Keeping this brief today with some important upcoming events.
A 4 day school week with finals starting tomorrow and the end of the semester Friday! Reminder there is no school on Monday, January 25th as it is a Professional Day (yahoo - another 4 day week).
Road Show - Wednesday
Registration Info
Knights Join the Fight
Levy Election - Vote February 9th!
Levy Callers Needed!
Message from our Prevention/Intervention Specialist
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Road Show Wednesday evening
The next Superintendent’s Coffee is tomorrow evening and will be incorporated into the 4th Annual Road Show,
Sammamish High, 6:00-8:45 pm. Road Show sponsors BSD, BSF, BQS and PTSA are bringing you an exciting program consisting of information about school district programs that you may not be aware of, a keynote speaker who travels around the country working with successful schools and school districts, a variety of different breakout sessions on topics of school funding basics, differentiated instruction, sophisticated training programs that lead to future careers, making the transition to middle school, providing emotional support to your teenager, and using the school district’s on-line connected curriculum. Also offered will be sessions for parents in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese, along with an English session designed by Indian parents.
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Registration Information
January 26th and 28th: Elective Fair (during both lunches in commons)
January 29th: Classroom-Based Elective Fair
February 11th: Parent Night for Current 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students.
Feb 25th: Parent Night – 8th graders coming into NHS as 9th grade students for 2010-2011
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KNIGHTS JOIN THE FIGHT!
This Friday, January 22nd, the Newport Girls Hoops team will host their first annual Breast Cancer Awareness Night. It's a "Quad" evening of basketball - 4 games in a row : JV girls 3:30, JV boys 5:00, Varsity girls 6:30, Varsity Boys 8:00, vs. Eastlake High at Newport High school. The girls have made 450 pink ribbon lapel pins along with cutting out pink basketballs that you can dedicate to someone on our cardboard basketball hoops. There will be a t-shirt give away early. A "pass the hat" will occur at the halftimes along with performances by our fantastic drill team, during the Varsity games. All the proceeds will be donated to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. For those who don't know, Kay Yow was the women's basketball coach at North Carolina State. Over a 22 year time span she battled breast cancer 3 times and sadly, succumbed last January. www.KayYowCancerfund.com
Wear pink, our girls will be and so will the gymnasium!!
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BSD SChool Levy Election: Tuesday, February 9th
Vote Yes for Bellevue Schools on Feb 9th!
Two items on the ballot: a replacement Educational Programs and Operation levy to support the day-to-day classroom operations: and a replacment Technology/Capital Projects levy to continue the technology work begun in the past several years and to fund large-scale maintenance projects
Volunteers Needed: Parents, students and teachers to make phone calls for the BSD Levies
Why: The Levies account for about 20% of Bellevue schools funding. If they fail, we will see larger class sizes and a
probable reduction in the 7 period day.
Bellevue parents, teachers, administrators, and students will gather January 25th through 28th to call Bellevue residents and encourage them to mail in their ballots. Don't feel comfortable asking people to vote for the levies? No problem - you can just encourage people to vote. Please join us on any of the four nights for as much time as you can give, at the PSE Building in Bellevue, from 5 pm to 8 pm. There will be and training AND FOOD! Bring your high schooler. They earn community service hours. And get to eat! Bring a friend! There will be plenty of room for everyone. Forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Newport teachers will be calling on January 28th, if you want to see a familiar face. Email janetPTA@gmail.com for a map and more information.
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A message from Scott Sturdivan the Prevention/Intervention Specialist at NHS
Happy New Year! Now is a great time to make a New Year’s resolution (or recommit to an old one) to do everything within your power to help your teen secure a healthy, safe future by giving them reasons to be drug, alcohol and tobacco free. Parents are the most powerful influence on their kids when it comes to drugs. Two-thirds of youth ages 13-17 say losing their parents’ respect is one of the main reasons they don’t smoke marijuana or use other drugs.* It’s as simple as having dinner together as a family two or three times a week, asking about their interests and whereabouts and above all, telling them you would be really disappointed if they used alcohol, marijuana, tobacco or other drugs.
* Partnership for a Drug-Free America, “Partnership Attitude Tracking Study,” 1999.
Scott Sturdivan, MA, CDP
Prevention/Interventionist
Newport: T (7-10:30); W (7-3:30); Th (7-11)
