As we wrap up our first month of school, it’s hard to believe how much we’ve already accomplished! September was filled with excitement as students settled into their classrooms, formed new friendships, and dove into learning with enthusiasm. We celebrated wonderful moments together, from our fun Family Fun Night at United Skates to a great turnout at our first PTO Restaurant Night at Angelo’s Pizza. Our school community is already showing so much growth and positivity, and we are thrilled to see so many students earning Positive Office Referrals for their outstanding character and effort. With our successful Walkathon behind us and many more great events to come, October is sure to bring even more reasons to celebrate!

Positive Office Referrals can be awarded to any students who exhibit the habits of character of: Self-Control, Embracing Challenges, Citizenship, Positive Attitude, Responsibility, Perseverance, Sportsmanship, Teamwork, and Honesty/Integrity. These referrals are to recognize the stellar efforts of students! Students nominated are recognized weekly for their good work and efforts towards these habits of character and leadership!

Great job to all of our Positive Office Referral Recipients for the month of September!!

We held our PreK Walkathon on Thursday, October 3, and our K-5 Walkathon on Friday, October 4, where students enjoyed the activities under perfect weather, making for two beautiful days of this cherished annual tradition. A huge thank you goes out to Deb Reddy, our amazing PTO, and our dedicated Northern staff for making this annual event such a success. We truly appreciate all of the parent volunteers who helped out - this event count not happen without your support! Thank you all for continuing this Northern tradition and for supporting our PTO's biggest fundraiser of the year. This event is truly a highlight every year for our students!

On Friday, September 27, Northern Lincoln Elementary School had an exciting Hi-Five Friday visit from Lincoln High School athletes! Our students were thrilled to welcome these role models, who brought high energy and positivity as they greeted everyone with smiles and high-fives. This special event was a great way to kick off the day and inspire our students to work hard and stay active, just like the athletes they look up to. We look forward to more Hi-Five Fridays and fostering strong connections between our schools!

We are proud to recognize over 100 of our amazing Northern Lincoln Elementary students for their hard work and dedication in completing their Summer Reading Journals! Each student was awarded a special prize pack, courtesy of the administration, to celebrate their achievements. Great job, readers—keep up the fantastic work! We're excited to see your continued love for learning and reading throughout the school year!

Picture Day for Northern PreK-5 is Thursday, October 17. Information and order forms were sent home with student this past week.

Friday, October 25 - PINK OUT day. All staff and students are encouraged to wear pink today.

Thursday, October 31 - ORANGE AND BLACK DAY. It is Halloween - all costumes are to stay at home. We will have a dress up day with orange and black clothing.

Note for families: All candy must stay at home. Please do not pack it with your child's lunch. Thank you.

Families, please take a moment to review Nurse Rose's October Newsletter, attached below. It includes important information on sick day guidelines and tips to help keep our students healthy and ready for learning. If you have any questions or concerns, Nurse Rose and Nurse Jill are available to assist in any way possible. Let's work together to ensure a healthy and happy school year!

(COVID-19, FLU, and RSV)

CDC/RIDOH

What To Do:

• Stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory virus symptoms that aren't better explained by another cause. These symptoms can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.

When To Resume Activities:

• You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:

• Your symptoms are getting better overall, and

• You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication)

• When you go back to your normal activities, It is recommended to take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors.

Important To Note:

• If you develop a fever or you start to feel worse after you have gone back to normal activities, stay home and away from others again for at least 24 hours. If after 24 hours your symptoms have improved/resolved you will need to follow the resume normal activities guidelines, which include :

1. Your symptoms are improving overall, AND

2. You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication). Then take added precaution for the next 5 days.

• Monitor your symptoms: If you have an emergency warning sign (like trouble breathing or chest pain), seek emergency medical care immediately.

Lincoln free vaccination clinics will be held on Tuesday, October 8 and Friday, November 1 at Lincoln Middle School from 4-7PM. See attached flier for more information or visit schoolflu.com.

• Meal benefit applications are ONCE AGAIN necessary and important. Click HERE to register!
• Parents, if you do not have a meal account, click HERE to apply!

Breakfast and Lunch Menus can be found at the link below.

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our families for your incredible involvement in our recent school events. Your participation makes such a positive impact on our school community, and we are grateful for your continued support!

As we move through the school year, we encourage you to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s academic progress or social-emotional well-being. We’re here to work together to ensure your child thrives.

Additionally, our school nurse is available to assist with any questions related to sick guidelines and is here to support your family in any way possible. We are committed to partnering with you for a great school year ahead!

