San Jose Middle School Performing Arts Students Entertain Chili Cook-Off Competitors
[:en]San Jose Middle School Performing Arts Students Entertain Chili Cook-Off Competitors Thursday evening, November 3, San Jose Middle School is hosting their 4th annual Chili Cook-Off from 6 - 8 pm in the multi-use room to benefit the performing arts program. Fall Fling, the school’s annual concert, will complete the wonderful evening with music played [...]
Restorative Justice at Rancho Elementary School[
[:en]Restorative Justice at Rancho Elementary School Rancho Elementary continues to take an alternate route. Instead of traditional discipline strategies, the students are working together to solve problems. Students meet Thursdays during lunch for Restorative Justice and Community Building Circles that are led by YMCA Restorative Justice Coordinator Jennifer Puckett. Last year staff and ten 5th [...]
October is National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, the goal of which is to encourage communities to work together to stop bullying and cyberbullying by increasing awareness of the prevalence and impact of bullying on children of all ages. Bullying can take many forms, including physical, verbal, non-verbal and electronically – known as cyber-bullying; and bullying [...]
Rail Safety Trainings Held at All NUSD Schools
[:en]Rail Safety Trainings Held at all NUSD Schools Safety comes first! Novato Unified School District has worked with the soon-to-be gliding SMART train to help promote safety. For the past year, SMART train professionals have conducted rail safety presentations at all NUSD schools and completed those presentations in September, 2016. The presentations varied to accommodate [...]
Olive Elementary Collects 912 Pairs of Shoes for Children in Africa
[:en]Olive Elementary Collects 912 Pairs of Shoes for Children in Africa On Thursday, September 8, kindness was contagious at Olive Elementary after youth motivational speaker, Brian Williams from Think Kindness, kicked off a 15-day kindness challenge and shoe drive where over 912 pairs of shoes were collected. Think Kindness is a non-profit organization that inspires [...]
10/7/16 Letter to NUSD Community
October 7, 2016 Dear Parents/Guardians: I want to inform you that the Novato Unified School District is aware of what is being described as a social media hoax that is being spread to schools/school districts across the U.S. and parts of Canada. As with other schools that have received or seen the same threatening “creepy [...]
San Marin Journalism Students Take First Prize
[:en]Congratulations to San Marin Journalism students for multiple wins in the 2016 Santa Clara University High School Journalism Contest. Amaraini Roman, class of 2016 and a first-generation Latina college freshman at UC Santa Barbara, took First Place in the News category for her article "Freshman Break Closed-Campus Lunch Rule.” John Vavuris, class of 2016 and a [...]
Lynwood Students Plant Fruit Tree Orchard
(Novato, CA) … Lynwood Elementary School students in grades 2nd through 5th experienced education outside the classroom by planting a fruit tree orchard at school on September 29th. The orchard is a partnership between the school, the Lynwood PTA and Common Vision, a nonprofit that visits low-income schools and helps them plant fruit trees on [...]