Guided Tour of NFP Offered Feb 11 For Prospective Parents
The WCPSS application window for parents to apply for magnet or calendar option schools runs from February 8 - 28, 2010. Since North Forest Pines accepts applications from parents who wish to attend a year-round school, we are offering a guided tour and information session to help prospective parents become acquainted with our school. We are offering the tour on Thursday, February 11 beginning at 3:30 PM. Please call our data manager, Barb Davis, at 570-2207 to let us know you will be coming. We look forward to meeting you!

3rd Graders Collecting Shoes for Haiti until Feb 12
The NFP Third Grade Team is participating in Operation Shoes-4-Souls and helping the organization raise 150,000 pairs of shoes to send to Haiti. Shoes-4-Souls is a registered non-profit organization located in Raleigh. If you have shoes in your closet that you do not wear, you can donate them to help someone in need. Donated shoes may be new or gently worn. The organization is also in need of funds to cover the shipping costs. Donations made be made at https://www.myoldshoes.org/HELP_VICTIMS_OF_HAITI.html.

Teacher Appreciation Week
February 8 - 12
The PTA has has scheduled Teacher Appreciation Week for February 8-12. Parents can recognize their child’s teacher any day this week by sending in a card, flowers, a drawing that expresses appreciation or by getting items from the teacher’s wish list which are posted to their website.
Specialists teachers’ wish lists can be found at http://northforestpineses.wcpss.net/teacher_appreciation.html.
Thank you parents for supporting NFP teachers!

Day	What the PTA is Providing
Monday	salty snacks in the lounge & 30 minutes of coverage so that all Track 1 and 2 teachers can have a 1 hour off campus lunch
Tuesday	a catered lunch from Shuckers
Wednesday	breakfast foods in the lounge
Thursday	sweet treats in the lounge
Friday	30 minutes of coverage so that all Track 3 and 4 teachers can have a 1 hour off campus lunch

Track Change Requests Accepted Until February 19
North Forest Pines is accepting track change requests from currently enrolled families for the 2010-2011 school year from February 1-19. Please access the track change request form and submit your request no later than February 19 to northforestpines@wcpss.net, send it in to your child's teacher or mail it to the school attention Barb Davis. Forms submitted after February 19 will not be considered. We will make every effort to accommodate as many requests as possible and inform you of our decision in March. Please call Barb Davis at 570-2207 if you have any questions.

Falcon Fest Volunteers Needed
Volunteers are desperately needed to serve on 8 planning committees for the upcoming Falcon Fest. The committees have flexibility and most of them are not very time consuming. If you can help or if you need more information, please contact Karen Baker at kbake@nc.rr.com.

Regional Saturday Academy Starts in March
Five Wakefield-area schools (including North Forest Pines Elementary) are starting a Regional Saturday Academy which will provide free tutoring services to approximately 70 students from the five schools. Click here to see the preliminary details of the proposed Saturday Academy plan. Thanks to the community's support of these efforts, the program is set to begin on March 13, 2010. To read more about the Educational Summit, go to this website.
Hear the podcast about the Regional Summit. (14 minutes | .mp3)

Dr. Burns' Journal

H1N1 Virus
Wake County Public School System works closely with Wake County Human Services on any cases of communicable diseases or viruses. WCPSS and Wake County Human Services are carefully monitoring the flu situation and will keep parents and the public updated.