The Principal's Office

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

May

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.

1. 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.

2. Please send a water bottle with their name clearly marked on top or on the side of the bottle.

3. 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!

On Wednesday, May 22nd, band and chorus students from East Norriton middle school traveled to Reading, PA to perform a patriotic song and sing the national anthem before the ballgame. ENMS was joined by band and chorus students from Blockson and Eisenhower middle schools. Students had a blast and their performances were great!

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.

https://www.nasd.k12.pa.us/page/community-bulletin-board

We made it through another school year! It has been a pleasure getting to know and caring for your children. We thank you for your partnership and cooperation this school year. Here are a few reminders as we end this year and prepare for next year.

Medication that was stored at school, will be sent home on or before the last day of school. If your child is not in school to receive medication, parents can make arrangements with the nurse to pick it up the last week of school. If medication is not picked up by the last day of school it will be discarded if it expires before the new school year.

Reminders for next year:

• If your child requires medication to be given at school, the nurse will need a doctor's order/note to give medication. This includes Tylenol and/or Motrin.

• All incoming 6th grade students are required to hand in a physical exam from a doctor. Forms are available from the nurse or on our website.

• All incoming 7th grade students must show proof of Tdap and meningitis vaccines before the start of the new school year. If these are not handed in before August 1st your child will be excluded from school on the first day of school. Please email proof to Lzangara@nasd.k12.pa.us

• If your child has a medical condition that requires nurse assistance please contact Mrs. Zangara to make proper accommodations for your child.

• If your child is ever injured (has a concussion, surgery, cast/brace, sling or crutches) please contact the nurse. We can work with you to provide support and accommodations in school while your child heals.

• Nurse contact information over the summer: I will be checking email and voicemail over the summer please leave me a message. I will return your call as soon as I am able.

• Mrs. Lynne Zangara, RN, CSN

• Phone and voicemail: 610-275-6520 ext 3.

• Email: Lzangara@nasd.k12.pa.us

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

8th Grade Dance volunteers (parents in grades 5,6,7 only)

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FAFAD2BA6FD0-48715602-anight

PFC will be holding a PFC fundraiser on May 31st. Students may purchase Dipping Dots during all lunch periods. Please consider sending in money to help support our PFC. They do wonderful work!

We have two counselors at ENMS. These individuals should be one of your first points of contact if you need guidance related to any issue or problem your student may be facing during the school year. We can usually resolve issues quickly when parents contact their child's counselor. If you need to speak to your child's counselor their contact information is found below.

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

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.

ENMS does not have a dress code for our students. Many of our students choose to wear hooded sweatshirts. The only rule we have around hoodies is that students must have their hoods off. We need to see students faces and when students wear hoodies, combined with masks it makes it extremely difficult to recognize a student from a distance. Therefore, students who choose to wear hoodies must leave their hoods pulled down.

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.

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