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School Calendar

SEPTEMBER

 

National Hispanic

Month:

Sept. 15- Oct. 15

 

Sign-up Month:

Library Card

 

16

School Pictures

Magazine Drive Kick-off

PIV activated for Parents/Students

6th Grade Party

Performance Series9/14; 9/15; 9/19; 9/20; 9/26 & 9/27

PTO Meeting @ Noon

17

Constitution Day

20

Open House  6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

21

Code of Conduct Assemblies

26

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

28-29

AIMSWeb/Maze Testing

28-30

Rosh Hashanah

OCTOBER

 

Month of the Young Adolescent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

Tower/Pinkster Facility Review: 6:30 – 8:00  @ WMS

5

COUNT DAY

7-8

Yom Kippur

10  - 11

NMS Small-Group Meetings: Evaluations & the Law!!

10 - 21

Yearbook Sales

11 - 14

MEAP

18 - 21

11

Mix-it-Up Day

12

7th and 8th Gr. Choir Concert (NHS) 7 p.m.

14

CHS & NHS Football Game

Orchestra Workshop

17-19?

8th gr. Orchestra Concert

18

7th/8th gr Band-o-Rama PNHS Igloo 7 p.m.

19

HGD starts for 6th Grade

21

School Picture Retakes

PTO Meeting @ Noon

24

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

24 – 28

Red Ribbon Week

28

Halloween Party 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

NOVEMBER

 

Election Day: 8th

Veterans Day: 11th

 

 

 

 

November Cont.

4

End Q1: ½ Day PD & ½ Records

6

Day Light Savings Time Ends (Fall Back 1 hr.)

13-19

NEA Celebration the 90th American Education Week

14

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

14 & 15

Common Core Walk-throughs (Courtney Huff)

18

PTO Meeting @ Noon

 

PTC

 

Nov. 16th  5:00 – 8:45 p.m.

Nov. 17th Early Dismissal 1:20 p.m.

               Afternoon Conference 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

               Evening Conference 5:00 – 8:15 p.m.

~~ Scholastic Book Fair~~

23-25

Thanksgiving Recess

TBA

1st Quarter Student Assembly/Celebrations

28

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

DECEMBER

 

Angel Tree

 

 

2

PTO Barnes & Noble Book Fair

8

Band & Choir Holiday Concert 7 pm

12

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

16

PTO Meeting @ Noon

TBD

Orchestra Holiday Concert

23

Last Day before Winter Recess

25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa

26 – 30

Winter Recess

JANUARY

 

Dr. MLK Birthday

Celebration

 

 

2 – 6

Winter Recess

9

NMS Staff Meeting

16

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Day of Service”

20

PTO Meeting @ Noon

23

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

TBA

AIMSWeb/Maze: Strategic & Intensive [Pull-out]

27

End Q2:  ½ Day Records & ½ Records

30

Second Semester begins…

FEBRUARY

 

Black History Month

 

 

 

 

 

TBA

New Parent Orientation

10

Valentine Party 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

13

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

17

PTO Meeting @ Noon

21-22

PTC

24

Mid-Winter Break: NO School

27

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

TBA

Supplemental COUNT DAY

MARCH

 

March Reading Month

 

Music Month

 

Women’s History Month

 

 

 

March Cont.

2

Read Across America (Dr. Seuss)

2/3

Orchestra Festival 8th gr.

9

Spring Pictures

11

Day Light Savings Time Begins (Spring Ahead 1 hr.)

12

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

13-14

District Choral Festival 7th/8th only

15

All-school Musical Teaser

16

PTO Meeting @ Noon

16-18

All-school Musical

17

Orchestra Festival 6/7

TBD

Band Festival Performance

26

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

29

End of 3rd Q ½ Day for Students

30

Spring Friday: No School

TBA

Talent Show

TBA

3rd Annual Spelling Bee - PNHS National Honor Society [8th Graders]

TBA

Jeopardy

APRIL

 

Poetry Month

 

Earth Day: 22nd

 

 

6 Good Friday

2 – 6

Spring Recess: No School

6 - 14

Passover

8 Easter

9

School Resumes

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

12

6th Grade Musical

16

PTO Meeting @ Noon

MAY

 

National  Education Week:

May 7-11

 

 

 

 

 

TBD

Red Cross Blood Drive

1

National Teachers Day

5 Cinco de Mayo

11

6th & 7th Grade End-of-School Party 3:00 – 4:30

14

NMS Staff Meeting 3:05 – 4:30 p.m.

END-OF-YEAR REPORTS [School Improvement]

17

State Choral Festival 7th/8th only

18

PTO Meeting @ Noon

19

8th Grade Farewell Party – 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

TBA

AIMSWeb/Maze (end of year assessment)

TBA

Delta Math

TBA

Performance Series

TBA

Spring 5th Grade Student Visits

21 or 22

Spring Orchestra Concert 6th/7th  

23

Honors Program

8:00 – 9:00 A.M. – 6TH GRADE STUDENT PROGRAM @ PNHS Auditorium

9:30 – 10:30 A.M. – 7TH GRADE STUDENT PROGRAM @ PNHS Auditorium

*7:00 – 8:00 P.M. – 8TH GRADE STUDENT PROGRAM  @ PNHS Auditorium *

24

Spring Band & Choir Concert

25

Yearbook Signing Party 2-3 p.m.

28

Memorial Day Observance – No School

JUNE

1

LAST DAY – ½ Day for Students

4

8th Grade MI Adventure Trip