North Metro Flex Academy

Welcome back to school and Happy New Year! We hope you and your families were able to rest, recharge and enjoy time together. My sons are 19, 21, 24 and 26 and they all have busy lives, so it is always an accomplishment if I can get them to share a meal together!

This month with our Character Strong Program we will be focusing on HONESTY!

With COVID swirling around, please screen your children for any symptoms daily. If you are not sure what to do, please call us at 651-300-6300 to talk to our COVID Coordinator, Jessaca Karg. We also have rapid COVID tests available on site. We are also strongly encouraging vaccinations for anyone who can be vaccinated! We will continue to practice many layered mitigation strategies on the bus and at school each day.

We want to do a mid-year check to make sure everyone is getting communication from the school. We want to make sure every family is getting the communication they need through our JMS system and website.

Starting January 10th, we will be conducting our NWEA MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) Testing. During the month of January, every grade level will be participating in MATH AND READING assessments in our computer lab. This will give us progress data to inform our classroom and small group instruction for the second half of our school year.

Coming up on January 19, 2022 at 5:00 we will have our January School Board Meeting. Everyone is invited to attend either in person or virtually. At 6:00 there will be the Annual Meeting where the Annual Report and World's Best Work Force Report will be shared. Please join us!

Stay well...be safe, kind and responsible!

Mrs. Kranz

Delta Management were the donors that supplied NMFA with outdoor winter gear and clothing prior to winter break. We wanted to take a moment and thank them for allowing our NMFA families to be prepared for this winter season.

Please follow the link below to sign your student up for after school tutoring if you have not done so already. Tutoring will be begin January 10th - for all grades!!

https://forms.gle/t7VpqP2kZPB73XXA6

We are asking this of you as a parent and guardian...

• Please screen students at home in the morning – please do not sent them to school if they are having these symptoms.

At school this is what we are doing

• We are screening kids at school. If students have COVID related symptoms (please view the Decision Tree ) they will be sent to the office and parents will be called to pick up students.
• Students should be wearing masks on buses
• Students are expected to wear masks throughout the day, with mask breaks outside…
• Assigned seats in classrooms and at lunch, to help with contact tracing
• PPE supplies for cleaning in classrooms daily
• Air filtration UVAC systems and classroom air purifiers

Good Afternoon Families/Buenas tardes familias

Currently, as you may all know- there is a limited supply of at home tests within the state of Minnesota. To help combat this and to keep track of how fast we are utilizing these rapid tests- we are implementing a new system for requesting a test. We are asking that families use this form to request tests for each of their students when needed. We will send home the appropriate tests needed per enrolled students per family. Up until this point we were able to provide tests for families, however due to limited supplies we can now only provide them for students. Please save the link below:

NMFA COVID Test Request Form

You can also find this form on our website under Current Families- COVID Coordinator.

Thank you!

Actualmente, como todos saben, hay un suministro limitado de pruebas caseras dentro del estado de Minnesota. Para ayudar a combatir esto y hacer un seguimiento de la rapidez con la que utilizamos estas pruebas rápidas, estamos implementando un nuevo sistema para solicitar una prueba. Les pedimos a las familias que usen este formulario para solicitar pruebas para cada uno de sus estudiantes cuando sea necesario. Enviaremos a casa las pruebas apropiadas necesarias por estudiante matriculado por familia. Hasta este momento, podíamos proporcionar pruebas para las familias; sin embargo, debido a los suministros limitados, ahora solo podemos proporcionarlas a los estudiantes. Guarde el siguiente enlace:

Formulario de solicitud de prueba COVID de NMFA

También puede encontrar este formulario en nuestro sitio web bajo Familias Actuales-Coordinador COVID.

¡Gracias!

REMINDER!!

If your student tests positive over break please contact the school for next steps. If you student is awaiting test results please do not send them until you get conformation of a negative test. If your student becomes a close contact with someone who tests positive with covid19 please contact with school for next steps. Stay safe and stay warm over break!

Reminder...

This is what we refer to at school to make decisions on students staying home and or testing positive for Covid19. We ask that you use this at home as well. Just a reminder to all families if your student is testing positive or is in need of isolating at home due to close contact that you contact the school for next steps and your students return date.

January 3-4 - Distance Learning for all grades k-8 (School Closed)

January 10th - School Wide NWEA Testing starts

January 17th - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (NO SCHOOL)

January 19th - 5:00 School Board Meeting, 6:00 Annual Report and World's Best Work Force Report will be presented

LOOKING AHEAD:

Keep a look out for Spring Clubs and After school activity sign ups!

Email: info@NMFAMN.org
Website: www.NMFAMN.org
Location: 2350 Helen Street North, North Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone: (651)300-6300