PLANNING PROM 2021 STUDENT COUNCIL BRNGS US “HOLLYWOOD CARNIVAL”
For the first time since can be redeemed at the big event on Saturday in 2019, during the week various outstanding raffles. of April 12-17, NHS Student Council presents PROM! While On Saturday, April 17 from 6:30-1 p.m., students in the event will not be a grades 11 and 12 (underclassman dates may attend traditional dance, there as well) are invited to a formal, indoor event at the is nothing about this Lismore Event Center in Downtown Eau Claire. year has been Juniors and Seniors will be taking over the Richmond traditional! Despite the and Wilson Ballrooms at the Lismore for an evening challenges, NHS Student of fine dining, iconic photos, reminiscing, silver Council's Prom screen viewing, snacks and Prom Bucks Raffles! Committee found a way Admission is only $35, and includes all these items, to not only ensure Juniors and Seniors have an incredibly memorable evening, but a parking at the event and more! way to extend that fun to the rest of the Husky Nation. Get all the glamorous details. Throughout the week, Eau Claire restaurants will be hosting special fundraisers for the Prom event. All Huskies and their families are encouraged to attend. Juniors and Seniors will receive "Prom Bucks" for their purchases at these locations, which
On Friday, April 16 from 5-7 p.m., students in all Week's events begin on Monday and carry Friday will feature special music, a large variety grades can enjoy some safe, socially distanced, through until an outdoor event for all grades at of outdoor games based on recommendations outdoor fun in the North High School parking lot North on Friday. They culminate in a classy from the student survey, and FOOD TRUCKS! and fields. Admission to this event is FREE with evening fit for the stars for Juniors and Seniors at Davis Dogs, Dhimiters and Holy Donuts will have the purchase of every Prom ticket! For the Lismore on Saturday. food trucks present with all your summer food underclassmen and those not attending favorites for sale! Saturday's event, tickets are only $5.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION DATES & RESOURCES
MARCH HELPFUL LINKS & RESOURCES 19 Q3 Ends • SKYWARD 29-2 Spring Break (no school) • CANVAS • NORTH WEBSITE APRIL • AT-HOME LEARNING 14 Cohort C ACT Aspire INFORMATION 21 Cohort C ACT Aspire • COVID-19 RESOURCES 26 Cohort A ACT Aspire (ECASD) 29 Cohort B ACT Aspire • TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES & SUPPORT (LAPTOP SETUP, CANVAS FOR PARENTS, SKYWARD SUPPORT, ETC.
• COVID-19 DASHBOARD Get the most updated COVID-19 information from ECASD. • TEEN SUPPORT GROUPS: SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH
SPED Family Engagement Newsletter
March ECASD & Community Resources 2021-2022 SCHOOL CALENDAR On February 15, the School Board
approved the 2021-2022 school year
calendar. You can view the calendar here.
BLUGOLD BEGINNINGS VIRTUAL TUTORING AND FOOD & NUTRITION SERVICES MENTORING The FREE breakfast and lunch program is offered to any person age 18 and under Blugold Beginnings is offering virtual for FREE. Curbside pick-up of breakfast tutoring and mentoring through and lunch meals is available from 8:30 Microsoft Teams daily, 3- 5 p.m. with am-10 am at North, Monday-Friday college student tutors. Students can get during school days.Meals on Yellow help with math, science, social studies, Wheels will continue. Please visit our paper revisions, assignment calendaring website for specific times and locations. and organization. Join here with the Microsoft Team Meeting Link.
Students will be asked to sign a contract for permission to meet with tutors. Contact the K-12 Coordinator Elroy Perkin with any additional questions at [email protected].
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STUDENT COUNCIL HAPPENINGS A WHOLE LOTTA FUN GOING ON
Positive Cultural Impact Scholarships Seniors, the deadline’s just down the road to apply for Student Council’s Positive Cultural Impact Scholarships! If you haven’t already, scan the QR codes on posters and TVs around school to download your application materials. Student Council is awarding $15,000 in scholarships, and you won’t want to miss it!
Upcoming Events
• March 12: Trivia Master Night • March 18: Intramural Ping Pong • March 23, 24, 26: "Join the Pack" Day • March 19, 23: Spring Variety Show Auditions • April 30: Positive Cultural Impact Scholarship applications due (all documents are loaded to Student Council webpage, and submission can happen online
Jump in and join all the fun Student Council has planned! There is something for everyone!
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COHORT C
Materials Pick Up The next materials pick up is today – Friday, 3/12, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Door 7. Student requests needed to be in by Tuesday, 3/9 at noon. The next pickup is the Friday before Spring Break then it’ll be 3 weeks before another. Plan accordingly.
NHS students email [email protected]. HUSKY WEARHOUSE & FOOD Upcoming pick-ups: 3/26, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14. PANTRY
MEET THE JARZYNSKIS
FOOD & NUTRITION
SERVICES SIGN UP FOR WEEKEND The FREE breakfast and lunch program is MEALS offered to any person age 18 and under for Weekend Meals are an additional FREE. Curbside pick-up of breakfast and food resource for students in ALL lunch meals is available from 8:30 am-10 Jim and Linda Jarzynski are valued cohorts. It’s easy to sign up! Just am at North, Monday-Friday during school supporters of the North Food Pantry. complete this form and drop it off days.Meals on Yellow Wheels will For the last couple of years, they have in the main office at North or let continue. Please visit our website for donated bags of groceries to the Food us know at the same time you’re specific times and locations. Pantry almost every week! We are ordering food from the Food honored to have them as ambassadors Pantry. Technology Support & of our Husky Community. We miss Resources seeing their smiling faces this year and hope to see them again – in person – More Virtual Learning Information very soon! #HuskyPride NORTH FOOD PANTRY ORDER FORM All Cohorts are invited to order ACT Aspire for Freshman & food from the Pantry. Please use this online order form or contact Sophomores Janelle Patenaude. Order Online Cohort C: April 14 and April 21. Now.
