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Welcome to Northern Hills!

Home of the Husky Pups!

The Northern Hills Parent Teacher Organization (NH PTO) comprises all parents, grandparents, and legal guardians of Northern Hills students as well as teachers, faculty, and administrators of the school. We are a non-profit organization that has no membership fees or annual dues. We cordially invite you to all of our meetings and events!

Welcome to the NH family! Look around the site to learn more about our school, organization, and how you and your student can be involved!

Update 01.21.20

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Arctic Edge Skate Night

Tuesday, January 21st

7:15-8:45pm

Arctic Edge skating rink on Kelly

$7 - all proceeds support

Special Olympics at Northern Hills

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Report Cards

-- Reminder --

No paper copies of report cards will be sent home.

Families are encouraged to log-on to Infinite Campus

on/after January 17th to view final grades for the

second quarter.

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Friendship Parties

See the schedule below for class party times!

AM PreK - Fri, Feb. 14th (10:30-11:00am)

PM and Allday PreK - Fri, Feb. 14th (1:30-2:00pm)

Kinder - Fri, Feb. 14th (1:45-2:15pm)

1st grade - Thur, Feb 13th (2:00-2:30pm)

2nd grade - Thur, Feb 13th (2:30-3:00pm)

3rd grade - Wed, Feb 12th (2:30-3:00pm)

4th grade - Fri, Feb. 14th (2:30-3:00pm)

5th grade

Johnson - Fri, Feb. 14th (10:45-11:15am)
McVay/Waters - Fri, Feb. 14th (11:30-12:00noon)
Eckman/Denny - Fri, Feb. 14th (1:10-1:40pm)

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Spirit Wear - PTO Online Store

Missed out on spirit wear at the beginning of the year???

Check out our PTO Online Store and see what's left in inventory.

Everything needs to go!!!

Don't forget to order your yearbook!

Yearbooks are $25 each and will be delivered in May!

Visit the PTO Online store at

www.squareup.com/store/northernhillspto

Keep uploading those school pictures to the ReplayIt app or email to yearbook@northernhillspto.com. Please choose the correct grade so we know where to include the photos. Thanks!

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Landscaping????

Do you or someone you know have a landscaping business? We are looking for someone to work with the PTO and School Administration to clean-up the Wetlands classroom on our playground. Please contact president@northernhillspto.com if interested.

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Cookie Dough is coming

Stay tuned for more information on our spring fundraiser.

Order packets will come home on January 30th.

This is our spring fundraiser for PTO and helps provide

funding for so many activities, supplies and classroom

needs. It's easy & tasty!

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EPS Parent University

Mark your calendar to attend.
For info click https://edmondschools.net/news/2020/edmond-schools-to-expand-parent-university-to-two-nights/.

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PreK Registration

Will you or someone you know have a PerK student next year?

Share this flyer for information on the PreK Lottery.

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2020-2021 School Calendar REVISED

The calendar committee has met and published the

new 2020-2021 School Calendar. Please note that

the start of school is now Thursday, August 13, 2020.

To view and download the new calendar, click on

the link below.

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Stay Connected

Are you missing out on text message reminders from the school & district?

Many of our families are not receiving text messages. To receive these messages, you must OPT-IN to the messaging service. Please text "Opt in" (NO HYPHEN) to 67587. Once you have opted in, you will be eligible to receive information regarding emergency announcements, school announcements and bus announcements applicable to your student.

Does your child ride the bus? Would you like to receive

text messages directly from our Transportation Department

about bus delays or changes? You can participate in this

free service just by sending a text message of “Opt in”

(no hyphen) to our district shortcode number of 67587.

Before subscribing you will need to ensure that the district

has your wireless number(s) in Infinite Campus.

Click the link to learn more about this service. https://edmondschools.net/parents-students/communication/

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pup Pals Wanted

Pup Pals is off and running but WE NEED YOU! Pup Pals is a group of people who can commit about 30 minutes a week to provide a little extra reading support to some of our Husky Pups. We can work with whatever time frame you are available, our students just need YOU to help encourage them! There are still more students that would benefit from a Pup Pal one-on-one time.

If interested, please email puppals@northernhillspto.com for more details and let us know when you might be available.

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Watch D.O.G.S. Wanted

Ask all your Husky dudes if they can be a Watch DOG!

Are you a Husky Pup father, grandfather, uncle, or adult cousin? Then we need you for as little as 1 hour or up to 1 day of your time to walk the halls, give high fives at recess, or just make sure all is well in the building! We'd love your help, and the students love to see our Watch DOGS on patrol! We're happy to work with your schedule!

Please check out the link for SPECIFIC DATES WHERE WATCH DOGS ARE ESPECIALLY NEEDED and get signed up for a shift! Be sure to include your email address so we can send further instructions. Remember- if the dates do not work for you, pick any date and time and email watchdogs@northernhillspto.com or call directly at 405-726-3605 to volunteer or to get more info! We appreciate any time you are able to help!

WATCH DOGS sign-up

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Northern Hills Storytime New Video

check out Storytime with some of our very own Staff and

Teachers on our Northern Hills Storytime YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfnyWquidNYXQ7aZVRIWspQ

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Follow Northern Hills

Twitter

Northern Hills now has a Twitter account @NHillsElem

See tweets on what's happening in classrooms and up at school!

Facebook

Follow and LIKE us on Facebook to see reminders and what's

happening at school and with PTO!

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Free Money for Northern Hills

Do you know there are a few easy ways to help earn money year round for Northern Hills? Here are three ways:

Box Tops for Education

Have you heard? There are now TWO ways to support Northern Hills with Box Tops!!! Keep clipping those cute little rectangles from boxes of participating products, AND now, download the Box Tops app and earn lots of money of our school by scanning! Check out the video for the details!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh94b2BvFK4&feature=youtu.be

Amazon Smile

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Northern Hills every time you shop, at no cost to you. Signing up is easy - go to smile.amazon.com and select "Northern Hills Parent Teacher Organization Fund" as your charitable organization. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make will result in a donation to NH.

Shoparoo App

Shop in a brick and mortar store? Download the Shoparoo App for apple and android devices. Make a free account (selecting Northern Hills ES) and snap pictures of receipts from your shopping. The more people that do this, the faster the money adds up for Northern Hills.

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