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Good Afternoon NMS Families!

Last week Ofc. Dejordy and the admin team had assemblies with our students during WIN to discuss ALICE training. We ended the week with an ALICE table top discussion on Friday afternoon.

Information regarding our new science curriculum is included at the end of this newsletter. If you haven't had a chance to see it there is lots of good information about the program and how it works.

Our next house battle will be penny wars beginning November 14.

Great job by our 8th graders at the Halloween Dance last Friday!

Wednesday is our next Student of the Month Ceremony at 8:30. Families are welcome.

Final grades will be posted by Thursday afternoon this week.

Have a great week

John Diorio

NMS
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Upcoming events

Nov. 8 - Early release for students

Nov. 9 - Student of the Month

Nov. 11 - Veteran's Day No school

Congratulations to Wyatt Tetrault for winning the Ride to School with the police! Wyatt won the prize at our Family Fun Run in October. This morning Wyatt and his family had a tour of the police station and met several police officers, including Chief Labrie. The morning ended with a ride to school with Ofc. Dejordy, 2 police cruisers, and a fire truck. What a great way to start the week!

Thank you Ofc. Dejordy, Northbridge Police and Northbridge Fire Department!

Families will not see a notation in Infinite Campus for Honor Roll. Currently this option is not available for us. However, Ms. Signoretti will be posting the honor roll to our website and the newspaper. The Honor Roll report will take a few extra days to generate but we will post it as soon as possible.

Great news! Big Smiles, a mobile dental clinic, is coming to NMS on Dec. 16, 2022 (a backup date is Dec. 19, 2022) to provide in-school dental care. You can sign up your child today by clicking this link: NMS Mobile Dental Clinic . Paper registration forms in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese are also available upon request. If additional translations are needed, please let us know.

For any questions contact Diane Williams, Resource Nurse, at dwilliams@nps.org.

Healthy Teeth - Healthy Students!

School pictures should arrive by November 17th

Picture retakes are scheduled for Tuesday, December 6.

Northbridge Middle School offers a Vaping Diversion Program for students who are involved in vaping. Parents and Guardians may refer their students to the program. The program is managed by Lori Johnson, the School Nurse Leader. Students who are referred to the program participate in a 5 week program involving reading 2 articles and completing an online video program developed by the MD Anderson Cancer Center to teach adolescents about the dangers of vaping. The students meet with the nurse once a week. At the end of the program, students will write a 1 page essay on the dangers of vaping and develop a written plan to quit vaping. If you are concerned about your student and vaping, please contact Mrs. Johnson at ljohnson@nps.org or call her at 508-234-6221, ext 5110.

Names of students referred to the program by parents/guardians will be kept confidential and no disciplinary action will be involved because of participation in the program.

YEARBOOK:

Any parents who would be interested in helping out with the NMS yearbook, please contact Ashling Kelly-Keegan at akellykeegan@nps.org. This includes being available after school hours to help with the yearbook club.

Any parents or staff members who have photos of school events, including the Fun Run, or school sports games, please submit your photos to nmsyearbook@nps.org

Avoid cabin fever this winter by joining Ski Club for a fun night of shredding up the slopes at Wah, Wah Wachusett!

Sign up directly at www.wachusett.com/schoolgroup using this Join Code: NRMS

For more information, please reach out to Mr. Hay at mhay@nps.org.

Looking forward to seeing you on the mountain!

We are excited about the new science curriculum purchased by our district. OpenSciEd was launched to improve the supply of and address demand for high quality, open-source, full-course science instructional materials, while at the same time supporting the implementation of middle school science instructional units.I am including a link to learn more about the program, and a pdf explaining what you and your student can expect from the program.

https://www.openscied.org/about/