NES Newsletter

• If a student arrives late to school, please have them come in through the front doors to check-in at the office before they go to their classroom
  
• All non bus students will be dismissed at 3:35 each day. Please make sure to have a "meeting spot" arranged for your child to meet you if they are being picked up
• If there are End of day changes the parent/guardian needs to notify the office and classroom teacher by 3:00 p.m. the same day. If a friend or relative will be regularly picking up your student, please have them added to the parent/guardian approved pick up list at the office

A huge thank you to the students and families for their amazing fundraising efforts for the Terry Fox Run. As a school, we raised a total of $1292. Thank you to the parents who volunteered their time to make this year's event safe and enjoyable for all. We didn't quite meet our fundraising goal so Mrs. Beaudin has been spared from eating bugs....for now.

A friendly reminder to send cutlery along with your child's lunch if it is needed. We have had a significant increase in students asking for cutlery at the office over the lunch hour and we no longer have supplies to hand out to students. Thank you for your cooperation.

Food is brain fuel! It is important for kids to eat well in order to learn. If for some reason your family is finding it hard to fill lunch kits for your children, please connect with our school office and we would be happy to help you!

In addition, starting next week all classes will have Nutrition Booster Bins with a variety of healthy snacks that students can access to supplement the lunch/snack that are sent from home.

Here are the items left in our Lost and Found in September. It will be cleaned out next Friday. Claim any items that are yours. The Lost and Found is located just inside our front doors by the office.

**Friendly Reminder to label your child's clothing as we check for labels and do our best to return those to their owns before cleaning out the Lost and Found

Parents, you may here teachers talk about Zones of Regulation or your child come home and refer to a particular "zone" they are in. Below is a video with a simple explanation of the Zones of Regulation. We use this coloured zone scale with NES students to give pictures and language that help students identify how their brains and bodies are feeling. If you watch to the end of the video there are some great book suggestions for getting students familiar with talking about their feelings and self-regulation.

Niverville Fire & Emergency Services would like to invite everyone to attend our open house on October 6th from 2-4 pm at the fire hall in Niverville. We would like to kick start Fire Prevention Week October 6-12th this year with an afternoon event at the hall. We will have our trucks on display and have several activities for families to see. Coffee and donuts will be available and if you wish we will be collecting food for Niverville Helping Hands that afternoon too. Our members are on site to answer any questions about fire safety and Sparky will be there too.

Also we will be visiting the school during fire prevention week to talk to the kids about fire safety and our theme this year is Smoke Alarms: Make them work for you! NES will be sending home information about our contests and information regarding smoke alarms and home escape plans.

Any questions can be directed to firechief@whereyoubelong.ca

There are children in our school who have a severe allergy to peanuts and tree nuts. Exposure to even a tiny amount of this item could be potentially serious and life-threatening. We can all play a role in preventing such a dangerous and frightening situation at school. For this reason, we are a "Nut Aware" school. We do not describe the school as being "Nut Free" because we can't guarantee that students or adults have not brought nuts or traces of nuts into the building. Please help us keep all our students safe by checking the list of ingredients on items you send to school and avoid sending items that contain peanuts.

The HSD Parent Portal is a communication tool designed to enhance and increase parent/guardian involvement in the education of their children by providing secure online access to their child's student information. With a single username and password, you can access data for each of your children attending an HSD school. The Access IDs along with setup instructions have been sent via email to all eligible parents/guardians of new students. If you are new to NES and did not receive the specified email, please contact the school office at 204-388-4861.

Please take a few minutes to review the student information and contact information for your child. It is important that the school has current address and contact information for your child in case it is necessary to reach someone during the school day. Changes can be made through the parent portal.