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Email: hllewellyn@pretzelpride.com
Website: www.pretzelpride.com
Location: 300 East Ellis Street, New Berlin, IL, USA
Phone: 2174886012
Facebook: facebook.com/newberlinpretzels
Twitter: @NBHSPretzels1

Instagram: newberlinpretzels

YouTube: Pretzel News Network

TikTok: nbhspretzels

On Friday, we held a pop-up Pretzels with a Purpose Session with our students and then also held our Winter PBIS Celebration. The students worked in XELLO, our new College and Career Readiness Program, cleaned out their lockers, participated in Leadership Lessons, and a Social Emotional Learning Session during the Pretzels with a Purpose Program. In the afternoon, we had a Smash Brothers Tourney, Game Room with VR and board and card games, Karaoke Room, and different movie options. The Dome was the most popular room, as students played all kinds of recreational activities, or hang out on the bleachers. Also, if you have never tried the game Piles - I highly recommend it for a Family Game Night!

NBHS Daily Advisory Agenda - Up-to-date information for all high school students shared in Advisory every day!

Mr. Bandy's Creative Media class dropped a music podcast on the Pretzel News Network this week. The students are working on a variety of content, but we went all music on the first one to give it a try. Cbeck it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJgjLXncvI

February

12 Q3 Mid-Term (Moved for 2 Emergency Days)

14 11:40 Dismissal

• 4:30 Cheerleaders Chicken Dinner See Flyer Below for Information

17 No School Presidents Day

20 6PM Board of Education Meeting

7PM NHS Induction

21 Senior Night - Basketball/Cheer/Pep Band

27 1PM Dismissal

CCLA attended the Section 6 Meeting on Thursday 2/6. We had a great day watching the hard work of 24/25 NB Section Officer, Savannah Kramer and her co-officers. We were excited to see the induction of 25/26 NB Section Officers, Peyton Smith and Weston Brosi. Savannah also competed and qualified for state in Fashion and Clothing Construction and Peyton and Weston both competed and qualified for state in Public Speaking Creed.

Halle Bandy, Michael Biesenthal, Carter Claire, Griffin Fuchs, Ariah Groves, Caitlan Harney, Matt Kapinus, Orie Knox, Aydin Littig, Braiden Matthiesen, Michael Pecoraro, Adilynn Rose, Kendall Sims, and Callie Wagner for represented NBHS in the Academic Challenge hosted at LLCC! Thanks to Mr. Bandy for providing these students this opportunity!

The new building allows for more room for activities! Ms. McGuire's IPS class participated in a measuring lab activity last week! Click below to view!

IPS Activity Lab Pic

The spring season for Stride is coming up! Stride is a character education running program for boys in grades 3-5. (Similar to Girls on the Run) It is a 10-week program that ends with a 5K at LLCC. If you are interested in volunteering as a coach, please contact Taylor Maus at tmaus@pretzelpride.com

Our FFA chapter is excited to announce that we will be participating in the annual canned food drive competition sponsored by Springfield Plastics during National FFA Week (Feb 18-21). This competition allows local FFA chapters to collect canned goods for donation, with the winning chapter receiving a $1,000 donation to help fund their trip to the Illinois State FFA Convention.

To encourage participation within our schools, we would like to make this a fun and engaging competition:

• Junior High & High School: We will compete by 1st-hour classes, with the class collecting the most canned goods, winning donuts.
• Elementary School: We will compete by class, with the top class winning a pizza party (though we are open to suggestions if another incentive would work better for your students).

Mrs. Pecoraro will be offereing an ACT Prep Course to Juniors during Advisory beginning the week of January 21st. We have access to this course through our Learning Express data base. Students that do not have an advisory due to CACC or Zero Hour can do this on their own; however, all juniors that are in Advisory will register and start the course with her during January and February. This is a great opportunity for our students and we appreciate Mrs. Pecoraro's expertise in sharing this with our students! Juniors will need to register for the course (the slide below was shared with them via email). An outline of the course is also included below.

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👉 Check out the video below for more information about 211! #Team211

211 Video 2024

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NBHS Pretzels with a Purpose

NBHS Fall PBIS Celebration

WFNB Football/Cheer/Marching Band Senior Night

NBHS VB Senior Night

24.25 NB Music Program Fall/Halloween Concert Pics and Videos

24.25 FCCLA Fall Conference and Fundraiser Pics and Videos

24.25 NBHS Halloween Fun!

24.25 NBHS Career Day

24.25 Community Outreach Day

24.25 Spanish III Skeleton Project for Day of the Dead

24.25 BLDD Limestone Project

24.25 Thanksgiving Dinner

.25 Mrs. V's Friendsgiving Week

NBHS Farewell Building Tour

We would like to wish these Pretzels a Happy Birthday this Month!

February

11 - Tayshaun Hopkins and Ethan Shull

14 - Maya Dirks

16 - Jaylynn Hartwell-Hayden and Max Pointer

17 - Mr. Cummings and Mr. Reuschel

19 - Kylee Gordon

23 - Ms. McGuire and Mr. Shafer

24 - Ms. Julian

25 - Cameron Hart

26 - Lainey Marr and Landon Robinson

27 - Abbie Luckey and Michael Pecoraro

Often times, parents do not know who to email or call about specific questions.

If you have a child in grades 6-8, they are in the Junior High, and the JH Principal contact is Mr. Radford - bradford@pretelpride.com

JH Secretary - Mrs. Bandelow - sbandelow@pretzelpride.com

If you have a child in grades 9-12, they are in the High School, the HS Principal is Mrs. Llewellyn - hllewellyn@pretzelpride.com

HS Secretary - Ms. Mills - cmills@pretzelpride.com

Scheduling Questions - Mr. Viola - jviola@pretzelpride.com

Registration Questions - Ms. Spann - jspann@pretzelpride.com

Attendance and Fees Questions - Mrs. Peecher - dpeecher@pretzelpride.com

Lunch Account Questions - Mrs. Pidcock - hpidcock@pretzelpride.com

Driver's Education - Mr. Holderread - nholderread@pretzelpride.com

Athletics - Mr. Lucas, Athletic Director - blucas@pretzelpride.com

You can buy Sports Passes for all home pretzel games from the Sports Boosters. To buy your pass, visit www.pretzelsportsboosters.com/athletic-passes

The sports boosters has agreed to help coaches with 8th grade nights and Senior nights by providing cup cakes and drinks for the team and flowers for the 8th graders/Seniors. If you would like to help the Sports Boosters with this, contact Renee Cooper for more information.

If you are interested in helping work concession stands at any home game, contact Kris Neuman at krisneuman@gmail.com or 217-741-3980.

The Pretzel Sports Boosters is always looking for parents to help make our program a success. If you would like to contribute in any way, please let them know at pretzelboosters@gmail.com

Pretzel Sports Boosters Officers

Jake Surratt - President

James Snyder, Vice President

Renee Cooper, Secretary

Kris Neuman, Treasurer

Scholarship opportunities will be posted here as we are made aware of them!

Please check out the link below to find out about the scholarships that Mr. Viola sends out each week to seniors!

https://studentscholarships.org/scholarships.php

LLCC Scholarships go live today. One application for access to over 150 available

scholarships.