March 19: 11th Grade Trivia Night

March 19: Middle School Game Night

March 21: Urban Farm and Garden Volunteering

March 22: A Conversation for Senior Families with College Counseling Office

March 22: BIPOC Parents and Guardians Gathering

March 24: Woodland Park Soccer with Britt and Mercy

March 24: Environmental Sustainability Speaker Series: Amaury Avalos

March 25-26: No School (Evaluation Writing)

March 29-April 2: No School (Spring Break)

As we are quickly approaching our upcoming Spring Break, please take this opportunity to familiarize yourselves with our Travel and Gather Policies.

Travel Policy

1. Quarantine for 5 days AND 
2. Receive a negative PCR (molecular) COVID-19 test on day four or five of quarantine 
3. Confirm test results with Health Coordinator Sierra Maxwell

          OR 

1. Quarantine for 14 days

Gather Policy

1. Quarantine for 5 days AND 
2. Receive a negative PCR (molecular) COVID-19 test
3. Confirm test results with Health Coordinator Sierra Maxwell

          OR

1. Quarantine for 14 days

Magnus App

We will be using the COVID-19 Daily Health Screening assessment in the Magnus Health mobile app to track the health of our students and faculty members. In an effort to keep our community safe, all parents/guardians will be required to complete this daily health screening for each student attending in-person classes/activities prior to arrival at school or the event. Click here for more information on how to set up your Magnus Health account and complete the daily health screening.

Parents and guardians of 12th grade students: Please encourage your senior to complete this RSVP form for Senior Prom, on May 8. Details about the prom can be found here.

11th Grade Trivia Night
Friday, March 19, 7:00 pm

• Meeting Link
• Meeting ID: 856 1892 9656
• Passcode: 825831

BIPOC Parents and Guardians Gathering
Monday, March 22, 7:00 pm

• Meeting Link
• Meeting ID: 991 2443 6794
• Passcode: 345139

Urban Farm and Garden Volunteer Day

Sunday, March 21, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

It’s time to wake up the Urban Farm and Garden for Spring! We’ll be turning in cover crops, chopping compost, weeding, planting, and building pea trellises. All are welcome! Sign-up form here.

Environmental Sustainability Speaker Series
Wednesday, March 24, 7:00 pm.

Join us as we hear from Amaury Avalos, Planning & Development Specialist in the City of Seattle Human Services Department, for a conversation on food access, food justice, and Black farmers in Seattle. Zoom link here.

Wednesday, March 24 will be dedicated to experiential learning and wrapping up Trimester 2 coursework. For students who have already completed their Trimester 2 coursework, we are offering optional in-person experiential education opportunities at Beacon Food Forest, Yes Farm/Black Farmers Collective, Seadrunar Materials Recycling Facility, and Olympic Sculpture Park. There will also be asynchronous online opportunities available. Register here no later than Monday, March 22, at 12:00 pm.

Next week will be our last meal pickup of Trimester 2. After that, the kitchen will close for two weeks for Spring Break and a deep clean! Here is the upcoming schedule for the House Specialty Program:

• Week of March 22: Regular pickup
• Week of March 29: No meal program (Spring Break)
• Week of April 5: No meal program (kitchen closed for cleaning)

Check out the menu for next week here.

Finally, with the complications that the transition to hybrid brings to everyone, we would appreciate families continuing to pick up on their currently assigned days/locations during Trimester 3. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Colleges will begin to release regular decision admission outcomes to students in the coming weeks. Some colleges are offering in-person admitted student programs, while others are conducting all programming remotely. We encourage students and families to take advantage of the opportunities provided to you in order to make the most informed decisions possible; we also encourage you to keep your safety front of mind.

To support you in this process, on March 22, at 7:00 pm, the College Counseling Office will host a guided conversation about making “the decision.” We’ll look at the process in general, as well as the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic. So we are certain to address the issues that matter most to you, please submit questions to us in advance here.

• Meeting Link
• Meeting ID: 984 5299 1894
• Passcode: 275096

Mark your calendar for the 12th annual Pizazz! This four-day online fundraiser starts April 27 and supports The Northwest Experience Fund and the Raymond Taussig Terry Financial Aid Endowment. Together, we’ll raise awareness and financial support, ensuring access to a Northwest education that is inclusive for all of our students.

Contact Julie Lombardo to learn more.

We are planning an in-person Summer Camp experience focused on social connections and academic enrichment based on The Northwest School's liberal arts curriculum and social justice mission. We will have six one-week sessions, beginning July 5.

Due to ongoing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and because of local restrictions, we will not be offering a boarding program. However, we will still welcome international campers who have alternative housing arrangements.

The schedule this year will look a little different. Campers will work in cohorts rather than having personally designed schedules, but we will have a range of class combinations that will hopefully offer something for everyone.

Registration will open Monday, March 1, at 8:30 am. Learn more about our camps here.

We are offering virtual campus tours for the friends and colleagues of our international families who are interested in sending their children to our school. During these tours, we will show them around the campus, talk about programs and community, and help with admissions questions. If you would like us to hold such an event for your friends and can help us organize it, please contact us at: international@northwestschool.org.

Alternatively, we encourage you to share the contact information above with anyone in your community who might be interested in considering our school for their children, or simply send them the link to the virtual meetings with our Admissions Office: https://calendly.com/nws-international.

Thank you for your help and continued support of our international admissions efforts.

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我们现在提供在线参观与访谈给对西北中学有兴趣的国际家庭。我们会安排校园与宿舍介绍，并进一步说明我们的学程内容与申请程序。如果您有亲朋好友也对西北中学有兴趣，敬请与我们联系以特别安排: international@northwestschool.org.

您除了可以将上述讯息传递外，也可以让他们直接与我们在线活动安排的入学申请部门联系： https://calendly.com/nws-international. 非常感谢您对这活动的协助!

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Hiện nay, nhà trường đang tổ chức các sự kiện trực tuyến dành cho bạn bè và đồng nghiệp của gia đình học sinh quốc tế, đặc biệt những ai mong muốn gửi con theo học tại trường. Tại sự kiện, nhà trường sẽ tổ chức tham quan khuôn viên, trao đổi về chương trình học, về cộng đồng nơi đây, và trả lời các câu hỏi về công tác tuyển sinh. Nếu quý phụ huynh mong muốn nhà trường tổ chức sự kiện như trên cho bạn bè và có thể hỗ trợ tổ chức, vui lòng liên hệ với nhà trường tại địa chỉ: international@northwestschool.org.

Ngoài ra, hy vọng quý phụ huynh có thể chia sẻ thông tin liên hệ của nhà trường với mọi người xung quanh, đặc biệt những ai đang cân nhắc cho con theo học tại trường, hoặc đơn giản là gửi họ đường link truy cập buổi họp trực tuyến với văn phòng tuyển sinh: https://calendly.com/nws-international. Chân thành cảm ơn sự hỗ trợ của quý phụ huynh trong công tác tuyển sinh quốc tế của nhà trườn

Click here to join in live community fitness sessions every weeknight, at 5:00 pm PT.

Recordings of past workouts can be found here.

Please click here to find other college counseling announcements.

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