Northern Shores Elementary School

Thank you for caring about our staff and students!!!! Our PTA is the best!!!

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It was a great day today getting to meet some of our newest Dolphins and getting to welcome
them to our pod ❤️ Shout out to the Pre K team for organizing this.

Welcome New Staff!

Join Us for our Annual Back-to-School Community Health Fair collaboration with Local Organizations and D9 chapters.

The community is invited to come out and have a good time before the kids go back to school. Get health screenings, student physicals, backpacks, and more!!🎒 There will be music, food trucks, arts and crafts, and so much more! Something for everyone in the family! *While Supplies Last*

Read, Relax, Repeat! ☀️📚

Grab a story, find a cozy spot and let the reading adventures begin! Summer reading helps students keep their reading skills sharp and prepares them for the next school year.

🥜48th Annual Suffolk Peanut Fest Set for October 8–11, 2026 🥜

Celebrate generations and create lasting memories at the 48th Annual Suffolk Peanut Fest, returning October 8–11, 2026, at the Suffolk Executive Airport. One of Virginia's favorite fall festivals, Suffolk Peanut Fest brings together live entertainment, family activities, thrilling attractions, delicious food, and plenty of peanuts for four unforgettable days. This year's theme, "Celebrating Generations – One Picture Perfect Memory at a Time!", highlights the traditions and shared experiences that have made Peanut Fest a cherished family event for nearly five decades.

After volunteering with Peanut Fest for more than 15 years, 2026 Festival Chairman Kate Rawls selected this year's theme as a tribute to "community, family, and the generations of memories we create together."

"Suffolk Peanut Fest has played such a huge role in my life—from attending with my family to serving on the Queen's Court representing Lakeland High School," said Rawls. "Our roots and our daily lives are intertwined with the agricultural community and all the ways we celebrate Suffolk."

Festivalgoers can enjoy an outstanding lineup of live entertainment headlined by Chris Cagle, whose chart-topping hits include I Breathe In, I Breathe Out, Chicks Dig It, What Kinda Gone, What a Beautiful Day, and Laredo.

Also taking the Main Stage is Georgia-born country artist Jon Langston, whose songs including Forever Girl, All Eyes on Us, and When it Comes to Loving You have amassed tens of millions of streams.

The lineup continues with Virginia native Cody Christian, whose blue-collar sound blends country, Americana, and folk traditions.

Taking audiences back to the last decade of the 20th century, the Woah 90's Band delivers everyone's favorite rock, pop, and grunge anthems. Also performing is Virginia-based country-folk singer-songwriter Cari Lacey, whose storytelling talents earned her a place on American Idol Season 23. Rounding out the entertainment lineup are The Daniel Jordan Band, Allen Hudson & Half Moons, Island Boy, and Mashup & Cozy Conditions.

📌 New for 2026

• Drone Show
This year's festival will feature a spectacular custom drone light show presented by Airloom Drone Shows, an East Coast drone entertainment company based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Airloom specializes in transforming the night sky into a canvas for storytelling through synchronized aerial choreography and cutting-edge technology. Using hundreds of GPS-guided, LED-equipped drones, the performance will create stunning animations, festival-themed imagery, and larger-than-life designs synchronized to music.

• Live Butterfly Feeding Experience
A unique “living” exhibit will inflate, becoming a magical walk-through exhibit filled with flowers and live butterflies with attendants on hand to assist guests with feeding the butterflies.

• Virginia Agriculture Mobile Education Unit
The Virginia Agriculture Mobile Education Unit is an interactive educational tool that showcases the Commonwealth’s largest private industry, agriculture and forestry, while demonstrating the valuable role it plays in our daily lives. When visitors enter the unit, they will learn about the remarkable diversity of Virginia’s agriculture, its history, its people, and the latest innovations and career opportunities that are leading us into the future.

• New Fire Safety House
The Fire Safety House is an updated, interactive, mobile education exhibit frequently utilized by Suffolk Fire and Rescue to teach children and families about home fire escape plans and general safety.

Returning favorites for 2026 include DockDogs®, carnival and amusement rides, the Demolition Derby, Monster Truck Rides, the Shrimp Feast, Peanut Butter Sculpting, the Peanut Cup Auto Race, Swamp Roar Motorcycle Rally, hot air balloons, pony rides and petting zoo, arts and crafts, chalk art, clogging performances, a co****le tournament, Senior Bingo, Princess Sing-Alongs, Hot Wings Eating Contests, and plenty of festival food and fresh boiled peanuts.

SuffolkPeanutFest.com or 757-539-6751 for more details.
Advance tickets go on sale August 1, 2026.