Rhode Island defines chronic absenteeism as the percentage of students who miss 10% or more of school days during the year (or two days per month).

DID YOU KNOW? Starting in preschool and kindergarten, too many absences can cause children to fall behind in school.

• Missing 10%, or about 2 days each month over the course of a school year, can make it harder to learn to read.
• Students can still fall behind if they miss just 1 or 2 days every few weeks.
• Being late to school may lead to poor attendance.
• Absences and tardiness can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help children catch up.

Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school—and themselves. Start building this habit in preschool so they learn right away that going to school on time, every day is important. Eventually good attendance will be a skill that will help them succeed in high school and college!

Trimester 1 Attendance Raffle!

Regular attendance is key to your child's learning and social-emotional growth. Being present in school helps students stay on track with their academics, build friendships, and develop important life skills. Every day counts! When students miss school, they miss valuable opportunities to learn and grow alongside their peers.

At Northern Lincoln Elementary, we can’t stress enough how crucial regular attendance is for student success. To show our support and make things even more exciting, our Northern Attendance Committee is launching a year-long Attendance Raffle – and we’re kicking it off with Trimester 1!

Any student who misses fewer than 3 days of school during the first trimester will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of 6 family prize packs (one per grade!). Any student entered will also be featured on our Attendance Wall of Fame!

The raffle will be held during the school day on Wednesday, November 27. Students must be present that day to win! So let’s make every day count and finish Trimester 1 strong!

Student Report Cards and Progress Reports will be posted via Skyward at designated times throughout the year (Elementary follows a Trimester schedule). For any family that needs information as to how to log onto Skyward, please review our “Parent Skyward Account Access Directions Sheet“.

We encourage all parents to join our Northern Elementary PTO! The group organizes fantastic activities for our students, and we’re always looking for parent volunteers to help make these events a success! Your involvement makes a big difference, so we’d love to have you on board!

PTO Membership signup:

1) Click the link below and in the top right corner, pick the Option to Sign UP
2) Create an account
3) Search for Northern Lincoln Elementary
4) Click "Submit my Student Directory"
4) Click "Add a Student" button
5) Select "Add a New Student" in the drop down (add all your students here)
6) Enter your students first and last name, grade, class, and click the green save button

Team Members:

Sara Argiro, Parent

Nicole Daniels, Parent & Grade 2 Teacher

Kate Hauser, Parent & Reading Specialist

Teresa Hayden, Reading Specialist

Monique Patrick, Title II Interventionist

Colleen Buffrey, Math Specialist

Beth Aubin, Grade 1 Teacher

Susan Rodrigues, Grade 1 Teacher

Nancy Andrews, Kindergarten Teacher

Marissa Gauvin, Assistant Principal

Lianne Denham, Principal

Please click HERE for the LPS School Improvement Team Policy, adopted in April 2020. Meetings take place the third Thursday of the month in Principal's office.

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides financial assistance to state and local educational agencies to meet the needs of at-risk children. The goal of Title I is to provide instructional services and activities which support students in meeting the state’s challenging performance standards.

The Title I program will provide your child with extra educational assistance beyond the regular classroom when needed. Title I schools will identify the students at their school who need the most educational assistance based on the criteria that the school has chosen. Students do NOT have to be from low-income families to receive Title I services.

Our school day begins at 8:45 and ends at 3:15. Doors open for student arrival at 8:40. Dismissal begins at 3:10.

If parents/emergency contacts need to dismiss students early, please send a note in with your child. Students should take the note to the main office in the morning.

• We will wait until you arrive to dismiss your student from class.

• Parents and/or emergency contacts should ring the buzzer at the front entrance of the school, and provide the child's name, purpose for the visit, and will need to show an ID at the front office.

In the even that your child's dismissal plans need to be altered please notify the main office by 2:30 at the latest!

Families please be advised that ONLY ACTUAL IDS WILL BE ACCEPTED - no paper copies or screenshots of IDS will be accepted.

Here is what you can expect if you need to enter Northern as a visitor:

1. You will be asked for your drivers license.

2. The license will be scanned.

3. Your photo will be taken.

4. We will print you a visitor ID with your name, photo, date/time and visiting location visible on the ID.

5. You will be asked to affix the ID to your person.

6. Once printed, a red “VOID” will appear after a predetermined amount of time.

7. You will be asked to “scan out” before you leave so that we know you have left the premises.

8. You may discard the pass after you leave the building.

Thank you for your cooperation and helping us to our schools safe!!!

