Dear families,

Well, it certainly feels like winter out there. With the dip in temperatures, many of you may wonder how we make decisions about whether to have indoor or outdoor recess. Consistent with other NPS elementary schools, we use the Child Care Weather Watch resource to determine when it is safe to go outside. Each day, we check the “feels like” temperature (temperature after accounting for wind chill) to determine whether we will have inside or outside recess. We use the 20 degrees minimum temperature for outside recess. This is within the threshold of the yellow/caution zone.

We know our children benefit from fresh air and exercise and we wish for them to get outside as much as possible. Staff and families have also observed that there have been a number of days in the past when the temperature was just below 20, but it was lovely outside! We want kids to go out AND we need to keep them safe! Depending on “yellow zone” conditions, we may also elect to shorten the amount of time children are outside. We will make those judgments on a case-by-case basis. You can help us by making sure that your child comes to school with warm clothing: coats, mittens/gloves, hats, and snow pants.

Please mark your calendars:

• Monday, November 11^th:  Veteran’s Day — No School
• Tuesday, November 12^th:  PTO meeting, 6:30pm in the Library
• Friday, November 15th: Picture Retake Day, 9:00am
• Wednesday, November 27^th: Early release day: 12:00 dismissal
• Thursday, November 28^th and Friday, November 29^th:  No school — Thanksgiving recess

See you Tuesday!

Principal Morrissey