North Ridge Elementary School

For your calendars...We are excited to share the dates and times of our K-4 school music concerts for the 2025-2026 school year. Our students will be so excited to sing and perform the songs.

about 17 hours ago, Mitch Parker

Partnerships with families for success - Part 3 in a 4-part series

Thanks to the Waverly Newspapers for publishing our four-part series introducing our district's new Mission, Vision, and Core Values. Here's the link to the third installment, published on September 11, 2025: https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/waverly_newspapers/partnerships-with-families-for-success/article_c8dae9a9-3c68-496e-9f4e-cc1dce781770.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawMxaVVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgHRhCQ9aaVvSQCUESpu-01nrib3xWu34DemnKIodUXmZ27yDvr5Spiv4YtR_aem_iMIdD9f7aV9hrGjzg1fDEw

The final installment will be published in the Tuesday, September 16 edition of the Bremer County Independent.

2 days ago, David Hill

📸 Teamwork + Math = Success! Our 3rd grade students had a blast working together during a lively Math Review Jeopardy game on Friday 💡Teams collaborated, discussed strategies, and celebrated their problem-solving skills—all while reviewing key math concepts. Who says learning can't be fun?

2 days ago, Angie Buttjer

📸🌟 Day of Caring 2025! 🌟📸

🙌 Yesterday, Waverly-Shell Rock educators, students and volunteers came together to make a difference in our community for the annual Day of Caring. 💛 What an incredible opportunity to serve our communities and learn about the importance of service to others! 💪🌱

Thank you to everyone who rolled up their sleeves and contributed to these amazing projects around the Waverly and Shell Rock Communities. You are the heart of what makes our communities so special! 💚

#GoHawks #DayOfCaring #CommunityStrong #ServiceInAction #ProudToServe

5 days ago, David Hill

We had an awesome day yesterday at North Ridge Elementary- the W-SR Area United Way Day of Caring - was an AMAZING day to be a Go-Hawk! Thank you to Paul Cheville from the City of Waverly, Jon Elsamiller from Elsamiller Electric, Jen Wells and her team from Wells Hollow, Kim Tiedt from Tiedt’s Nursery, Jess Meier from the North Ridge Staff, and staff from Nestle for the great job they did leading our students and school on several service projects. Students from North Ridge and the W-SR Middle School planted trees, plants, and bushes, landscaped, pulled weeds, and learned how to correctly plant and care for the plants. They also learned the added value plants and trees have to the environment, and the value of helping others. The students were outstanding, and the leadership of the adults was 2nd to none. Thank you to Elsamiller Electric for prepping our statue site with lighting; we were then able to create a beautifully landscaped area for our Go-Hawk to stand with the Wells Hollow team and the North Ridge student Statue Squad. "Many hands make light work" could not have been truer. These students worked so hard and took a lot of pride in helping out. It is safe to say they had a lot of fun! We are so fortunate to live in such a supportive community!

5 days ago, Mitch Parker

Students talked; we listened.

Thanks to the Waverly Newspapers for publishing this four-part series introducing our district's new Mission, Vision, and Core Values, and describing the collaborative process used in the district to arrive at these new guiding statements. Here's the link to the second installment, published in the Bremer County Independent on September 9, 2025: https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/students-talked-we-listened/article_35c27e79-9952-4255-8894-3d31e463e4b5.html

6 days ago, David Hill

Welcome to the 2025–2026 school year: A new chapter for W-SR Schools!

Thanks to the Waverly Newspapers for publishing this four-part series introducing our district's new Mission, Vision, Core Values, and Desired Daily Experiences! Here's the link to the first installment, published on September 4, 2025: https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/welcome-to-the-2025-2026-school-year-a-new-chapter-for-w-sr-schools/article_1d4a52a2-1d10-4cb5-b4fc-cba98c2c6bae.html

6 days ago, David Hill

The students have spoken as to how they want our North Ridge Go-Hawk to look! Local artist, Dan Hatala, is in the process of turning our students' visions into a work of art. The completed fiberglass statue was picked up from the UNI Art Incubator last week and brought to Waverly for the final step in our year-long process. I wonder what those driving by us thought when they saw those large feet sticking out of the back of our truck!! Stay tuned for pictures from our unveiling ceremony, when we have the "Big Reveal" for the students of North Ridge on October 10th! We are so excited to show our Go-Hawk pride!!!

7 days ago, Mitch Parker

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the cereal drive for the Northeast Iowa Food Bank. A special thank you to these two outstanding Go-Hawk leaders for working with Mrs. Poppe to count the boxes each day. We had 87 cereal boxes donated today, which brings the toal to 214. The final collection day will be September 11th, 2025 (which is the day of caring in the W-SR communities). Our goal is to collect 275 boxes of cereal.

9 days ago, Mitch Parker

🦩✨ Our 3rd graders had a blast with “Let’s Fla-Mingle!” 🦩 We mingled, interviewed classmates, and made new friends! 💬😁

18 days ago, Rebecca Elsamiller

The countdown to the 2025–2026 school year is on! Check out the Back to School Family Resource Hub here: https://tinyurl.com/Fall25Back2School

about 1 month ago, David Hill

Thank you to all of these awesome parent volunteers as we prepare to start our first annual North Ridge Field Day! You are all awesome! We look forward to an outstanding day for our students!

4 months ago, Mitch Parker

Mrs. Willms' Kindergartners have been learning about the seasons in science. ❄️ ☔️ ☀️ 🍂 Today we found out why birds lay their eggs in the spring and all about their nests - and we even made our own! 🪺

4 months ago, Laura Willms

How awesome is this? !🎨🖍️ North Ridge Elementary took time to decorate lunch bags for the WSR baseball team —and the results are amazing! ⚾️💛🖤 This reminds us that no matter the age or grade, in the classroom or on the ball field, we’re all part of one big Go-Hawk Family! 🙌👊🦅

4 months ago, Mitch Parker

Mrs. Willms' and Mrs. Tucker's classes enjoy an afternoon of fun with their K and 2nd grade buddies! We graphed and tallied jellybeans and had an egg hunt out on the playground! We love our the time with our buddies! 🖤💛

5 months ago, Laura Willms

kindergarten & 2nd grade buddies activity

Mrs. Willms' Kindergarten class had a fun day working on different Easter themed activities! And our eggs hatched baby chick Peeps! 🐣☺️

5 months ago, Laura Willms

Delaney helped to close out the ISASP testing season at North Ridge Elementary this afternoon! Thank you to all of our students, staff, and parents for working together during this important spring event!

5 months ago, Jeannie Coughlin

Delaney closing down the ISASP season at North Ridge Elementary!

It was a fun morning to be a Go-Hawk at North Ridge Elementary Kindergarten Round Up! 💛🖤 We hope everyone had an awesome day!

5 months ago, Laura Willms

Our afternoon Kindergarten Round Up group at North Ridge was super fun! We are excited for all of our "Future Go-Hawks" to return back in the fall 2025-2026 school year! 🦅💛🖤

5 months ago, Laura Willms

Mrs. Van Kley is leading some great work in the area of reading. Today, vocabulary cup stacking was a great way for students to have some fun while practicing their sight words, sounds, and word patterns.

9 months ago, Mitch Parker