Hey all! Just wanted to share out an opportunity to catch an awesome performance this weekend! The Purdue Men’s Varsity Glee Club (including 3 of our own former Northridge Grads, Nicholas Beaver, Nathan Gibson, and Drew Stahly) will be presenting a performance alongside our own Northridge Northern Lights on Saturday, September 27th at 7:00pm. Ticket information can be found below (with a special $10 student ticket price for Northridge students)! Hope to see a bunch of you out there cheering on this awesome performance!

This announcement is for all 6th Grade Choir parents (7th and 8th Grade Choir Parents, your announcement is still upcoming, so keep an eye out for it😉)

Hey all! Coming home with your choir daughter/son today is a parent letter talking about our upcoming 6th Grade Glow-In Skate night (a link to a digital copy of the letter can be found here for your convenience). To summarize everything quickly:

1. Who: 6th Grade NMS Choir Students Only
2. What: 6th Grade Choir Skate Night (Cost: $5)
3. Where: Jarisa’s Fun Zone (14385 Indiana 120, Bristol, IN 46507)
4. When: September, 30th from 6:00-7:30pm
5. Why: To reward and get to know these awesome kids outside of the classroom and cut loose on the skating floor!

This will not be a mandatory event but we sure hope your daughter/son can join in for the fun! Parents are welcome to come along and watch but only 6th grade NMS Choir students will be allowed on the skating floor (Most parents drop off their child and come back at 7:30) Pick up time will be at 7:30pm.

Hope to see them there! – Mr. Maura and Mr. Norwood

Hi there! I’m Mr. Maura! I am so excited to be joining NMS Choirs, and I can’t wait to meet all of the students and make some amazing music! I just graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Choral Music Education in April, so this will be my first year teaching. I have always loved choir, and my experiences both singing in and teaching ensembles throughout college have only further bolstered that love. I am committed to working with Mr. Norwood to ensure the already thriving choir community here at NMS continues to grow and flourish! I cannot wait to meet you all in person. Until then!

-Mr. Maura

Hey all! Mr. Cone and I have been watching the weather and there is a good chance that rain will impact our dodgeball event tomorrow. As of now, we are still planning on getting our dodgeball on, but if it looks like it will be raining after school, we will unfortunately have to cancel. We will look to make a decision by 1:30/2:00 at the latest, so keep an eye out for an update around then to make sure! Fingers-crossed it’ll pass us by and the dodgeballs will fly!😉

Hey all! In case your choir beast hasn’t passed on the word yet, the annual Band vs Choir Dodgeball Deathmatch will be taking place next Wednesday (May 28th) from 3:45-4:45 on the tetherball courts (right beside the Northridge tennis courts). It is open to all 6th-8th grade NMS choir and band student, and we hope to have another great turnout again this year! Pickup will be at the parking lot right beside the tennis courts. Fingers-crossed the trophy returns to us this year after a close 2-1 loss last year!

Well, the town of Middlebury was hoppin’ to the NMS Choir’s 80’s Dance Party on Saturday! The kids put on two absolutely fantastic performances to be proud of! If you weren’t able to make it out to the Final Blast performances on Saturday, you missed out on a fantastic trip back to the 80’s! The kids put on an amazing performance and closed out the year with bang! If you were still hoping to catch it in a recorded form, you’re still in luck! Our friends at Michiana Video were there recording the 4:30 performance. If you or a family member, friend, relative, neighbor, recent acquaintance, etc. were interested in a recording of this year’s Final Blast performance, orders can be placed online through this Order Form Link with money being sent in with students sometime this week. Additionally, paper copies of the order form can be picked up by students in class if preferred. We will take orders through the end of this week (Friday, May 16^th).

We also have pictures to share with you all, courtesy of our awesome photographers, Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Norris! A huge thank you to them for capturing these awesome shots! (Link to Mrs. Byers Photo Album, Link to Mrs. Norris Photo Albums)

What a fantastic way to finish off an awesome year of performances! We could not be prouder of the kids and the hard work they put into making the shows as great as they were! Thank you to the literally hundreds of parent chaperones, chauffeurs, generous donators, and volunteers that helped make this year as successful as it was! We couldn’t have done it without your help! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hello all!

We’ve been receiving a few of the same questions from parents over the last couple of days, and so I thought it would be easiest to simply send some “Need to Know” info out to you all so that everyone can have it all in one place!😉

First off, our Dress Rehearsal will be after school tomorrow (May 8th) at the high school. Students will rehearse up until 5:45 that day (with Knight Light members staying until 6:30pm). Students should be picked up at that time at their assigned doors (6th Grade – Door 23, 7th Grade – Door 1, 8th Grade – Door 29). If you were one of the parents volunteering to send in treats or water, those can be dropped off at any time throughout the school day today/tomorrow (before 3:00). Dress rehearsal chaperones will be meeting in the middle school choir room at 2:45pm to a walkthrough of the rehearsal with Mrs. A.

In regard to the Final Blast itself, Call Time for students on Saturday will be 4:00 dressed and ready in their homerooms (6th Grade – HS Band Room, 7th & 8th – HS Choir Room). Our Final Blast performances will be a little different than our other performances this year in that the students will be wearing their new Final Blast T-Shirts (*which they will be bringing home with them on Friday), Blue Jeans, and regular shoes! We will be having two shows that night (one at 4:30pm and one at 7:00pm) and tickets can be purchased by the students in classes over the next three days or at the door day of (tickets are $3 regardless). We are expecting the runtime to be right around 80-90 minutes for each show with the whole thing being done around 8:30pm.

Finally, we are still looking for a few more concert chaperones at every grade (as well as other positions of need throughout the night. If you are at all available to help out in that capacity, please reach out to either Mrs. Armington or myself so we can get you plugged in (their bark is much worse than their bite, I promise😉)! It truly “takes a village” to get this thing to the finish line so any and all help is appreciated! Thank you and see you all on Saturday! Only 4 more days to go!