Black and Blue Review

The mission of

North Lincoln High School

is to activate student dreams and opportunities through excellence in

academics, altruism, arts, and athletics.

Go Knights!

November 1: Varsity Football @ East Lincoln; Human Performance classes field trip to Sally's YMCA

November 2: Band of Knights- Cary Day Band Competition @ Cary HS; Environmental Club roadside cleanup at 9AM; Cross Country State Championship at Ivey Redmond Park

November 5: Teacher Workday-No School for Students

November 6: Cross Country at Regan High School

November 7: Fall Band Concert at 7PM

November 8: Drama Field Trip-NCTC at Hopewell High School

November 11: Veteran's Day Holiday- No School for Staff or Students

November 12: Room 308-Envirothon Guest Speaker Evan Crawley, Forestry Expert, from 3-4PM; Wrestling Tri Match at North Gaston

November 15: Basketball at Lake Norman; Varsity Football Home Playoff Game v. TBD

November 21: Tri Wrestling Match at Uwharrie Charter

November 16: Dakota Smith Wrestling Invitational at South Caldwell High School

November 23: Lady Mustang Wrestling Invitational at East Lincoln High

November 25: Quarter 2 Progress Reports Sent Home; "How to Pay for College" event at Lincoln County Schools Central Services Building from 6-7PM

November 26: Basketball at S. Iredell

November 27-29: Thanksgiving Holiday Break

November 27: Lincoln/Gaston Wrestling Tournament at Ashbrook

November 29: Girls Basketball v. Hickory Ridge @11:00 (@Lake Norman High School)

November 30: Boys Basketball v. Ardrey Kell @6:30 (@Lake Norman High School)

Looking Ahead:

December 2-6: Art Club sponsored Craft Market

December 16-20: Final Exam Week

December 23-January 7: Winter Break

January 8: First Day of 2nd Semester

Punctuality is crucial for preparing students for future responsibilities; recent employer surveys consistently indicate that showing up to work on time is one of the most essential skills demanded in today's workforce.

Students who are consistently tardy will face disciplinary actions as outlined in our policy. These consequences begin with warnings and lunch detention, but may progress to in-school suspension, loss of parking/driving privileges, and even out-of-school suspension (for chronic tardiness).

At North Lincoln, we pride ourselves on preparing students for success beyond our school walls. We ask for your cooperation in ensuring your student arrives to each class on time each day. By working together, we can help students develop the very important like skill of showing up to work consistently and getting to work on time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the school administration.

NLHS Sports Boosters Atheltic Scholarship 2024-2025: All applicants must have a parent or guardian who is a paid NLHS Sports Booster member or is sponsored by a member, a banner sponsor or corporate sponsor. Senior students are eligible only if they participate in Varsity athletics senior year. Students must use the money to further education and have a minimum 2.5 GPA. Up to ten finalists will interview with a panel of judges for the 2-$500 scholarships awarded to one female and one male student-athlete. Applications are due no later than April 15, 2025.

https://forms.gle/QGQfhwkwMJXTHYDh8

1. Students are expected to be across the threshold of the classroom door to be considered present. If not, they are marked tardy and will face consequences per our LCS Tardy Policy. If your child is having struggles getting to school by 8:00 each morning, you can contact Mr. Cranford regarding bus information.
2. Students are not allowed to Door Dash/Uber Eats/etc. Student actions will be documented, and food will be disposed of by administration. This creates an unsafe environment, and disrupts the normal school processes and procedures.
3. When leaving school early for any reason, students are required to present a note from a parent that the office can verify before leaving. Students and parents are required to sign out before leaving campus so we can accurately account for all students on campus. Students leaving campus without permission will face school consequences.
4. If students do not have a class on campus and choose to be on campus during that peroid, they are to report to Room 48, our online classroom supervised by Mr. Tapp. Students should not be hanging out in our parking lots if they do not have a class.
5. Students are not allowed to leave campus during their lunch period to go get fast food for lunch. If students are on campus for 3rd period, their class has a scheduled lunch period and students should report to the cafeteria for lunch. Students found leaving campus for lunch will receive school consequences for leaving campus without permission. Students may bring left over fast food from home for lunch. We are also asking that parents not Door Dash for students as well.

LCS EXAM EXEMPTION POLICY (https://boardpolicyonline.com/bl/?b=lincoln)

Regulation Code: 3400-R Evaluation of Student Progress

In order to encourage excellent attendance, a student may be exempt from teacher-made exams if he/she meets the following qualifications:

Course Grade

Number of Absences

Number of tardies

A, 4 or less absences, 4 or fewer tardies

B, 3 or less absences, 3 or fewer tardies

C, 2 or less absences, 2 or fewer tardies

Notes:

1. The issue of excused vs. unexcused absences is not considered in determining exam exemption. The number of absences, regardless of reason, the academic average, and cumulative tardies for the semester are the qualifying factors for exam exemption.

