IMPORTANT NOTICE: Appointments for Impact Testing for all 7th, 9th, 11th grade students involved in HS or MS extra-curricular activities will be held at the EMS in Nortonville on Monday, August 10 from 8AM to Noon and
Wednesday, August 12 from 8AM to Noon
Contact Coach Polson to schedule an appointment.
Call or Text: 913-426-5606 or
email: tpolson@usd339.net
Class Lists!
EMS Class Lists will be delayed until Friday of this week. Due to the unknown remote learning students, we will be delaying the posting of class lists to ensure balancing classroom numbers.
Thank you for your patience
It sounds as though some of you haven't received your enrollment envelope in the mail yet. I have added my letter to the Enrollment folder under Parent Resources on the website and app. Please see "Welcome back letter 2020" and "Questions and Answers". To begin online enrollment refer to "Instructions -Creating a Guardian account in PowerSchool". Once you have a guardian account, you may log in and click on Enrollment on the left hand side. If you have issues or need assistance, offices in both buildings open tomorrow and in-person enrollment is scheduled for Tuesday from 8-7:00. Thank you!
Free School Supplies. See attached flyer.
NOTICE: The USD 339 Return To School Plan and August, 2020 calendar is available on our website under news and Parent Resources.
The JCN Board of Education met today and have voted to delay the start of school for students by one week. Staff will report as scheduled. The first half day of school will be August 25th (K-9th) and the first full day of school August 26th (K-12th). Preschool will begin August 31st. The delay will provide staff, teachers, and administrators additional time at the beginning of the year to prepare for opening doors with preventive measures in place. Our reopening plan will be out on Monday providing us a framework for the year. I look forward to providing many, many specifics as we work through the next few weeks of this worldwide pandemic.
We will be working to revise our August calendar and get that out quickly as well. We are planning to open online enrollment at the end of next week. We will have our planned in-person enrollment as scheduled, August 4th, if you would like assistance with the process. You will receive a letter next week explaining enrollment and further explaining your opportunities for educating your children this year with JCN. Thank you for being a JCN Charger!
More information to come in the next few days..... but in the meantime, don't panic. As you listen to the news and wait anxiously to hear about schools reopening, masks, etc. Give this a bit more time. We will be sharing our reopening plan next week. We will have options that I believe will help many of you feel better about the school year. I realize the "roller coaster" seems like a runaway train but learning remains our JCN goal and we will help your children continue to learn face-to-face or through a remote manner.
As a kid I loved roller coasters, but as an adult life feeling like a roller coaster is not nearly as much fun. I realize the last time I spoke with you, I said the Governor had delayed schools. While many of you may have been relieved, others may have been quite concerned. Recently, I gave an opinion that a delay of 4 or 5 days would be helpful to ensure our orders have arrived and our best plans are in place. I wanted to reach out and let you know if the State Board decides to reject her mandate, we will be ready for your children. If they support her mandate, the JCN teachers and administration will be on duty each day during the delay planning for our students to return. Teachers will be working to develop remote learning opportunities for students that will need to learn from home during quarantine or high-risk situations. We will be planning for what could be a very interesting year ahead. With teachers on duty, we are able to count half the time as our 1116 hour minimum so if you are afraid we will be attending all next summer, I believe those hours plus swapping some staff development days out of our calendar from later in the year, we can make this work. Most of all, we will be striving for once our doors open, they remain open all year.
I understand this is a very difficult time. Please know the Jefferson County North school community is aiming for making it a quality year. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Jefferson Medical Clinic
July 25 8:30am-12pm
July 27 6pm-8pm
August 7th 9am-11pm, Noon-3pm.
Phone: (844) 536-9449
I am so sorry this is such an unsettling time we find ourselves locked into. If you haven’t heard the news, Governor Kelly announced that she will be delaying the reopening of school until after Labor Day. Though this will give our JCN school staff and community time to outline the best plan possible for reopening schools, I realize it comes with extra demands, as well as concerns placed upon each of you. Please know our goal is to get students back to learning as soon as possible. I am eager to gather more information on Monday, as mentioned, and from there we will get to work planning for our opening day. Take care.
School supply lists are also located in Parent Resources under Document (on your App) and under Menu (on your website) for printing purposes. Note: As you shop, please don't stress over items that are not available i.e. hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes. We'll appreciate what you find and can send, but we will understand if supply and demand makes it impossible. I'm working to secure supplies to get us started.
EMS School Supply Lists
We would appreciate your input on our reopening plans. Please complete the following survey (one per family): https://forms.gle/HAJjeE9uCzfo97x46
Due to the rain, wind, and forecast, we have moved graduation inside this morning. I encourage audience members to bring and wear face masks. We will have some available. Seniors and participants will not be required to wear face masks during the ceremony as we have allowed for physical spacing.
Thank you Trooper Don Hughes for talking to our Driver’s Education students.
Rain or Shine? Given Kansas weather, it is difficult to forecast the weather for Saturday's Graduation or Tuesday's Promotion. We have planned three options for both occasions: 1st Plan A- Football stadium, outdoor air, social distancing. 2nd Plan B- Short rain delay, Football stadium, same as above. 3rd Plan C- (Rain here to stay), Move inside high school, social distancing, may have some occupancy restrictions.
8th Grade Promotion Letter
Summer School Building Schedules: JCN is offering summer school opportunities to improve failing grades in the 4th quarter for MS and HS students. If a student failed a class and wishes to improve upon their grade/s they will be given the opportunity to improve. Space is limited, so please contact the school to check availability. These opportunities will only be available if prior scheduling is set up with the particular school. Weekly schedule will run until June 18th. EMS: Tu, W, & Th from 9-12 HS: M & Th from 9-12 Remember, you must make contact with the school to ensure space is available.
iPad Return at EMS Instructions
The day of your iPad return please have your iPad charged and turned on so we can double
check that you are logged out of your itunes accout / app store and that you disable the ipad
passcode. Also make sure to return the ipad charger that we gave you when you received the
iPad from the school
It is important that you sign out of your itunes account / app store.
It is also important to clear iPad passcode.
Neither of these were set by JCN so if you or a family member did not add these then you will
not need to sign out and clear passcode but we will still be double checking them upon return.
EMS Supply Drop Off!
Tomorrow between 4-6 p.m. is the materials drop off at the EMS. MS students will be directed into the back parking lot where teachers will have tables out to collect school owned materials. Elementary students will circle into the front parking lot to drop off materials along the parent pickup lane. Materials include: instruments, library & classroom books, textbooks, iPads, etc...
Some students may not have any materials to return.
Look forward to seeing you then!!!!!!