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JUNIORS TAKE ACT TEST THIS WEEK All juniors at North took the ACT this week. As students arrived, they were given free breakfast (if they wanted) and had a few minutes to connect with their peers before testing began.
BAND PLAYS FOR VOLLEYBALL GAME Things are starting to feel more and more normal as everyone in the Doghouse enjoyed the band on Tuesday evening. was fun and interesting to have both nets up and 2 games going at the same time.
ACT ASPIRE TESTING IN APRIL
What is the ACT Aspire? The ACT Aspire, which can be administered beginning in third grade and through 10th grade, is designed to assess both understanding of new Common Core standards and college readiness. The program tests students in five main subjects: math, reading, English, writing, and science.
What grade levels will receive the ACT Aspire test? ACT Aspire – Grades 9 and 10
When will the test be? Cohort C: April 14 and April 21 Cohort A: April 26 Cohort B: April 29
FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE “Mental health is relative to our physical and daily wellbeing, in COVID times and otherwise. Please check out the following link to the ECASD Nursing Department webpage which is updated monthly with information and resources on how to improve and maintain healthy thought processes, attitudes, practices and relationships - for both adults and children.” ECASD | School Nurse
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HUSKIES SPORTS LET’S GET POWERED UP!
HUSKY FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS North alumni, Jordan Hagedorn and Darton Weaver, recently worked with North sophomore, Ayden Downing, to put together a fantastic Huskies Football video. Ayden filmed the video and Darton Weaver edited it. Jordan Hagedorn oversaw the production. #HuskyAlumni #HuskyPride
GIRLS SWIMMING TEAM STARTS THE SEASON OFF STRONG
This past week the Husky Girl's Swim & Dive team continued their successful season with a huge win over our cross-town rivals, the Memorial Old Abes! The final score of the meet was Huskies - 109 and Old Abes - 76. A few highlights from the meet were diver Hannah Tylee winning the dive meet with a score of 188.35 and the swimmers Janaya Goldbach, Jenny LaPage, and Morgan Sommer taking 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in the 50-freestyle race. The Huskies have a week off from competition before swimming against Memorial again and the OHA combination team, before competing at the Sectional tournament, which will be hosted by North this year
GET THE LATEST SPORTS SCHEDULE WATCH HUSKY TV
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SCHOLARSHIPS See the current list of scholarships available.
CAPS & GOWNS DELIVERY A Jostens representative will be at North to deliver caps, gowns, tassels, stoles and other graduation items on the following dates and times:
Monday, April 26 Cohort A 1-3 p.m. CLASS OF 2021 GRADUATION Cohort C 3:30-4:30 p.m.
PLANNING Friday, April 30 Graduation for North will be held on Friday, May 28. It is our Cohort B 1-3 p.m. intent to have an in-person ceremony, but a final decision has not been made at this time. If we are unable to have an in- GRADUATION ITEMS NEEDED person ceremony, we would move forward with a We are looking for donated caps and stoles for this year’s ceremony/event where students would receive diplomas in seniors. Please spread the word. Donated items should be their caps and gowns. brought to North High School, attention Janelle Patenaude, in
the main office. What do Kwik Trip, Studio 22 Salon, Dairy Queen, Play it Again Sports and The Local Store all have in common? They are ALL NIGHT PARTY UPDATES all one of close to 30 The North After Grad Party is being planned for Friday, May area businesses that 28th at Action City. Although we don’t know exactly what the want to congratulate our 2021 Graduation Party is going to look like just quite yet, we seniors on making it are committed to planning and making something happen for through this our 2021 grads this year! The event is being planned to unprecedented year. happen at Action City after the graduation ceremony. Please Area businesses have submit your registration! The First 100 students to register will come together from now receive a FREE Class of 2021 shirt! REGISTER NOW until the end of May to offer specials and discounts for the Registration forms and fees will be collected Mondays and graduating Class of 2021. Thursdays during lunch periods for the month of April. More
details to come soon! Next week, parent volunteers will be handing out validation stickers for seniors to put on their IDs and a list of business specials during the lunch hour. Swing by the North Commons as we look at fun ways of celebrating your success as you prepare to graduate! SENIOR YARD SIGNS Interested in volunteering? Sign up today North High School Class of 2021 Yard Signs are now available Send your questions to the following parent volunteers: to order (see below). You can also donate a sign to a North Melissa Lokken, [email protected], 715-579-1841 student. If you need a donated sign, email Melissa Lokken. Jena Seibel, [email protected], 715-563-7438 Order Yours Today!
SENIOR SHOUT OUTS Let’s Celebrate Seniors on Facebook! Please send a “Then” and “Now” picture of your senior (.jpg or .png) by March 22, 2021, as well as a couple of sentences about your senior to Janelle Patenaude. These items will be put together and shared on North’s Facebook page. Senior Shout Outs will begin posting to Facebook the week of March 22nd.
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MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATING INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN NORTHWEST Is your student planning college or technical school visits? Is your student looking for information on career options?
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Northwest is sharing some resources to help your student explore a career path with real-life perspective.
We have multiple videos of Wisconsin business members sharing what they do and how they got to where they are in their careers from technical, medical, to those in the arts. These 10-minute videos give a fantastic sneak peek to real- world jobs!
To view the video resources from JA USA and JA WI, please use this link to sign up and get access to these videos. More are added every week!
JA WI – Speaker Series sign up
JA USA – Career Speaker Series sign up
UW System Virtual Tours
The more you explore, the more you learn. To connect directly with the JA office you can reach Annie Brunn, Education Manager, Memorial High School Alum, [email protected].
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