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    Important Elementary Information

    *Elementary Student Conference Days -- September 5, 2023 and September 6, 2023.  We are continuously looking for ways to improve our efforts to support communication between our families and our school.  Our 1st-5th grade students are still planning one conference per student, and parents and guardians are asked to come to school with their child, at the assigned time to meet with their child's teacher for an individual conference.  Bridges and Kindergarten families will meet in small groups for a 40 minute conference.

    During these scheduled conference times, teachers will have an opportunity to share with both parents and students information about the grade level curriculum, daily classroom schedules, grading, classroom rules, and student expectations.  The time with the teacher will be scheduled for 40 minutes on either Tuesday, September 5 OR Wednesday, September 6.  A portion of the conference will be a personal meeting with the teacher.  The other portion of the conference will allow time for the teacher to assess and gauge where each student is at academically.  This way, the teacher can plan ways to best support your student on the first day of instruction.  During the student time with the teacher, parents and/or guardians will have time to fill out the necessary paperwork, and speak with our Physical Education, STEAM, and Music teachers.

    After the 40 minute conference, students will be dismissed for the day and will return on Thursday, September 7th for their first full day of school (Bridges/Kindergarten will follow a separate schedule).  Conference Days information will be mailed to families during the first part of August, and will be available on the school website nrheg.k12.mn.us.  Please contact the elementary office at 507-684-3181 if you have any questions.

    School Hours for both sites will be from 8:30 am to 3:05 pm.  All elementary students are dismissed at 3:05 p.m. The only students that remain at the elementary site from 3:05 pm to 3:20 pm will be the Ellendale-Geneva bus route students. All New Richland-Hartland students and Ellendale students who walk, and those who are picked up by families, will be leaving at 3:05 pm.  Students living in town are asked not to arrive at school before 8:00 a.m.

    Elementary (Bridges – 5th Grade) Individual Student Pictures will be taken Tuesday, September 12th. Pictures will be taken in the elementary media center. Photo package information and cost will be available on Day One.  Picture money envelopes will be sent home with the students in the Thursday folders on Sept 7th.  Please complete the information on the envelope and send it with your child with money- (exact change or check written out to Brant Hemingway Photography).  PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD’S PICTURE TAKEN EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PURCHASE A PACKAGE.  These pictures are used for our Elementary Memory Book.

    Secured Entrance at NRHEG Elementary (East Entrance Door # 3, on School Street) When arriving to NRHEG Elementary School, all parents/visitors are expected to enter the building using the EAST ENTRANCE. The office staff will identify you on their camera and unlock the door, allowing you to enter the school. ALL VISITORS MUST REGISTER IN THE OFFICE.  YOU WILL THEN RECEIVE A VISITOR’S PASS BEFORE PROCEEDING TO AN EVENT OR CLASSROOM.  This system will be in place from 8:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. during each school day.

    Bus Pick Up/Drop Off Locations in Ellendale  To ensure that our students may safely travel to and from school, the district has identified the railroad tracks as a hazardous crossing.  Therefore, there will be two pick-up points for students living in Ellendale, one on each side of Highway 30.

    North Pick Up in Ellendale Location:  Southwest corner of 4th Street and 4th Ave.  This is the location of the former United Methodist Church.  Students are to wait on the sidewalk until the bus arrives.

    South Pick Up in Ellendale Location:  On the north side of 7th Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets.  This is the parking area for the Bonnerup Funeral Home. 

    SCHOOL DROP-OFF/Pick- up ZONE  Enter from 8th Avenue (directly behind Al’s Body Shop) and drop off/pick up your child at the south end of the sidewalk by Doors # 8 & 9.  Please exit using the west entrance of the parking lot.   In an effort to maintain student safety and to ease traffic, parents MUST use the south location as their pick up and drop off point.  **Also students arriving for school are not to be dropped off or picked up in the north parking lot or on the east side of school during the hours of 7:30-8:30am and 2:45-3:30pm  Students dropped off will not have access to entering the building until 7:45am.  Families will have the option to use our paid SAC (School Age Care) services that are available, but there is a fee associated with this service**

    Important Phone Numbers
    Craig Kopetzki, Elementary Principal:  507-684-3181    
    Jean Greenwood, Administrative Assistant:  507-416-2101
    Attendance Line:  507-416-2160      Nurse Line:  507-416-2105