NOMS Talent Show Winners

What a fabulous night of entertainment - February 26 at the NOMS Mustang Talent Show held at the NOMS Auditorium.

For the first time in history, the show had to limit the number of acts to fit in the time constraints of the show. Every act was amazing and super to watch: Here are the winners of the 2011 Mustang Talent Show:

Vocal 1st Riggs Watkins
Vocal 2nd Madeline Karaglanis
Vocal 3rd Skylar Silberman

Dance 1st Manasaa Kanaan & Sanjana Manesh
Dance 2nd Kayla Patton & Alaina Sanders
Dance 3rd a tie between Erin Goodnight & the duo of Kaetlynn Fitzpatrick & Joanna Oser

Instrumental 1st Annelise Adrian
Instrumental 2nd Megan Johnson
Instrumental 3rd Ian Garas

and the Show Stopper award went to Alex Constante

Congratulations!

Little Caesar Pizza Sale

From now until March 8 you can order your Little Caesar Pizza kits.

They are convenient, fast, and easy meals.

Ask your child for the picture brochure and order form today!

Any questions, please contact Terri Stinebruner.

HOW TO COPE CLASS

SEPTA (Special Education PTA) of Oldham County meeting
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 @ Crestwood Elementary Media Center (snow date: Feb. 22)
Topic: Family Stress - How to Cope
Parenting can be stressful. Parents of children with special needs often find themselves dealing with additional challenges. Debbie Lorence, Chief Social Worker at the Weisskopf Child Evaluation Center in Louisville, will offer tipw to help you develop strategies to manage day to day stress. We will also have a short general meeting to select our nominating committee.

Snow Day Decisions

As the snow falls I become immediately concerned for the welfare of Oldham County school students. However, I take comfort in knowing that I have a great staff that work tirelessly to make the decision to close school with the best interest of our students in mind. Predictions of snow make for restless nights for Margaret Johnson, Director of Transportation for the Oldham County Schools. She wakes up periodically throughout the night to check the weather forecasts and, if the weather starts turning toward a snow event, at 3:00 a.m. she calls Rick McHargue, Assistant Superintendent, and the members of her transportation staff. This group of seven people hit the roads to assess the driving conditions around the county. The team has divided the county into sections and each member drives a specific route, checking the roadways that are usually the most dangerous when snow covered. At 5:00 a.m., the members of the group converge at the district’s transportation center to meet with Mr. McHargue to discuss the situation and share their impression of the road conditions. Ms./Mrs. Johnson also usually contacts the state and county highway departments to assess their progress in clearing the roads. After the group has reported in, it falls to Mr. McHargue to make the final decision whether we close schools, delay the opening, or open on schedule. It seems that for most of the mornings when a snowstorm is happening or about to happen, a clear-cut answer is usually not that apparent. Mr. McHargue enjoys the mornings when the snow has already fallen and a clear-cut answer is apparent. However, the days that the storm is just beginning or is expected to begin are the toughest days. On those days Mr. McHargue must place some faith into weather forecasts that can predict large snow amounts that actually produce little, or predict a dusting and we receive multiple inches. Nevertheless, our administrators try to make the decision with safety as the primary concern. Ms./Mrs. Johnson takes the decision to heart, as a former bus driver she knows that it would only take one bus accident that could have been avoided to point out that it’s better to err on the side of caution than to make a decision that would endanger a student. Her decision to cancel school inherently falls on one question: Would she feel safe driving in the current conditions? Once the decision is made, Mr. McHargue places a call to me for confirmation. Then the notification process starts. Mr. McHargue contacts the local television and radio stations so the message will be on the newscasts by 5:30. The district web master is contacted so an announcement can be placed on the district web page. At 5:45, an automated telephone call is started on the telephone notification system to the households of the approximately 12,000 students and 1,800 employees of the school district. It usually takes about 45 to 55 minutes for the system to place the calls to every number. Although the students may appreciate an unanticipated day off school, they will have to make up any missed days before the summer break can begin. While they may hate to give up a warm summer vacation day for a school make-up day, we feel it’s best to lose a day than to risk the loss of a student due to bad weather. Paul Upchurch Superintendent

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Oldham County Schools have been closed 8 days this school year due to snow and hazardous road conditions. The last day for students will be June 2, 2011 (subject to change). 2010 - 2011 School Calendar

"Snow" Days	Make-up Days
December 13, 2010	February 21, 2011* Presidents' Day
December 16, 2010	May 24, 2011
December 17, 2010	May 25, 2011
January 11, 2011	May 26, 2011
January 12, 2011	May 27, 2011
January 20, 2011	May 31, 2011
January 21, 2011	June 1, 2011
January 26, 2011	June 2, 2011

Papa Johns Pizza tastes oh so good

· Sunday, February 6^th through Wednesday, February 9^th is our Papa John's Dollars for Dough nights. Remember to enter promo code "NOMS" or mention North Oldham Middle School when placing your order and Papa John's will donate 20% to our school. It would be a great way to get those Super Bowl pizzas while supporting our school!

EXTRA EXTRA: Talent Show Auditions

· Talent Show Auditions will be held on Feb. 8 and 9 from 3:30-6:00 in the chorus room, please. Sign ups in the front office. Rehearsal - Feb. 24th. Talent Show is on Friday, Feb. 25th in the North Campus Auditorium.

Dollars For Scholars

OCDFS Sponsors,

It's official! As of today, our scholarship application is online at

www.ocdfs.org. Please help us get the word out to potential applicants.

Can you please post something on your website, put in your newsletter,

post on your Facebook page, put on a bulletin board, etc. Any help in

getting the word out to potential applicants would be greatly

appreciated. You can "copy and paste" the information below or use the

flyer attached.

Additionally, please put Monday, May 16th on your calendar for our

annual Awards Ceremony where we honor our recipients. It is much more

rewarding if you are there to personally award your scholarship to the

student.

We will be looking for volunteers to help review and score applications

in March. Additional information and dates will follow.

We would like to add a couple of new board members to our organization.

If you have interest, please contact Pam Brown pamela.brown10@gmail.com

Additional sponsors are also most welcome

We'd like to thank you, again, for your support. With out you, our

sponsors, we wouldn't be able to make such a difference for our future.

Together, we can make a difference!

Cindy Hack

Publicity Chair

502.376.7653