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Normal Park Families,
Thank you for supporting our coupon book sale over the next couple of weeks. We love celebrating with our students and look forward to doing so when we reach our goal of 1200 books sold. All proceeds from the sales go right back to students through incentives, activities, and materials. We appreciate your help as we know it takes you doing some work to sell them.
We look forward to a great week of learning!
Let’s make it a great week!
Jamelie Johns
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View and save the 2023/24
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2023 Coupon Book SalesTo purchase books online, anyone can follow the link below and just type in the student's name that they are supporting. There will also be a QR code set up in the office. Normal Park gets $10 back for each book sold, so that's a great deal for us. Distribution days are Tuesdays and Fridays for all online orders; we will deliver to your rooms to be put in backpacks. For a list of participating businesses click here
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Follow us on Instagram @npmmforkandgavel
New for Fork and Gavel 2023: Plan your social calendar for the year! Purchase tickets for the “Sign Me Up”: Community Experiences that will happen throughout the year. All tickets will be available on BidPal for a fixed price, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on September 29th, with funds raised going to Normal Park Spark, thanks to our generous sponsors, donors and hosts. Preview the web catalog of experiences so that you can plan ahead for the experiences you want to attend! You can purchase "Sign Me Up": Community Experience tickets whether you are at home or at Fork and Gavel, all on BidPal.
**In order to make this event a huge success we also need volunteers!! Volunteer opportunities for Fork and Gavel are now open: Sign up
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**All rollover hours from the 2022-2023 school year will be posted by the end of September
Volunteers Needed
Happy Cart (Upper and Lower): Signup
Lower School Exhibit Help: Signup
Upper School Exhibit Help: Signup
Football Game Volunteers: Signup
Fork and Gavel Volunteers: 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.
Donations needed: 7th grade history is looking for coffee cans or canisters (oatmeal, grits, etc...). You can drop off at the office at the US labeled 7th grade
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Important Reminders and Updates
**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_heather@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.
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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
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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.
Click here to sign up: Fall After School Activites - Spanish, Dance options for K-3, 3rd grade Singers
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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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Important Reminders and Updates
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.
Drop off and Dismissal Reminders - 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)
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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Upper School Activites
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
*Donations Needed- Blank thank you cards. Students will use these to practice writing thank you cards for guest speakers and interviews
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| Pom SquadLast week our pom squad performed at half time of the football game. We had such a great turnout for the game to cheer on our Lightning football team!
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Elementary Cross CountryNPMM 3rd - 5th grade cross country team had a wonderful meet last Tuesday. 30 NPMM athletes represented at the ISC meet. We had three runners finish in 1st place - Rosalie Mansueto (3rd grade), Eleanor Hibbard (5th grade) and Myles Jones (5th grade) and two more finished in the top 5 - Carter Mckinney (4th grade) and Brooke Dyer (3rd grade).
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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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**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; buttrum_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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