WEekly update

Greeting NCS families,


We appreciate your support in bringing your child to school and entrusting us with their education. I want to update you on an important aspect that has a significant impact on your child's learning. Our teachers have about 7.5 hours each day to teach and guide your child academically, socially, and emotionally, while also ensuring they have time for lunch, snack, recess, and restroom breaks.


While teachers are instructing and working with students, they are not always able to check email, messages, and respond to them due to teaching and delivering quality instruction. NCS policy states that staff have 48 business hours to respond to an email or message. Each teacher has a planning period that allows them the time to prepare, grade, check emails, and messages. Please make sure you are aware of what time your child's teacher has planning as this is the best time to expect correspondence with them. In the event of an emergency or urgent transportation change, you can call the front office, and they will relay your message to the classroom.


Starting this Monday, students in grades 1-5 will be participating in Opportunity Zone. This is a dedicated time for each grade level to provide additional support in Reading and Math based on students' specific needs. Students will be grouped according to their skill levels and will switch classrooms during this time. Please keep an eye out for an introduction from your student's Opportunity Zone teacher.


This week students are encouraged to participate in Start with Hello Week. If you are not familiar with Start With Hello I highly encourage you to read this (SWH)!  

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