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Fork and Gavel Community ExperiencesWe have had a fantastic fall of Community Experiences, and we would love for you to join us for the Experiences coming up in the second semester. These have been great opportunities to get to know other people in our school community, while contributing to our students by supporting Spark!
⭐We still have spots available for many upcoming events:
⚡ Ladies Skincare night out-Feb 8
Join Normal Park Parents and Friends on Thursday, February 8 from 7pm – 9pm for a night of sips, snacks and skincare. Cost is only $35/person. Email normalparkfund@gmail.com with any questions
⚡Capture the Flag for NP Upper School students- Feb 25
and more!!
For more information and to sign up click below
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Volunteers Needed
Donations Needed
Click here to log hours: Normal Park Parent Volunteer Form. You may email Tiffany Phillips, phillips_tiffany@hcde.org at the Lower School and Monica Arnold, arnold_monica@hcde.org at the upper school regarding your volunteer hours. *Once you submit hours online please give 2 weeks for them to show in Power School.
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Make plans to join us at Normalpalooza on Saturday, April 27 from 10am – 4pm at the Lower School playground. We’ll have inflatables, games, student performances, artisans, vendors, music and more! This event requires an army of volunteers – if you are interesting in getting involved, please email Caitlin Studer at normalparkfund@gmail.com
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We heard you and TRIVIA NIGHT IS BACK on Friday, April 5 at 6pm at Daily Ration. The theme this year is time travel – get your team together and travel back in time to your favorite decade or historical era. Cleopatra, disco, roaring 20s or King Henry VIII should all make an appearance. As always prizes will be given for best team name best dressed and new this year – best table décor! Bring out those artifacts and set your team up for success! Questions? Email Caitlin Studer at normalparkfund@gmail.com
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Important NP Information
ATTENTION: When parking for drop off or pickup please do not block neighbors driveways or mailboxes. We have had some tell us the mailman will not stop if it is blocked.
♦All visitors must bring their Driver's License when entering the building to volunteer or dismiss a student during the school day.
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ART NEWS
🎨Dr. Robertson has asked that we display student work at the upcoming State of the System event on February 13. They have asked for artwork from all Hamilton County learning communities, and we’re proud to send artwork created by the following students:
K- Eleanor Hudson, Addie Sparks, 1- Kennedy Goodloe, Thad Miller, Maggie Robbins, Holden Gentry, Laila Williams, 2- Olivia Jablonski, Lincoln Whaley, Deja Toney, Sophia Presbitero, Steven Novak, Vivian Boyd
🎨Congrats to the students whose work was chosen for the Bessie Smith Art Contest. If your child’s work is in the contest, they received a paper with this information last week. The event takes place on 2/10/24 from 10-3:00. Mrs. Hardin will be there to congratulate your students, take photos and celebrate any awards (TBA). Here is the list of names
Student artwork will be returned in March. Thank you!
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LIBRARY NEWS- Lower*Ms. Locke is looking for some volunteers to help in the library. She is flexible on time. If you are interested please contact her at locke_cynthia@hcde.org
Don’t forget to read for 20 minutes a day!!! Students who complete their reading logs and turn them in will have their names entered into a grade level drawing for monthly prizes. There will be another drawing at the end of January.
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
Birthday Book Club : Welcome to Our Birthday Book Club!!! Please use this site to choose a book in honor of your child, grandchild, niece or nephew!! This book will support curriculum and student requests to become part of the library’s collection. You will be giving a gift that will be treasured by many, many children for years to come. Thank you for your generosity!
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👏Congrats to the Winners of the Spelling Bee3rd place Riley Babcock
2nd place Ally Smith
1st place Adoara Okafor
🙏BIG THANKS!We want to give a shout out to the following people for their incredibly hard work moving, decluttering, organizing, and relocating the theater closet.
Heidi Adams (Lead Organizer), Julia Germann, Robyn Baxter, Megan Romanick, David Gattis, Miriam Muir, Jenni Edge, Pat Buckely
We continue to be thankful for our amazing families at Normal Park
HAPPENINGS
Event to promote STEM (girls in grades 6-12)
ChaTech Women announces the return of the STEM for Her event, set for Feb. 24 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Chattanooga State Community College Gerald McCormick Center. This event, now in its second year, is part of a series of celebrations during National Engineers Week, designed to inspire and empower the next generation of women leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
UPDATES
➡️Donations of individual small packs of candy needed for positive office referrals (Skittles, small candy bars, Sour Patch Kids, 2 pack-Starburst, etc.)
REMINDERS
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EVENTS🧗Climbing competition, Teacher vs. student.
Thursday, February 15th 5:00 PM at Highpoint downtown.
🏀Elementary Basketball tournament: We have two teams remaining in the North Hamilton basketball league. The 5th grade boys play in the semi final game Thursday, 7:45 @ Loftis Middle and 2nd/3rd grade boys team has a semi final game on Friday, 7:10pm @ Hixson Middle School. If they win their games they will have championship games on Saturday.
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UPCOMING TRYOUTS
⚾BASEBALL⚾Normal Park will Co-op with Red Bank Middle School. Tryouts: Monday Feb 5th- 3:30-5:00 at RBMS ballfields behind the school
🥎SOFTBALL 🥎
Normal Park will Co-op with CSAS for girls Softball. Tryouts will be 2/8 and 2/9 from 4:30-5:45 at Rivermont Ballfields
⛳GOLF⛳
For any 6-8th grade boys and girls interested in Golf, please fill out the information sheet in the front office with Karin Hawkins. There will be an official meeting the week of Feb 7th.
⚽BOYS SOCCER⚽
Boys' Soccer tryouts will be Monday, February 12th and Tuesday, February 13th from 3:15-5:00 PM. 🏃♀️MS TRACK AND FIELD🏃 Tryouts will be held February 20-22 from 3:15-4:45 pm . Please plan on attending each day. We will meet behind Normal Park Upper School on the athletic field. Bring a water bottle and dress for physical activity. The final team roster will be posted on the Normal Park school website on Friday, February 23rd. Practices will begin the following week and will be Monday- Thursday from 3:15- 4:45. All Students must have a physical form uploaded to Final Forms before tryouts. If you have any questions please contact Coach Gaines via email at gaines_j@hcde.org
ELEMENTARY TRACK- (grades 3-5)
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⚡2023-2024 Lightning Athletic Club Board is searching for new members.
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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Order Yearbooks TodayGet ahead of the rush and order your childs yearbook for this year!
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Campus Reminders and Policy
♦All visitors must bring their Driver's License when entering the building to volunteer or dismiss a student during the school day.
Electronics policy: Per school board, 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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