District Arts Festival

On March 13th, the NES students performed beautifully at the District Arts Festival!  Students spent the day participating in make and take art activities, student - artist demonstrations, and vocal demonstrations.  They watched the Color Guard performance and the Winter Percussion Performance.  The evening was capped off with the Festival Concert that included students from every school in the district.  It was a full day celebration of the arts.  Well done!

Kindergarten Information Night - March 13, 2014

Kindergarten Information Night is tonight!

We will be meeting in the school library at 6:45pm.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Read Across America is a day set aside each year to celebrate reading and Dr. Seuss’s birthday.  We celebrated Read Across America Day on Monday, March 3^rd.    We were fortunate to have members of our school community join us as guest readers for our students in grades K-4.  The students in grades 5 and 6 were provided with a program from Laurie Collins and Margie Florini, author and illustrator of The Pajamas of My Dreams, on their personal journey in the development of their book.

Many thanks go out to Superintendent Christopher Farmer, Assistant Superintendent Brian Forget, Chief Academic Officer Kim Croteau, Data Support Specialist Kim Cadieux, Manager of Facilities and Grounds Christopher Walsh, Athletic Director  Sean McInnis, School Committee Member  Robin Williams, Newbury Police Officer John Regan, past School Committee member Joan Weyburn,  Laurie Collins, Margie Florini, Donna Anderson, retired and very loved teacher Mary Ann Fraser and 15 members of the various sports teams from Triton High School.  The students appreciated the time these leaders of our community took from their busy schedules to come to read to them and share their favorite books from their own childhoods.

We have two up and coming 6th grade authors who shared their personal and published writings with the school.  Sam B. author of a self published book titled Water and Fire and Annabelle S. author of Word of Honor shared chapters from their books. Thank you for reading to the student body and congratulations on a job well done!

Many parents also participated in Read Across America by reading in their child’s classroom.  Thank you to all involved for a wonderful day of literacy!

Last but not least, thank you to Thing One and Thing Two and to the teachers of NES for making Read Across America a success.

Mrs. Ryan

MCAS Testing

During the month of March, NES students in grades 3-6 will be taking the MCAS Reading Comprehension and Long Composition tests.  It is important to make sure students come to school well rested each day and have had a nutritious breakfast.  Please note that testing will begin promptly at 9:00.  Any student who comes to school on a testing day after 9:00 will not be allowed into the classroom as it will disturb students who are testing.  Below is the schedule for testing in March.  We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Monday, March 17th                       Grades 3 and 5            Reading Comprehension (Day 1)

Tuesday, March 18th                       Grade 4                        Long Composition - Starting at 8:45

Wednesday, March 19th                 Grades 3 and 5            Reading Comprehension (Day 2)

Tuesday, March 25th                       Grades 4 and 6            Reading Comprehension (Day 1)

Wednesday, March 26th                 Grades 4 and 6            Reading Comprehension (Day 2)

Wednesday, March 27th                 Grade 4                         Long Composition Make-up Day