In the event that the NNPS web site is disabled, a BACKUP site with emergency information and notices can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/nnschools. Please add this to your bookmarks.
For detailed information about how to stay safe during an emergency, please visit www.ReadyVirginia.gov (www.ListoVirginia.gov en español). Information about what Virginia is doing to prepare for current storms is available at www.vaemergency.com.
When bad weather is forecast, transportation staff members begin
checking streets at 4 a.m. to determine safety conditions. City
police, city emergency operations staff and local meteorologists
may be contacted for additional information. The superintendent
makes the decision to either delay the opening of school, close
schools early or cancel school. The school division strives to have
a decision by 6 a.m. so that local television and radio stations
(see list to the right) can broadcast the information. Please call
the information number prior to calling schools.
If the opening of
school is delayed...
HALF-DAY PROGRAMS:
MORNING Half-Day programs will not be held when there is a delayed
opening. AFTERNOON Half-Day pre-kindergarten and PEEP classes WILL
be held if the opening of school is delayed on a Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday or Friday. Breakfast is not served; however, lunch is.
WEDNESDAY DELAYED OPENINGS:
When the opening of school is delayed on a Wednesday both MORNING
and AFTERNOON Half-day Pre-K and PEEP classes WILL NOT BE HELD.
FULL-DAY PROGRAMS:
If school is delayed one hour, parents should make sure children
are at the bus stop one hour after their regular time; if school
is delayed two hours, then they should be at the stop two hours
after the normal time.
When schools close
early...
If school is scheduled to close an hour early, children should
arrive home an hour earlier than they normally do. Early in the
school year, parents are asked to make arrangements in the event
that school is dismissed before the end of the regular school day.
If the child is to go to a residence other than his or her own,
parents will be asked to make the school aware of this arrangement.
Please discuss what to do with your child if no one is home when
schools are dismissed early.
When schools close early due to inclement weather, all athletic
events and after-school activities are canceled and will be rescheduled.
Team practices may be held if approved by the building principal
with appropriate authorization from administration. These practices
would be voluntary as no required practices can be called. The superintendent
will determine whether a district, regional or state championship
will be held.
Please remember that there are no activity buses when schools are
closed or close early.
If students are en route or at school...
If schools close while students are being brought to school, the
school division will notify schools and the media, and bus drivers
will return the students to their bus stops. Students may be returned
to school if roads to the bus stop are blocked.
If schools have to be closed after classes have started, a dismissal
schedule will be announced and the school division will alert the
media and update telephone recordings. Pre-kindergartners and kindergartners
must be met by an adult at the bus stop or they will be returned
to school.
Please note that children must be registered before they can attend
the SAP. For more information about the School
Age Program, call 926-1400.
SAP morning locations are at Charles, Deer Park, Dutrow, Greenwood,
Hidenwood, Hilton, Kiln Creek, Nelson, Richneck, Riverside, Saunders,
Watkins and Yates elementary schools.
If it is announced during the day that schools are closing early,
all afternoon school age program centers will open; however, parents
must pick their child up before 5:30 p.m. Afternoon centers are
at Charles, Deer Park, Epes, Greenwood, Hidenwood, Hilton, Kiln
Creek, McIntosh, Newsome Park, Sanford, Saunders, and Yates elementary
schools. Buses will bring middle schoolers to the afternoon SAP
teen program at the Midtown Community Center.
If school is closed for a full day, the School Age Program will
continue to operate at a location to be announced.
PLEASE NOTE: If Newport News City Hall is closed because
of bad weather, all school age programs will be closed.
A Guide for NNPS
Employees and Families
Ten and Eleven-Month Personnel
Delayed Opening
The reporting time for ten and eleven month employees (except
cafeteria and key transportation personnel) is adjusted by the
same number of hours as the student reporting time.
Cafeteria personnel report as soon as possible in order to
prepare lunch. Breakfast is not served on days of delayed openings.
Morning half-day programs will not be held when there is
a delayed opening.
Afternoon half-day programs at Denbigh ECC and Gatewood PEEP
will be held if the opening of school is delayed on a Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday or Friday.
When the opening of school is delayed on a Wednesday both
morning and afternoon half-day pre-kindergarten, kindergarten
and PEEP classes will not be held. Elementary students will
be dismissed at the same time of the regular early dismissal
schedule on Wednesdays.
School Cancellation
If school is canceled, all schools shall be closed for the
day.
Ten and eleven month employees do not report to work unless
the Superintendent deems it necessary to use the day as a make-up
teacher work day in order to avoid weekend or holiday make-up
workdays.
Early Dismissal
Unless otherwise directed, the dismissal time for ten and eleven
month employees (except cafeteria, transportation, custodial,
clerical and administrative personnel) is adjusted by the same
number of hours that students are dismissed early.
Twelve-Month Personnel
Delayed Opening
All twelve-month personnel (other than custodial, transportation,
and plant services personnel) are to report to work as soon
as reasonably possible given the conditions at the time.
School Cancellation
When schools are closed all offices are open unless the closing
of offices is specified.
All twelve-month employees report unless otherwise specified
Early Dismissal
In the event of early dismissal of students, twelve-month employees
and all cafeteria, custodial, transportation, clerical and administrative
personnel will work their regular schedule unless otherwise
notified by their supervisor.
Custodial, Transportation and Plant Services Personnel
Twelve-month day custodial, transportation and Plant Services
personnel will report at the regular
time if other twelve-month day personnel are to report at any
time during the day. They will then
be provided appropriate compensatory time based on the number
of reduced hours for other
twelve-month day employees.
Twelve-month night custodians, transportation night monitors,
and Plant Services night shift will
report at noon if students are not in school and at their regular
time if students are in school.
Emergency Closing of a Single School or a Small Group
of Schools
The Division Superintendent or designee will make the decision
to approve the closing of an individual school or a small
group of schools, which may be necessitated due to local emergency
conditions. Executive directors and principals will contact
Transportation to make the necessary arrangements to take
the students home. Principals of elementary schools shall
make every effort to contact parents and shall make arrangements
to provide for children who do not have emergency care. Schools
should indicate the emergency closing location or pairing
of schools for emergencies in their emergency operations plans
(i.e. emergency that occurs in route to school).
School employees will be assigned as needed to facilitate
the alternate arrangements.
For information on school closings, delayed
openings, cancellations, postponements, early closings and student
and employee reporting times, visit this web site, watch Newport
News Cable Channel 47, or call the following:
