Norup Principal Weekly Newsletter
August 22, 2022
It was great to see so many of you in the building last week. This week we have some hours to offer for drop in and you can see those below in the Weekly Calendar. We are not available for most of the week due to professional developments at the district level so we will have some hours available Thursday evening, Friday throughout the day, and then Sunday for a few short hours.
There is quite a bit of information below so please go through and save this link so you can review it again.
I hope our school year turns out like the first three weeks of the Premier League season. For those who may not know, I am a gigantic Arsenal fan. Three weeks into the season we are the only perfect team so far!!! That's not the norm......
We are a week out from the school year! We look forward to welcoming you. As always thank you for choosing Norup; we appreciate you! Have a great week everyone!
WEEKLY CALENDAR AND UPCOMING DATES
Monday August 22
Summer Office Hours (8:30-3:00)
Tuesday August 23
All employees return for professional development meetings and room setup
4:00 Paul hosts COMSAC Athletic Directors Meeting @ Norup
Wednesday August 24
Employees in district for professional development meetings
3:00 PTSA Kindergarten Playdate (Norup Playground)
Thursday August 25
Employees in district for professional development meetings
Building open to students/families 3:30 - 6:30 PM
7 PM Berkley HS football home game @ Anderson MS
Friday August 26
Building open to students/families 8:30 AM - 3 PM
Sat. August 27
Closed - No Building Hours
Sunday August 28
Building open to students/families 12 - 3 PM
Future Dates to be aware of:
8/29 Students' First Full Day (1/2 day Kindergarten)
8/30 Elementary Picture Day & Middle School Make-Ups (1/2 day Kindergarten)
8/31 K/1 Curriculum Night - 6:30 PM
9/2-9/5 District Closed
9/7 2nd/3rd Curriculum Night - 6:30 PM
9/8 4th/5th Curriculum Night - 6:30 PM
9/21 Middle School Curriculum Night - 6 PM
IMPORTANT LINKS AND DOCUMENTS
- Elementary Curriculum Nights - RSVP Form - for kindergarten-5th grade parents only
- Room Parent Form - see attachment below
- Free and Reduced Lunch Form - See attachment below
- Kindergarten 1st day morning coffee and donuts - See attachment below
- Kindergarten Play Dates - see attachment below
- Elementary Summer Reading Challenge
- Middle School Summer Reading
- Video - How to open a combination lock - very helpful for middle school students who may not know.
- Middle School Sports Physical Form
NEWEST NEWS
Building Availability This Week - attention all families
For those families who would like to come in and see the building, find classrooms, and test lockers, we are offering the following days and hours:
- Thursday 8/25 3:30-6:30 PM. Limited office services available
- Friday 8/26 8:30 AM - 3 PM. Office services available
- Sunday 8/28 12 PM - 3 PM
For families/students dropping in to visit, we will have a table in the front hall for locker issues or anything else you need someone to contact you about. Simply write your contact information and what you'd like to discuss or what the locker issue is and we will contact you back.
Teachers may be in the building during this time. If their door is closed, that means they are saying respectfully that they need this time to get their rooms ready and they are not to be disturbed. If this becomes a problem, we will close the building.
Elementary Curriculum Nights - attention K-5 parents
This year we are doing curriculum nights a little differently. We will be sending you curriculum information in advance so that you can view it on your own time. The nights we have scheduled will be community building and we will provide dinner free of charge to you. After dinner, there will be a Q & A with teachers in the classroom. We are hoping that you can meet more parents in your child's classroom to build a better sense of community this way.
Please RSVP using this survey.
Athletics Update - attention middle school families
* Girls Basketball - open gyms are scheduled for after school from 3:30-5:00 on Tuesday August 30 and Wednesday. August 31. The plan to start tryouts and the regular practice schedule would be Tuesday, September 6.
* Girls Tennis - please contact coach Hall via e-mail if you are interested in having your child play.
* No information yet on cross country or 7th and 8th grade football. Will get it to you as soon as I can.
* League schedule will be up on Wednesday on the Norup athletics site. I was hoping to have them up last week but our league wide meeting is now being held this week.
* This year all athletic resource fees will be paid through MISTAR. No more checks.
* All students need a physical dated after April 15, 2022 to participate in sports. The MHSAA form above in the important links and documents.
Morning Drop Off/Afternoon Pickup spots and schedules - attention all:
* Middle School Doors open at 8 AM, Elementary Doors open at 8:05 AM
* Entry and pickup points:
- Kindergarten and 1st: North Gardner doors by the field
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade: Back of the building behind the west parking lot
- 5th and 6th grade: South Gardner doors near the corner of Gardner and Manhattan
- 7th and 8th grade: Front door
* School ends at 3:20 on full days.
* AM Latchkey entrance: West Parking lot doors
* Breakfast: Those coming for breakfast enter through the front door. 7:30 AM is start of breakfast.
Lunch Schedule - attention all
6th-8th grade lunch = 10:58-11:41
2nd-5th grade lunch = 11:45-12:26
*4th-5th grade eat = 11:45-12:05, recess after
*2nd-3rd grade eat = 12:05-12:26, recess before
K-1st grade lunch = 12:31-1:12
*1st grade eat = 12:31-12:51, recess after
* K eat = 12:51-1:12 - recess before
REPEATED NEWS
Middle School Schedules/Lockers - attention middle school families
Schedules are pretty set now in MISTAR for 99% of students. Answering a few questions that are being repeated:
* Visual Arts 6 is now a 10 week class and will be part of most 6th graders schedules. We dropped Health 6 as the science classes teach the health units with the new district health curriculum.
* We unfortunately had to offer Advanced Art 8 and Choir 8 the same period. This affected 4-5 students.
With regard to lockers, students who are returning in 7th and 8th grade keep their same locker. 6th graders and students new to Norup - your locker information (number, combination) should be viewable in MISTAR by Wednesday morning this week.
Norup Food Services 2022-23 - attention all
School meals are no longer free this year. Here are the prices from food services:
Breakfast is $1.50 per; 30 cents if a student qualifies for reduced
Elementary Lunch is $3.00 per, 40 cents if a student qualifies for reduced
Middle School Lunch is $3.25, 40 cents if a student qualifies for reduced
For those families who want to file for free/reduced lunch, the form is attached in the above flyers section.
We have placed timers on all the vending machines to only vend during lunch and before/after school.
Lastly, we are continuing to ban all individual food deliveries from Norup (GrubHub, UberEats, DoorDash, etc.) for school safety reasons. We do not need additional unassociated adults at the building.
Middle School athletics - attention middle school parents
You can see I have a meeting on Tuesday this week to get everything finalized for the fall. Later this week I will update the athletics website for Norup. Here are our offerings for this fall:
* 7th and 8th grade football combined with Anderson
* Cross Country all grades combined with Anderson
* Girls Tennis combined with Anderson
* Girls Basketball
Middle School Student Devices - attention 7th and 8th grade
All 7th and 8th graders will be getting new laptops to swap out with their old ones on the first day of school. Students need to bring their laptops from last year to get the new ones.
6th graders will also be getting new devices - they did not have them as 5th graders so no need to bring old ones.
Elementary Curriculum Nights - attention elementary parents
Curriculum night dates are listed above. We are going with a different format this year to make it a more welcoming and community building event. Staff members will be pre-recording their presentations and sending them out in advance. The curriculum night in person will be a FREE dinner provided by Norup and then Q&A with the teachers based on the curriculum night videos. We hope it is a chance for parents to get to know each other as well.