Tiger Beat

Major Albahari presented to our 1st and 3rd grade students in honor of Veterans' Day bringing along some of his medals and drones, pictured below.

• November 11: No School
• November 12: PTO meeting @ 6pm
• November 13: Jersey Mike's Fundraiser
• November 20: Early Release
• November 27: Early Release (no lunch)
• November 28 & 29: Thanksgiving Break
• December 5: No School (Parent-Teacher Conferences)

See the full Somerset Public Schools Calendar here.

Mrs. Fogg, one of the secretaries here at North, is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Go Jets!). She moved to Somerset in 2003 and has been working at North since 2009. Mrs. Fogg has twins, Eloise and Tabor (they both came to North!) who are seniors in college. Eloise studies Forensic Science at Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Tabor studies PGA Golf Management at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Mrs. Fogg LOVES animals, along with her husband Dirk, and currently has two cats (Hazel and Nutt), two pugs (Kato and Neo), a turtle named Turbo and a horse named Salmundo who is a Dutch Warmblood.

Fun facts: Mrs. Fogg worked with and rode horses at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Canada traveling the world with Linda Southern who was on the Canadian Equestrian Show Jumping team for 10 years, flying on cargo planes all over the world with her horses to World Class show jumping events. Mrs. Fogg is also is fluent in German, due to frequent trips to Germany to visit family. She loves working here at North with Mrs. Fortier, Ms. Kolic, Mrs. Woodcock and our amazing students and staff!

Officer Hague and Raider presented Raider Recognition Awards for October this week. The awards are presented to students who show respect and perseverance in their schools. The recipients are chosen by teachers. The award recipients receive a certificate, patch with a design of Raider on it and a sticker.

Our North winners for October, pictured from left to right, are:

GRAHAM ROSE - KINDERGARTEN

EDMUND PAWLOWSKI - 1ST GRADE (not pictured)

AVA GOSSELIN - 2ND GRADE

ZAYDEN COLON - 3RD GRADE

ALANA CROOK - 4TH GRADE

GABRIEL REVOLORIO - 5TH GRADE

The Somerset Berkley Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC) is sponsoring a virtual workshop by the Federation for Children with Special Needs to help parents understand IEPs.

Date: November 18

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Registration required (link in attached flyer)

The next meeting of our Parent-Teacher Organization is on Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 PM in the library. We'd love to see you there!

The PTO has a new North PTO Facebook page. Make sure to follow for info and updates!

Happening now! See the flyer above!

A few reminders from Nurse Stephanie in our Health Office to help keep all of our students safe and healthy:

Students with active vomiting, diarrhea, open rashes, crusty/inflamed eyes, and/or temperature > 100 are asked to remain home from school.

Students may return from school when their temperature is < 100 for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.

Illness Specific:

Strep: Students must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school, and they need a note to return.

Pink eye: Must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school.

Hand Foot Mouth: Fever-free for 24 hours and no open skin lesions. All areas must be scabbed/closed over

Vomiting/Diarrhea: May return when tolerating good amounts of food/water and no vomiting/diarrhea for 24 hours

Please do not send medication to school in your child’s backpack. Anything with an active ingredient is designated a medicine in school. This includes cough syrup, cough drops, ointments, nasal sprays, vitamin gummies, etc. If you would like to have any medications available for your child at school, please notify the Health Office.

Students after surgery, for hurt or broken limbs, sprains, strains, or any student with assistive devices (splints, casts, boots, crutches, etc.) must have a note to be in school as well as MD clearance or restrictions for recess/PE.

Please notify the Health Office if your child has RSV, Covid, Influenza, or Strep.

Grade 4 physicals are due to be updated! Please send in your student’s most recent physical if you have not done so already.

Vision/Hearing screenings have started for K-5. Grades 1 and 4 are mandated to have BMI screenings, however, you can opt out via the forms that will be sent home.

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Please consider donating new or gently used clothes that we keep on hand in case of emergency. We are especially in need of pants. Donations can be brought to the main office. Thank you!