North Bethesda Middle school supply list?

[Anonymous]

NP here. This is super helpful. We'll also be new to NBMS next year (actually, new to MCPS too). Any other good advice as to making the transition, especially for kids who are not coming from a feeder elementary school??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. This is super helpful. We'll also be new to NBMS next year (actually, new to MCPS too). Any other good advice as to making the transition, especially for kids who are not coming from a feeder elementary school??

BUMP

(new poster also interested in above)

[Anonymous]

The list is up.
The grey shirts is added as an option for PE, and is not limited to just girls.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/northbethesdams/news/Welcome%20Back%20Student%20Letter-Packet%20FY18-7-28-17.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this the typical NBMS family - summering in the south of France?? My kid has no chance there, it seems. We spend a week at Deep Creek with cousins.

Definitely NOT.

That's not the norm for NBMS families, unless the family is here with international affiliations already & are usually going back home / visiting family abroad.

Most kids from NBMS are usually at Wildwood or Old Georgetown pools all summer, with the exception of a week or two here & there spent at the beaches of Bethany, Rehobeth, Ocean City, etc or like the PP said, Nantucket, Myrtle Beach, etc.

The families from NBNS seem to be more down to earth, less showy & not extravagant / flashy with their spending.
I don't see much keeping up with the Jones's from parents & while they may live in Bethesda & are usually UMC, not many can just call out of work for the entire summer to travel around Europe with their entire family, unless part of that travel is work related.

I think that about 10-20% of the families at Wyngate have grandparents that live abroad. (There are lots of IMF, World Bank, Embassy, and NIH international fellowship folks that live in the Wyngate neighborhood, plus the usual contingent of first generation Americans that you'd find in most cosmopolitan cities.) Many of them take the summer to visit their grandparents. It's very nice. My kids have friends from all over the world -- it's like an extra level of education. But for the most part, they are not super wealthy or flashy -- most of them are just highly educated civil servant types that have to save up all year to be able to let their kids see their grandparents over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Question about school supplies: I saw a Case It at Staples the other day, and that thing seems much larger than a traditional binder - does it fit in the backpack easily to carry to and from school? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Should be ok, provided that your DD's nanny is carrying the Case It. For the commoners, it's a bit big and bulky (I have a DD in 8th)

[Anonymous]

Bump. New family to NB. Is it still the case that we should ignore the list posted on the website and wait to buy supplies until the weekend after the first week of school? We'll be out of town that weekend so would prefer to handle this now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question about school supplies: I saw a Case It at Staples the other day, and that thing seems much larger than a traditional binder - does it fit in the backpack easily to carry to and from school? Thanks!

Which size Case It was that? It ranges from 1.5 in to 4 in.

DC (in MS) has - I think - a 3 in, and a JanSport Big Student backpack from last year. Both are still good so will be reused this year...

[Anonymous]

My kids have liked the 3-inch Case It, so we bought them again for this year.

[Anonymous]

If you don't mind buying a bunch of crap that doesn't get used, by all means purchase everything on the list. My 2 kids both waited until they heard directly from their teachers what to get, and then we got it. Hasn't been a problem yet, and we don't purchase unnecessary supplies (of which we have tons of anyway from all the ES years).

[Anonymous]

You can get the case it and things like the pencils, pencil pouch, etc. the binders they suggest you get are excessive. My kid never brought the binder home—would use a smaller folder to bring home assignments as the binders get massive. Order the music book for instrumental online and go get your rental now, if you are renting. A magnetic pencil holder for the locker is not a bad idea to keep small stuff from getting lost in the locker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backpacks stay in lockers during the school day, so kids don't have them during class. Get a pencil pouch for the binder for pens, pencils, and erasers.

There usually is a list in the summer info packet (available later in the summer), but there's no need to buy everything listed in advance, unless you don't mind excess school supplies. During the first week of school, individual teachers will tell their students what is required for each class.

My kids have never bought the PE uniform, but I think many kids do. PE teachers definitely want the clothes to be the right colors (navy shorts, white shirt, I think?).

That's not entirely true.
I've had 3 girls all go through NBMS & they've allowed them all to wear light grey shirts as well as white.

I remember complaining to the principal at our parent orientation for our first daughter, that pre-teen/teen girls who may not wear bras yet or worse wear a bra too small or the wrong style/shape for their body, that they should NEVER be subjected to wearing a white tshirt, every day, outside in the cold, in the middle of winter.
That combination could lead to an extremely embarrassing situation for girls who may not be secure yet with their developing bodies (especially since they have co-ed PE with pubescent boys with raging hormones & a maturity of an 8 year old).

Principal Sumner agreed & after discussing it with I assume his staff, I was informed that girls will be & have been allowed to wear grey ever since.

Although I'm not sure if they extend the same courtesy to the boys as well?

Interesting - DC's MS (MCPS, but not NBMS) has no requirement regarding PE uniforms. (Also, according to the NBMS supply list this is supposed to be optional - so I wonder if they have stopped enforcing it?)