What's Up at North Allegheny School District
Week of November 29-December 3, 2021
Each week, we will share news from the District and from your student’s building.

Please click on your student’s building below to access their building-specific information.

Below the links to the building newsletters, you will find important information from the District.
Elementary School Newsletters
Middle School Newsletters
High School Newsletters
NACA Newsletters
District-Wide Important Dates
District Updates
Contact Tracing over Thanksgiving Break

NASD will not conduct COVID-19 contact tracing over Thanksgiving Break, (Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28). Contact tracing will resume on Monday, November 29.

Similarly, the COVID-19 Tracker on the NA website will not be updated from Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28.

While the District may not be reporting cases every day during Thanksgiving Break, please report a positive test result (details below) to help the District monitor the spread of COVID-19. Cases that become known during the break may have an impact on a student’s return to instruction, activities, and athletics.

If your student receives a positive COVID-19 test result from Wednesday, November 24 at 3:00 p.m. through Sunday, November 29, please send an email notification to your School Nurse. Your School Nurse will respond to your message on Monday, November 29.
Help NASD collect toys for those in need! Our transportation team will be stuffing a bus with new, unwrapped toys that will be donated to Toys for Tots. Visit our bus from 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. next Monday, Nov. 29 through Wednesday, Dec. 1. Members of our transportation team will be on hand if you’d like to know how you can support our students by becoming a NASD bus driver! For more information or to apply, visit www.northallegheny.org/careers.
Tiger Strong Live Long: Keeping Our Community Healthy & Well

Before students come to school, parents/guardians are responsible for monitoring students' symptoms. Students displaying any COVID-19 symptoms must stay home. Please refer to Tiger Strong Live Long: Keeping Our Community Healthy & Well for more information.
Requesting Vaccination Cards

According to CDC guidelines, students that are fully vaccinated are not required to quarantine if they are considered a close contact with a positive COVID case. The main goal of this school year is to maintain in-person learning as much as possible. If your child has been vaccinated, please submit proof of vaccination to your student’s school nurse to avoid future quarantines.  

If you choose to submit a copy of your child’s vaccination card, this information will be treated in the same manner as all medical information: with the utmost confidentiality, inline with FERPA and HIPAA regulations. This information will not be released to the public in any way and will simply be used to make informed decisions for contact tracing purposes.

Thank you for your assistance and if you have any questions, please reach out to your school nurse.
Upcoming Community Connections Seminars

Our November Community Connections Seminar has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 22, at 6:30 p.m. at NAI due to the speaker’s availability.

Our featured speaker will be Phil Little, Education and Outreach Specialist with the PA Office of Public Engagement. The topic of the evening will be Social Media 101 – What Parents Need to Know. This presentation gives parents/guardians a foundational education on understanding the social media sites their children use and how to keep them safe while using them.

We hope you can join us!
Athletics Updates
NA Boys’ Basketball “Little Tigers” Ball-Handling Clinic

The North Allegheny Boys’ Basketball Program is excited to announce the start of the “Little Tigers” ball-handling clinic. This clinic is designed to teach boys and girls in grades K-4 ball-handling skills, drills, and techniques which will be showcased at two varsity boys’ basketball games this coming season. The North Allegheny Boys’ Basketball coaching staff as well as the boys’ varsity and junior varsity players will be running the clinics.

The “Little Tigers” will meet for five clinics. Clinics will take place at North Allegheny Senior High School unless noted otherwise.
Resources
Missed a Newsletter?
All building newsletters are archived weekly on the North Allegheny website. This designated webpage will be updated with links to the previous week’s newsletters at the beginning of each school week by 11:30 a.m. A link to the archive is accessible on the District’s homepage and on each building’s homepage.
Community Flyers
We've gathered and approved all sorts of neat flyers from around the community and put them all in one place on our website. You should go to look at them. Seriously. Do it. Right meow.
Building Contacts
Main Office - 412-369-5520
Nurse's Office - 412-369-5520
Counseling Office - 412-369-5421