Fourth grade at NES attended Environmental Camp in Carlisle, KY for the first time in Pendleton County history. Students enjoyed sessions with owl pellets, rocketry, pond studies, and many, many more. Many thanks to Shelley Meyer, our county extension agent! Fourth grade has been extremely busy since spring break.

The fourth graders at Northern Elementary received a scholarship from the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and the Kentucky Horse Park. Each fourth grader was presented with the novel, War Horse, and invited to the All Tech Arena for an equine presentation of War Horse. Students were asked to write a book report on the novel and each teacher was able to select a classroom winner. The winners from Northern are as follows: Ben Davis, Jordan Kirsch, Holly Bowman, and Allison Redden. These students were able to meet First Lady Beshear and were recognized in a ceremony prior to the equine show. Allison Redden was selected as the state winner for the Carnegie Book Report Contest. She received a $150 gift card to Joseph Beth. Her teacher also received a gift card. Congratulations to the book report winners!

Congratulations to the 2013 Conservation Art & Writing Contest county winners.  There were 1036 Art entries and 443 Writing entries.

Graduation dates have been set !  The Class of 2013 Commencement will be Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the PHS gymnasium.  Admission by ticket only.  For guests' convenience, shuttle buses will be available from Southern Elementary & Sharp Middle School beginning at 5:45 p.m. and running continuously until 6:45 p.m.  Shuttle services will drop off guests at the gymnasium doors and deliver guests back to the respective locations.  In addition, this year there will be a drop-off  location designated on the bus-loop for those wishing to drop off guests and then go park. Because the shuttle buses will be loading & unloading via the bus loop,  those needing to drop someone off should do so in a timely manner and proceed back to parking area.

Other important senior dates all beginning at 7:00 pm:

Senior Scholarship/Awards Night - May 7 - PHS Auditorium

Baccalaureate - May 19 - PHS Auditorium

Senior Class Night - May 20 - PHS gymnasium

Pendleton Co. Schools is proud to announce the award of a grant from Toyota in the amount of $10,000 to be used for the purchase of I-pads for classrooms. Thank you to Northern Elementary teachers, Tina Record & Laura Caudill,  for their work on the grant application and to the Peluso Family for making the school aware of this grant program.  Toyoto was present at the February 28 board meeting to make the presentation of the $10,000 check. 

Pendleton County Schools is now a part of the Overdrive Library e-Book Lending network.  The system, available since January 29, is available 24/7, and requires a library card and a password.  Two books may be checked out for one week at a time, and they may be accessed through any eReader, tablet, or iOS or Windows device, including SmartPhones.  To log into the system, access Mrs. Carolyn Reid’s teacher webpage through Pendleton High School’s or Sharp Middle School’s sites, or access through Mrs. Theresa Turner’s teacher webpage through one of the elementary schools’ sites, then click on “Overdrive.”  Please contact Mrs. Reid with any issues.

Northern Elementary’s Choir and Mallet Madness will be performing at Florence Mall on March 27^th at 10:00 am. Please come out to the concert and support our talented students! We are very excited to get to perform as part of Music in Our Schools Month.

In addition to our performance, we are very excited about the Facebook competition. If we get the most votes for NES on the Florence Mall facebook page, our music program could win $500!!!

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Pendleton County Schools has just published its School Nutrition and Wellness Report Card for 2012.  Click here to access the report.  This brochure is provided in compliance with KRS 158.856 as an overview of the nutrition and physical activity available in the Pendleton Co. School District with the recommendation for areas of improvement. You may review  this brochure and provide any comments or recommendations to the Pendleton Co. Board of Education (859-654-6911) or Lisa Mitchell at lisa.mitchell@pendleton.kyschools.us.    Thank you for your interest & input.