This week's trait is Building Relationships! These YellowJackets of the Week demonstrate building relationships! Congratulations! #ONEHIVE

May 6th is School Lunch Hero Day!! We appreciate our food service staff!

The Concord Chronicle has done an amazing job featuring our seniors. This week you can find Calvin Allen and Hadley Kettwich highlighted in the Chronicle. Thank you, Connor Haire and Alanzo Hopkins, for featuring this amazing Concord Senior!!

Posted below are the 2022 Spring Sports Portraits taken by two staff photographers from the Concord Chronicle: senior Georgia Weeks, juniors Caylin Bell and Connor Haire, and sophomore Rylee Sinden.

Team portraits should be added next week, as well as occasional action shots, were taken at team competitions.

We cannot thank our community enough for trusting our student photographers to take this risk and use their skills to benefit their classmates. This makes sports portraits affordable for our families and empowers our students. As always constructive feedback is appreciated.

Golf: https://link.shutterfly.com/ebJT3mNUzpb

Track and Field: https://link.shutterfly.com/WwjEoMPUzpb

Baseball: https://link.shutterfly.com/9oKYiPSUzpb

Softball: https://link.shutterfly.com/9VNfJXvVzpb

Omarion Culliver reviews this week's action on the track and field. Check out his article in the Concord Chronicle.

Henry Ford Sports Medicine of Jackson is excited to conduct sports physicals for student planning to participate in athletics during the 2022-2023 school year. You must bring signed physical form & waiver by parent and $20 cash/check. Listed below are the locations and date and times, select the one that fits your schedule best:
Springport HS - Thursday, May 26 from 4-6
Napoleon HS - Thursday, June 2 from 4-6
Leslie HS - Tuesday, June 7 from 4-6
Grass Lake HS - Thursday, June 9 from 4-6
Columbia HS - Thursday, June 16 from 4-6
Jackson HS - Thursday, July 14 from 4-6
East Jackson HS - Thursday, July 21 from 4-6
Homer HS - Thursday, July 28 from 4-6
Lumen Christi HS - Saturday, July 30 from 9-11
Hanover Horton HS - Thursday, August 4 from 4-6

Sports physicals must be dated April 15 or after for next school year.

The junior class honors this year’s graduating seniors with a masquerade ball at the Cascades Manor 1970 Kibby Road, Jackson from 7-11pm. There is still an opportunity for families to help the junior class make this an exciting evening. We are looking for gift card donations for a raffle that evening; ideas include gas cards, restaurant cards, or cards that could be used toward dorm room supplies. Any gift cards can be dropped off in the high school office next week between Monday and Friday. We are also in need of a few more chaperones and would like to invite sophomore parents to consider a shift from 6:30-8:30 pm or from 8:30-10:30 pm. Please email amy.kelly@concordschools.net if you are available.

This week Concord launched their Biomedical Pathway Commercial. The commercial should be streamed across multiple media platforms. The commercial features our K-12 students and some FABULOUS alumni!! The Biomedical Pathway Commercial is the third commercial in a series that will feature all seven of our academic pathways over the next couple of years. Last year we featured our robotics and art programs. Thank you to all of our students that were willing to be apart of making this happen.

Below is the link to information about Concord Classic Weekend 2022 including Bounce Houses, Cornhole, 3 on 3 Basketball, 4 on 4 Sand Volleyball, and NEW THIS YEAR...Spikeball. There will also be a home run derby and a 3-pt. shooting contest during the weekend and the Concord Elementary/Middle School will sponsor a carnival for kids. Lastly...we have some new food trucks this year! We hope to see you there!

2022 Concord Classic Weekend

We want to make you aware of a Netflix show that kids are talking about here at school and that seemingly has content that is not appropriate for younger kids to watch. The show is called Squid Games and it has repetitive violence throughout it that is connected to themes generally associated with children (like outdoor games, ie: Red Light Green Light). The content can be traumatic for children to watch and is leading to increased anxiety among children as it can be extremely gruesome. The next thing to be aware of is a mobile video game called Among Us. It is a murder-mystery game where cartoon-like characters use weapons to kill each other. A great resource to check out in regards to dangerous media Common Sense Media

Have you liked the Elementary/Middle School Facebook Page? What about the Concord Community Schools Facebook Page??

If you have not yet, this week is a great time to start. The Elementary and Middle schools use the Facebook page to post many updates, announcements, and student photos; the Concord Community Schools page is a great way to see how a YellowJacket week unfolds! Don't miss the news - like and follow the pages today.

Concord Elementary/Middle School Facebook Page

Concord Community Schools Facebook Page

Our district is facing a staffing shortage. We are in need of bus drivers, food service staff members, coaches, and individuals willing to work through EduStaff as Guest Teachers or subs for all of our positions. These staffing shortages are wreaking havoc across the state. If you are interested and able, we would love to have you on our team. Below you will find information about signing up to work as a Guest Teacher through Edustaff along with our fall Guest Teacher Incentive. Further, you can view unfilled positions on our website. If you have any questions, please call one of our offices.