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December 2, 2024
Monday, December 2nd A Day
Monday, December 2nd Boys’ basketball begins
Tuesday, December 3rd A Day
Tuesday, December 3rd Tutorial-after school
Wednesday, December 4th B Day
Thursday, December 5th B Day
Thursday, December 5th Tutorial-after school
Friday, December 6th B Day
Monday, December 9th A Day
Tuesday, December 10th A Day
Tuesday, December 10th A Day
Wednesday, December 11th A Day
Wednesday, December 11th Late Arrival, School starts at 10 am.
Thursday, December 12th B Day
Thursday, December 12th B Day
Friday, December 13th B Day
Nooksack Valley School District is preparing for its yearly Highly Capable Program referral window running from October through December 2024.
The State of Washington defines highly capable as “students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experience or environments”, as demonstrated by one or more of the multiple learning characteristics specified. The multiple characteristics focus upon (WAC 392-170-035)
If you’d like to refer your student, connect with your child’s teacher to have a conversation about indicators to consider regarding your child and possible referral:
- Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations.
- Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers.
- Ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts.
- Ability to learn very quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength
- Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus
- Ability to apply creative solutions to problem/challenge
Boys’ basketball begins:
Middle school boys’ basketball begins on December 2. Athletes must be cleared through the office. Have your student check with Mrs. Clawson to see if they are cleared and ready for practice.
Thank you to our community for stepping up! We have coaches!!
Soccer Camp opportunity:
Aadan Huante and the high school soccer team are offering a Co-Ed Youth Soccer Camp during Christmas break. Register soon! Please see the attached flier for details.
Link for registering:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nUzcPsmPLAiC0ixgWWbZvftFure8_z-YqVSWKpfm8aY/viewform?edit_requested=true
Drop off/Pick up reminder:
- Please respect the drop off/pick up areas. No cars in the bus areas until after 4:15. Buses are coming and going through that time.
- In front of the school, be sure to pull ahead as far as you can when you are waiting to pick up your student. We cannot have traffic back up on the road or block our bus entrance.
- Leave the left lane open for passing by.
Annual Student Updates needed:
If you have not already done so, please log onto Skyward and complete your student’s Annual Student Update. This is where you can update emails, phone number and emergency contacts, verify other information as well as complete the annual forms we are required to ask for (Military, Opt Out, etc.). Please complete this ASAP.
Cell phone policy change:
This year we will be making a few changes to our school handbook. One of those changes will be that cellphones will not be allowed out on campus until the end of the school day at 2:15. This change is being made for several reasons as research is showing the many harmful effects of cellphones, social media, and the constant pressures those bring on our youth. We have had several incidents of students using their cellphones to post pictures (without permission), bully and harass other students while at school. With our focus on ensuring NVMS is a safe place for our students to grow and learn, we have made the decision to not have cell phones available during the school day. We hope you as parents will support us in this change as the intent is to make it easier for our teachers to teach and our students to learn.
A suggested book for any parent of a middle school student: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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