The Falcon Connection
Your link to Quail Hollow Middle School | Jan 17, 2019
Important Dates
Dates are current as of publication. Check the QHMS website and social media for updates.
JANUARY
Fri 18 Staff v. Student Basketball Game
Fri 18 Last Day of 1st Semester/2nd Quarter
Mon 21 MLK Day-- NO SCHOOL
Wed 23 First day of 2nd Semester (B-Day)
Wed 23 Future Falcon Family Open House 6:00-7:30 pm
Thur 24 Away Basketball at Crestdale
Fri 25 Twin Day!
Mon 28 Home Basketball v. Community House; Elementary School Spirit Night!
Tues 29 Curriculum Night at South Meck High School 6:00 pm in Auditorium
Wed 30 PTSA General Meeting 5:00-5:30 pm
Wed 30 Report Card Pick Up Night 5:30-7:00 pm
Wed 30 Q&A with Principal Neill 6:00 pm
Thur 31-Tues 5 Interim Testing
SCHOOL NEWS
Happy New Year!
We hope to see all of our Falcon Families on campus for at least one event this month: a basketball game, on Report Card Pick Up Night on January 30, or for the first ever "Ask the Principal" event with Principal Neill also on January 30! Read more about these events below.
QHMS Teacher of the Year 2018-19
Check out the video of the surprise announcement on our Facebook and Instagram!
Report Card Pick Up Night
Join us next Wednesday, January 30 from 5:30-7:00! Report-card pick-up with your Falcon is a great opportunity for you to chat with teachers and your student about what is happening in their classrooms. You'll be able to talk with other parents and experience the environment your Falcon has at QHMS. You'll learn something you didn't know for sure! You can also take this opportunity to meet your student's Elective teachers for Second Semester!
Report Cards not picked up will be sent home with students on February 1.
Ask the Principal! A Q&A with Principal Neill
Future Falcon Family Open House
Congratulations Officer Williams
Officer Williams' last day at QHMS will be this Friday, January 18. We will always have a CMPD officer on campus. In the next weeks, we will be supported by other School Resource Officers and hope to have a permanent SRO soon.
Saturday Academy Coming Soon!
Tech Tip: How to Log In to Chrome at Home
- Connect to your home Wi-Fi
- Log in to Chrome with your Chromebook user name: StudentID@student.cms.k12.nc.us password: your Chrome password
- Once you enter the first website, you will encounter the filtering process. Type in your: user name: StudentID@cms.k12.nc.us
- Last screen of credentials type in your: user name: StudentID@cms.k12.nc.us password: YYYYMMDD (8 digit birthdate)
There is also a tutorial video here.
News from the Media Center
Get FREE tutoring online!
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And you can use this service - which is powered by Tutor.com - from home, school and even the Library. Help is available for K-12 students, college students and adult learners - in both English and Spanish.
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Access Tutor.com's network of more than 3,100 professional academic and career tutors who are ready to help with just about any question you may have.
All you need is your library card or ONE Access account number.
Carpool Reminders
- Students may be dropped off beginning at 8:45. Staff are not available to supervise students before this time.
- Students must be picked up in carpool no later than 4:30.
- Drivers should maintain one lane of traffic through carpool for the safety of students and staff.
- It is unlawful to stop on Smithfield Church Road to drop off students. All drivers should travel through the carpool lane.
- Our neighbors, Southminster and Quail Hollow Presbyterian, have asked that cars not park on their property for drop off/pick up.
- The Handicap Accessible parking spaces at the front of the school should be used only by drivers with the appropriate placards displayed on their vehicle.
- The Speed Limit on Smithfield Church Road is 25 MPH.
We appreciate your cooperation for the safety of all of our Falcons!
GET CONNECTED! JOIN CLUBS, ACTIVITIES & SPORTS AT QH!
Basketball Spectators
Girls on The Run
Girls on the Run will begin online registration on January 7. Any girl 6th-8th grade is invited. Practices will run from 4:30-5:45 Monday and Wednesday beginning the week of February 11. Go to www.gotrcharlotte.org for more information or visit Ms. Edwards in D1. Come join our team!
Chess Club
Open to all Students 6th-8th
Mondays 4:30-5:30 *Students must have a ride*
Tournament Trips planned for later in the year!!!
Interested? Email ASAP! Kennethl.dailey@cms.k12.nc.us
Come see Mr. Dailey! Location: A14
Girls Lacrosse
This organization is neither endorsed by nor necessarily reflective of the views of the Board, the district or any CMS school.
LEND A HAND, SUPPORT QHMS
Purposity App
There is a new app CMS is partnering with that allows people in the community to assist students in need. It is a good, convenient way for people in Charlotte to help students in need if they can and when then can. It is called Purposity and it allows people in Charlotte to buy things for students in need and have it shipped automatically to the school social worker at the school where the student attends. Note: The more people in the community sign up to use the app more schools will be able to utilize it! Hear more about it from WBTV in the link below!
Safety Kit Wish List
In light of tragedies across the nation and in our own school district, Quail Hollow Middle School staff have engaged in both Active Survivor Training with a CMPD officer and begun to engage in regularly scheduled tabletop drills with our School Resource Officer, Officer Williams. The safety of our students is our number one priority and we will continue to collaborate with experts to help us be prepared in the best way possible. In collaborating with experts, we also learned about the opportunity to equip each classroom with a Safety Kit. The School Leadership Team's safety committee is seeking the help of Falcon Families to help secure items for these kits. If you can help, check out the Amazon Wish List here.
