The Weekly Update May 9, 2025 | | |
| | May 14: Spring Choral Concert 7:00 PM May 15: Mid Marking Period May 19 - May 23: NJSLA ELA and Math May 26: Memorial Day-School Closed June 6: Class of 2029-Class Night | | Hoping you can join us! We're holding a brief but important community meeting to discuss the results from our recent ThoughtExchange and collaboratively begin crafting a new mission statement for Northern Burlington. Your voice is invaluable in shaping the future of our students' experience. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 14th at 6:00 PM in the Middle School Media Center, conveniently scheduled just before the middle school choral concert. We encourage you to attend this engaging discussion and then stay to enjoy the wonderful musical talents of our students! For those unable to attend, a copy of the presentation will be available after the meeting on May 22nd, prior to the high school band concert. | | Both of the seventh and eighth graders will be sitting for the math and English Language Arts NJSLA tests the week of May 19. As we approach that week, students should be prepared for each day by getting a good night’s sleep, a good breakfast, and a fully charged chromebook for each day of the testing. | | The Eighth Grade Class Night is scheduled for Friday, June 6 from 6pm- 8pm at the Middle School. This is a picnic event that includes food, music, and outdoor games, and dress is casual. The event is open only to Northern Burlington 8th graders and tickets will be sold in advance only. Tickets are $20 per person (or 20 3R tickets) and will be on sale in the Media Center during lunch May 13-22 (no sales Thursday, May 15), with special Early Bird pricing of $15 (or 15 3R tickets) May 13,14, and 16. Ticket price includes admission, food, drinks, and all games and activities. Come out and celebrate your time at Northern Burlington Middle School and your transition to high school! | | As you will read below, our PTSC is running a clothing drive. We will donate items that are left in the lost and found to the clothing drive on May 16. So if your son or daughter is missing anything, please be sure to have them check the lost and found before that date. | | Join us for the Fall 2025 HS Cheerleading try-outs being held June 3 & 4, 2026. Try-outs on June 3rd will be from 3 - 5 pm. June 4h will be the actual tryouts - time slots will be assigned. Both days are mandatory. Mark your calendars, if you are interested in cheering during the fall season! Join the Google Classroom - CODE: L35R5LJN - for more information and to join the interest meeting on May 13th at 6:30 pm. This is the ONLY try-out for current NB students for Fall cheerleading at the high school. Cheerleaders are responsible for their own transportation during try-outs. Athletic portal is open to submit forms and physical documents. Please do this as soon as possible - even before the interest meeting if you think there is a chance you will try out. If you have any questions, please email Coach Ballinger - kballinger@nburlington.com | | As you may have heard from your student, the cafetorium air conditioning is not working and repairs will not be completed before the end of the year. We are making the best of it and have fans set up to help with cooling. We appreciate your understanding. | |  |
Clothing Drive The PTSC is running a clothing/household items drive from May 1 - May 19 (by 10:00am). This is an opportunity to clean out your closets and declutter, and help out our PTSC. See the picture for details on donations. Bagged donations can be dropped off at the middle school pole barn (accessed via Island Road. Thanks in advance for your support.
Senior Citizen Prom
Thank you to everyone who contributed to and helped with the senior citizen prom. It was a great success!
Spring Raffle
The Parent Teacher Student Connection is holding a Spring Gift Card Raffle Fundraiser. First prize is $500 in gift cards to Acme, ShopRite, Wegmans, and Visa and Second Prize is a $200 Visa gift card. Tickets are $10 each, cash or venmo. Drawing is May 3rd (winner need not be present). Please see our website to request tickets. www.nburlingtonptsc.org/events. End of Year Events
If you would like to volunteer for some of our end-of-year events (8th grade class night, senior send-off, staff appreciation sundae bar), please sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0849A9AC2BA0FB6-56240219-2025 | |  | Congratulations to the week's NB3 honorees. Thanks for being Ready, Respectful and Responsible. | |
 | Our students were greeted on Friday morning with these positive messages on every locker. Thanks to our student leaders for setting this up. | |
 | At the band concert this week, all of the musicians in the middle school took the stage for this final, massive number! Bravo! | |
| | The high school has begun construction work on the auditorium. There may be construction traffic that interferes with the regular traffic flow. Please plan accordingly and be sure to allot extra time to arrive at school for parents who are dropping their children off to school. | | In an Oprah Daily article Samantha Vincenty writes about how it’s in the chaotic moments of our lives that we need inner peace the most. She lists 10 Micro-Practices from different practitioners for finding calm in chaos. Here are a few but for all ten click here.
Since your breath is always with you, breathe using the 4-7-8 breath, which is a time tested yoga technique. Inhale through your nose for a count of 4, hold that breath for a count of 7 and slowly exhale it out for a count of 8. The longer exhale helps stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which stimulates the relaxation response in your body.
Recognize and acknowledge the emotion you are experiencing. Naming the emotion helps de-escalate its intensity.
ACT your way to deeper self-compassion- Use the three step method called ACT-A is to acknowledge your struggle, and say, this is really hard. C is for connect, connecting to the fact that how you are feeling is part of the human experience, knowing that other people get frustrated, angry, overwhelmed etc. and the T is to talk kindly to yourself, especially in the third person because doing so activates the care circuit in your brain so you feel more cared for. So you might say, Laura, you are going to be ok, and you are not alone in this.
Practice acceptance. She writes that when we resist our circumstances we create a lot of suffering, which is the opposite of inner peace. But when you align yourself with what is, you flow with, rather than against what is happening. She says that is why it is called “practice” because it might take a few or a lot of tries to be successful at it. You might say to yourself something like this,”This is where I am. I’m just going to flow with this…It’s ok and I’m ok.” | |  |
The Northern FFA Chapter will be holding its annual Spring Plant Sale days during the month of May 2025: May 3rd, 10th, 11th, 17th, & 24th Horticulture students have been working hard since January in the greenhouse seeding, planting & growing out bedding plants to prepare for our sale! This year we are happy to offer new varieties and colors of flowers as well as an expanded selection of vegetables including various types of tomatoes, and sweet peppers & hot peppers. Please see the sales dates and times below. We look forward to seeing you again during this year's plant sale days! Stay tuned for the Sale Flyer and Price List in the coming weeks! Click here for the Save the Date reminder. Northern FFA Spring Plant Sale Dates and Times:
- Saturday May 3rd, 2025 - 8am-1pm - Senior Appreciation Day (55+)
- Saturday May 10th, 2025 - 8am-1pm - Teacher Appreciation Day
- Sunday May 11th, 2025 - 8am-1pm - Mother's Day Sale
- Saturday May 17th, 2025 - 8am-1pm - Farmer Appreciation Day
- Saturday May 24th, 2025 - 8am-12pm - Military Appreciation Day
Plants available for sale:
- 6 pack & 4" Annual Flowers- 6" & 1 Gallon Trees
- Flowering Hanging Baskets - 10" & 12" Baskets
- Mixed Combo/Decorative Planters & Foliage Baskets
- FEATURING: Heirloom & Premium Veggies
- Single Pot & 4 Pack Vegetables including: Tomatoes,
- Sweet Peppers, Hot Peppers, Eggplant, Cucumbers,
- Melons, Beans, Lettuce & Salad mixes, Herbs & more!
Address: Northern Burlington County Regional High School Greenhouse Complex Address: 160 Mansfield Road East Columbus, NJ 08022 Contact: Brian Hayes, Teacher of Agriculture Email: bhayes@nburlington.com |  | Andrew Kearns Andrew is using Smore to create beautiful newsletters |
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