The 5th grade sculpture project

The 5th grade has the amazing opportunity to work with Mr. Mark Brown on an immensely enormous piece of art! We are creating a sculpture that will hang in front of a parking garage/apartment complex. We started by creating some remarkable ideas like a giant goldfish tank, giant shoes,  sharks, and sunglasses Then Michel Brown and Ms. Keene chose the ones that they thought we could actually do, one was a cow walking up the building! This project will combine 2 of 3 ideas into one giant public art piece!!

Check out this article written by Margaret in the April edition of The Compass (Northside's student newspaper)

Photo by Igor

SIT Nominations Sought

Nothside Elementary is holding its regular School Improvement Team (SIT) election this May. We will be electing two (2) members of the SIT this election.

If you are interested in serving on the Northside SIT, please consider nominating yourself.  Nomination forms can be found HERE and will be sent home in your child's Friday Folder as well.

Nominations must be returned to Ruben Fernandez, either by email, at Ruben@NCLawonline.com, or paper forms may be turned in to your child's teacher, who will send them in. All nominations must be in by May 2nd to be put on the May 9th Ballot.  Voting ballots will be sent home in your child's Friday Folder on May 9th, and must be returned to your child's teacher by May 16th.

-Submitted by  Ruben Fernandez

STEM Day at Northside

On Friday, April 11 Northside students, teachers, parents a community members participate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Day. This celebration was part of the NC Science Festival. By participating in the STEM Day activities, navigators joined students across the state in exploring the many areas of STEM that are important to our states history, culture, and economy.

During the event students had an opportunity to visit 17 different stations and participated in hands-on activities where they learned and explored. Stations provided opportunities for students to learn about the energy needed for electricity production and the importance of conservation, to creating a tornado in a bottle, to exploring the science behind blowing bubbles, to visiting an interactive technology timeline to explore technology from the past.

STEM Day proved to be an exciting day for all who participated!

-PicCollage Created by Margaret S.

Exciting After School Opportunities for Northside Students

Northside Elementary School has lots of after school activities. Every Monday and Wednesday is iNavigate, they dance multiple types of dance and Tuesday there is Navigators on the Move, they do lots of things like rapping and drumming. UNC science days is on Monday, college students come and help you with experiments that are really fun. On Tuesday’s and Thursday’s there is Girls on the Run, they do exercise and learn to positive and that is very fun!

Check out the article written by Irene and Aida in the March edition of the Northside Newspaper, The Compass

      iNavigate Dance Troupe                                                                         Science Mondays

 

Girls on the Run  

Award-winning Author Visits Northside

Picture taken By Abigail

Carole Boston Weatherford is an African- American author who writes about the key moments in Black History.  She came to Northside on Monday, February 23rd  to explain how she gets her information about these amazingly rich bits of history. The reason she came was because she was the first person to write a book about Rosenwald anything. Northside was originally a Rosenwald school.  This author will be continuing to write about these amazing black historians.  

Read the article by Margaret and Bridgette in the March edition of the Northside student newspaper, The Compass

Students go on Tours of the Green Features of Northside

Our amazing school, Northside Elementary, is loaded with green features. We have solatube skylights, high performance windows, reflective roofing, sun screens, solar hot water and much more! A lot of classes were taken on a tour of the school to see these green features and learn what they do for our school. The tours were led by Steve Nally, who works with the architect that designed the school. These classes were shown all of the green features and had them explained by Steve Nally.

Read the full article by Pele in the March edition of the Northside newspaper, The Compass.

Black History Assembly

  

Northside Elementary school celebrated black history month during February. Black History month was concluded with a school wide performance on Friday, February 28th. The first act was the Navigators on the Move, students carrying out their drumming beats. The second act, which was one of the most admired parts was when the kindergarteners sang “The Song of Peace” it was delightful. A few students from a fifth grade class read the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The reading was meaningful and enjoyable. After the fourth performance was a third grade class reading about the “Black Sit-ins”.Then a second grade class told the audience about famous African American people. It was interesting because there many famous people that students were able to learn about. Soon after, the audience watched a video that a first grade class made about the African American people who changed our lives.  Before long, iNavigate performed by dancing to the song “I’ll be there”. The last performance was the second group of Navigators on the Move and they were stomping and clapping. Everybody in the assembly sang the Northside theme song which was fun. The performance was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of Black History month, it was enjoyed by all.

Read the entire article by Irene and Aida in the March edition of the Northside Newspaper, The Compass.