Weekly Blast
September 16, 2022
Please Keep Kids Safe
Thank you for keeping our kids and staff safe by keeping cell phones down during drop-off and pick-up. We are seeing more and more parents looking down on cell phones instead of looking up at the road where students are walking. Please keep your eyes on the road to keep our kids safe. Thank you!
Elementary Discovery Program: 2023-2024 Application Process Now Open
The DCSD Elementary Discovery Program is a center-based gifted program designed to meet the needs of highly advanced gifted elementary school students (grades 2 - 6) who require intensity of instruction and acceleration beyond what can reasonably be expected from gifted programming and services provided through their school.
Want to know more about the program? Explore the resources below!
Hear from current and former Discovery Program students, parents, and teachers: Facebook or YouTube
Just want nitty gritty details about the program? Review the Discovery Program Presentation.
Do you have students who may be a good fit for the program? Connect with your School’s Gifted Education Facilitator today!
Vision & Hearing Volunteers Needed
We still need a couple people for the Vision and Hearing screenings. Please consider volunteering! Vision and Hearing Screenings
One Book One District 2022
One Book One District 2022
Book: If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall
Dates: November 7-11
Author Visit: Nov 8. Virtual Event (more info to follow)
Dear Families, If you would like to purchase the OBOD book before our Author Visit, please fill out and send in the order form with a check made payable to NRE. You can find the order form in your student's Thursday folder this week.
Cost: $14.25 rate Due: Oct 10th
Book Order Forms: Went out in Thursday Folders yesterday.
More info and details about the entire week to follow!
PTA News
Last Days of Summer with Kona Ice
Kona Ice is coming to NRE on September 20th and 21st from 3:30-5pm. Join us and say good-bye to the summer with a sweet treat!
Multicultural Fair
Come celebrate the diversity at Northridge with us on Thursday, September 29th from 5-7pm. This free community event features tables and booths of countries, regions and cultures represented in our community. If you would like to host a table and share your heritage with us, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0D4BABAE23AAFA7-multicultural4. If you would rather share a performance of a song, dance or any other artistic aspect of your culture, you can reserve a spot on our performance sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F4EA5A62EA1F85-multicultural2
Coat Drive
Your NRE PTA is also organizing a coat drive this year! We are hoping to reuse and recycle coats that your children grew out of, and offer them to other Northridge families that need coats for the upcoming winter. We ask that you donate new or gently used children's winter coats to a drop-off bin found inside NRE by the Front office starting on Monday, September 12th. Donations will be collected until Wednesday, October 5th and will be made available for families that would like to take home a coat on October 7th.
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
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!
SAC News
On our Sept 9th SAC meeting, we had a special guest, Matt Reynolds, who spoke about why our district is going for a Bond/MLO. He shared multiple resources that can be found on our district's page here and are shown on the SAC Recording below as well. If you do not know the financial situation of our district and where the money comes from, I would encourage you to at least take 5 minutes to watch this video from our Superintendent Erin Kane.
Principal Letter
Dear NRE Community -
Today was such a fun celebration for students! We started with a full school assembly where we celebrated students and staff. This was the break down for awards:
Staff Member with the Most Fun Run Spirit - Chelsea Davis and Yawen Lien tied!
Class with the Most Laps - Mrs. Lewis' Class
Classes with the Most Spirit - 1st Pace - Mrs. Jacque and 2nd Place - Mrs. Knoblock
Individual Awards:
MVP Best Effort = Joanna W. - 1st Grade
MVP Most School Spirit = Grace G. - 2nd Grade
The Lightning Bold Award = Will G. - 6th Grade
MVP Determination = Ayantika N. - 4th Grade
The Ray of Sunshine Award = TJ S. - 6th Grade
The Tough Cookie Award = Quinn A. - 2nd - Grade
MVP Fundraisers Award AND MVP per Student Average Award Mr. Marshall's Class
Students this week were able to submit names for the Pronghorn and we have officially named the Pronghorn Dash! We look forward to having Dash at many events in NRE's future.
There are a few pictures below but I will be adding more pictures next week. What I will tell you is that between the root beer floats, snow cones, water slides, and inflatables, students had a ton of things to choose from and there were smiles all around. I was quite worried that we might have a broken bone or a bloody nose and we had none of it! Students were kind and respectful and said please and thank you to our volunteers. Many times throughout the day I heard, "This is the best day ever!" and "I'm having so much fun!". I cannot thank our volunteers enough for making this happen and especially our PTA for doing the Fun Run and the prize day all on your own. I am so proud of you all!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all next week. I'm thankful to be a part of this community.
~Katie Lynch
Principal of NRE
Watch Dog Dad Time
Thank you Mr. H. for reading to Mrs. Swanberg's class.
We love our Watch Dog Dads!
District and Other Information
September is Suicide Prevention Month
Suicide prevention is important every day of the year. National Suicide Prevention Month gives us an opportunity to shine a special, encouraging light on this topic that affects us all, and send a clear, hopeful message that help is available, and suicide can be prevented.
Youth who are contemplating suicide frequently give warning signs of their distress. Family members, caregivers, teachers, and friends are in a key position to pick up on signs and get help. Most important is to never take these warning signs lightly or promise to keep them secret. When all adults and students in the school community are committed to making suicide prevention a priority—and are empowered to take the correct actions—we can help youth before they engage in behavior with irreversible consequences.
The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline provides 24/7, free & confidential support and be reached simply by calling or texting 988 or chatting 988lifeline.org.
For more resources regarding suicide prevention, visit the Suicide Prevention Resource Center or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