It's time to re-link your Harris Teeter VIC Card!
Proud to be Falcons! Join the Booster Club and register to win your child a Quail Hollow hoodie!
Your Booster Club funds go directly to Quail Hollow sports programs, to supplement our physical education department and growing school spirit!
Forms to join Booster Club are in the front office or went home with your child this week. Return the form to the front office or their homeroom teacher.
If you are interested in volunteering or would like specific information on what the Booster Club supports please contact Sara Harb at scharb2317@gmail.com
GO FALCONS!
QHMS Wish List
The PTSA has created an online "wish list" via SignUp Genius to fill different needs at Quail. This link will stay open YEAR ROUND; we'll add to it as items benefiting the whole school are requested by staff. This is an easy way to support the Hollow with things like band-aids for the nurse's office, tissues and hand sanitizer, grade-level work/supply room items, and other needs.
We encourage you to continue to check in with your student’s teachers for individual classroom needs; those individual requests will not be included on the school-wide wish list.
PLEASE visit this link as often as you are able and SHARE with other QHMS families!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4DAAAC3-qhms
- Click on the link.
- Sign up for a slot (take note of a deadline IF one is listed).
- Buy the item and send it into school within 1 week of signing up for it online.
- Drop off in the front office, where we've set up a PTSA donation box. The PTSA board will then distribute.
- THANK YOU and happy shopping!! ;)
Don’t forget: If you shop for these items through Amazon, do it with Amazon Smile! Amazon Smile donates a % of purchases to QHMS! You can even have them shipped directly to Quail!
Easy Ways to Support QHMS!
NEW NAME: Amazon Smile *Quail Hollow School PTA*
Proud Falcon yard signs
Tell ‘Em QHMS Sent You! “The Rusty Onion” Gives Back!
*NEW* My Coke Rewards
Box Tops
Clip Box Tops for Education logos from food items like Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, General Mills cereals and Hamburger Helper. Logos can also be found on household items like Hanes, Scott, Hefty, Ziploc and Avery office products. Drop Box Tops in the collection box in the front office.
Compare Foods
Compare Foods donates 3% of your purchase! Save your receipts and drop them off in the front office.
CMS NEWS & EDUCATION ANNOUNCEMENTS
Discover CTE
If you want to get a jump on the job, CTE offers you a pathway to that head start. Whether you’re interested in architecture or automobiles, cosmetology or computers – there’s a pathway that will allow you to acquire deep career knowledge, gain industry-recognized certifications and test-drive your career in a summer internship. Follow a CTE pathway and you’ll be ready – ready for a career, ready for a job and ready for the future.
Career & Technical Education helps prepare students who want to embark on a career trajectory while still in high school. Students can choose from 19 pathways, each with four to six sequenced courses. Some pathways can result in industry certifications while still in high school. Others provide early credit toward a post-secondary degree. All of them offer the opportunity to connect with future employers through job shadowing and internships.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools wants to ensure that every student is ready for the next step after high school, whether that step is college, career or military service.
Check out the CTE Fair on February 23 to learn more (poster above) and visit the CTE website at discovercte.com
Info for Parents of AIG Students
Join CMS for this year’s conference, Maximizing Potential, for parents of gifted children. The conference will feature presentations on needs of gifted children, and vendors offering programs for gifted children will be available to share information and resources.Visit the website: https://cmstdconference.weebly.com/ to find out more details and to register. There are 600 seats available.
Every three years, each district in the state of North Carolina revises their comprehensive plan to serve gifted students K-12. The plan must be approved by our Local Board of Education and then submitted to the state. This year CMS is Revising its 2019 CMS Gifted Plan to create the 2022 CMS Gifted Plan. As part of our revision process, we are gathering feedback from stakeholders across CMS through surveys. We need your help!! Please take the following survey to ensure your voices and feedback are heard! https://goo.gl/forms/AYk35fB0dQsFgnJH3
Here Comes the Bus App
Want to know where your student's bus is in real-time?! Download the Here Comes the Bus App and see where the bus is!
Here Comes the Bus is a school bus tracking app that can simplify morning and afternoon routines for parents and students by giving them real-time bus location and text or email notification alerts to help get them to the bus stop on time. Here Comes the Bus utilizes our GPS data and an easy to use customizable map that works on a computer, tablet or smartphone.
Signing up is EASY! On your desktop computer, you can sign up at https://herecomesthebus.com/getting-started/. You will need the district code (73877) and your student's ID number to sign up. For your smartphone or tablet, download the Here Comes the Bus app from the App Store or Google Play.
Once activated, you can customize or edit features, including how the app will communicate with you and the size of the notification radius around your bus stop.
Pro Tip: If you used the app last year, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the app for all of the features to work!
Let Us Know about Amazing Falcons, QH News, or Share Photos!
Email: jaimes.mccaughna@cms.k12.nc.us
Website: http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/quailhollowMS/Pages/Default.aspx
Location: 2901 Smithfield Church Road, Charlotte, NC, United States
Phone: 980-343-3620
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuailHollowMiddleSchool
Twitter: @QuailHollowMS