Northside Elementary School

It is National Principal Appreciation Month! Please join the Warren County School District in celebrating our School Principals and their leadership and dedication to their schools and the district.

Mark your calendars! PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES: Northside Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on Thursday, October 8th from 1:15 p.m - 7:00 p.m. Parents will have the opportunity to sign-up for a 10 minute conference with individual teachers. Once you note your availability on the parent conference google survey link, you will be sent a schedule detailing your meeting times. All meetings will be held via phone or Google Meet. Report cards will be mailed home after conference are held. The window for scheduling parent-teacher conferences using the google link below will be until 10/6/20. You will need to cut and paste the link in your computer's browser section. https://forms.gle/q5qfVTgZtjRjYmEC7 If you need to meet at another day and time, please contact your child's teachers directly. Parents we thank you for your ongoing support! Half Days: October 8 and October 9 (Online instruction ends at 12:30 p.m.)

PowerSchool Parent Portal Get access to your child’s grade through PowerSchool. Download the app for easy access! We would like to encourage all our parents to sign up for PowerSchool parent portal. Click on the link below and answer the request form to get your codes. https://sites.google.com/a/warrenk12nc.org/parent-portal/

Parent Reminder: Thursday, September 24, 2020 will be a half a day. All virtual instruction will end at 12:30 p.m. Shout out to our Northside students who have completed their iReady reading and math tests. Northside K-8 has an overall eighty-nine percent completion iReady test rate. However, 7th and 8th grade math students have a 100% completion rate. Parents if your child has not taken the test yet, please contact your child’s teacher for a makeup test. Thank you to all the parents who have picked up their child’s chromebook. As stated by Mr. Stewart (Chief Operating Officer) this is real school. Students have to engage with the teacher, complete work and pass exams in order to ensure that they make it to the next grade. After Friday, formal letters will be sent to any parents who have not picked up their child’s chromebook. Mrs. Williams (Social Worker) will also be notified to help support families, and ensure that students have what they need in order to be successful. If you have not signed up for parent portal (allows you to see your child’s grades online) or need assistance please call the school, and we will notify Mr. Buffalo. Last reminder, parents please be careful when your child is receiving online instruction the camera is active. If teachers see anything inappropriate occurring in your child’s background, they will have to disconnect the session. We love our parents, students, teachers, and thank you for working alongside us.

Warren County Schools District Internet is back up and working. Thank you so much for your patience.

Warren County Schools Internet District Wide is down right now,

Parent Reminder: Half A Day Schedule: September 24, 2020, October 22, 2020, February 11, 2021, March 18, 2021. Early Release Professional Development for Teachers: All student classes will end at 12:30 p.m. on the dates noted above. Teachers will have assignments left (google classroom or handouts if back in school) for students to complete on these earlier release days.

Northside K-8 School Parent Reminder: 5th-8th Grade iReady Reading Test scheduled for September 22, 2020. IReady Math Test scheduled for 5th -8th grade on September 23, 2020. Thank you to the parents, and teachers in advance for monitored the students remotely as they take their iReady Reading and Math Test this week. Parents if you would like additional information please go to the Warren County School website under IReady Parent and Student Resources. Your child's teacher should have also shared testing information with you last week. Parents thank you so much for your continued support !

Northside K-8 School 4th Grade iReady Math Test scheduled for September 11, 2020. Thank you to the parents, and teachers that monitored the students remotely as they took their iReady Reading Test today, September 10, 2020.

Northside 4th Grade IReady Testing (Reading) September 10, 2020.

Northside K-8 Parents: Special thank you to the entire Bulldog Family! Parents, Student and Staff members for doing a wonderful job as we held two full days from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. distributing chromebooks. Parents did an outstanding job completing the necessary paperwork. All staff members did a wonderful job processing all the paperwork received, and distributing a chromebook to every family that came. Special thank you to Mr. Pierce one of our parents who sponsored 6 students. Thank you to Mrs. Hundley who pledged to sponsor a student. Thank you to all the organizations that worked with Mrs. Alston-Kearney to sponsor our Northside K-8 students. We appreciate Officer Boone (directed traffic), Mr. Steverson (donated desserts/cases of water), Dr. Whitaker (helped donate food for the staff) and Mrs. Perry for supporting us with cafeteria support. Special thank you to Superintendent Dr. Young, and her Executive Cabinet for all their help behind the scenes ensuring that we had everything we needed for a successful chromebook student distribution. Please be safe and enjoy the upcoming Labor Day Holiday Weekend.

