2022 DISTRICT-WIDE FOOD DRIVE

Edina Public Schools is partnering with VEAP, the Twin Cities largest food pantry, to raise food and funds for local families in need. Please join us April 4 – 8, 2022 as we work to fully stock VEAP’s pantry! With the help of area businesses, organizations, and other school districts, VEAP is aiming high to raise a total of 100,000 pounds of food during this critical spring drive.

We have 4 collection bins at Normandale. Locations are:

• the main office
• hallway near lost & found
• hallway near the media center/playground
• 3rd-5th grade hallway near the media center

We need 6 parent volunteers on Monday, April 11 9am-11ish to help us bring all of the collected food to VEAP in Bloomington. If you have room in your car and time to help, please sign up here!

To help with ideas, we have some fun themed days.



Baking Time Thursday: April 7 

Flour, cooking oil, sugar, spices, baking powder and other baking essentials 

Anything Goes Friday: April 8 

Hearty canned soups, gluten-free items (brown rice, wild rice, quinoa, cornmeal; nut flours and butters; rice crackers, GF snacks), birthday party items (frosting, cake mix, bubbles, candles) 



Note: Please feel free to bring in ANY item ANY day!

Items must be non-perishable, unopened, and not expired. No bottled water please.

Thank you for you and your student’s help!

WEEKEND FOOD BAGS FROM EVERY MEAL

Sign up to receive a free bag of food every weekend. There are no qualification requirements and your family's privacy is protected. Once you have signed up, please check your child's backpack for the food bag each Friday.

Please contact our school social worker, Lisa Rapke Hoffman with questions.

LUNCHTIME VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We need 2 volunteers on Fridays to help serve hot lunch. Volunteers will need to be masked (please bring your own) and wear a hairnet (provided at school). You may have to do some light lifting (i.e. moving pans of food to the serving area).

Please sign up HERE if you are able to help!

We still welcome volunteers to supervise lunch in the Normandale Auditorium. Please sign up HERE if you are able to help. 

FROM THE HEALTH OFFICE

Greetings Normandale Families! 

A few updates from the CDC/MDH for COVID Guidelines:

The decision tree has officially been retired and replaced with:

1. Isolation Guidance (For symptomatic or positive people) 
2. Quarantine Guidance (for people who have been exposed to COVID)

At home vault tests are a thing of the past. You can no longer order vault spit tests to your home. You can still order rapid tests to be delivered to your home: 

MDH Order Your Free at Home Rapid Test

Some key takeaways: 

1. Isolation Guidance:

• Test and isolate if symptoms appear
• If positive, isolate for 5 days from others, return to activity on day 6

1. Quarantine Guidance

• If you are not up to date with your COVID vaccinations and you are able to wear a mask, quarantine for 5 days and wear a mask/physical distance from others for the remaining 5 days
• NOTE: EPS has implemented a test to stay protocol where quarantine may not be required. 
• If you are not up to date with your COVID vaccinations and not able to wear a mask, quarantine for a full 10 day period.

Ok, Cesley, just tell me what I need to know.

Test if symptoms appear

Keep your kiddo home if they are not able to do their routine activities without their symptoms significantly interrupting their day. 

If you kept your kiddo home sick, they can return when:

• negative for COVID
• symptoms are minimally impacting their routine activities (i.e. a cough every once in a while) and they’ve been fever/vomit/diarrhea free for 24 hours.

If your child comes to the health office not feeling well, we will assess them. If we determine they have a fever/have vomited/have diarrhea or they are not well enough to do their routine activities without significant disruption, your child will be sent home. We will also send home a Binax test kit for your use- you’re welcome!

Stay healthy and keep washing your filthy mitts,

Cesley Bergsten RN 

Sheri Kyllo RN

EDINA COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Community Ed Summer Registration is open!

Check out our 400+ camps and classes for age 2 through grade 12, our all-day care for incoming kindergarten through outgoing 5th grade, and employment and volunteer opportunities. Register on Edina Eleyo.

New This Summer: Tutoring for Developing Readers and/or Students with Markers of Dyslexia: Grades K-3. Edina Community Ed is partnering with Edina Schools' Teaching and Learning to offer specialized reading tutoring taught by licensed Edina teachers uniquely skilled in the Orton-Gillingham approach. Foundational reading skills are taught explicitly, systematically, and sequentially using multisensory approaches and research-based resources. To learn more and register, visit: edinacommunityed.com/Tutoring

If you have additional questions, read our “Common Questions and Answers sheet.” You may also email Jody De St Hubert at jody.desthubert@edinaschools.org and/or call 952-848-4096.”

EDINA GIVE AND GO ANNUAL EVENT

Edina Give and Go's free Annual Event is back and in person!

Join us on Friday, April 22nd​ at ​6:30PM at Braemar Golf Clubhouse​ for a casual evening ​where YOU are the key to unlocking opportunities​ for Edina Public Schools students.​

Full details and event registration can be found here.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE - SPRING AND SUMMER CLASSES

All levels are welcome from 3 to 18 years old!

Check out the flyers below and visit afmsp.org to learn more.

Normandale PTO| [normandalepto.org]