PRINCIPAL'S POST

Normal Park Families,

Thank you for showing up in a big way for Fork and Gavel this year. Thank you to all who bought tickets to attend, bought tickets for staff, donated items for the auction, bought items from the auction, donated their time to serve on a committee, or volunteered in any way for the event. We really appreciate each and everyone of you. It was a great evening to celebrate as a community.

Thank Fork & Gavel Committees - they worked for months preparing for this event

Fork & Gavel Co-Chairs- Haley Gros and Lacey Williams

Food and Beverage Committee- Ben Connor, JR Hill, Tiffany Phillips and Andrew Stephenson

Decorations- Liz Sterner, Liz Brown, and Kathryn Oelsner

Volunteer Coordinator- Ashley Zani

Graphic Designer- Keely Anderson

Auction Co-Chairs- Alison Poole and Bently Strain

Auction Committee- Janice Dyer, Alysia Comerford, Ali Gant, Kathryn Oelsner, Rachel Geddes, Amanda Guinn. Monica Jaenicke, Kajal Ramjee, Ginny Runyan, Natalie Parker, Erin Sparks, Jamie Tew, Tiffany Whaley, Kristie Wilder

We look forward to a great week with students this week. We will celebrate their learning through Exhibit Nights on Tuesday (k, 2, 4, 6, and 8) and Thursday. (PreK, 1, 3, 5, and 7). We have two nights to help with parking and over crowding in the exhibit spaces. Please feel free to come on your child’s assigned night or if that doesn’t work for your family come on the alternate night as exhibits will be set up for both nights. However, know that the grade level teachers will be present on the assigned night. While visiting the school, please look at your student’s exhibit as well as other exhibit halls to see the entire quarter of learning.

Each quarter, different grade levels will be highlighted in student performances. This quarter, 4th grade will perform on Tuesday and 1st grade will perform on Thursday. Both performances will be in the auditorium at 6:30.

On Friday, we will wrap up our coupon book sales by celebrating our students. As a school, we exceeded our goal and sold 1340 coupon books! This means the whole school will have picnic and movie time. We had 186 students sell 5 coupon books or more and will participate in the glow party. Everyone will have a popscicle at recess in prek-8th grade because we met the goal of selling 25 coupon books in most of our classrooms. Everyone is a winner! We will honor these celebrations on Friday, October 6th, as promised. Thank you to everyone for helping sell coupon books.

We wish you all a wonderful fall break!

Jamelie Johns

Children must be signed up in order to attend. The deadline to sign up is Friday October 6th. If you sign up, you must give a 24 hour written or email notice that you will not be attending in order to staff accordingly. Student accounts will be charged if the Site Director doesn’t receive a notice that care is no longer needed. Students must bring a lunch & drink. Snack will be provided.

**All you need to know to volunteer at NPMM : ABC's of Volunteering at NPMM
NPMM school website: https://normalpark.hcde.org/

Volunteers Needed

Kindergarten and Pre-K Happy Cart- Signup

Coupon Book Celebration- Signup

Happy Cart (Upper and Lower): Signup

Lower School Copy Fairy- Signup

Lower school Art room volunteer-Click here

Lower School Library Volunteer- please contact Mrs Locke- LOCKE_CYNTHIA@HCDE.ORG

Upper school Library Volunteer- please contact Mrs O'Neill- oneill_lauren@hcde.org

➡️Donations needed: 30 empty 2 liter bottles for glow party- will count 1 volunteer hr for every 3 donated

Click here to log hours: Normal Park Parent Volunteer Form. You may email Tiffany Phillips phillips_tiffany@hcde.org at the Lower School or Sonia August august_sonia@hcde.org at the Upper School with questions regarding your volunteer hours.

NOTES FROM THE BOOKKEEPER

Thank you for signing up for the online payment portal for Normal Park, we are at 69.63% participation!!! As a reminder, this is where all fees will be posted for your student throughout the year. If you have not already done so, please register at https://hcde.schoolcashonline.com/.

If you have any questions on fee payments, please feel free to email me anytime at killough_amy@hcde.org. Thank you for your continued support!!!

Amy Killough- Normal Park Bookkeeper

Please see the attached letter to parents from the school nurse

ART-NP Comic Con Art Showcase

All students worked hard to submit a piece to Mrs. Hardin for the Comic Con showcase.Congratulations to our 10 finalists for the 2023 Chattanooga Comic Con Student Art Exhibit, which will take place October 21^st & 22nd at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

1st: Konrad Luka

2nd: Oliver Thurman

3rd: Ronan Dooner, Zoë Elston, Zalen Lavigne, Eli Lieffers, Thomas Martinez, Holden Packer, Misa Petty, Jude Wilder

Each student will receive a weekend pass to Comic Con. Professional comic artists will judge the contest, dividing artwork into different grade levels.

Library News- Lower

Library News and book check out policy

Please complete this permission form to request a Chattanooga Public Library card for your HCDE student.

READ 20 - Normal Park Students Prek-3^rd grade will participate in the Read 20 Probasco Readers Program. Please enter at least 20 minutes’ worth of reading time for your child each weeknight. You may sign logs by the day or for the week. (5 days = 100 minutes for the week.) But the more minutes you read and enter, the closer we will reach our goal of reading 1.2 million minutes this school year! Students who complete their reading logs and turn them in will have their names entered into a grade level drawing for monthly prizes.

