Dear NES Families,

Shout out to our students for working hard on each of their state assessments over the past two weeks! Staff and students pushed through and showed their resilience and flexibility as we dealt with internet outages unexpectedly.

Reminder, we have an early release day on Friday, December 20th. Students dismiss at 11:30AM and should picked up no later than 12:00PM. Please make sure you have made arrangements to have your student picked up on time for that day.

Thank you to all who attended our Winter Wonderland and helped support our Book Fair throughout the week!

Due to the break, please expect the next newsletter the week of January 6th. Last day for students is December 20th for Winter Break. Students return on January 7th.

Reminder - All important information shared digitally will be through Rooms. We will no longer have access to ClassDojo or Talking Points. Please be sure you have signed up ASAP for the app in order to get notifications from NES in a timely manner.

Our new school t-shirts from the pre-order were delivered, but many have still not been picked up and paid for. If you pre-ordered a school t-shirt for your student, please be sure to send or bring in your money to pick up your student's shirt. Beginning 12/17, the current t-shirts we have that have not been claimed will be on sale on a first come first serve basis.

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and we will see students back on Monday!

GOOOOO TIGERS!!!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Jessica Lowe, Principal

Mrs. Heather Briney, Assistant Principal

December

12/17: Kindergarten Christmas Program @ 8:30AM in cafeteria

12/18: OHS Drama presents Rudolph for NES students

12/19: 2nd 9 weeks PBIS Celebration - Reindeer Games (Eligible students ONLY)

12/20: Early Release Day

12/23 - 01/06: No School - Winter Break

Students must meet the following criteria to participate:

• 20 Tokens
• less than 2 minor referrals and/or 1 major referral between November 18th and December 18th
  

We wanted to express our sincerest gratitude to the Education Foundation of Okeechobee along with the many community sponsors who awarded several of our teachers mini grants for the 2024-2025 school year.

The award totaled $10,900!!! Our students were so excited to see that giant check and realize that they would be part of this opportunity their teacher afforded them. Thank you so much.

**The awards were presented during testing, so we did miss out on a few pictures, but our teachers were excited, nonetheless when they found out.

Monday calzones / winter shaped nuggets

Tuesday burritos / cheeseburgers

Wednesday beefaroni / wedge sandwich / smoothie plates

Thursday star shaped nuggets / pizza

Friday PBJ

Click below for the NES Student-Parent Handbook. Printed version is available in the front office upon request.

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By accessing FortifyFL, students can provide a description of the threat, share pics and videos and optionally submit their contact information.

Click the button above to access the online reporting link.

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NES Mission Statement:

North Elementary School will create a learning environment in which teachers and parents work together to enable each student to realize his/her potential. The school and its faculty will provide students with the best resources and instruction possible in order for them to be successful both in school, and later in life as thriving members of our society

NES Vision Statement:

Together: Achieving excellence, putting students first!