Nutrition Plan

MON 

No School

     
TUE
Breakfast: Muffins, Yogurt, Fruit
Lunch: Chicken Soup, Cheese Toasties, fruit & veggies   

WED
Breakfast: Hard Cooked Eggs, fruit cups, Nutrigrain Bars, Fruit
Lunch: Veggie Spring Rolls and Plum Sauce, Fruit, veggies

THUR
Breakfast: Pan Granola Bars, Cheese Strings, Yogurt Tubes, Fruit
Lunch: Beef Soup, Mini Ciabatta Buns, Fruit, Veggies  

FRI 

Breakfast: Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies, fruit

Looking Forward 
Explore our school calendar on our website for upcoming dates and important information

Jan 15 – Non-Instructional Day (No School)
Jan 17 – Spirit North (every Tuesday) 
Jan 17 – Ms. Chantel Visit
Jan 22 – Artist in Residency begins 
Jan 30 – Report Cards

2024-25 School Calendar  
The 2024-25 CBE instructional school calendar is now available. The first school day for students for next school year is Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. The calendar includes a minimum of 181 instructional days and 10 system-wide days for schools to schedule parent-teacher conferences, professional development, and other organizational days. 
The NLC calendar will be posted on the school website by the end of June with school-specific information (e.g. conferences, celebrations of learning, school council dates, etc.). 

Report Cards
Starting January 30, 2024, families can access and review online student report cards for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students. Report cards for the 2023-24 school year are available for viewing, downloading, and printing through your MyCBE to account. 

2024-25 School Registration
The 2024-25 school year registration began on January 15. If your child is currently in NLC preschool to grade 1, they are automatically registered for the next grade at NLC. Let us know if your child will be attending a different school. In the next few weeks, we will be contacting parents of current grade 2 students to talk about their transition to grade 3 at either their designated community school or in a specialized program. 

MRU Nurses  
We welcome our guest practicum nurses this week, starting Tuesday, January 16. They will be joining our kindergarten classes on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays until February 15.  

Artist in Residency 
We would like to welcome Ewa will be joining the Niitsitapi school community to guide art-based inquiry projects from January to March. 
Ewa Sniatycka BFA, MEd, is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged teaching artist, interested in stories of identity, belonging, and the environment. She works in collaboration with a variety of folks, creating site-specific residency projects in schools and community settings in western Canada. The residences are collaborative and responsive, tailored to fostering art-based inquiry. Ewa is drawn to clay, because of its primordial and sensual nature, and its vast, creative and expressive potential. Her ceramic work is hand-built and predominantly sculptural. She lives in a tiny old house in Bridgland with her friend Archie.

Inii’s Insights
The winter moons remind us that each First Nation has unique stories and cultural teachings. Elder Anita Eagle Bear has shared that this moon (January) is known to the Kainai asaisstoyiimsstaa, which means causes cold weather. A calendar shared by the Piikani Nation names this moon ómahksiki'somm, Old Moon. When Grandmother Moon begins her cycle again in February, she is called piitaiki'somm, Eagle Moon, across Blackfoot Territory. Their return to the rivers will tell us the ice is melting - a subtle shift towards warmer weather and a promise that a new season is coming.