NOOKSACK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

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November 3, 2025

Monday, November 3rd                          A Day

Tuesday, November 4th                          A Day

Wednesday, November 5th                    A Day

Wednesday, November 5th                    Late Arrival, school starts at 10 am

Wednesday, November 5th                   Fundraiser items delivered/Must be picked up!!

Thursday, November 6th                        B Day

Friday, November 7th                              B Day

Friday, November 7th                              Mid Semester 1

Monday, November 10th                         No School

Tuesday, November 11th                         Veteran’s Day, NO School

Wednesday, November 12th                   A Day

Thursday, November 13th                       B Day

Friday, November 14th                            B Day

Monday, November 17th                         A Day

Tuesday, November 18th                        A Day

Wednesday, November 19th                  B Day

Thursday, November 20th                      B Day

Friday, November 21st                            B Day

Looking ahead:

December 1                                                 Boys’ Basketball begins

December 11 & 12: December 11 and 12, our school nurse will begin our annual health screenings.  If you chose to Opt Out, please notify the office, 360-966-7561.

Fundraiser items arrive November 5th

What to know:

• Fundraiser items will be delivered to NVMS on Wednesday, November 5th.  
• If a student has 2 items or less, we plan to send them home with the student on the bus. (It is a fast turnaround from delivery to students leaving, we will try!)  
• ALL orders must be picked up on delivery day, between 2:40-5:30pm, in the playshed.  
• If you need someone else to pick up your order for you, please reply to this message on Parent Square or call the office and notify us. 360-966-7561. 
• We are unable to send orders home with others unless we have been notified to do so.

Honoring our Veterans

We are putting together a slideshow to honor the Veterans that have served our country. We invite you to share photos of family, friends, and community members that have served.  Please include their name, branch of service, years served, and the student or staff that they are connected to. Please submit photos to Erika.VanDyken@nv.k12.wa.us by November 5th, 2025.

Nooksack Valley School District is preparing for its yearly Highly Capable Program referral window running from October through December 2025.  

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 

Yearbook photos wanted!!

This year, we are having an open photo submission for our yearbook. If you have any photos of sports games, field trips or other school events, we would love to have them in the yearbook so we can have a yearbook full of memories and fun! Parents and students are both welcome to submit photos.

What we would love to see from your photos!

- Clear, school-appropriate photos

- Students, friends, events, and activities that are NVMS-related

- School spirit week fashion

- Sports games

- Field trips

- School Socials

We do not want photos that contain:

- Inappropriate content

- Filters, stickers, or text

- Screenshots, memes, or AI images

- Blurry or dark photos

Photos need to be submitted by April 15.

To submit photos, visit the link below: https://photos.jostens.com/MZLHNG

The fine print:

All images are held and reviewed for appropriate content prior to publication.

Not all images will be included in the yearbook.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact sam.mcmain@nv.k12.wa.us

Thank you!

-The Yearbook Staff

Annual Student Update:

We need your help.  To ensure that we have accurate and current information about your student(s) and family, we ask that you log in to your Skyward Family Access account and complete the Annual Student Update Online form there.  You will find the Annual Student Update tile under each of your student’s name.  Please do this for each student.  This is also where you would provide your permissions for sharing (or not sharing) your student’s demographic information to various entities/agencies (such as pictures, name and grade to local media, vendors, higher ed, military, etc.)  If you need help with your Skyward login, please contact the school office staff.

Absences/Arriving Late:

If your student is absent from school or arriving late to school, there are 3 ways to communicate why they are absent.  You may call the office, 360-966-7561 (outside office hours you may leave a message), a parent/guardian may write a note and send in with your student or send us a Parent Square message.  Please keep in mind that if your student is participating in a school sport, we need a note from the Doctor/Dentist/Counselor to keep them eligible to participate in sports practice or games that day. Parent written notes do not keep the student eligible for sports. 

Phone Use:

At NVMS our hope for students is that they are able to develop healthy peer-peer relationships both in-person and online along with healthy and productive relationships with technology. In order to do so, consistent campus and classroom expectations around cell phone an ear bud usage will be in place. If a student needs to use their phone for personal use, the expectation is that they check in with a teacher or other staff member to get permission to step into the office or separate space to do so. Students may also use the school phone for school business or emergencies.

Cell phones must remain in students back pack between the times of 7:15-2:15

Violation of Cell Phone Expectation will result in Cell phone getting turned into the office.

1st time– Student will need to pick up cell phone in the office at the end of the day, parent/guardian notified. 2nd time- Parent/Guardian will need to arrange to pick up cell phone, Lunch Detention

3rd time– Pioneer Success Level Drop, parent contact-student not permitted to bring cell phone on campus for remainder of semester.

What’s my bus??!!

Please be sure your students know their bus number.  Here is a link to the Bus Routes on our website.   Find your address and estimated time of pick up.

Nooksack Valley School District - High / Middle Schools

Zonar: Zonar is an app that allows you to see where your student’s bus is in real time.  Download the Zonar app, our school number is: 2311. Your child’s unique ID is their student number with no zeros at the beginning.  See attached fliers.