Chromebook distribution we begin again at 2:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. September 4, 2020. We thank you so much for your patience.

Chromebook Distribution (September 3, 2020): We are off to a great start, and we thank everyone for working to ensure that our students and your child have Chromebooks. Chromebook Distribution will start back up again at 1:30 p.m., due to the extreme heat.

Northside K-8 Parents: Parent Chromebook Distribution Forms Posted on Northside K-8 School Website. Save time now and print them out, complete the forms and bring them with you tomorrow. Go to our school website "News" section click on Chromebook Distribution Forms.

Northside K-8 Chromebook Distribution Parent Forms: The day has arrived! The Chromebooks at Northside K-8 will be distributed: Thursday, September 3, 2020 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Grades 4th - 8th ) and Friday, September 4, 2020 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Grades Pre-K to 3rd). Please go to the Northside K-8 School website. Next, go to the "News" section and click "Chromebook Distribution Parent Forms." You can save time now by completing these forms. Please print and complete the forms and bring them with you. If you have any Chromebook rental receipts for paying the $20 rental fee online, please bring that as well. We thank you in advance for your patience tomorrow!

Northside K-8 School Parents: PayPal we just found out is no longer a payment option for the $20 Chromebook rental fee . Warren County Schools will be using effective today "Square Up" and cash. The Square Up link can be found below: (https://checkout.square.site/pay/c6afefb1572c44bda78fcd20adc4b7d3) The District has a payment cleared list if you have paid remotely already or were approved after filing online for financial assistance. We will have a printout also when you arrive tomorrow.

Good Evening Northside K-8 Parents: We have received news that the new chrome books will not arrive until later this month. The Warren County School District has now moved into Plan B. In an effort to avoid further delays in students’ receiving vital chrome books, all schools will be releasing their current Chromebook in house inventories. As a result, we will all be able to begin distributing chrome books to students who do not have computers at home. Northside K-8 School Computer Distribution Dates: Thursday, September 3, 2020: Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 from 8 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Friday, September 4, 2020: Grades PreK-3rd grade from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Please remember to bring your one time nonrefundable rental fee $20 per child. You can also pay by credit card and PayPal on the Warren County Schools District website. If you need financial assistance, please cut and paste this website link to your browser: (https://forms.gle/9xoxowp7qVKXbTfD9). First come first serve until the funding runs out. You will also find an active link you can click under "News" on our school website. Parents you will need to complete several forms prior to receiving your child's Chromebook. It will take at least 10-15 minutes, so please come when you have additional time to complete this process. You can also sign up so that you can see your child's grades online before you receive their progress/report cards (Parent Portal). COVID19 safety measures are still in effect; please do not exit your car during the computer distribution process. We thank you in advance for your patience.

Concerned about COVID-19? Check out the information in the picture. A drive through testing event is being held at Warren County High School on September 12, 2020.

Northside K-8 Parents: If you still have not received your child's work packet via mail, teachers have shared with us this information. Student work packets are now available for pick up directly at the school between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. for the rest of this week (August 24-28, 2020). Shout out to all our teachers, parents, and students, because we now have a 97% parent/student communication contact rate. Our goal by the end of the week is to be at 100%.

Great First Week! A large number of our students have received their student work packets. Teachers have been reaching out working with students online and over the phone. We now have a 95% parent/student contact rate. If your child has not received their work packet, please share that with your child's teacher. We have created a spreadsheet, so that we can get a count of how many students still need work packets. We will make them available for pick up. I was so excited to see our students online, and had an opportunity to visit them in their virtual classrooms. Students were excited and engaging with the teacher as they worked on the student work packets. Teachers have also been working with students over the phone, and helping them with their work. Next week teachers will be sharing with you your child's google email address and password. Please keep this information in a safe place, because your child will need it when entering the google meet links you have been provided with. We thank everyone for their continued patience as we await the arrival of the Chromebooks. I also would like to thank all of our staff members for doing an awesome job this week. We are off to a great start!