NOOKSACK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

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December 1, 2025

Monday, December 1st                             A Day

Tuesday, December 2nd                          A Day

Wednesday, December 3rd                     A Day

Wednesday, December 3rd                    **Boys’ Basketball begins **  NEW START DATE

Thursday, December 4th                          B Day

Friday, December 5th                               B Day

Monday, December 8th                            A Day

Tuesday, December 9th                           A Day

Wednesday, December 10th                    B Day

Wednesday, December 10th                   Late Arrival, school starts at 10 am.

Thursday, December 11th                        B Day

Thursday, December 11th                        Health Screening

Friday, December 12th                            B Day

Friday, December 12th                            Health Screening

Looking ahead:

Dec. 22-Jan. 2, no school!!

January 21, Semester 1 ends

Boys’ Basketball:

Boys’ basketball begins on December 3rd. Please remember to join your students’ Parent Square Sports group to stay caught up on team information. 

Health Screening:

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.

Fall Sport Photos are now available:

If your student participated in a fall sport photos are now available!!

The code below will give you access to your gallery.

How to View and Purchase NVMS Fall Sports Photos:

Text the access code 2025NVMSFALL to 90738 to receive access and ongoing alerts* or visit https://my.photoday.com/g/2025NVMSFall on

your phone or computer.

Get FREE SHIPPING
 Use coupon code: 25FALLNVMS

Orders must be $35.00 or more. Expires December 1st, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.

Photos by Janell Summer Photography

janell@janellsummer.com

Giving Tree!

The Nooksack Valley High School ASB Leadership Team and Nooksack Valley Family Services are teaming up and sponsoring a “Giving Tree” for local families.   This year they are collecting “new” blankets and socks for our families.  Items may be dropped off at our middle school office. Please do NOT wrap items.  We thank everyone in advance for their support for our families.  See attached fliers for more information.

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.