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Hi there 2nd Hill Families, 

Included below are some videos made by the wonderful Community Coordinator Anna Acha that explain a few key components of student life at NCSSM. Please watch them, they’re quite short, and incredibly informative. Enjoy!

How to Sign Out

Learning More about LiveSafe

How To: Access Passes and Laundry

Hi there 2nd Hill Families!

I hope everything is going well for everyone this October. I know that some folks may have been significantly affected by Hurricane Matthew a few days ago, so please feel free to reach out if there’s any sort of support needed. Below is the agenda for what’s included in our update. 

Agenda: - Exams - Trimester Break - Sign Out Procedures - Hall Food/Career Explorations

Exams

If you weren’t already aware, Trimester 1 Exams are going to be coming up in a couple of weeks for your students. What this means is that these next two weeks are going to be chock full of studying, stress, and quite possibly lack of sleep for your kiddos. Below are a few tips that I encourage you to give your students throughout the rest of this month:

Make sure to support your students through this stressful time

Encourage them to take care of themselves and to get enough sleep, food, and water

Listen to them and be careful not to add pressure to their already busy schedule

More than anything, we ask that you just be there for them and update us on what’s going on. Let me and Emerson know if there’s anything that we can do to best support your student. 

Trimester Break

Trimester exams begin on Monday, October 29th and end on Thursday, November 1st. Residence halls will close for trimester break on November 1st at 5:00 PM and re-open again at 12:00 PM on November 6th. The sign-out procedures for Trimester Break are the same as they are for extended weekends, so please make sure that you and your student are filling out the correct forms necessary for their travel plans as it will make their sign-out the day of much smoother. Please refer to the tag ‘#signout’ in the 2nd Hill Blog search bar to find previous posts with links and information about the signout procedures.

Also remember that longer breaks are a great time for students to take home unnecessary things that they no longer need and to prepare for upcoming campus events. Make sure to check in with your student as well as check the NCSSM calendar to send your student back to campus prepared for any major events.

Sign Out Procedures

Below is a flow chart for the sign-out procedures that we provide for students. Please refer to this chart to also understand what we ask of families when a student is leaving campus for certain situations. 

Some things to note:

If your student is going to be taking the train for long distance travel, they need to fill out the Student Travel Permission Form (see link below) and list “Amtrak” as the person picking them up

If they are going to be taking an Uber or Lyft alone to the train station, they’ll need to do the same thing but instead list “Uber” or “Lyft” as the person picking them up

Any time you have to fill out the student travel permission for a family member, other adult, or person/group picking up your student you need to remind those people that they need to come into the main lobby and physically sign out the student and bring Photo ID with them

I know that this whole process is confusing so if you still have questions, don’t hesitate to ask. The link to the Student Travel Permission Form can be found Here. 

Hall Food/Career Explorations

As always, if you’re interested in participating in either Hall Food or Career Explorations, please refer to the links below: Hall Food: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080848A4AF29A7FA7-2ndhill  Career Explorations: https://goo.gl/forms/4I0UJLMFBJGcuTrs2

Big shout out to all the families who have participated in both or either of these programming opportunities! Your support of the 2nd Hill Community is very appreciated. If you have any questions about either, please let us know!

As always, if you all have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to reach to either me or Emerson. Have a great rest of the month!

Hi there 2nd Hill Families!

Included in this update is some information about upcoming events on 2nd Hill, supplies, reminders about some campus policies, links for some forms, and some lovely pictures of your students!! *if you wanna skip all the boring stuff to look at the pictures I get it, I won’t be mad. Heck I won’t even know*

Programming Calendar & Semiformal

Attached below is the rough programming calendar for 2nd Hill in the months of November and December. If you have any questions about the dates or times of these programs please feel free to let me know! I have posted these calendars on hall for students, but a little reminder from you all would definitely help for improving program attendance! *Please note that “Open House” in December is a school-wide event, not a hall event* 

Also please note this announcement from Justin Plummer about NCSSM Semi-Formal: “This year's Semiformal is Saturday, December 16th from 9:00-11:55pm in the PEC. Appropriate semiformal attire for students would be dressy skirt, dress pants, dress shoes, dress, shirt and tie (jacket optional).” Please make sure that your students have the appropriate attire to bring back to school with them. Also please feel free to donate food, attire, or other contributions to the school for Semiformal. 

A Second Note about Programming

I had this crazy thought the other day that I hope some of you ll are as excited about as I am! I would love to start having different families present to our hall as part of a continuing education series. I know that you, the wonderful families of 2nd Hill, have amazing and fascinating jobs/professional experiences that students would love to learn about. If there are any of you that are interested in presenting about your job, the work you do, and offering up any advice or expertise to students please text, email, or call me and I’ll be happy to talk more about logistics with you! I think this would be a wonderful and unique opportunity for families to support the hall. 

Supply List

If you missed my earlier email in late October, here again is the supply list that I posted in that email plus a few other things that would be useful for hall programming:

Kitchen knives (nothing fancy, a cheap Walmart set may do)

Plastic bowls (any size from small to large would be very helpful)

Hot cocoa packets (regular, vegan, and gluten free packets would be good to help all students)

Plastic, flexible cutting boards (again, anything cheap works just fine)

Gag gifts for students for a holiday gift exchange/raffle

Reminders & Forms

Just a few reminders about some campus policies:

Students need to sign out on their phones any time they leave campus regardless of what it’s for

If your students are going to be leaving campus after 8:00pm curfew, missing curfew, leaving campus with someone who is not a legal guardian/parent after any curfew/missing curfew with that person, or traveling more than 30+ miles from campus then they will need to fill out the student travel permission form!

If you have not done so already, please fill out the 2nd Trimester Activities Permission Form. This is a form indicating that you give your student permission to attend any school sanctioned activity from after 8:30pm Mon-Thur of any given week. I will be calling you to verify the information is correct after the form is filled out. 

If any of your students are experiencing roommate conflicts, then please let me know if they haven’t already. Do not reach out to any roommates or roommates family on your own accord to resolve issues, that will be for me to worry about!

Picture Time!

I know that this is what you all have been really waiting for. But don’t worry I get it. I’ll be sure to take some more pictures coming up this next month. 

Speaking of pictures (one last thing), your family will receive proofs for student pictures in the mail anywhere from 2-3 weeks after students have taken their pictures. If you have not received proofs, then either your student hasn’t taken pictures or they have not arrived just yet. If you have any questions about that let me know!

As always, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out and let me know!