Tuesday, October 27, 2009

DOOR DECORATION CONTEST

Red Ribbon Week Door Decoration Contest!
You be the judge...which door do you like best - please make a comment!
Thanks! Ms. Smith's door

Ms. Fisher's Door


Mr. Duvall's door
Mr. Schooler's door




Ms. Hoben's door

Ms. Hoben's second door

Ms. Guenberg's door

Ms. Easton's door


Ms. Keene's door

Ms. Tuney's door

Ms. Wardlow's door


Mr. Arterburn's door

Mr. Eaton's door

Ms. Warren's door

Ms. Newcomb's door

Ms. Eichler's door




Mr. Durbin's door

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Awards from Red Ribbon Week

Thanks to all of the students and staff from the NOMS PTSA for participating in this years incredible Red Ribbon Week where we celebrated a balanced life of smart choices!

Congratulations to all of the students who made the choice to sign their pledges to remain drug free and tobacco free! Great job to you all for making that step. And congratulations to those of you who won the drawings each day as well. Enjoy your gift cards!

This was such an amazing Red Ribbon Week that we had amazing results to our contests as well. For the Smarties Contest, there were 1197 packs of Smarties in the bin and two different students in two different classes guessed 1200 Smarties. Congratulations to Rebecca Gash of Ms. Wilkins' class and Abislek Malesh of Ms. Newcomb's class for both winning the Smarties contest. Both target classes will receive their own bin of Smarties and Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Newcomb will each receive their own jar of gluesticks.

Even more surprising, there were 757 mints in the mint jar and two different students each guessed 756 mints. Congratulations to Matt Sandman from Mr. Eaton's class and Ellie Keene from Mr. Duvall's class for guessing the closest and both winning this contest. Both classes will receive their own jar of mints and Matt and Ellie will each receive their own $50.00 gift card to Target.

Thanks to all of you for pledging and participating!!!

Ms. Tuney's class won the annual Door Decorating contest. Congratulations to Ms. Tuney and her wonderful class. They won a $200 classroom voucher that they may choose as a class to use in whatever way they think is best. Great creativity! Thanks to all of you for all of your hard work this week on your classroom doors! They all look great!"

Red Ribbon Excitement

Wednesday was "Mint" day. Our mouths were not meant for chewing tobacco or cigarette and our lungs were meant to be clean. During lunch the kids had the opportunity to sign a pledge to not do drugs and guess the number of mints in the jar! They all really enjoyed this activity.
"Now let me see ..."

"I think I got the right number ..."


"What did you write down?"



Olive Garden Lunch was provided for the teachers by the PTSA. The cost for the lunch - talk to the students about staying away from drugs and making good choices!!
Ms. Fisher and Mr. Turner enjoy the feast!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES

Parents
Please join NOMS and NOMS PTSA as we celebrate making healthy
choices during Red Ribbon Week!!

Smart Life Choices Tip The Scales in Your Favor

Monday, Oct. 12~“Better Things To Do!!“ Which students will have the lucky numbers on their “Better Things To Do Than Drugs” pencils to win prizes given at the end of the day??

Tuesday, Oct. 13~ “!!” Sign the drug free pledge and guess how many SMARTies candies are in the jar and win a jar of 60 glue sticks for your target teacher!! (And SMARTies for the student!) Every guess will be entered into 3 drawings for prizes at the end of the day!

Wednesday, Oct. 14~ “Our Lungs are MINT for Breathing!” Correctly Guess the number of Mints and win them for your Target Class! All participants will be entered in 3 drawings at the end of the day for 3 additional prizes!

Thursday, Oct. 15
RED RIBBON ASSEMBLY” Entertainment by the NOMS and NOHS band, Color Guard and Choir! Everyone is invited to wear RED!
The winning class for the Door Decorating Contest will be announced and their class will be awarded a $$ voucher for their classroom! The correct guess winners will be announced and their Special Prizes will be awarded!

This is an important week to remind students to TIP THE SCALES IN THEIR FAVOR BY MAKING SMART CHOICES TO STAY DRUG FREE, ALCOHOL FREE AND SMOKE FREE!!!!
Please take advantage of this week to have some conversations with your child surroundings these topics.
Local Groups available that support these ideas are:
Operation Spirit - www.orperationspirit.org,
Challengers of Oldham County
NOMS PTSA!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Safety and Security Protocal at NOHS that relates to NOMS

Dear PTSA members, parents, and friends,

I know the threat at the high school has been of great concern to many (if not all) parents at NOMS. Many of you have called with your concerns. On Monday, NOHS distributed a copy of their New Safety and Security Protocol. I have attached a copy of the file for those of you that did not see it in printed in the Courier Journal on Wednesday, 9/30/09. You will see the protocol in full. The protocol was sent home to every NOHS family.

I think you will feel much better about the safety of your middle school student after reading the new protocol. Essential there is NO interaction between high school students and middle schools students at any time (there never has been, but this new protocol implements severe consequences if any high school student is even remotely close to the choir or band rooms. For some clarification...the high school students take band and chorus from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. - that is their only time in the band/chorus area of the building. After 9:30 high school students do not have access to that part of the building. Middle school students do not enter that part of the building until after 10:10. There is NO overlap. The hallways are routinely monitored and teachers are in hallways during change of classes. Protocol listed below:

"OFF LIMITS AREAS
* New gym lobby is off limits at all times with the exception of band and choir students walking to and from class
* New bathrooms by the new gym and band and choir room are only to be used by band and choir students during 1st period

Another high school protocol is that all inside school doors are locked throughout the school day. At no time can someone get into a room without someone from the inside opening it for them. Now students must also sign in and out of classroom and are required to have a hall pass with them if for any reason they need to be in the hallway during class time.

HALL PASSES
* It is the student’s responsibility to sign out with teacher permission with a hall pass if you need to leave class for any reason. Students in the hall without a hall pass will be given a detention or a more severe consequence on the discipline ladder depending on the number of infractions a student has.
* Use the bathroom that is closest to your classroom location.

I hope you find this helpful.

Sincerely,Betsy Lowe
NOMS PTSA President
http://www.nomsptsa.blogspot.com/
749-4339

Thursday, October 1, 2009

NOMS Survey

The NOMS PTSA has posted a anonymous survey for parent to take. The survey is posted on the right hand side of the web site just under the "Welcome" and "Purpose of the PTSA." Please take a minute to review the statements and click on all that apply.

Please post a comment directly below this post with any comments or suggestions you have for the PTSA or NOMS.

Thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Betsy Lowe
PTSA President