North Topsail Elementary School

🚍 Help Us Prepare for 2025-26 Bus Routes! 🚍 The Pender County Schools Transportation Department is gearing up for the next school year, and we need YOUR help to ensure accurate bus assignments! 📢 Important Steps for Parents/Guardians: ✅ Check your child’s Parent Letter for their current bus stop details. ✅ If there are NO changes, return the form with all “YES”s circled by April 16, 2025. ✅ If changes are needed, update your info using the Student Ridership Survey (https://bit.ly/4lb0ZLF) by April 16, 2025. ⏳ Deadline Reminders: 🔹 Schools must update all transportation data in Infinite Campus by May 9, 2025. 🔹 The Google Form will NOT reopen during summer – all new student transportation requests will go through Infinite Campus. 📌 Let’s work together to ensure every PCS student has the right bus assignment on day one!

We are so thankful for our Hampstead community! Thank you to everyone who volunteered with Renovation Church over the weekend to make our school a more beautiful place! #onepender

We are still collecting condiments to "Mustard Up Some Kindness!" Collection has been extended until Monday, March 31st!

We are thrilled to announce that Mrs. Casey Yasalonis has been selected as the NTE Teacher of the Year for 2025-2026! 🎉✨ Mrs. Yasalonis is one of our rock star kindergarten teachers and makes a huge impact on our little learners every day. Please join us in congratulating her on this well-deserved honor! #onepender

Get excited! 🎉 This Friday night, our Dolphin's Got Talent is happening, and you won’t want to miss it! From singing to dancing, our talented performers are ready to wow you! 🌟 #onepender

Check out our Top Banana winners and our Attendance Data for Q3! 🍌 Although we didn’t reach our goal of 95% Responsible Attendance, we recognize the challenges posed by flu and other illnesses. 🤒 Let’s work together to ensure everyone is healthy and ready to push for our goal in the final quarter of the 24-25 school year! #onepender

📣 March is Social Work Month! 🎉 Meet Faith Harper, one of our dedicated school social workers! Ms. Harper splits her time between North Topsail Elementary, Surf City Elementary, and Topsail High School. With two years of experience, she is passionate about creating a safe and supportive environment where students feel loved and empowered to overcome challenges. ✨ Jill Robertson -“We are so appreciative of Ms. Harper. Her compassion, dedication and unwavering support make such a positive impact on our school community. Whether she is offering a listening ear, providing resources or advocating for those in need, her kindness and hard work does not go unnoticed. NTE is thankful for the positive impact she makes every day!” 🎉 Fun Facts: She’s a big UNC-Chapel Hill fan, an iced coffee lover, and has a beagle-boxer mix named Milo who is about to turn 3! Join us in thanking Ms. Harper and all our amazing school social workers for their dedication! 💙👏

Please be aware that the outage may impact school phone lines. Thank you for your understanding. UPDATE (11:43AM) Four County Electric is on site beginning repairs. The outage is expected to extend through the school day. UPDATE (5:00 PM) Internet has been restored.

Say cheese!!!! Strawbridge photography will be here on Monday, March 17th for class and individual pictures.

