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.

A Digital Learning Day Open House

On Wednesday, February 5 Northside Elementary School participated in Digital Learning Day Open House from 8 AM - 10 AM. During the open house parents, school district staff, and community members visited in classrooms across the school to experience how digital tools are used for teaching and learning at Northside.

Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teachers and common-sense, effective applications of digital learning in America’s schools that support teachers, improve learning, and provide options for students to achieve at their highest potential.

Digital Learning Day is organized by The Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, DC–based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century.

CLICK HERE to view an awesome video that was used during the welcome session with open house visitors. The video showcases the many ways Navigators use digital tools every day.

 

Chinese Acrobat Visits Northside

On Tuesday, January 14 second through fifth grade students attended an in-school performance by the Chinese acrobat Li Lui.  During the performance students were wowed by Li Lui skills with demonstrations of plate spinning, hand balancing, and ribbon dancing. During the performance Li Lui selected student volunteers from the audience to try their had at performing basic acrobatic routines.

Li Lui also discussed aspects of the Chinese language with students along with the traditions and celebrations associated with Chinese New Year.

This performance was sponsored by the Northside PTA's Cultural Arts Committee.