East Norriton Middle School
Email: jhutchinson@nasd.k12.pa.us
Website: https://www.nasd.k12.pa.us/enms
Location: 330 Roland Drive, East Norriton, PA, USA
Phone: 610-275-6520
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Middle-School/East-Norriton-Middle-School-121770504834624/
Twitter: @EastNorritonMS
Dates to Remember
May
20th 7th grade trip to Charles Blockson exhibit
21st 7th grade trip to Charles Blockson exhibit
23rd 8th grade field trip to NYC
23rd 7th grade field trip to Urban Air
24th Early Dismissal
27th No School
30th 8th grade trip to Plymouth Swim Club
31st 8th grade Dance
31st Incoming 4th graders visit
June
3rd Field Day
5th 8th grade promotion 9am
6th last student day
Field day is right around the corner, Monday, June 3rd! Please make sure to send your student in with their team color; blue or gray. Students will need several things for Field Day. Keep in mind they will be outside for most of the day.
Please apply sunscreen before coming to school. You are welcome to send sunscreen into school for your student to reapply in the middle of the day. Please mark the bottle with their first and last name. Please use lotion only! Students will be applying sunscreen in the classrooms.
Please send a water bottle with their name clearly marked on top or on the side of the bottle.
Please dress appropriately for the weather. SNEAKERS ARE A MUST! No sneakers, means no participation.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the PE Department.
Thank you!
Students will be completing their end of the year STAR assessments on May 20-24th. We use these assessment scores as one metric for placement into advanced courses, as well as to determine the growth and proficiency of students from the 2024-2025 school year. These assessments are much shorter than PSSA exams and are often completed in about 20-30 minutes.
Remember, if you signed up for the results to be sent to you, you will receive an email indicating the student scores.
Directions for receiving STAR reports from the Fall newsletter are below if you did not sign up in the Fall.
Parents or guardians can also sign up to receive email notifications by having their child log in to Renaissance on their Classlink and then selecting Get Email Updates on the Home page. Note that you must sign up for each of your children separately—ask each child to sign in and select the link to sign up for emails for that child.
All chromebook fees should be paid asap
In the last few weeks we have mailed our letters for Chromebook fees owed by students. Here are some guidelines related to fees owed by students of different grades.
Any 8th grade student that owes Chromebook fees will be excluded from end of the year activities if these fees are not paid. This includes our NYC City Trip, 8th grade Formal, Promotion, and the Plymouth Swim Club. 8th grade teachers have been meeting with students and we have mailed letters to families to encourage payment. If you owe fees associated with damaged Chromebooks these fees must be paid in order to attend the end of year events. Currently, we have over $5,000 in damaged Chromebook fees associated with the 8th grade class. If the fees are not paid we will not allow students to participate in those activities.
Removing the rubber strips from chromebooks will result in a charge ranging from $5-$40 depending on the work required to replace it. We are noticing this happening in 5th grade more often due to them having newly designed chromebooks.
Students in grades 5-7 are encouraged to pay your fees as soon as possible. We try not to eliminate students from participating in end of the year activites like field days etc. for these grades. However, these fees follow the student into 8th grade. To avoid a large bill due in 8th grade (due to unpaid fees from grades 5-7) we encourage you to pay your fees now. If they are unpaid, it will impact end of the year activities when they reach 8th grade.
If you have questions or disputes regarding fees please contact our main office at 610-275-6520.
If you have items that you would like posted on the district bulletin board please submit them using the following link. We will not be able to include community flyers in our weekly newsletter. Please consider using this for all of your community events.
6th Grade Parents Please Read:
The nurse needs a copy of your child's physical exam. If you have not handed one in please send it in as soon as possible. Pennsylvania mandates that all 6th graders hand in a physical in the beginning of the school year. We have many 6th graders that have not turned one in. Exams should be complete with vaccination records including TDAP and Meningitis. Proof of these vaccines must be handed into the nurse prior to the start of 7th grade or your child will not be able to start on the first day of school.
School nurses will be contacting those who have not handed in a physical exam next week. If you have any questions please call or email Mrs Zangara at 610-275-6520 ext.3 or Lzangara@nasd.k12.pa.us
PFC Updates
Check out the flyers below from our PFC, and become involved in the school.
You can reach us on our FB page or through gmail eastnorritonmspfc@gmail.com
Follow us on Facebook at East Norriton Middle School Parents Page. For more about the PFC find us on the NASD website
Amy Bligh Daniels PFC President
Nicole Echevarria Vice President
Shannon Mieski Vice President
Heather Garman Treasurer/School Store
Jenny Rosen Treasurer
Ronette Jones Administrator/Yearbook
How to I contact my child's counselor?
5th and 6th grade School Counselor: Ms. Gena Bussell gbussell@nasd.k12.pa.us
7th and 8th grade School Counselor: Ms. Sarah Raimondi sraimondi@nasd.k12.pa.us
Cell Phone Policy
All students must have their cellphones turned off and placed in their lockers. Below are the consequences for cellphone violations.
1st-3rd offenses: Teachers will ask the students to turn their phone off and place it in their locker, or ask the student to give it to the teacher. It will be returned to the student at the end of the school day.
4th offense: Students will give their cell phone to a teacher and the teachers will give it to the main office. The parent or guardian must report to the school to pick up the device. Cell phones are placed in a locked safe in the main office until parents arrive. A one-hour office detention will be assigned for each violation.
Chronic cellphone offenses: It is the policy of ENMS that students who chronically violate the cellphone policy despite warnings, parents picking up the phone etc. will not be permitted to bring their cell phone to school. This is not negotiable and even if a parent disagrees with this policy it is still our policy and it will be enforced regardless of parental agreement. I am asking parents to please discuss these rules with your student.
All classrooms and office have telephones inside them. If there is an emergency we have plenty of phones to handle any emergency situation.
Hoodie and Slide Policy
If we run into situations where students do not remove their hood they will receive consequences ranging from a simple discussion all the way to a suspension for chronic offenders. This is usually not an issue for us, but I like to remind parents at the start of the year of this policy.
Lastly, students also cannot wear "slides." All students must have shoes that have a back on them. Croc style shoes are fine as long as students wear the strap along the back of them. The biggest issue with slides is the tripping hazard they pose on stairs. Therefore, students cannot wear slides to school. Again, this is not a big issue here at school, but I like to remind parents of those two simple rules around our dress policy.
Know Someone That Might Need Some Help?
Safe2Say Something is a youth violence prevention program run by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. The program teaches youth and adults how to recognize warning signs and signals, especially within social media, from individuals who may be a threat to themselves or others and to “say something” BEFORE it is too late. With Safe2Say Something, it’s easy and confidential to report safety concerns to help prevent violence and tragedies.
Here’s how it works:
- Submit an anonymous tip report through the Safe2SaySomething system
- Crisis center reviews, assesses and processes all submissions
- Crisis center sends all submissions to school administration and/or law enforcement for intervention
- If needed, crisis center may contact tipster anonymously through the app