🗒️ Message from Shawn Wilson, Assistant Principal

NCES Families,

As you know, next week our students in grades 3-5 will take the Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA). This is an opportunity for them to demonstrate their learning from this school year. We want our students to be positioned to do their best on the assessment. To do that, it is very important for them to get a good night's sleep each night, eat breakfast each morning, and arrive to school on time. This provides students optimal conditions to do their best work. To create and maintain an appropriate testing environment, our K-2 students should also approach the week as a testing week. This will help ensure a conducive environment for our students to demonstrate their learning. We are excited for our students to display the results of their hard work this school year. 

Respectfully,

Shawn Wilson, Assistant Principal

💻 Kentucky Summative Assessment

The Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) will be administered May 6th-10th to 3rd-5th grade students. Please ensure your student arrives to school on time (school STARTS at 8:40am) well rested and ready to be focused! Students are not allowed access to smart watches and phones in a testing environment. Please have your student keep these items at home or in their backpacks. 

🍎 Parent Teacher Association PTA Website

Teacher Appreciation Week

Norton Commons Elementary School PTA was thrilled to announce our recently concluded Teacher Appreciation Week, which started on Monday, April 22nd! We were ready to join together in celebrating our amazing teachers with a week filled with delicious treats and refreshments! Each day brought a new offering of food and drinks as a symbol of our gratitude for all the hard work our educators did. We came together as a community to show our teachers just how much we appreciated them! The event was a great success, and we made this Teacher Appreciation Week one to remember!

Restaurant Knights

Join us on May 15th for an exciting evening of delicious food and community spirit at our School PTA Fundraiser, Restaurant Nights! Let's unite to support our school and savor a fantastic meal at Buffalo Wild Wings at 10206 Westport Rd, Louisville, KY 40241! Spread the word, mark your calendars, and prepare for a fun-filled night of tasty treats and fundraising for a great cause!

Field Day Volunteers

NCES PTA is so excited to be a part of our first full day Field Day! There will be a morning session and an afternoon session with lunch and rest in between. We will be providing Fitz's Freeze Frozen Treats for the kids and lunch for our parent volunteers. Students will be eating lunch in the cafeteria during their regular lunch time, and parent volunteers will have the opportunity to eat lunch with them. Click HERE to assist us with this event.

• Transportation Change Form 

• School begins at 8:40.

• Students should be settled in their classrooms by 8:35. 

• There is a parent/student lunch area where you will be able to sit with your students to eat lunch. The student may invite one friend to eat lunch with you all. The lunch schedule is here. Photo ID required.

• If you are interested in having your student participate in Blessings in a Backpack, please complete this form.

• If you need clothes for your student from the Clothing Assistance Program (CAP), please complete this form.

• Photo ID is always required when entering the building during the school day.

• Follow us on social media! Facebook: Norton Commons Elementary School, Instagram: @NCES_Knights, X (Twitter): @NCES_Knights

• If you are not getting text alerts from NCES, make sure to sign up for School Messenger. 

• Our ECE Department is raising money from Box Tops! Download the app and email rachel.murphy@jefferson.kyschools.us or christina.frederiksen@jefferson.kyschools.us with questions. 

• Please click here for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) District Information.