Click on the link below and fill out the Google form each day or week to log your student’s reading minutes. Read 20: 2023-2024

Important Reminders and Updates

**Any dismissal changes (car, walker, bus) need to be communicated to the classroom teacher on Dojo or a note in the folder. Students will not be allowed to go home with another child without written parent permission.

*We will no longer dismiss students after 2:30. The last few minutes of the school day are very important and lots of movement is happening.

**PLEASE email parent and doctor's notes to Heather Buttram: buttram_h@HCDE.org

Click here for Grade Level Memos

Click here to make School, Learning Expedition, Athletic, or Pre-K payments. Pre-K payments are due at the first of month and can be paid at the link above.

All visitors must bring their Driver's License when entering the building to volunteer or dismiss a student during the school day.

Per School Board policy: Upon a student's arrival in the building, all electronics, cell phones, headphones, and smart watches should not be seen or heard during the school day and kept in a locker or backpack. First violation: The device is confiscated and parent must pick up or held for 3 days.

Playground Reminders:

The playground is open to the public after 6 PM and on weekends.
Animals are not allowed on campus, the playground or field at any time.

Important Reminders and Updates

Grade Level Memos
Click here to make School, Learning Expedition, or Athletic payments.

**PLEASE email parent and doctor's notes to Miss Billie at the Upper School bowes_billie@hcde.org.

All visitors must bring their Driver's License when entering the building to volunteer or dismiss a student during the school day.

Per School Board policy: Upon a student's arrival in the building, all electronics, cell phones, headphones, and smart watches should not be seen or heard during the school day and kept in a locker or backpack. First violation: The device is confiscated and parent must pick up or held for 3 days.

Playground Reminders:

The playground is open to the public after 6 PM and on weekends.
Animals are not allowed on campus, the playground or field at any time.

Lightning Report

Girls Soccer team: They played in the playoffs this week. On Wednesday, we played CSLA. We fought hard and ended in a tie. After double OT, we were still tied. The game went into PK's and we lost by one. An amazing effort and grit by our girls all season long!

Middle School XC: We ran in the state championship this weekend. Boys team took 9th place overall & were in the top third of teams. Betti Shriner placed in the top third.

2022-23 Lightning Athletic Club Board Members

Emily Goolsby: Director
Tiffany and Matt Phillips, Alison and John Dorough, Caroline and Blake Kaylor, Yasmine Key, Brittany Griffin, Jimmy Gaines, Paul Hoeswicher.

Please contact Tiffany Phillips to join the LAC Board at phillips_tiffany@hcde.org . Any parent/guardian of a student althlete is welcome to join this team!

Join Lightning Athletic Club via Facebook or contact lightningathelticclub@gmail.com.

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Lunch Money Limits : We have students that are purchasing additional items in the cafeteria. If you do not want your students buying additional items, you must create spending limits on LINQ Connect. See the pictures attached for further clarification.

Dropoff and Dismissal Reminders:

**Please be mindful of your surroundings when driving, parking or pulling out in the school zone. Please SLOW DOWN. We have seen people come very close to being hit by a car**

All: Unless you are utilizing the handicapped parking spaces at the rear of the building, no one should drive up the ramp/drive for drop off or aftercare pick up.

Car Riders: There should be NO cell phone while your vehicle is in the car rider line, please keep eyes on the road and vigilant for children who may move unpredictably (THIS IS A STATE LAW). All students must be dismissed into a vehicle with a car tag. If you park your vehicle, you must pick up your student from walkers.

Parents should not get out of the car in the car line.

Walkers at the Lower: For the safety of our students, please DO NOT walk thru the car rider line. Use the sidewalks and crosswalks to safely get to your car.

Please do not complete the QR code until you are on school property
All parents must come to the edge of the front steps to retrieve their student.
No dogs are allowed on campus

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PRINCIPAL'S POST

NOTES FROM THE BOOKKEEPER

Please see the attached letter to parents from the school nurse

ART-NP Comic Con Art Showcase

All students worked hard to submit a piece to Mrs. Hardin for the Comic Con showcase.Congratulations to our 10 finalists for the 2023 Chattanooga Comic Con Student Art Exhibit, which will take place October 21st & 22nd at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

1st: Konrad Luka

2nd: Oliver Thurman

3rd: Ronan Dooner, Zoë Elston, Zalen Lavigne, Eli Lieffers, Thomas Martinez, Holden Packer, Misa Petty, Jude Wilder

Library News- Lower

Playground Reminders:

The playground is open to the public after 6 PM and on weekends.

Animals are not allowed on campus, the playground or field at any time.

Important Reminders and Updates

Playground Reminders:

The playground is open to the public after 6 PM and on weekends.

Animals are not allowed on campus, the playground or field at any time.

Lightning Report

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All students worked hard to submit a piece to Mrs. Hardin for the Comic Con showcase.Congratulations to our 10 finalists for the 2023 Chattanooga Comic Con Student Art Exhibit, which will take place October 21^st & 22nd at the Chattanooga Convention Center.