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***There is NO AFTERCARE on Friday, December 20, 2019***
Upcoming School Events:
Friday, Dec. 20: St. George & the Dragon 1:30 PM & 7 PM at RVCC
Saturday, Dec. 21-Sunday Jan. 6: Winter Break
Monday, Jan. 6: School reopens for all students
Tuesday, Jan. 7: BOT meeting @ 6:30 PM
Monday, Jan. 20: MLK Day – SCHOOL CLOSED FOR ALL *see attached sheet
Thursday, Jan. 23: Oh, Freedom!: Virginia Opera @ NBS 2:15 PM
Saturday, Feb. 1: Parent Work Day
Calendar Change – Please see attached the email to all families from Wednesday, Dec. 4th regarding the decision to be closed for students on Martin Luther King Jr Day, Monday, January 20, 2020. NBS will participate in our MLK celebration and assembly on Friday, January 17, 2020. We encourage any and all to attend the assembly at 2:45 PM. If you are an Alum and would like to visit for a portion of the day, please contact Autum.
St. George and the Dragon, Friday, December 20th …‘Tis the season when dragons and giants take center stage. We hope to see all Preschool families at the 1:30 PM performance.
Preschool & Early Primary Please arrive at RVCC by 1:15 if you plan to sing before the 1:30 performance. They will NOT sing in the evening. We hope to see the whole group at 1:15 PM, if you cannot attend, please let Susan & Genevieve know.
Primary Blue (Krista) & Primary Yellow (Jen T.) & Juniors –parents please bring students with a lunch to RVCC at 10:30 to rehearse for the 1:30 performance. After the 1:30 performance, parents take children home then return to RVCC at 6:40 for the evening performance. Primary Yellow & Junior students will perform at 1:30 & 7 pm. We’d love to have Primary Blue attend and perform at the evening performance. Please let Krista know if your child will not perform in the evening performance.
Please remember to look for the donation basket for the Naomi Scherr Memorial Scholarship Fund at the entrance during both performances of St. George. Naomi’s mother started this fund after Naomi, a former NBS student, and her father lost their lives during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. There is no charge for the performance – it is the students’ gift to their families and our community – but we hope you will place something in the basket to honor the memory of a girl with a charming smile, an insatiable curiosity, and a kind heart.
If this is highlighted, you signed up to help with St. George. Thanks! The sign-up sheet is on Autum’s office door.
There will be lots of hauling props and costumes back and forth from RVCC and NBS-if you are coming back by NBS on Friday night, please consider helping us bring items back-Thanks!!!
Please check the LOST & FOUND on the table of the main building porch. All Lost & Found items will DISAPPEAR and be donated over the winter break if not picked up. Thanks!
Many thanks to…
… to all the people who helped with this year’s Thanksgiving stone soup, whether it was preparing food, serving soup, donating cider, setting up, or helping clean up after the event. Your efforts were greatly appreciated! This year we enjoyed 15 gallons of soup broth made by the Diaz Family, 1 huge cauldron, 5 parents helping with veggie chopping with many little hands, Middle School students simmering preschool soup, a mountain of corn bread baked by students, and hand-shaken butter! We are also thankful for all the hands who helped to clean up before sunset. We cannot thank everyone enough for helping with this wonderful event!!
Did you know?
…The NBS community ROCKED #GivingTuesday! On December 3, 149 donors from 28 states contributed to NBS, bringing the day’s total, including $10,000 in matching donations – to over $27,000!!!! Many thanks to all who contributed and/or shared information to bring in gifts from other states, the Juniors for mapping our donations, The Virginian Hotel & LockN’ Festival for offering prizes, David & Elizabeth Ferrall for covering online processing fees for the day, and our matching donors who provided an incentive of $10,000: Anonymous, Bart Biggs, Ellen Bouton, Smith Coleman, Peter Coy, Lily Garcia-Walton & Chip Walton, Reid & Katie Harris, Ian & Aaron Kelly, and Becky Lindsay!!
…Here’s the breakdown of gifts on #GivingTuesday: 58 Friends and Former Families, 44 Current Families, 29 Grandparents, 17 Alums (plus several alums already included in the parent count)), and 1 student. And FYI, 100% of the NBS Board of Trustees gave on Tuesday.
…A few of the gifts on #GivingTuesday were designated for specific funds, but the overwhelming majority of gifts were for either the Annual Fund or the Grandparents’ Fund and the Alumni Fund, which are subsets of the Annual Fund. We are well on our way to reaching our goals of 100% Family participation and $60,000 in contributions to the Annual Fund during the 2019-2020 school year.
…Our #GivingTuesday winners in the random drawing were: Mary Mayo (former parent and the one who put Iowa on our map)-complimentary stay at the Virginian Hotel in Lynchburg and Kashuo Bennett ‘96 -a pair of tickets to LockN’ 2020!
Ways to help NBS…
…When you are shopping online, don’t forget to either access Amazon through the NBS website or choose NBS as your charity on Amazon Smile. And for those holiday get-togethers, please make sure you have NBS designated as your school at Kroger, Martin’s, or Harris Teeter. https://north-branch-school.org/fundraising/grocery-store-links-for-nbs/
Holiday Crafting Workshop– Michael Donegan will be hosting a Holiday Gift Making Workshop on 12/13/19 from 3:45-5:30 PM. There is limited space available for the workshop. The reserve your space contact Michael at donegandesign@gmail.com or 434-826-8384. The cost for the workshop is $25.oo. Each child will paint 2 ceramic ornaments and create a set of 5 mixed-media greeting/thank you cards.
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