Dear Students and Families,

I hope that everyone had a fun and relaxing summer break. On behalf of the Shiloh Middle School faculty and staff, we welcome you back for the 2023-24 school year. Our cluster theme this year will be “Building Bridges - Connecting Empathy to Excellence”. As a community of schools, we will have a relentless focus on building strong partnerships between staff, students, families, and the community. We will strive daily to model excellence and provide high quality instruction to each and every student.

CLICK HERE to read the 2023-2024 Letter from Principal Bess

Please complete this form if you need to speak to an administrator at Shiloh Middle School for any reason. At Shiloh Middle School, we appreciate honest, constructive feedback daily to help us to daily make improvements to our school in order to provide the best possible climate and structure for each and every student to learn. Please fill out the form below to submit feedback directly to our principal, Mr. Chris Bess or to contact your grade level Assistant Principal. Please contact us if you have any additional questions at (770) 736-4560. Thank you.

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See information below for student drop-off and pick-up and GCPS Bus Transportation. Please contact Assistant Principal Carol Williams via email at carol.h.williams@gcpsk12.org or via phone at (770) 736-4006

August 14th

• A Day Connections
• LEGO League Interest Meeting
• Jr. HOSA Interest Meeting (Parent must attend with student)

August 15th

• B Day Connections
• Jr. HOSA Interest Meeting (Parent must attend with student)

August 16th

• A Day Connections

August 17th

• B Day Connections

August 18th

• A Day Connections

Do you need help setting up or accessing your ParentPortal or ParentVUE app? Our Parent Instructional Coordinator is here to help.

Please contact Ashley Thomas for support at ashley.d.thomas@gcpsk12.org.

A parent or guardian must bring any / all medications to the school and fill out a medication administration form. Students are not allowed to carry any medications with them at school or on the bus. This includes any over the counter medication, for example; cough drops, Tylenol, etc. If you would like your child to have any OTC medication left in the clinic, you must bring to school with a completed medical authorization form.

To give us authorization to give your student their medication you will need to complete the Medication Authorization Form. You may print it, complete it, and bring it in or you can pick one up to complete in the clinic. A separate form is required for each individual medication.

If your student requires an inhaler and/or an Epi-pen you will need to complete the appropriate form.

For your student to be permitted to carry their inhaler and/or Epi-pen on their person, their physician will need to complete the section of our form advising us of their authorization. If the student will be carrying their inhaler and/or Epi-pen on their person, we ask that you also provide the clinic with a backup in case one is needed.

Medication Request Form

Shiloh Middle School Clinic

Phone: 770-736-4030

Shiloh MS is hosting a blood drive. Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up.

All donors will receive a recognition item and a free cholesterol screening. Donors must be 16 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds, and show photo I.D. 16-year olds require written parental permission.

When: Thursday, August 24

Where: Shiloh Middle School

https://donors.lifesouth.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/807937

We’re wrapping up adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions. We will have our first quiz on Friday (8/11). Please check grades every Monday.

For Week 3, August 14th - 18th, we will continue on with Unit 1A- Making Relevant Connections within the Number System. In addition to expressions, students will continue utilizing number lines, and Integer Chips (red for negative and yellow for positive) to help make correlations between real world scenarios and adding and subtracting positive and negative integers (whole numbers). As always, we will focus on critical Math vocabulary and synonyms for these terms (Example: Elevate may also mean to increase or to add and will likely have to do with a positive integer). Students will also be exposed to Rational Numbers (“...numbers that can be expressed as p/q, where p and q are both integers and q ≠ 0.”) and mixed numbers (whole numbers alongside a proper fraction, typically representing a number between any two whole numbers).

Next week we will conclude our unit on Personal Finance. The students should be prepared to take the common assessment on Tuesday. We will begin our new unit on Physical and Human Geography of Southwest Asia on Wednesday.

We dove into content this week and began our unit entitled “Gadgets and Glitches.” In this unit, we will focus on texts that revolve around the essential question “Does technology improve or control our lives?” We will also study Unit 1 of Sadlier vocabulary and grammar.

We will continue to review the rules and expectations of Shiloh Middle School in the classroom, hallway, restroom, cafeteria, and on the bus. We will continue working in Unit 1 - Linear Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities in One Variable. Next week’s assignments will consist of Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides in Context, Solving Multi-Step Equations using the Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms, and Justifying Steps using Algebraic Properties for Multi-Step Equations.

Technology Tips

1. Students should charge their Chromebook every night.

2. Students should bring their charged Chromebook and the charger to school every day.

3. Students should keep their Chromebook in their bookbags.

Digital store opens on July 21 and closes on August 13. Click below to access the store.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER

Jr. HOSA will host interest meetings on Monday, August 14, 2023 and Tuesday, August 15, 2023 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in room 1.207 on Mainstreet across from the cafeteria. Students should go home their normal way and return with their parents to attend the interest meeting. PLEASE PARK IN THE BUS LANE AND ENTER AT THE DOORS FROM THE BUS LANE. Plan to arrive about 5 minutes early as the doors will be locked once we begin at 6:00 pm. If you have any questions, please contact Miss Larkins at kristinalarkins@gcpsk12.org or (943)457-7546.