Week of November 5, 2017: Good afternoon Northeast Family and Friends. Here is our Northeast “Shout Out” for our first full week of November, the month dedicated to showing our thankfulness. This week is quite busy for our faculty here at Northeast as we wrap up the 1st quarter with the distribution of our report cards next week on Tuesday, November 14th. Truly no one should be surprised by the 1st quarter grades as we have done everything possible to make sure parents and students alike are aware of the progress children are experiencing in school. I do believe the grades will come as a wake up call for some of our children that did not realize the amount of effort they must put forth to be successful from one grade to the next grade. Whether coming into Northeast from the elementary school or transitioning from 6th grade to 7th or 7th grade to 8th, the demands and expectations continue to get greater each year for children thus requiring all of us to put forth more of effort to help children be successful. Hopefully our children are up for the challenges as they progress throughout this school year and each year that follows. Children will review their progress with parents during our 1st quarter Student Led Conferences. A memo outlining the goals for these conferences will accompany the report cards next Tuesday.
Our week starts out with our NEPTO parents sponsoring an evening at Sky Zone on Monday night. This event takes the place of our monthly dance as our parents are trying to sponsor various types of activities to interest our students. Tickets can still be purchased during lunch Monday. Our NEPTO is sponsoring Northeast “Eats Out” on Thursday as well this week. This month’s “Eats Out” will be held at Big Woody’s off of Stefko Boulevard and you will need to bring the NEPTO flyer. Please remember that on Tuesday, November 7th, Election Day, schools in the Bethlehem Area School District are closed. Many of our schools are used as polling places, and Northeast is one of those schools. Our teachers on that day will be busy with teacher in-service being held here at Northeast for the entire district middle level staff. It is always a busy day without students, but we always look forward to their return so that we can practice what we have learned on their day off.
Finally we end this upcoming week with a busy Friday and weekend. On Friday our 6th Grade Team Voice will head out to Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in a culminating event for their unit on immigration. Also on Friday our band and orchestra parents will be hosting a movie night for band and orchestra members and their families. This movie night event will be held in our auditorium and is always a hit with our students. Also on Friday our 8th grade boys’ volleyball squad will be taking on our three rival city schools in a volleyball tournament hosted at Liberty High School. On Saturday there will be a Drive-Thru Flu Vaccine Clinic in the parking lot of East Hills from 10 a.m. through 2 p.m. Finally on Sunday our band and some of our choral members will be joining with the Allentown Band in our annual hosting of the “Salute the Troops” Concert. Talk about being P.R.O.U.D! If you have never had the privilege of experiencing this concert, please try to come out. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Have a great remainder to your weekend!