Stony Lane Elementary

Stony Lane is awarded a $1000.00 Grant for supplemental literacy materials for all your efforts! Over the entire 10 day tournament, your school had a total of 139 readers who read for a little over 60,800 minutes and raised $2170.00 for the NKEF.

We are in the final hours of the NKEF reading challenge. Don't forget to log all of your reading minutes by 9pm tonight. Go Whales! (To log minutes - login, enter a reader and add minutes to your Reading Log) online at www.pledgestar.com/NKEF

LET'S GET INTO THE FINAL 4! Log your reading minutes at www.pledgestar.com/NKEF (login, enter a reader and add minutes) YOU CAN GO BACK TO ENTER MINUTES MISSED! Help us earn that bookworm vending machine! Keep up the great READING! Thank you, Ms. Hitchener

LAST CHANCE to REGISTER for the NK Educational Foundation Reading Challenge!!! https://pledgestar.com/NKEF/? Log Reading Minutes : March 11-22, 2024 (To log minutes - register, enter a reader and add minutes to your Reading Log) Final Four Bracket : March 23-27, 2024

Due to the forecasted snow for 2/13/24, all NKSD schools are closed, all after school activities including the School Committee meeting are canceled and out of district transportation is also canceled.  Please stay safe and warm tomorrow.

📖 Reading Buddies! 📖

⭐ Grade 5 Science Interim Assessment Practice!!!⭐

Adolescence has always been a time of angst and transition in human development. Yet, a growing body of evidence is sounding an alarm about the state of mental health in teens today. Not only have major medical organizations declared state of emergencies in children’s mental health, but the U.S. Surgeon General issued a ‘Youth Mental Health Advisory’. In our school, we have undertaken a number of strategies to address youth mental health needs, including: Open Circle lessons and discussions Mindfulness moments Training our staff in Youth Mental Health First Aid. Youth Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training that teaches parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors and health and human services workers and any other citizen how to identify, understand and respond to an adolescent (ages 12-18) who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge. Everyone can benefit from Youth Mental Health First Aid training. Even before COVID, youth were reporting high levels of stress and anxiety. Many children and youth are still suffering COVID’s impact. Engaging teens in conversations about what they may be feeling or experiencing can be challenging. Having more adults in our community knowing how to approach these hard conversations and what they can say or do to help can be game changers for our youth. I encourage every parent of an adolescent to consider taking this practical, skills-based online course. The Washington County Coalition for Children is offering the free course online to make it easier for busy parents to participate. See the attached Youth Mental Health flyer for more details.

All NKSD Schools will have a one hour delay on 1/17/24.  All staff also are delayed one hour and AM Pre-K is canceled. Please drive safely!

Good Afternoon, Please note, the School Committee Meeting scheduled for 1.16.24 at 6pm has been cancelled due to inclement weather. In addition, all After-School activities for Tuesday, January 16th have been cancelled.  Drive safe,

Staff Professional Development Day - One hour delay. All PD activites will begin at 9AM. Please drive safely.

Come on out to Gregg's on Wednesday, January 17th for our first Stony Lane Restaurant Night of 2024! Present the attached coupon and 10% of your bill will be donated to the PTO. Valid all day for dine in or take out. This is a fun and easy way to support the PTO. We hope to see you there!"

....20 days out to our event with live music! Attention Stony Lane Parents! Join us for a fun 'adult's night out' at Tilted Barn. Tuesday, January 30th from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to buy new basketball hoops for the playground. Now, we've doubled and have raised $2,941! We need your help achieving the goal! If you haven't bought tickets, please do so today at this link: https://go.rallyup.com/hopsforhoops/Event/Details Can't make the event? We accept direct donations as well. Everything counts. Thanks so much for your support! - Stony PTO

Due to the forecasted freeze and out of an abundance of caution for our HS drivers who would be on the road very early in the morning, all NKSD will have a one hour delay on January 8, 2024.  All staff also are delayed 1 hour and AM Pre-K is canceled. Please drive safely!

The two art classrooms will be centrally located on the first floor. These large classrooms will overlook and have access to the interior courtyard. Display cases will prominetly showcase student work for everyone to see.

Each team will have a specially design classroom dedicated to Science instruction. The Science labs have a larger footprint (1000 sq.ft.) along with a Science prep/storage room. These 21st century classrooms will have ample storage space, sinks, and flexible seating to support ALL students.

The media center will be the school's learning hub, and will offer flexible and technology-rich learning opportunities for ALL students.

Grade levels in the new Middle School will be located on their individual floors, or “neighborhoods”. Each “neighborhood” will include classrooms, science labs, small group instruction spaces, restrooms, and common learning spaces (pictured above).

The new middle school will feature larger classroom spaces of approximately 850 square feet. These spaces will be more conducive to collaboration, flexibility, and project-based learning that is tied to 21st century learning needs.

The new Middle School plan includes the opportunity to receive up to an additional 20% state reimbursement bonus, which potentially reduces the overall cost from $167 million to approximately $75 million. This opportunity will expire in June 2024.