Middle School News

Middle School News

Fourth Quarter Extended Day Announcement for Norris School District

The Norris Board of Education has authorized an extended day schedule for the fourth quarter in order to make up lost instructional time and meet state requirements for hours of instruction in the school year. To date, the district has had four cancellation da...
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Are You Someone's Hero? Annette Woodhead Addresses Norris TeamMates Mentors

Annette Woodhead, southern region TeamMates coordinator, shared “Be Your Mentee’s Hero” at the Norris Intermediate media center with Norris mentors and potential mentors.  HERO represents hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. She shared her sons...

Norris TeamMates Honored at Appreciation Luncheon

Over thirty Norris TeamMates mentors and board were honored at an appreciation luncheon at the Norris Middle School. Each person received a package of  M&M with a note, “Much and Many Thanks for all you do, we really appreciate you.” Each mentor a...

Norris FFA Boosters to Hold Baked Potato Bar

The Norris FFA Boosters will be holding a baked potato bar during the basketball games on January 29 in the Middle School Commons.  Come and enjoy a baked potato with a variety of toppings, all for a free-will donation!

Norris Schools Partner with SCIP to offer Suicide Prevention Training (QPR) for parents, community members

Norris in cooperation with SCIP will offer QPR Gatekeeper Training (Community Suicide Prevention Training) on Tuesday, February 12 th , 7:00-8:15 p.m. in the Norris High School Auditorium.As a followup to the QPR training administered to middle and high school...

Norris Parents, Public Invited to Complete survey for Superintendent Search & District Needs Assessment

The Norris School Board recently accepted the resignation of Superintendent Dr. John Skretta due to career advancement. We are grateful for Dr. Skretta’s service to Norris School District 160 and wish him well in his future endeavors as the Educational Servi...

School Calendar for 2019-20 adopted

The 2019-20 school year calendar has been reviewed, adopted and approved by the Board of Education. The calendar can be viewed at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OC9rkf9S2WBfFBLIY9YxfuxZrzxB3JC3oSCwiOQtwnI/edit?usp=sharingCalendar notes:175 s...

Norris TeamMates becomes a Gallup Strengths Chapter

Norris TeamMates is excited to become a Gallup Strengths Chapter.  In the past few years, TeamMates has formed a partnership with Gallup to help foster Strength-based development for TeamMate matches.  Gallup’s Strengths Survey instruments have bee...

Norris students and staff present new technologies during the Nebraska Association of School Board’s Technology Showcase.

The Norris School district had 4 booths representing the latest in technology integration in education at the NASB (Nebraska Association of School Board’s) Technology Showcase held at the Papillion La-Vista conference center in Omaha on Friday, November 16th...
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TeamMates Mentors, Mentees decorate pumpkins donated by Roca Berry Farm

Norris TeamMates recently had an activity where our mentors and mentees decorated pumpkins. This was a fun activity for both. Thanks to Roca Berry Farm for donating the pumpkins. Over 30 pumpkins were painted. Categories were superhero, scariest, goofiest...

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