Dear Lower School Families,

We hope that you will join us at curriculum nights this week. We will see our Kinder -2nd-grade parents will be Tuesday, September 13 and 3rd-6th grade parents will be Thursday, September 15. Arrival should begin at 5:45 and the evening will run from 6-8 pm. 

Join us for a night of learning and meeting other parents in your children's classes. Here you will find the email inviting you with additional details of the evening. 

Also, this week we will have one of our first Academic Advisory Committee Meetings. 

Our Academy Advisory Council (AAC) was formed with the purpose to bring together school stakeholders, facilitate communication, fostering understanding, building relationships, and providing opportunities to discuss and offer input on issues of interest at the school, as well as support the headmasters in their responsibilities to improve school life.

To reach out to one of our parent members with comments, suggestions, or for any reason please refer to this message that includes their names and emails. The AAC members will extend the window to receive comments and suggestions through September 14^th.

Lastly, please note this Friday will be an early dismissal day with our school day ending at 1:25 PM

We look forward to meeting and greeting you at your respective curriculum night in the coming days!

Warmly,

Charles Brogan-Headmaster Lower School

Field Days are Coming! 

Each classroom K-4th has a Greek city-state they compete in during our field days. All students should have a shirt that ties to their class. You may order your shirts here! If you are unable to purchase a shirt due to a financial hardship please reach out to Ms. Rossanna Diaz 

5th & 6th grade compete as their houses to order house shirts, please see the PSO box below or order at www.ghnopso.org. House members can also wear a jersey.

The Big Give S.A. is a 24-hour day of giving that will take place from 6pm on Thursday, September 22 through 6 PM on Friday, September 23.

This is the 9th year for Great Hearts Texas and the 8th year Northern Oaks has participated!

We are planning to have some fun events to celebrate this special day, so stay tuned. There will also be Match Minutes at specific times during the day which will double your gift’s impact on our school!

This is a great day to share with family and friends about this special day of giving and ask them to support your school!

Thank you in advance for Giving Big! 

Questions about giving to our Academy, or how you can increase your impact on GHNO, contact DeAnna Macias, Director of Community Engagement and Academy Giving

To learn more about Texas Charter Schools or to see how you can get involved with advocating for our charter school check out the Texas Charter School Association page. 

GHNO Homecoming! September 30th will be a special Friday Spirit Day. Our upper school will be celebrating Homecoming and our Lower School students will get an opportunity to shadow this celebration by wearing Spirit Ribbons/Junior Mums.

You may make your own or purchase one ready to wear to support the fundraising efforts of the Class of 2024. These will be available in person at both lower school curriculum nights as well as online at www.GHNOPSO.org

Please Note: Junior Mums should be made in school colors, show school spirit, must be no wider than 4” in diameter, with streamers no longer than 6”, no noisemakers on them that will be distracting in class, and can be worn with their spirit shirt and regular uniform bottoms. 

Let's CELEBRATE OUR Seniors-The Class of 2023 by bringing their favorite lunches! This year, we will host 2 "Adopt a Senior" lunch days. We need your help to bring them lunch on both Wednesday, October 19, 2022, & Wednesday, March 22, 2023. 

Please sign up here and we will be in touch with your Senior's lunch order, plus reminders as the dates get closer.

Parents who wish to volunteer, please remember that you need to submit a background check before serving our students on campus. A new background check needs to be submitted each academic year. All of the information needed for volunteering is available on our school website on the PSO page Additional information can be found on our PSO website including opportunities to help under the volunteer tab.

Dennis Uniform Logo Issues - Dennis Uniforms has discovered that some of the Great Hearts logos are failing to adhere to shirts after washing, specifically polo shirts. If anyone encounters this issue on shirts purchased at Dennis this year, please return them to the store for reapplication. There is no charge to reapply the logos in this instance.

21-22 Yearbooks

A very limited number of last year's yearbooks are available for purchase. Parents may order online through Configio. Books will be delivered to students in their classrooms. Click here to order.

Absences

The school receives state funding for all students who are in their classes at 10:30 a.m. each day. If a scholar will be out for a doctor's appointment during attendance time, please be sure to submit a doctor's note upon return so we may count him or her present for the day.

For full-day absences, please notify the Lower School registrar, Mrs. Rios, via email.

Please remember to provide daily absence notices if your student will not be at school for the day.

Extended absences during the academic year are highly discouraged and do affect student success. Excessive unexcused absences may result in loss of credit or enrollment.

Morning Tardies

As a campus, we are working to build the good habit of promptness in our students. Students may not sign themselves into school. If students are dropped off later than 7:50 a.m., parents must park and sign them in.

To read about the Breakfast and Lunch program at GHNO, please click here!

• The 2022-2023 Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) Application is now available. Please apply online HERE.

• If you apply, please be sure to select the options for sharing your status with other programs if you'd like us to be able to apply benefits to Athletics, after-school programs, or other campus programs.

• All students, regardless of status, will be charged the full meal price if they order a second serving of a meal.

• Families can load mealtime lunch accounts online or they may send in cash or check payments to the front desk payable to GHNO. Any of our receptionists will gladly load payments onto student accounts at no charge.

• If sending in cash or a check with your student for lunch, send it in an envelope, and please ensure their name, teacher, and class is written on the outside.

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For more information, visit the GREAT Hearts Texas Meal Service website.  

Curriculum Nights

• September 13, Kinder – 2nd grade;
• September 15, 3rd – 6th grades.