NEW NOTUS APPAREL!!!

Our new gear is here! We now have shirts, sweatshirts, baseball caps, beanie caps, visors, blankets, bags, lanyard/key chains and window decals at the Elementary office. Please come in and take a look! We have gear available for immediate pick-up or we can place an order locally. Above are a few of the items that we have for sale. Don't forget about Christmas coming up, these would make great gifts!

A FEW REMINDERS-

-Thanksgiving Break is next week, NO SCHOOL: Wed., Nov. 23rd - Fri., Nov. 25th.

-Winter Break is coming soon! NO SCHOOL: Mon., Dec. 21st - Fri., Jan. 1st. Class resumes on Mon., Jan. 4th.

-Early release Thur., Dec. 17th and Fri., Dec. 18th. School is out at 1:30 p.m. both days.

Notus Elementary continues to make AYP!

For the second year in a row Notus Elementary has made its Adequate Yearly Progress, as required by the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. Way to go Notus Elementary!

Along with this great news, the administration is happy to announce that the Notus School District has also made AYP this year! Notus School District was 1 of 60 districts to make AYP this year in Idaho out of 132. Congratulations Notus! What an accomplishment!

To make AYP, a school must meet statewide student achievement goals in 41 different target areas during a given school year. The 41 targets include students in the entire school, students with disabilities, students with limited English proficiency and students who are economically disadvantaged.

Located below are a few links to AYP data and information provided by the Sate Department of Education.

http://www.sde.idaho.gov/ayp09/

http://www.boardofed.idaho.gov/saa/ayp.asp

For more information about our school or the district, go to the district homepage and click on District Report Card or Elementary Report Card on the elementary page.

Thank you Notus students and staff for all your hard work and effort! This is a great achievement!

Full-time Educational Assistant position open

We are currently taking applications for a full-time Educational Assistant. For more information or an application, please contact the Elementary.

THE NOTUS MEET AND GREET WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!

Thank you everyone who attended the Notus School District Meet and Greet. It was a huge success. The turnout was bigger than we could have hoped for! I hope everyone had a good time, a chance to meet the Notus staff and had plenty to eat. Thank you Notus for your excellent parent involvement!

If you see a Notus PTO member please tell them thank you for all the work they did helping to put on the Meet and Greet. We also need lots more parents to join up for the Notus PTO, they can never have too many members! If you would like to be a part of the Notus PTO please call or email Miss Golden at the elementary or stop in and ask at the office. Also, thanks Mr. Tindall for your time and the use of your BBQ.

PICTURE DAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st. Student's just need to bring their best smile!

The Elementary is doing another big push for great attendance the first 9 weeks of school. To really encourage students to try and be at school everyday and to show the students that we as a staff feel it's important for for them to be at school everyday, Notus Elementary is doing another incentive drawing for great attendance. Every student, kindergarten through sixth grade, who has 2 or less absences for the first quarter will be put into a drawing for a new Gameboy DS Lite. We will have an assembly at the end of the first quarter and draw a winner at that time. If you have any questions about our push for great attendance, please contact me anytime!

IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR THE ELEMENTARY!

WELCOME!

Registration is tomorrow, Aug. 12th! Students come back on Aug. 24th!!

Welcome back to a brand new year! I hope everyone is as excited to start back as I am!!

This year we will have a few important changes to the Notus Elementary schedule.

• The start time for students has changed to 8:10 am, instead of 8:15 am. This is to help align the elementary and high school. The tardy bell will ring at 8:15.

• The lunch schedule and lunch procedure has changed this year.

The student lunch and lunch recess is scheduled for 45 minutes. Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades will go to lunch at 11:00 am; 3rd and 4th grades will go to lunch at 11:10 am; and 5th and 6th grades will go to lunch at 11:20 am. When students arrive for lunch, they will be required to stay in the lunch room and eat for at least 15 minutes, after 15 minutes students will be given the option to stay and continue eating or go out to recess.

11:00-11:45………….Lunch / recess (K-2)

11:10-11:55………….Lunch / recess (3-4)

11:20-12:05………….Lunch / recess (5-6)

• The start time for Afternoon Kindergarten is still being discussed and once registration is over and the Bus Supervisor has had a chance to look at the routes of both the morning students going home and the afternoon students coming to school a decision will be made.

• This year we have moved around a lot of teachers and will be welcoming couple of new ones.
  
• Because of large numbers in first grade we will be hiring another 1st grade teacher before the start of school. To be announced.
• We have a new PE teacher. Brad Huter.
• Amy Aitchison will be teaching the AM and PM Kindergarten this year.
• Tausha Krohn will be teaching the other 3rd grade class.
• Erycka Johnson will be teaching the other 5th grade class.
  
  We also have a new elementary secretary. Kim Adamson.

Registration and Meet and Greet

The summer break is flying by. We are gearing up for a brand new year!

Registration for all grades will be August 12th and 13th. If your child is a new student to Notus Elementary or a beginning Kindergarten student, please bring with you a birth certificate, an updated immunization record, a social security card and proof of residence for each child being registered.

For returning students, if their immunization records have changed and/or personal student information has changed please come in still and have that information updated.

There will be a Meet and Greet on the Elementary School front lawn August 25th, from 6-8pm. Everyone is invited. Please come and join the BBQ and meet the staff. We hope to see you there!

Hope your having a great summer!

Tyson C. Carter - Principal Blog

NOTUS Elementary
P.O. Box 256
Notus, ID 83656

Tyson C. Carter
Elementary Principal / Federal Programs Director
cartert@nsd135.org

Kim Adamson
Secretary
adamsonk@nsd135.org

(208) 459-7442
(208) 455-2439 fax


Principal's Blog

Welcome to Notus Elementary, my name is Tyson Carter and I am the principal of Notus Elementary and also the Federal Programs Director for the district. I enjoy working for a small district, especially this one because it feels more like a family than an educational institution. I feel that the Notus area is a great place to raise a family and that Notus Elementary is an excellent place to go to school. I am very lucky to be able to work with our super staff and student’s everyday.

I am starting my fourth year at Notus Elementary. Before that I taught fourth grade for the Nampa School District and kindergarten for the Lewiston School District. My education consists of a B.S. in Elementary Education from Lewis Clark State College and a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Northwest Nazarene University.

My number one goal this year is to build a strong relationship between the school and the families we serve. I encourage parent involvement here at the school and hope to see parents and families participate in all the activities we do at Notus Elementary. I hope to see more participation with our PTO and I feel that this organization is a great way to get involved with our school.

If you have any questions comments or just want to talk about how things are going at the school please give me a call or email me.

Tyson Carter
Notus Elementary
Notus School District #135