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January 12, 2024

Homework Builds Many Skills!


Happy New Year Northwood Community!

With the holidays now behind us, students are participating in their mid-year NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association) assessments over the next two weeks.  These exercises and activities help to provide insight to the learning paths of their academic journeys, and assists teachers in their lesson development.  As such, families often ask how they can support their children’s growth when it comes to learning new concepts, and reinforcing ideas that have already been introduced.  One critical way, as research has shown, is to be actively involved in encouraging and assisting in the homework completion process while children are at home. The benefits of homework permeate many areas of development and go well beyond just academics and student growth!  In fact, consistent homework has been known to teach skills ranging from time management to increased self-esteem and confidence. Likewise, consistent homework completion helps to forge healthy learning habits well into the future, especially as they approach high school.


Feel free to check out this short, but fabulous article on more benefits, and how you can help support your child and their growth!  Have a great weekend! 


~Mr. Ling, Director of Curriculum

From the Northwood School District Clerk:

The following positions are open for the March school district elections:


School Board Member: 3 year- 2 positions

School District Moderator: 3 year- 1 position

School District Treasurer: 3 year - 1 position

School District Clerk: 3 year- 1 position


The filing dates for the above vacancy is January 24, 2024 to February 2, 2024, 5 P.M. 


Anyone interested in running for this position, please contact the School District Clerk at Email: northwoodschooldistrictclerk@gmail.com, by phone, 603-234-8609, or leave a message at the school.


Thank you,



Penny Hampl

Northwood School District Clerk

News from Kindergarten

Mr. Robert taught the kindergarteners how to program on studio.code.org this week during tech class. It was a lot of fun learning how to program our own computer games!

New Bus Routes Effective 1/16/24


Dear Families,


We are pleased to announce that the bus company has been able to hire another bus driver which will allow us to eliminate the double runs. 

The addition of a fifth bus will affect the timing of most of the routes and may result in a change of route for your student(s). Please note that the White route has been eliminated; students who currently ride the white route will be absorbed by the other routes, primarily Yellow.


The new routes are linked above and will also be posted to our website. Please review them carefully. The new routes will begin on January 16 in order to allow families to adjust schedules if needed. If the new routes affect your child(ren)’s default dismissal plan, please make sure to update Pick Up Patrol. 


For parents who drop off in the mornings: Since we will no longer have any buses arriving to school prior to the official start of the day at 8:05, we will eventually no longer offer early parent drop off between 7:45 and 8:05. To ensure that families have adequate time to make other arrangements, we will continue to offer the early drop off time until February vacation. After February vacation, 8:05 will be the earliest time that students can be dropped off at school. Before-school care is offered through Champions and information about how to enroll can be found here.  


If you have any questions about the new routes, please contact Amanda Roy at aroy@northwoodschoolnh.org.


Also, just a reminder that school will be closed on January 23, 2024 due to the use of the school facility for voting.


Have a wonderful weekend!


Jocelyn

School & Community Information



Guest Teachers Needed

If you are interested in being a guest teacher (also known as a substitute teacher), please apply at this link. The pay is $100 a day and you get to work with wonderful kids and great staff! Please contact Ms. Roy or Ms. Young with any questions.

Important Dates

January 12 - 6-8 Dance, 6:30

January 15 - Civil Rights/MLK Day - no school

January 17 - School Board meeting, 6:30

January 23 - Voting Day - no school for students

February 7 - School Board meeting, 6:30

February 8 - Deliberative Session, 6:00

February 13 - Kindergarten Nursery Rhyme Show, 9:30 - 10:30




Please check the Athletics Calendar for information on games and meets.  

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