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Normal Park Families,
Thank you for a great week of learning with your students. We are excited to see you this week at our SPARK community events and Open Houses. There are plenty of opportunities to be involved this week!
Schedule for Open House and Lemonade on the Lawn (Monday Lower School and Tuesday Upper School)
- 5:00-6:00 - Lemonade on the Lawn - visit with other parents, meet our related arts teachers, meet the SEAD team, learn more about SPARK, learn ways to volunteer. We will have cookies and lemonade. This time is come and go as you can.
- 6:00-6:15 - We will gather in the auditorium to hear the vision of the school year from school leadership
- 6:15-7:00 - Parents will hear from their homeroom teachers on what to expect this year, content for the year, communication, homework, grading, etc.
Wednesday you can let your voice be heard on the school facilities plan. County Commissioner David Sharpe and School Board Member Ben Connor are hosting a public forum at Red Bank Community Center at 6:30. This is your opportunity to share your hopes and dreams for Normal Park’s future building and structure.
Not going anywhere for Labor Day Weekend? Kick it off with family movie night! Friday at 6:00 we will be hosting a movie night at the Lower School gym and playground. Bring your family, lawn chairs or blankets, and enjoy some time getting to know other families.
Of course during the day there are also ways to volunteer. We need your help!
We appreciate SPARK for hosting community building events to help make our school even stronger. Wondering how SPARK contributes to our school? This week our k-3 teachers are all receiving hands on professional development in math instruction. This is the first of four cycles of professional development that all k-8 teachers will be receiving this year thanks to your dollars donated.
You may have noticed the Upper School playground began construction this past week. Thanks to a grant from school age child care, we received new playground equipment. The new design was developed by parents and was student approved last spring. This new playground is expected to be complete by September 6th, pending weather. We are thrilled to have new and improved age appropriate equipment. In the meantime, students are still using the blacktop and field areas to play (when we are not over 100 degrees). If you use the facility outside of school hours, please respect the construction site as it is marked with caution tape and a temporary fence.
As a reminder, please follow our safety protocols for car line and walkers. These are in place for student and staff safety. We have listed them below for each campus. Also, there should never be dogs on campus.
Let’s make it a great week. Thank you,
Jamelie Johns
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| Open House and Lemonade on the LawnBoth events are adult event preferred and you can receive 1 volunteer hour for each event you attend!
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Health Screenings- Every year students are screened for specific health problems depending on their grade level. Parents/Guardians who do not want their children screened have the right to decline their screenings for their children. K, 2, 4, 6, 8 students will be screened for vision, hearing, and body mass index. This is scheduled for September 7th at the lower school and September 8th at the upper school. If you would like your student to opt out you can fill out the form here and return it to the nurse’s office. We assume opt in unless the form is completed.**If your child is sick and needs to be absent from school, please notify only 3 people:
1) Nurse Dawn OR Nurse Jennifer
Lower school: morrow_dawn@HCDE.org
Upper school: defoor_jennifer@HCDE.org
2) student’s teacher
3) attendance office
Attendance for lower is Mrs. Buttrum; buttram_heather@HCDE.org
Attendance for upper is Mrs. Bowes; bowes_billie@HCDE.org
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LUNCH ACCOUNT
Please take time to load money on your child's account in our new system, Linq, send lunch money, or fill in the free/reduced lunch form.
If you are having trouble with your Linq lunch account, please contact Ben Rhodes at rhodes_ben@hcde.org or 423.498.7277.
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Volunteers Needed This Week
We need volunteers to help make this year’s Spark Week a great success! Sign-up today!
Happy Cart (Upper and Lower): Signup
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.
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FORK AND GAVEL
⭐We still need your help! If you or your business are able to donate items or experiences for the auction please click here or reach out to Alison Poole alisonholby@gmail.com
⭐Would your business be interested in more information about providing a sponsorship ($100+) for one of our experiences?
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Important Reminders and Updates
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.
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Dropoff and Dismissal Reminders:
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: Please put away your cell phones when in the car rider line. 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.
- Students can only be loaded and unloaded on the right side of the car
- The entrance of the car line is at Barton and Worthington. Please do not make a U-turn and cut into the car line.
- Parents should not get out of the car in the car line.
- Do not enter the car line from Dugdale St
Bike Riders: To the parents of Lower School Bike riders, please review bike rider safety procedures such as stopping at stop signs and using the bike lane.
Walkers: 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
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.
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Library News
READ 20
Normal Park Students Prek-3rd 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
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| Normal Park Museum Magnet
Fall 2023 After School Activities
Check out some of the new options for Afterschool activites your child can particpate in including Soccer, Spanish, Dance and Singers group. All after school dismissal locations and pick up details and information will be provided to parents and guardians from each program once rosters have been completed. All programs are on a first come first basis and fill up quickly. If you have questions about the programs, please contact the organization, not the school. Activities
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Garden PatchThe parent Garden Team has worked hard this summer to keep the garden alive and thriving through the heat and dry conditions. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers! We have a lot of energy heading into the fall, and our vision is to get each grade at Normal Park out into the garden at some point during the year -- whether that is harvesting beans, learning about pollinators and native plants, or fighting back invasives. If you are interested in being a part of this in any way, either by participating in garden days on the third Sunday of each month, by watering our existing plants or by supporting our amazing teachers as they are building their curriculums, please sign up here to let us know that you are interested. We will be sending more information via email, but please plan to attend our first Garden Brainstorming Meeting on Wednesday, September 6th at 5:30 in the Lower School garden. If you have questions or want to discuss further, please come find us at Open House, or email us at normal.park.garden.patch@gmail.com ! We are also on Instagram at normal.park.garden.patch
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Important Reminders and UpdatesGrade 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.
- Car Rider line: Please try to pull all the way forward when inside of the car rider loop so that we can maximize the number of children in each "wave". If you are within the loop, PLEASE have your child exit the vehicle when the traffic stops so that we can avoid any unnecessary stoppage of traffic.
- Morning and Afternoon Pickup- Please be midful of the children moving within the loop
- There should be NO cell phone while your vehicle is within the loop, please keep eyes on the road and vigilant for children who may move unpredictably (THIS IS A STATE LAW)
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Career Exploration ClassThis year, 6th - 8th graders have the opportunity to take a career exploration class. To make this course the best it can be, I need your help! I am hoping to embed as many opportunities as possible for students to interview, get feedback from, and visit experts in the field. It is my goal to expose students to as many different career pathways as possible!
If you would like to get involved, please indicate your preferences on this survey
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Soccer Team Spirit StorePlease support our soccer team and shop their spirit store online
CODE: NPSOC23
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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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| Meet our School Security Officers
Have you noticed our School Security Officers on each campus? Officer Hannah Knupp is back at the lower school and Deputy Ian Morow is our new officer at the upper. We appreciate them being visible on campus and building relationships with our students!
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