Welcome to the first edition of the Nishuane (Nish) News of the 2024-2025 School Year! The Nish News is a weekly communication featuring important information and updates all in one place. The Nish News will be disseminated on the last day of the school week throughout the course of this year. Please
be sure to be on the lookout for and to review the Nish News to stay abreast of all the wonderful happenings throughout the Nishuane school community!
Teaching and learning are in full swing at Nishuane as we conclude our first week of school! A big thank you to our students, faculty, staff, and families for a very special first week at Nishuane. A special shoutout to our PTA as well for organizing welcome events for our faculty and staff, as well as caregivers during the opening days. Our Nishuane community truly exemplified our special word of the week, “WELCOME!” Many buckets have already been filled as our community came together once again to welcome everyone to a new and exciting school year! Once again, WELCOME!
Please be sure to visit the Nishuane website and Nishuane Back to School Resources Guide for useful resources including our Nishuane Family Handbook and the Nishuane Family Calendar. We also greatly look forward to welcoming caregivers to our upcoming Back to School Night on Thursday, September 12th from 6 pm-8 pm.
This is surely going to be a wonderful school year! As always, your unwavering partnership is greatly appreciated.
Back to School Night: Thursday, September 12, 2024 from 6 pm-8 pm
The Nishuane Faculty and Staff are very excited to invite all parents, guardians, and caregivers to attend our Back to School Night on Thursday, September 12, 2024 from 6 pm-8 pm. This year’s Back to School Night will be facilitated in-person at Nishuane. This special evening will afford parents, guardians, and caregivers the opportunity to become better acquainted with all aspects of their child’s day-to-day experiences at Nishuane. The evening’s program will feature a comprehensive overview of Nishuane’s vision and mission, community partnerships, instructional programming, supports, and gifted & talented magnet theme. Please click here to view the evening’s agenda, as well as a staff location directory. We greatly look forward to welcoming all parents, guardians, and caregivers for Back to School Night!
Arrival & Dismissal Safety
Please carefully review the important Nishuane School arrival and dismissal information included in the beginning of year communications and available here. These protocols and safety precautions must be carefully followed at all times to ensure a safe arrival and dismissal.
As always, thank you for your partnership in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our entire school community!
For the safety of all children, please follow these guidelines during drop-off and pick up:
1.) CROSS CHILDREN ONLY AT THE CROSSWALKS.
2.) Do not leave children unsupervised at the school before 9:00 am Door A (Cedar Avenue Main Entrance only).
a.) Students cannot play on the playground before or after school without caregiver supervision.
3.) Park your car and walk your children to the front door.
4.) Do not double park or block traffic on Cedar Avenue.
5.) At all times, watch out for other children.
6.) Do not use the school’s parking lot for drop-off or pick up.
7.) At all times, follow posted parking signage.
Nishuane Visitor Form & Protocols
● Please click here to review Nishuane’s visitor protocols. Visitors must complete the visitor form prior to a visit.
○ Please remember that visitors must report only to the location of the building that was indicated on the visitor form. Visitors may not visit other locations in the building. Thank you for your support with this important safety measure!
○ Please wear a visitor’s badge for the duration of your visit. The visitor’s badge must be visible at all times.
○ Please do not prop doors open under any circumstance.
○ Please do not hold open the door for anyone behind you when entering or exiting the building.
Nish Spirit Wear Fridays
Every Friday at Nishuane is School Spirit Day! On Fridays students may participate by wearing blue and white, as well as Nishuane spirit wear. Spirit wear is available for purchase through our PTA.
Nishuane Instagram
Nishuane is on Instagram! Follow us @nishschool for a peek into the learning and fun we have in our community. Our account is private for everyone's safety. When requesting to follow us, please send a message with your child's name and we will accept you.
🎉😊Nishuane Faculty & Staff Compliment Club🎉😊
It is our absolute honor and pleasure to serve the learners and families of the Nishuane community! Our passionate faculty and staff work tirelessly to foster a nurturing and nourishing learning environment for each of our learners every day.
In appreciation of our faculty and staff, we invite all members of our community to join our “Compliment Club” by recognizing and celebrating the unwavering dedication of Nishuane’s talented faculty and staff. Please utilize this Google form to recognize individual faculty/staff members and/or groups/teams at Nishuane. The compliment will be shared with the spotlighted faculty/staff member(s) and/or group(s)/team(s). This form will be open throughout the course of the 2024-2025 school year and multiple compliments may be shared by a community member. Please feel free to revisit and submit compliments at any time!
Thank you for "filling buckets" by showing your appreciation of Nishuane’s faculty and staff! 😊
Nurse’s Notes
Please see the below reminders from Nurse Anne Ndungu
(Phone: 973-509-4236~Fax: 973-509-1197 ~ E-mail: [email protected]):
Dear Nishuane Families,
A warm welcome to our new families and a warm welcome back to all our returning families. It has been such a pleasure the last few days to meet our new students and to see all the familiar faces.
I hope that everyone had a healthy and wonderful summer. Parents of kindergarten students and transferring students if have not submit the medical documents, the following is required:
● A current Physical (within a year).
● An up-to-date Immunizations record.
● Health Survey.
Yearly Physicals forms are greatly appreciated in order to keep the students' records up to date.
For students with allergies, asthma or any other medical conditions, please submit the Action Plans which are renewed every year and drop off the medications as soon as possible.
All forms can be obtained from the district's website or from the nurse's office.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you for your continued cooperation. I am looking forward to a great school year!
Anne Ndungu, RN
Phone: 973-509-4236 Fax: 973-509-1197
Email: [email protected]