We've extended the deadline for pre-sale tickets. You can now buy pre-sale tickets until Friday, October 31 at the discounted price. NESF members receive the best price at $50 per ticket. Non-members pay $75. If you are thinking of joining the foundation...

Did you know that simply by eating at certain restaurants and shopping at certain places, you can be raising money for Newport El? There are actually a lot of places around town and on the web that will donate a percentage of your purchases to our school...

Remember the crazy 80s? This year's Beacon's Bash is another blast from the past as we celebrate the 80s. Here's all the information you need for your calendar right now: Beacon's Bash Silent Auction & Concert November 7 at 8 pm Newport...

The NESF wants you to join us as a member this year. Last year we converted our structure to a membership and brought in a record amount of support for the foundation. Membership in the foundation is critical because we need everyone's help to continue...

Save those Box Tops on specially selected products - they are worth money to our school. You can turn them into your teacher or the front office. They add up fast so start cutting today.

First Annual NESF Member’s Meetingv.2.ppt Attached is the PowerPoint presentation from our first annual Members meeting (with audio which I dubbed in one week later). Congrats to the 2008-2009 Board: Eric Aust Sandi Bulgin Mary Cappellini Rechelle Durham...

Gordon Dillow wrote an interesting piece on the annual STAR testing season which is now upon us. I think this is a fair representation of these yearly California State Standards tests. While his article references specifically the high school variants...

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE ONLINE AUCTION ! THE INFORMATION LISTED ON THE HULA BLOG IS JUST A SAMPLE OF THE ITEMS WE HAVE ONLINE.

I just have to tell the Foundation and the staff how excited the 4th through 6th grade students are with the software our school purchased called My Access. The students write essays, persuasive letters, etc. and submit online. The immediate feedback...

Fresh off an appearance on "60 Minutes", the David Beckham Academy is visiting Newport El on Tuesday the 25th of March to put on a special program for our third and fourth graders. The third graders will spend time with the "Nutritional...

I was lucky enough to attend California's Computer Using Educator's Conference (CUE) in Palm Springs last Thursday and Friday with our principal, Amy. It is an opportunity to gather with teachers, technology coordinators, principals, IT folks...

Interesting article of front page of today's LA Times. Re: Singapore Math. -------------------- At L.A. school, Singapore math has added value -------------------- By Mitchell Landsberg Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 9 2008 Here's a little...

The library recently received a generous parent donation. This allowed us to switch to the Enterprise version of Accelerated Reader, opening up the number of quizzes available for our students to over 100,000. This is a huge number of quizzes and the...

I read a really interesting article in Friday's Wall Street Journal as the lead story in the "Weekend Journal" section on education in Finland-"What makes Finnish Kids So Smart?" Talks about how Finland consistently scores at or...

The Newport Elementary School Foundation would like to thank Taco Rosa for becoming our first underwriter for Hula and they will also be catering the event! Check out their website at www.tacorosa.com .