Week of April 8, 2018: Good afternoon Northeast Family and Friends. Here is our Northeast “Shout Out” for this second week of April and the beginning of our state testing, the PSSAs. We ask that as parents you help us promote your child’s best performance on these state assessments by continuing to encourage your child to do their best and also by providing your child with support in the following areas:
- Attendance to school daily and on time
- Support in getting a good night’s sleep
- Support in maintaining your child’s normal morning routines
- Insuring that your child eats a nutritious breakfast
- By avoiding the scheduling of appointments during our testing window
- And by continuing to be sure your child takes these assessments seriously
These assessments are extremely challenging for all children and everyone’s effort to support our children is appreciated. This first week of the PSSA testing will focus on Reading/Language Arts and will given in the mornings of Monday through Wednesday. Because of our focus on testing we do ask that the majority of our after school activities be suspended during the testing. We also ask that our teachers suspend the administration of all major tests during the days of testing as well. We do however encourage your children to read every evening and to continue to practice their Math XL’s if possible.
The exception to our after school activities being suspended are the spring sports that are scheduled and our parent association meetings. In sports our girl’s softball team is scheduled to play three times this week. The girl’s home games are Monday against Dieruff and on Friday we play Eyer. The team is away Wednesday against Nitschmann. Our soccer team plays home against Nitschmann on Monday and away on Friday versus Trexler.
We wish everyone a most pleasant end to the weekend and remind our students to get a good nights sleep, so they can perform well on the PSSA’s starting tomorrow.