Notes Home 11/17/2025

Posted Date: 11/17/25 (03:43 PM)

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November 17, 2025

Important Dates:

November 18 Picture Retakes

November 19 Good News Club after school program

November 20 Unity Care Dental

November 21 Butter Braids Packets turn in day

November 26 Early Release @12:50 NO GOOD NEWS CLUB

November 27-28 NO SCHOOL THANKSGIVING

December 10 Early Release NO GOOD NEWS CLUB

Dec 22 - Jan 2 NO SCHOOL - Winter Break

Health Screenings

The Nooksack Valley School District will conduct health screenings in each school the week of December 1st- 12th. To promote student health and well-being, each child will each receive a vision and hearing screening. You will be notified in writing if a concern is found as a result of any of these screenings. Information about each screening is provided below.

Washington State law mandates that the following screenings be completed:

Vision – Vision screenings are done using a spot screener. This tool screens for a variety of vision issues. Even if your child passes this screening, an exam from an eye doctor may still be needed. School nurses and trained parent volunteers will conduct this screen.
Hearing – Hearing screenings will be provided by a district speech and language therapist and trained para educator. Washington State law requires that two screenings occur before a referral is sent home to parents.

If you would like your child to be excluded from any part of the screening, please notify the school at 360-966-3321 or email liza.diaz@nv.k12.wa.us

Thank you,

Elizabeth “Liza” Diaz, BSN, RN

District Nurse

Nooksack Valley School District is preparing for its yearly Highly Capable Program referral window running from October through December 2025.

The State of Washington defines highly capable as “students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experience or environments”, as demonstrated by one or more of the multiple learning characteristics specified. The multiple characteristics focus upon (WAC 392-170-035)

If you’d like to refer your student, connect with your child’s teacher to have a conversation about indicators to consider regarding your child and possible referral:

Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations.
Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers.
Ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts.
Ability to learn very quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength
Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus
Ability to apply creative solutions to problem/challenge

Smart Watches & Cell Phones

Hi Families! I just wanted to do a quick reminder about our technology rules at school. We ask that all cell phones, smart watches, and any other device be turned off and put in backpacks during the school day. This is a district wide policy and there are so many reasons we adopted it. If your child is sick or needs to get a hold of you, we will call you from our office phones. When students forget to take their smart watches off or turn off cell phones we give them a reminder to put them away and if they are unable to follow that direction, I'm always happy to hold on to the devices until the end of the day and would ask that families come and pick them up from the office.

Thanks for your support! It takes a village!

Sarah Condreay

Annual Student Update Now Open!

We need your help. To assure that we have accurate and current information about your student(s) and family, we ask that you log into your Skyward Family Access account and complete the Annual Student Update Online form there. You will find the Annual Student Update tile under each of your student's name. Please complete this for each student. This is also where you would provide your permissions for the sharing (or not sharing) of your student's demographic information to various entities/agencies (such as pictures, name and grade to local media, vendors, higher ed, military, etc.) If you need help with your Skyward login, please contact the school office staff.

ASB Cards!

Elementary ASB cards are once again available to purchase at the school office for $11.00. The cards provide entrance to all Nooksack Valley High School home sporting events. Cash or check only. (exact change only!)