science-can’t-explain experiences that often turn up in inspirational writing. KirkusBookReview

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Greenwood : a novel By Michael Christie

“Therein hangs a tale that Christie staircases his narrative down to reach, generation by generation, one in which Jake's antecedents love and admire the forests in which they dwell but still set into motion the machines that will one day ruin the Earth. Willow is a free-spirited hippie whom we meet in the early 1970s, newly indignant to discover that the man she supposes is her father has derived his considerable fortune from having felled more old-growth forest than “wind, woodpeckers, and God—put together.” But Willow—well, suffice it to say that the matter of her paternity isn’t at all clear-cut even if the forests her progenitors control have been.” KirkusBookReview

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CLASS OF 2022 GRADUATION INFORMATION

The class of 2022 will be honored at the Commencement Ceremony on May 23 at 7:30 pm inside the Convocation Center at NIU. There is ample seating and tickets will NOT be required.


More information can be found on the Graduation Information website.

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News from district 303

Returning Student Online Registration

Returning Student Registration for 2022-2023 will open at 9:00 a.m. on April 25. Click the grey bar above for more information.

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If you were unable to participate in the Equity Audit Focus Groups Please share your thoughts through the links below.

Any student, staff member, or family member who was not selected to participate in a focus group may answer the same questions by submitting the form available here and on the D303 website in the Equity Audit tile. Access to the forms will close on Monday, April 25, 2022.


Students and staff must log in with your student email (@students.d303.org) or staff email (@d303.org) to complete the questionnaire. Student/Staff Questionnaire


Parents must use the email associated with a primary contact for your child(ren). You can check the email that is on record by logging into Home Access Center. Once your email is verified, you will be sent a link to the questionnaire within 1-2 business days. Parent Intake Form

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