NHP Community-

I want to thank the several parents who have emailed me and who attended our PIN meeting last week to share their perspectives on adding zip code preferences for North Hills. Both myself and the Uplift Board heard your feedback of wishing there had been more dialogue before this decision was made and yesterday morning the Uplift board met and voted to withdraw our charter amendment from the Texas Education Agency requesting zip code preferences for this year. Hence the lottery will be conducted today in a similar fashion as past years where there are no zip code preferences used. 

We are forming a committee, which will be externally facilitated, that will include 5 parents/ Founders, 1 NHP school leader, 1 member of the Uplift Irving advisory board, and 1 Uplift management team member to work together on a monthly basis from January through May to bring a recommendation to the Uplift Board of Directors on how to achieve the original intent of the charter to increase the economic diversity of North Hills.  The Uplift Board will then take that recommendation to a board vote as they have ultimate decision making authority. Again, the committee is not charged with deciding whether we should strive for economic diversity at North Hills, but rather recommending the best way to achieve that goal over the next 5-7 years. We hope a second purpose of the committee is to generate ideas for the Uplift and NHP leadership teams on how we can improve communications with parents on key decisions impacting the campus. If you have an interest in being on this committee, please reach out to Peggy Yard at yardkp@verizon.net by this Friday, December 14th.

We will post summaries from these meetings on the NHP website and welcome the continued dialogue on the subject.

Many thanks,

Yasmin Bhatia

Chief Executive Officer

We the “Volunteers of the Carpool” would like to express our genuine appreciation to all of our “Fellow North Hills Parents”.   We’re grateful for your continued support in following key safety and security practices which ultimately protect each of our children! 

We would like to remind everyone by sharing a few tips below which we feel will help us, enable our children to arrive and leave campus safely each day.

·        Crosswalks are for everyone’s safety; please do not park on them.

·        Please do not park (and leave your vehicle unattended) in the “through traffic/fire lanes”.

·        Go with the flow of traffic; please do not cut in line (s)

·        Have ALL carpool numbers plainly visible until your child is in the car safely.

·        Adhere to ALL of the School/State Laws, (i.e. no talking on cell phones while driving in the car lanes, proper use of handicap spaces, etc…

We are daily giving our time; you can too ~ in many other ways, by following the tips mentioned above.   Thank you! 

When can you wear you t-shirt? NHP students with SAC t-shirts will be able to wear them on the first Monday of each month and the second, third, and fourth Fridays of each month. 

ATTENTION Parents:

As part of our quest to continuously review processes and identify potential improvement opportunities related to increased security of our students, faculty and staff, NHP is doing the following:

Installed additional barriers in areas on campus, soccer fields and bonus lots to both guide and deter drivers on proper traffic flow through carline each morning and afternoon.

1.      Actively soliciting parent volunteers for both morning and afternoon carline duty;

2.      Actively reviewing faculty carline duty roster/assignments for both morning and afternoon carline for improvements;

3.      Potentially asking for parent funds to assist the school in obtaining the needed dollars to support additional Irving Police Officer presence on our campus during high traffic times;

4.      Reviewing whether to close off the bonus lot to NHP traffic to ensure safety concerns and/or potential liabilities and

5.      Considering banning any driver who does not follow the traffic pattern and safety procedures from being on campus.

PARENT HELP NEEDED: 

1.      PLEASE SLOW DOWN; the 2 or 3 minutes you save when not following rules/signage etc... is not worth risking the safety of our children. 

2.      Be respectful of each other, our students, staff and faculty when driving through the campus and/or on the back bonus/gravel lot.

3.      Please note that the soccer fields are not a racing track and also should not be used as a parking spot to drop off and/or pick up students.

4.      If you utilize the bonus/gravel lot (next to the equestrian center) to either drop off or pick up your children; please again slow down, follow the "one way, one way out flow" of the traffic and be respectful and safe.  The car line in this lot is NOT a parking spot, which means traffic flow should continue through without blocking others.  However, you may park in the lot in an orderly manner and wait for your child and then leave following the normal traffic flow.

Report any/all errant driving behaviors, including license plate numbers to campus directors.  We have an arrangement with the Irving Police Department to identify these driving challenges and will follow-up with drivers with support from the Irving police officers.

The mission of North Hills Preparatory is to provide an education that empowers students to reach their highest potential and inspires a love of learning.

We will achieve this Mission by:

Providing a preparatory curriculum of the highest standards that encourages children to raise the level of expectations that they place upon themselves and motivates them to become successful leaders.

Creating a diverse community that embraces the ideals of responsible citizenship in an environment of respect for our world and its peoples.

Creating traditions and symbols that continually illustrate and reinforce our goals among all members of our community.