Principal's Message

January 7, 2010
Dear Parents,
Happy New Year.  I am looking forward to having a great 2009 both personally and as the principal at Nibley Park.  For many the end of 2009 was pretty tough but I am confident that things will be looking up as we head into 2010.  A perfect example was how great you all did in dealing with very cold, snowy weather and making it through our parking lot to pick up your children on the first day back.  Thank you.
Another great example has been the fact that we have had 20 or less students absent on the first couple of days back.  This is a great job all on your parts.  Once again thank you.  We even had a lot less tardiness and that is with the storms.  We are getting tough on being late so make sure your children are on time.  Even if a student doesn’t learn everything we hope for during there time here at Nibley Park, if they learn to be somewhere when they are supposed to be and to be on time, they have a skill that could help them keep a job in the future.
I hope all of you had a great holiday and had a chance to do something fun with your children.  Believe me when I tell you that they will all be high school students before you know it and then you have to schedule yourself in with them to have time with your kids.
A big issue that we will need to deal with concerns the budgets.  As we head into the rest of the year we lost some private funding for the arts at our school and won’t be looking at budget increases over the next year.  The private funding was for the art program and we lost $20,000.  In order to keep things going we will be tightening our belts as much as we can but we could also use any help that you might know about or could help us find.  Look for more information on this as we figure out how we can maintain the great art program that we have at Nibley Park.
Remember that next Monday is the SCC meeting at 3:45.  All interested parties are invited.
If you have moved, changed jobs or phone numbers, please keep us informed on any new information.  If we have an emergency we need to reach you and must have correct information to do so.  Almost everyday we try and reach a parent and find phone numbers that are no longer in service.
Thanks again for your support and remember to eat dinner as a family, read with your kids everyday, turn off the TV and video games during the week  and get some exercise everyday.  With all of the eating that we did over the holiday and the fact that many of you have new video and game stuff, it is really important to do these things.
Doug McLennan

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