• all information regarding busing and routes can be found on the Lincoln Pubic School Website.
• Please contact the bus company, First Student, directly with any questions or concerns at (401) 334-0565.

Helpful tips for bus riders and families:

• It is critical that all students ride their assigned bus route each day. Please note: students can not change bus routes.

Bus Incident Flow Chart

• Parents please review below the newly released Bus Incident Flow Chart for Lincoln Public Schools.

As you know we have implemented a new traffic pattern this year. Please feel free to review the description of procedure below as well as a quick video shared with families prior to the start of school.

Parent AM Drop Off time: 8:40-8:50

Parents line up on New River Road so that buses may enter the lot. Staff will direct families into the parking lot after buses have entered.

• Pre-K SPECIALIZED PROGRAM ONLY: parents are to enter the front circle (behind the Northern sign) AFTER buses have departed the area. A staff member will assist.

• PreK PEERS: parents may drop off as in previous years in front of the building beginning at 9:00. (Please be sure to avoid double parking in our bus line for safety reasons.)

• K-5: students will be dropped off in the lower playground staging area. Cars will enter the road to lower parking lot and follow the traffic pattern through the playground. Parents will line up in 3 rows and wait for a staff member to dismiss each row. Cars will exit up the hill.

**(please note that due to bus arrival, no cars will be let into the traffic pattern and waiting area prior to 8:40).

Parent PM Pick Up time: 3:10

Please have placard on your dashboard daily at pick up. This will indicate to staff the student being dismissed.

Procedure:

Parents line up on New River Road so that buses may enter the lot. Staff will direct families into parking lot after buses have entered.

• Pre-K SPECIALIZED PROGRAM ONLY: parents are to enter the front circle (behind the Northern sign) AFTER buses have departed the area. A staff member will assist.

• PreK PEERS: parents may pick up as in previous years in front of the building beginning at 2:50. (Please be sure to avoid double parking in our bus line for safety reasons.)

• K-5 students: students will be picked up from the lower playground staging area. Cars will enter the road to lower parking lot and follow the traffic pattern through the playground. Parents will line up in 3 rows and wait for a staff member to dismiss each row.

**(again please note that due to bus arrival and school being in session, no cars will be let into the waiting area prior to 3:10.)

This year, Lincoln Public Schools has partnered with KidsKlubRI for before and after school care programs within our buildings. Founded in 1987, Kids Klub provides quality care and education for children in kindergarten through 12 years old.

For more information regarding the KidsKlub program, you may visit there website (linked HERE) or contact the Kids Klub at (401) 723-2277 or via email at info@kidsklbri.com.

Studio Playground's Play Creation Class begins Sept 28. In this class, students invent original characters, create props and costume pieces, and rehearse and perform in an original show. The class is instructed by Filipa Estrela and Ava Varszegi, who are both talented visual artists, teachers, and performers. There is an invited performance for friends and family in the final class. There are financial scholarships available for our classes as long as space is available.

For more information, visit link below:

Play Creation: Fall 2024

Check out the attached flyer for the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island's Winter Program! It offers exciting opportunities for your child to stay active and engaged throughout the season.

Calling all basketball enthusiasts in grades 3-8! Sign-ups for the Lincoln Youth Basketball Travel Team are now open. DFor more details, check out the flyer attached!

Over the summer, crews began work on some of the significant upgrades scheduled for Northern as part of a comprehensive, $17,100.000 improvement plan for the facility.

Northern Project Overview:

• Overall building and cafeteria heating upgrades

• HVAC systems

• New gymnasium complete with new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) rooms

• Cafeteria renovations

For more information on the construction project underway at Northern, as well as other projects happening across the district, please click the link below.

• October 3 - PreK Walkathon
• October 4 - K-5 Walkathon
• October 7 - PTO Meeting @ 6PM: Northern Library
• October 11 - Half Day (Elementary Only) for Teacher Professional Development
• October 14 - Columbus Day - NO SCHOOL
• October 17 - School Picture Day
• October 20 - PTO Trunk or Treat (details TBA)
• October 25 - Spirit Day: Pink Out!
• October 25 - Grade 4 & 5 Audubon Hike
• October 29 - PTO Golf Tournament
• October 31 - Spirit Day - Orange & Black

Email: denhaml@lincolnps.org
Website: lincolnps.org/Domain/11
Location: 315 New River Road, Manville, RI, USA
Phone: (401)769-0261