🍎✏️ Join us in celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week at Nash County Public Schools! 🌟 Let's show our gratitude to the amazing educators who inspire, support, and empower our students every day. 💙

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📆 Mark your calendars, NCPS families! Here are the upcoming dates for traditional schools:

❌ No School - May 27th

🕒 Early Release - May 29th & 30th

🎓 Last Day of School - May 30th

 📢❗Attention Preschool Parents 📢❗Preschool student’s last day of school for the 23-24 school year will be May 29th instead of May 30th.

YOUTH MEDIA CAMP RETURNS TO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. The 4-week camp pays youth 14-19 to learn the basics of documentary film.

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🌞 NCPS Career and Technical Education Summer Camps🌞

🔗 Visit this link for more information: https://www.ncpschools.net/page/cte-summer-camps

To register, visit invent.org/camp. The deadline to register is July 8th!

Get ready, Nash County! We're excited to introduce the brand-new logo for Nash County Public Schools, launching on July 1, 2024! 🎉Our fresh, modern design reflects our commitment to innovation and excellence in education - as we continue to Grow Forward Together.🌟

The North Carolina State Board of Education has voted to award a new contract to Infinite Campus, initiating a modernization of the North Carolina Student Information System (NCSIS). Nash County Public Schools is part of the Phase 1 rollout.

Key Information:

• NCSIS (North Carolina Student Information System): A digital platform used statewide for managing student records. 

• PowerSchool: The current SIS used by NCPS for checking student grades and access to the ParentPortal. (NOT CANVAS OR ROOMS)

• ISRs (Individual Student Reports): Reports provide detailed information on student progress.

• PSU (Public School Unit): Nash County Public Schools is a "Public School Unit" aka. "PSU" is state/government verbiage for how they describe a public school system. 

Phase 1 Rollout: Nash County Public Schools is part of Phase 1 of the NCSIS rollout. The updated system will not support digital ISRs in the 2024–25 school year, and ISRs for the 2023–24 school year will no longer be accessible in PowerSchool after June 28, 2024. 

Please download or print any important ISRs before this date or contact the school for a hard copy. 

ISR Distribution: During the 2023–24 school year, digital ISRs won't be available for Phase 1 PSUs beyond June 28, 2024. If needed, schools must provide paper ISRs to students and parents. Contact your school for help downloading a digital copy. 

What to expect in the 2024–25 School Year: Phase 1 PSUs will not be able to release digital ISRs until this feature becomes available in the new system. Paper copies must be distributed until the digital process is developed and implemented. 

What are ISRs??

Visit the following link to learn more. https://www.dpi.nc.gov/districts-schools/testing-and-school-accountability/testing-policy-and-operations/individual-student-reports-isr

Watch the video linked below to learn more about the ISR and HOW TO pull reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdogVANc-q8

Click HERE for more information or to apply.

Click HERE to apply.

2024-25 School Year Immunization Requirements for rising 7th and 12th grade students.

If you need Rooms Support, click HERE.

NCPS would like all parents to participate in the Digital Device Survey, which will inform state funding. Parents can use a web-based platform to log into Parent Portal, click the last button on the left-hand navigation "Digital Device Survey", and complete the questions and the internet speed test. Click the link below for step-by-step instructions. https://5il.co/2k6tg

IB Theory of Knowledge Exhibition

🌟💡 Students enrolled in the IB Diploma Program at Rocky Mount High participated in the annual Theory of Knowledge Exhibition. ✏️🧠 Theory of Knowledge is the course in which students examine various forms of knowledge while reflecting on how we know what we claim to know. 💡This course is the foundation of the entire IB Diploma Program. 🎓 The students study their other IB courses through the lens of the perspectives gained in this class. 🔍The students had the freedom to choose their own topic. They chose 3 objects and explored how these objects manifest an area of knowledge while explaining how it manifests in the world around us. 📖 During their presentations, the students connected ordinary items to the various ways of knowing that they explored in class. 🌟💡

Earth Day Poster Contest

🌍 🎨🌟Winstead Avenue Elementary was asked by Stretchline to participate in an Earth Day poster contest. Congratulations to Shani Bynum (1st place), De’Liylah Mayfield (2nd place), and Thea Idol (3rd place). Each talented student received a Target gift card: $50 for 1st place, $40 for 2nd place, and $10 for 3rd place. A representative from Stretchline had the honor of presenting the prizes to our amazing students at Winstead Avenue Elementary. 🌍 🎨🌟

NCPS Indian Education Parent Committee

On April 24, 2024, the NCPS Indian Education Parent Committee elected new officers for the 2024-25 school year.   A special "thank you" to the 2023-24 officers:

• LeighAnn Evans, President

• Airick Havier, Vice President

• Adriana Havier, Secretary

• Kay'Leigh Jacobs, Assistant Secretary

Janet Morris, LEA Liaison, led the group in a discussion on the Title VI grant to set priorities for the new year. 

After the business meeting, the group made Medicine Wheel Medallions (led by the Indian Education Coordinator Chenoa Davis and Consuela Richardson).   The Medicine Wheel has been used by generations of various Native American tribes for health and healing. It embodies the Four Directions, as well as Father Sky, Mother Earth, and Spirit Tree—all of which symbolize dimensions of health and the cycles of life.

All State Band Award

🌟 Brian Grande-Villatoro and the Rocky Mount High School Band Director, Mr. Manning, earned an invitation to the NCBA High School All-State Band performance where Brian had a supreme performance.🎶

This performance consisted of the best high school band members and directors in the state. Rocky Mount High School's Band program and Brian were named as one of the best in the State. Join us in congratulating Brian for his diligence, fortitude, and leadership in Band! 🎉🎺

All County Band

📸✨Check out some of the photos from All County Band! Clinician O'Shae Best led middle school students, while Alyssa Colburn led the high school. Great job everyone! 🎶