Middle School News

Middle School News

Miss Nebraska to visit Norris Middle School for Veteran's Celebration

On Thursday, November 14th, JaCee Pilkington will visit Norris Middle School to speak at this year’s Veteran's Day Celebration.  Pilkington, a student at Doane College was crowned the new Miss Nebraska on June 8, in North Platte where she competed...

Students to Attend Life Skills/Sportsmanship Rally & UNL Basketball Game

Norris Middle School Students & Staff will attend a Life Skills/Sportsmanship Pep Rally and the Nebraska Women’s Basketball Game vs UCLA on Friday, November 8th at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.Nebraska student-athletes, coaches and other presenters will deliv...

Student Council & State Farm Insurance team up to encourage safe driving

Student Council and State Farm Insurance is teaming up for the Celebrate My Drive competition, a competition for high schools around the nation. The goal is to get as many people registered this week on the Celebrate My Drive site as possible. Celebrate My Dri...

Calling all Crafters! Registration due October 1st for the 26th Annual Craft Fair

Registration due October 1st!Registration now for the 26th Annual Craft Fair on Saturday, October 26th, 2013 at Norris High School!  The hours are 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Set-up time will be Saturday morning from 6:...

Gibbs brings anti-bullying message to Norris

Brooks Gibbs is a youth motivational speaker, author and nationally recognized leader in bullying prevention. SCIP (School Community Intervention Program) received a grant through Office Depot Foundation to bring Brooks to the Lincoln area. On Tuesday, Oc...

Celebration! Norris recommended for AdvancED District Accreditation

The Norris District has completed its inaugural district-level accreditation review, moving from building-by-building accreditation to the more rigorous and systematic expectations of district-level, systems accreditation.  The AdvancED organization is a...

State Test Scores Show Continued Strong Performance by Norris Students

Norris students continued their trend of substantially outperforming their peers across the state, turning in an especially memorable performance in the state Science test, assessed at grades 5, 8 & 11. The state of Nebraska’s Department of Education tod...

Norris TeamMates make 38 matches during 2012-2013

The Norris Teammates would like to thank the following people. Because of these people, 38 students at Norris met with a mentor for a total of 896 times. All meetings take place at Norris with and average of 24 meeting per student.Mentors: Kelly Oelke, Emily G...

2013 State Trap Team Results

Jr. HighDylan Osterhaus placed 7th out of 888 in the Individual awards.  The Norris Jr. Squad #1 with Cole Anderson, Adam Oldemeyer, Dylan Osterhaus, Conner Johnson, and Rees Armknecht placed 4th out of 84 Teams. High SchoolMorgan Chipps shot 72 X 75...

Nebraska's First Lady visits Norris Elementary, Middle Schools

  Nebraska First Lady Sally Ganem visited Norris Elementary School on Thursday, May 2nd.  A former Elementary Principal, Mrs. Ganem, wife to Governor Dave Heineman, was right at home as she gave an expressive reading of several popular children'...

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