The Weekly Update March 27, 2026 | | |
| | Mar 23-27: Class of 2031 meets w/MS counselors for scheduling Mar. 30 - Apr 3: Autism Awareness Week Apr. 2: Full day of school Apr. 3: Day of Service Apr. 3: ½ day to begin Spring Break Apr. 4-12: Spring Recess-School Closed Apr. 13: School reopens Apr. 14: End of Marking Period 3 Apr. 15: Marking Period 4 begins | | As you know, April 3 will be an early dismissal school day for students. This is to make up for the day the school was closed as a result of a snow emergency.
April 3 is also the date when families may be observing the religious holiday, Good Friday, and it also falls during Passover. In the event your child will miss school to observe a religious holiday, please contact our attendance secretary, Mrs. Kemerley at mkemerley@nburlington.com, or submit your planned absence for a religious holiday at this Google Form that can be found HERE.
As the superintendent noted in his recent message about the change in the school day, religious holidays are excused absences per state law and board policy. That is the case with Good Friday, as well as other religious holidays such as Eid al Fitr, Passover, Diwali, as well as many others. If your child is out of school for a religious holiday (or was out) please contact our attendance secretary, Mrs. Kemerley, to let her know so we can record your child’s attendance correctly. | | On April 3 (the day before spring break) we will conduct a schoolwide community service project where we will be making bagged lunches for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK). There are a variety of tasks in this project and we hope to involve as many students as possible with assignments ranging from sandwich making, to making flatware bundles, to packing boxes for delivery. To support this project, we are looking for donations. These donations can be “in kind” or cash. Please see the link to the sign up genius below if you wish to make a donation: https://tinyurl.com/NBTASK2026
In order to organize the event, we ask that all donations be dropped off at the school by Monday, March 30, 2026. Thanks in advance for everyone’s support. | | We are introducing Autism information to encourage understanding and acceptance of our peers. There are 4 days of Dress up themes, a couple of slides for each homeroom period and activities in the lunches if the students wish to participate. We hope you will talk this up with your students and join in the clothing themes: Monday: Magnificent Minds - Wear a crazy hair style Tuesday: Spectrum of Strengths - Wear tie-dye or rainbow colors Wednesday: What’s Your Passion? - Wear something from a hobby, fandom, or sport you love Thursday: Northern's Color of Kindness: Blue for Autism, Purple for Courage .Wear blue or purple - Blue for Autism Awareness or Purple to help celebrate Month of the Military Child! | | April is the Month of the Military Child. We have events planned throughout the month to acknowledge the unique sacrifices of the children in military families. However, every Thursday, we invite our students and staff to wear purple, in recognition of the month and of our many students from military families. | | The middle school lost and found will be packed up over spring break and the items in the lost and found will be donated to charity. If your child is missing an item, please be sure to have them check the lost and found before April 3. | | Trying to choose which emotions and experiences to focus on out of the 87 in Brene's book has been difficult. For this last one of this series, I chose three: foreboding joy, relief and tranquility. She reports that joy is the most vulnerable of human emotion and writes, “If you’re afraid to lean into good news, wonderful moments, and joy-if you find yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop-you are not alone. It’s called “foreboding joy”, and most of us experience it, including children and teens. In fact, she writes it’s practically a universal experience that everyone thinks of as something only they do. When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. No emotion is more frightening than joy, because we believe if we allow ourselves to feel joy, we are inviting disaster. We start dress rehearsing tragedy in the best moments of our lives in order to stop vulnerability from beating us to the punch. But when we push away joy, we squander the goodness that we need to build resilience, strength and courage.” In her research though, she found that people who showed a deep capacity for joy had one thing in common and that was that they practiced gratitude when they felt vulnerable in that moment. As if to say to themselves, “Right now in this moment things are good and I am going to be grateful.” We can’t control what might happen next. As for relief, she writes that when we exhale deeply in relief, it actually serves as a reset button for our body, signaling relief and enhancing it at the same time as well as reducing muscle tension! So sigh away! Lastly is tranquility, which she describes as her favorite emotion and I can see why. Her research definition is “Tranquility is associated with the absence of demand and no pressure to do anything.” She notes the difference between feeling content and feeling tranquil. “With contentment we have the sense of having completed something; with tranquility, we relish the feeling of doing nothing.” I think in our rushed way of life, if we do get to feel tranquil, even for a short time, that is something to be grateful for too. | | On Friday, June 12th at 7:00 PM, members of the Northern Burlington Middle School Choir will take the field to perform “God Bless America” at the Trenton Thunder game. This special performance is also a fundraiser for our choir program, so we encourage families, friends, and community members to join us for a fun night of baseball while supporting our student musicians. Bring your school spirit and cheer on our talented singers as they represent Northern Burlington! More details about ticket information will be shared soon. Tickets can be purchased using the following link: https://www.gofevo.com/event/Northernburlington22
Hope to see you there! | | Our spring gift card raffle fundraiser tickets are now on sale! 1st prize: $500 visa gift card. 2nd prize: $200 visa gift card. Tickets: $10 each. Drawing: May 2. Request your tickets here: PTSC Gift Card Raffle Ticket Request Form | |  | |  | | |  | Andrew Kearns Andrew is using Smore to create beautiful newsletters |
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