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Counselor's Corner
Counselor's Corner
School-wide focus for January: Self Talk
Please consider sharing these resources with your students to increase use of this positive coping skill:
K-2nd students: Please play this video once a day and have students repeat positive affirmations to themselves!
3rd-6th students: Have your student pick a daily affirmation. Have them write it down and put it on a mirror in their bedroom or bathroom!
PTA News
PTA News
Mici's Restaurant Night!
Last month's restaurant night raised $253, thank you again!
Support your NRE PTA by participating at our next Restaurant night at Mici's on January 24th! 20% of your bill will go towards NRE if you use code SCHOOL at the time of your order. Dine in, Take-Out, Deliveries and Catering Orders are included between 11am and 9pm!
Check out the attached flyer for more details.
Family Game Night
Come one come ALL to the First Annual Family Game Night on Friday, January 27th from 5-7pm!
This is a FREE event sponsored by your NRE PTA! There will be age-grouped areas of board games & card games provided. For kids who prefer not to sit, there will be an area of standing games such as Simon Says & Charades. An additional area of coloring and puzzles will also be available. Please sign up on the Sign Up Genius on the flyer attached if you want to join us!
We are also still looking for a few volunteers to make this event a great success!
Sign up on the Volunteer Sign Up Genius link below to oversee one age group area for one hour while your own kids circulate the game tables with their peers.
https://www.signupgenius.com/ go/30E0D4BABAE23AAFA7-family
Thank you for your partnership, and we look forward to seeing you at Family Game Night!
Please consider donating to the Northridge PTA using the below:
Amazon Smile
NRE PTA receives around $400 each year from Amazon Smile courtesy of our great NRE community. We want to double that number by the end of next year and need your support! When you shop at Smile.Amazon.com, Amazon Smile donates 0.5% of the purchase price back to Northridge PTA. All you have to do is click the link below and choose Northridge PTA as your charity of choice. Make sure the word SMILE is in front of Amazon to ensure your purchase is credited back to us. We appreciate the 5 minutes this will take you to set up! Click Here to link to Amazon Smile
SCRIPS Gift Cards
Purchase SCRIPS gift cards to pay your monthly expenses such groceries and gas. Depending on the retailer, NRE can receive anywhere from 1% to 5% of your purchase. A $500 grocery card could mean $5 to $25 for our school.
Retailers include: Safeway, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and many more! Join Scrips with program code: 55D136EB54266.
Please click below to check out our new PTA website!
School Accountability Committee (SAC)
School Accountability Committee (SAC)
The SAC meeting held on the morning of Friday the 13th was a great meeting, thank you to all who attended! Angela Frank, the Vice Chairperson and our representative on the SACPIE gave an awesome and informative presentation. She covered the value of parent engagement within schools, discussed studies that showed how such parental engagement impacts schools, and offered ideas on how we can encourage even more engagement from our awesome parent community.
Our next meeting will be held on Friday, February 10th at 7:30am. Our meetings, as always, are open to all NRE community members and we hope you will consider attending if you have not done so in the past. Feel free to bring along your kiddos, and send them off to class once the morning bell rings. We think attending SAC meetings is one great way to demonstrate and encourage your children to be involved and speak-up and out in areas that are important to them.
Here is the link of the GoogleSlides used in the presentation. Unfortunately, Zoom and Wifi were not on our side for the meeting and a recording did not take place.
Meet Your SAC Members
Meet Your SAC Members
Dita Merritt - PTA Liaison
Q: What does Someone in your role on the SAC do?
a. I Give SAC updates on PTA activites and events
Q: Why did you join the SAC?
a. I serve two roles on the PTA, one is as the President and also as the SAC Liaison.
Q: What are some interesting facts about you?
a. Born and raised in Prague, Czech Republic, came to the US to play tennis at DU and stayed after I met my husband. Both of my children are also dual citizens and we go back almost every summer. Not growing up here, my ideas about PTA came from movies and TV shows :) I love spending time outdoors, travelling, reading and being active with my family. I am a small business owner and try to balance work with kids and PTA as well as I can. Northridge has become an extended family to us and we couldn't imagine being at any other school.
Principal Letter
Principal Letter
Dear NRE Community -
It was a crazy, choppy week with only 3 days of school. I tend to think 4 day school weeks are harder on kids and then when you throw a Snow Day in the middle of the week, it really does amp them up a little more! To add more fuel to the fire we also added two Wish Week assemblies to the mix on Tuesday.
Wish Week is coming up and it is one of my favorite times because our feeder comes together for a greater purpose. This year our Wish Kid is Lucy and she is all about fashion. Our students got to learn a little bit about Lucy through our MVHS student leaders. There will be restaurant nights, a community fair, and much much more coming up. Wish Week will be the week of February 6th and our Student Council has come up with dress up days to get our students involved in the fun. We will post more information in the coming weeks.
Next week we have our STEM Fair which is Thursday evening from 5pm -7pm. We hope you are able to come. We will have student science experiments, the Star Lab, presenters, and there will be lots of fun to be had. We hope to see you there!
On Thursday Night, we had our District Accountability Meeting and one of the things we talked about was our upcoming Career Pathway Expo that is coming up on February 16th at the Legacy Center (formerly called the Wildlife Experience). This expo has previous been called the DAC Winter Forum and has provided an opportunity to engage parents on many different topics. This year will be focused around the many different pathways for our high school students but don't let that scare you. Now is the time to learn about this so that when your student(s) get to high school, you already know the opportunities that are available to them. There are only 500 spots avialable and you must sign up to attend (it's free). There is a link below in the District and Other Information section and I will be there. I hope you mark it on your calendar and you can join me too.
Lastly in Mandarin this week, students learned about the Chinese New Year and it is the year of the rabbit. Students made their own red banners to celebrate. I love students learning about cultures from around the world and celebrating one another. The smiles tell it all.
Enjoy your weekend and Go Bills!
~Katie Lynch
Happy Rabbit Year!
Happy Chinese New Year!
Chinese New Year!
District and Other Information
District and Other Information
For 65 years, the Douglas County School District has been guiding students through discovery, exploration, and skill development to find a purpose and determine the best path for the future.
The Expo will highlight Postsecondary Readiness options available to our students including Career and Technical Education, Concurrent Enrollment, and Work-based Learning experiences. Students from across the district will share insights from participating in these programs and how the experience is preparing them to succeed in the future.
There will be a short program beginning at 6:30, however attendees may arrive anytime and explore all of the student-run stations at their own pace. There will also be guided tours of the Legacy Campus throughout the evening. Register for the event here.
Camp Invention
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Mental Health Supports:
If you are concerned that your child or another loved one may be experiencing changes in their mood or have suicidal behaviors or thoughts, please remember:
Stay with the child or person until you are sure they are safe
Call 911 if there is an immediate threat to the child or others
Call or text 988 for mental health crisis support
You can also chat with someone using the link: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Colorado Crisis Services: 1-844-493-TALK (8255)
Trained Crisis Counselor Hotline: (844) 493-8255 or text “TALK” to 38255
Chat online (open from 4:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. daily): Click Here
Walk-in Locations (open 24/7): Location List
Information About Types of Services and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Colorado Crisis Services
Let’s Talk Colorado (Douglas County Government and Tri-County Health campaign)
Douglas County has an anonymous reporting system available at all times. Anyone with a concern for someone’s well-being or safety can use Safe2Tell (1-877-542-7233) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Below is a list of community centers in our metro area:
AllHealth Network: 303-730-8858
Denver Springs: 720-410-6319
Highlands Behavioral Health System: 720-348-2800
Peakview Behavioral Health: 888-235-9475
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