2. Assigned days in ISS (in-school suspension) or OSS (out-of-school suspension) are considered as absences under the exam exemption policy. All work missed because of absences should be made-up within five days of the absence.

3. If the student meets the above qualifications and desires to take the exam, the exam may improve but not diminish the student’s final grade. Neither required state tests nor Advanced Placement exams administered by the College Board be exempted.

Breakfast:

*All Students: Free

*Visitors/Guests: $2.00

Lunch:

Paid Students: $3.25

Reduced Students: FREE

FREE Students: FREE

Adults: $4.00

The Board of Education recently revised the policy pertaining to charging in the cafeteria. Students will be allowed to charge 20 lunches. Students exceeding the charge limit and who do not have money, will receive a differentiated meal (cheese sandwich, fruit, milk or water). If you need help paying for meals, please complete a free or reduced meal application. Meal applications are available on our website, the Child Nutrition Office, and the school office. If you need assistance with meal applications, please contact Amanda Davis at 704-736-4301.

Gaston registration for the spring semester is now open. Please see your counselor to register for the CCP classes you wish to take this spring. Remember that the CCP contract must be returned to your counselor before your registration will be processed.

Cell Phones :

• Cell phones are not to be visible or on during class instructional time, unless authorized by the teacher

• Consequences:
• 1st Offense: Verbal Warning
• 2nd Offense: Teacher Warning, Parent Contact
• 3rd Offense: Administrative Conference with student
• 4th Offense: Lunch Detention
• 5th Offense: Before or After School Detention
• 6th Offense: One Period of In-School Suspension
• 7th Offense: 1 Day In-School Suspension

Lincoln County Schools Board Policy 4316 charges school administration with the duty and authority to determine appropriate dress not specifically addressed in board policy. Please be aware of the following:

• Tops, tank tops, and shirts must cover shoulders, back, and midriff- no crop tops. Any top, tank top, or shirt must have a strap width of at least 2 inches.
• Tights/leggings should not be worn as outerwear.
• No sagging pants
• Clothing displaying vulgar writing, sexual references, racial slurs, references to drugs/alcohol/tobacco are prohibited
• Exposed undergarments or see-through clothing are prohibited
• No hats, hoods, or head coverings worn in the building without prior approval from school administration.
• Gang-affiliated attire is prohibited during the school day and at extra-curricular events. This includes any gang symbols or gang-affiliated merchandise including bookbags, dress, or other materials.This determination may be made by our School Resource Officer.
• No sleepwear-this includes bedroom shoes, pajama tops, pajama bottoms and/or shorts.

The Code for Student Behavior also bans dress that would fall under the category of "creating a material and substantial disruption to the school day".

We thank you for addressing this with your child. We will also be discussing this throughout the first several weeks of school to ensure compliance.

In the event of inclement weather, please refer to Lincoln County Schools Inclement Weather Memo found here.

Note: If there is a delay, check for an announcement on one of our NLHS social media outlets for the day's schedule (times, classes/periods, etc.). Scroll down to find out where to follow NLHS.

Recently our Band of Knights competed at the regional level against 25 other bands from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and one band from New York. Our Band of Knights worked very hard, competed, and represented our school and Lincoln County Schools well, finishing 20th of 26 bands. Way to go, Knights! We are very proud of you and your hard work! You still have several chances to see this year's competition show, "New Suit Symphony". The Band of Knights has an upcoming competition at Cary High School, as well as an Encore performance open to the public.

Any student planning on attending workouts/tryouts must have a current physical on file and completed Family ID.

Family ID

NCHSAA PHYSICAL FORM

Reach out to Coach Frye for details.

dennis.frye@lincoln.k12.nc.us

Sports passes are still available.

Student pass-$50

10-game punch card-$50

Cash or check.

Checks made payable to: North Lincoln High School

Introduction

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Twitter

@NLHSAD

@NorthLincolnHS

@NL_softball

@NLKnights_Bball (Girls’ Basketball)

@Footballnlhs

@Nlhssports (Sports Booster)

@NLHSKnightsPTO

@nlhs_s (Men’s Basketball)

@NLBaseball2020

Instagram

@nlhsknights (official school account)

@russells_art_room (Art classroom)

@nlhs.media.center (see all that the media center has to offer)

@nlhsbandofknights (follow the award winning Band of Knights)

@nlhscommunityhealth (see what’s up with the NLHS Community of Health Club)

@nlhsdanceteam (check out our new NLHS dance team)

@nlhsknightspto (PTO)

@knightsyearbook_2021

@nlhsbaseball

@nlhsknightshift (new service initiative)

@nlhstennis

Principal Chip Cathey chip.cathey@lincoln.k12.nc.us

Assistant Principal Lee Rice lrice@lincoln.k12.nc.us

Assistant Principal Jason Cranford jason.cranford@lincoln.k12.nc.us