Community celebration 💛🏀💙
Students in grades 3-5 have started playing instruments in music!! 🎶
Let's show our support to the girls basketball team 🏀 by wearing Norwell gear tomorrow! 💛💙💛💙
Thank you, Donaghy, for teaching second grade Junior Achievement!!
The School Board approved Asynchronous eLearning on April 8 due to the Solar Eclipse. Asynchronous eLearning means teachers will upload assignments for students to complete on their own schedule throughout the day on April 8. There will be no live instruction taking place.
NWCS will determine whether Bobcat and Bear Care will be open on April 8 by determining need within our community. Due to eLearning being Asynchronous, which will require additional planning and potentially additional staff, Registration for this service will need to take place by March 1.
Please complete the Registration (linked below) and email us if you have any questions! Thanks!
https://forms.office.com/r/EJNNv6AyCJ
Love seeing our LES and OES teachers engaged in a deep dive into the five IDOE-approved ELA curricular adoption options. Our elementary admin team has organized a very detailed review process, and our teachers are working diligently through the process. Great work!
These guys have a little advantage in pulling off twin day!!
Family Night was a success! We had a winner get the jar of conversation hearts by guessing 190 - only off by six! ❤️❤️
Some Lancaster and Ossian teachers diving into learning more about IDOE Approved ELA Curriculum today! If you are interested in learning more, check out the invite below!
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Family Night has started!!
The Indiana Department of Education has released an approved curriculum list for reading/language arts, and we will be selecting curriculum from this list.
Whether you have a student who struggles, a student who needs a challenge, or a student who learns differently…..all are welcome! So that all can attend, we are offering two times (8:00 am and 5:30 pm) on March 13 (currently our two hour delay day) to meet together to share information and gather input. Fill out the form below if you are able to attend!
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Join us for a fun Valentine themed Family Night this Thursday from 5:30-7:00. Open House format so families can come and go as they are able. We are helping Student Council with a Food Drive, so feel free to bring some canned goods to donate too!
A first grader drew and labeled something that makes him/her REALLY happy! 😊
Mrs. Abbett’s class learns more about about dental health by doing an “egg”speriment! 🦷 🥚 Yesterday they set it up and made predictions!!
Random Acts of Kindness Week next week! Student Council organized a way for us to support our community! We will be collecting pantry items in exchange for dress up days! Feel free to check your pantry and donate items to help us out!
We are thankful and fortunate that Mrs. McConnell joined our school family this year!!
Community connections and service projects!! Thankful for a community who recognizes and helps others! Dicky’s Express Carwash donated a three month membership to a teacher this month and some staff reached out to Forgotten Children for a service project night!!
Ms. Cleaveland’s class knows how to have fun at indoor recess! Hoping we can get back outside this week!! 👏
PTO and Student Council pulled off yet another successful movie night 🎥 with concessions 🍿😍 Thanks to all!!
Indiana’s eLearning law is House Bill 1093, which was passed in 2022. The law limits the number of eLearning days school districts can have in which less than half the day includes live instruction from teachers. Under this law, districts are only allowed to have three (3) asynchronous (simply posting assignments, etc.) eLearning days. School districts may have as many synchronous (live instruction) eLearning days as they want, and all will count toward the 180-day student instruction requirement. However, any asynchronous eLearning days (beyond the 3 allowable days) will not count toward the 180-day student instruction requirement. If a school needs to implement more than three (3) asynchronous eLearning days per school year, they are able to apply for a waiver, but it is only supposed to be approved for extraordinary circumstances. In 2022, Norwell Community Schools, in collaboration with building administration and teachers, made the collective decision that ALL eLearning days would be synchronous with live instruction from teachers. It was decided that asynchronous learning (posting assignments, etc.) would only be used in rare circumstances including for teachers who may have had a planned personal leave day or who are too ill to lead live instruction that day.