📢 Kindergarten Registration & Preschool Info Event! 🎉 📅 March 12 | 4:30 – 7:00 PM 📍 Heide Trask High School Join us for a fun & informative evening to help your child start school with confidence! ✨ What’s Happening? ✅ Meet PCS staff & community partners ✅ Fun games & entertainment for kids ✅ Kindergarten Readiness Bags for incoming students ✅ On-site Registration Station for easy enrollment ✅ Food trucks & more! 📌 Bring these to register: ✔ Birth Certificate ✔ Proof of Residence ✔ Health Assessment ✔ Immunization Records ✔ Parent ID 💻 Online registration opened March 1 - https://www.pender.k12.nc.us/page/enroll Don’t miss this exciting event—we can’t wait to welcome your family! 🎒✨ 📍 Escuela Secundaria Heide Trask ¡Acompáñanos para una tarde divertida e informativa y prepárate para el primer día de clases! ✨ ¿Qué habrá? ✅ Conoce al personal de PCS y socios comunitarios ✅ Juegos y entretenimiento para niños ✅ Bolsas de preparación para Kindergarten ✅ Estación de Registro para inscribirte fácilmente ✅ ¡Comida deliciosa de food trucks! 📌 Para registrar a tu hijo, trae: ✔ Acta de nacimiento ✔ Comprobante de domicilio ✔ Evaluación médica ✔ Vacunas ✔ Identificación del padre/madre 💻 ¡La inscripción en línea abre el 1 de marzo - https://www.pender.k12.nc.us/page/enroll ¡No te lo pierdas! ¡Esperamos darte la bienvenida a nuestra comunidad escolar! 🎒✨

Shout Out to our North Topsail Elementary PTA and Shaka Taco of Hampstead for helping us with our baked potato bar last month! #onepender

We have loved having so many parents, PCS leadership, and community members join us this week to share their passion for reading! 📖✨ On Thursday, we were thrilled to welcome Sheriff Cutler and Leanne Radabaugh, Director for Student Support. Thank you for helping us make Read Across America extra special! #onepender @pendercountysheriff

Our Read Across America celebration is off to a great start! Monday we had a DEAR (drop everything and read), today was crazy sock day and we also welcomed several district leaders and parents! We are so appreciative of our guests for taking time out of their busy day to share their love of reading with our students! #onepender

🏅 Elementary Science Olympiad Success! 🏅 This weekend, young scientists from across the district showcased their skills at the Elementary Science Olympiad at Heide Trask High School! 🧪🔬⚙️ 🏆 First Place Varsity: South Topsail Elementary 🥈 Second Place Varsity: North Topsail Elementary 🥉 Third Place Varsity: Surf City Elementary 🏅 First Place Junior Varsity: Surf City Elementary Congratulations to all of our future STEM leaders for their hard work, teamwork, and problem-solving! We are proud of you! 🎉👏 #OnePender

Best wishes to our Science Olympiad team and their NTE Coaches as they compete with the other elementary schools in Pender County on Saturday! They have been staying after school one-two days per week since November to prepare for their event. Regardless of the outcome, we are proud of you for your commitment and effort!!! #onepender

The NTE Kindergarten’s “Hearts Around the World” project has been a big success! We have received many cards from the United States, Poland, Norway and Africa! One of the deliveries from Africa came from a Primary School in Uganda. Inside the package were about 40 handwritten notes from the children! We will be working together to send a package back to them! Thank you to everyone that has supported this project! #onepender

We had the privilege this morning to honor Mrs. Brittany Hoffman as the Beginning Teacher of Promise for North Topsail! 🐬 Mrs. Hoffman will be recognized at the Teacher of the Year Banquet in May. She will also go through the process for Beginning Teacher of the Year for Pender County Schools. All 19 schools' have chosen one first year teacher as their BT of Promise and each BT will submit various essays and contributions to be considered as our PCS BT of the Year, which will be named in May at the Teacher of the Year Banquet. The first year teacher that gets this recognition for PCS will move onto the State Level process to be considered for the NCCAT North Carolina Beginning Teacher of the Year! Mrs. Hoffman, we are so proud of you and so appreciative of your compassion, your dedication and the kindness you spread at NTE! #onepender

No School for Students on Friday!

Congratulations to our Battle of the Books team on their outstanding achievement! 🎉 Your dedication to reading and collaboration has set a positive example of teamwork and perseverance. 📚 Keep inspiring others with your passion for literature! #OnePender

🌟 We're bursting with pride for our incredible students! They've dedicated their time this year to preparing for the Battle of the Books competition, diving into the sixteen books on the state list and mastering the questions. 📚✨ As they compete against other elementary schools in Pender County, let's show them our support! 🎉🙌