Dear Parents & Caregivers,

We have had a wonderful start to the 2022-2023 school year at Randall Middle School. It was a pleasure to see so many parents, caregivers, and families come to Meet the Teacher Night. Each day at school, we continue to encourage our students and adults to remember why we are here: our Randall Middle School Mission - to “ensure high levels of learning for all - students and adults.” The way we ensure our Mission is through our Vision. We don’t just focus on student learning. We also focus on high levels of learning for our adults here at Randall Middle School because we know that students learn best when our adults know and use best practices. We are a Model PLC School, meaning that we have been recognized for our exemplary work in establishing a high-achieving professional learning community. This professional learning community ensures that your students’ teachers are constantly collaborating to plan, set, and evaluate data driven learning goals. They are working tirelessly to plan activities that are engaging and encourage your students to take ownership of their learning. We also have an emphasis on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). We value positive relationships and a safe and nurturing environment that is supplemented by a high quality SEL curriculum. We want students to learn and use appropriate academic and social behaviors, and how to recognize and manage emotions as a student, and eventually as a citizen in our 21st century global society. In order to achieve our Mission, we must have our families, caregivers, and community engaged and involved. We want to work together with you to provide opportunities for input, communication, and collaboration to support and serve our students. Please get involved! On the second Wednesday of each month, our Randall Middle School PTO meets in a hybrid format. (Meaning we meet in person but also host a virtual meeting so you can participate virtually if you prefer.) Please feel free to share your voice and your support for Randall Middle School through the PTO. We look forward to sharing our passion with each of you to ensure high levels of learning for all students and adults.

With Purple Tiger Pride,

Hello and welcome back!

Here are a few reminders and tidbits from the health office:

• Covid tests are available and free. Please just ask!

• A physical examination is required for all 5th grade students.

• Please keep the office informed of any phone number changes and/or health concern updates.

• If your child needs medication in school, a MD order and adult delivery is required

• Pack a change of clothes for unexpected accidents and spills!

• Please feel free to contact me with any questions!

Be safe and stay well!

As Always–Nurse Neuman

The Positivity Project (P2) is dedicated to empowering America’s youth to build positive relationships by recognizing the character strengths in themselves and others. Over the course of this school year, your child will learn about 24 strengths already within each one of them. The program instills vocabulary and meaning through explicit teaching of each strength through Mrs. Quinn´s morning message, and through class morning meetings. We will dedicate one week to each strength, in an effort to help students gain meaning through definition, examples, discussions, and exercises. P2 empowers students by acknowledging that the 24 character strengths are already a part of who they are as people. So far, we have already talked about CURIOSITY and TEAMWORK. Next up is OPEN-MINDEDNESS. Ask your child to define these strengths for you, and talk with him/her about how they contribute to success at home and at school.

~Mrs. Amber Thayer, Music Teacher

We have been having a stellar start to music this year. We have been reviewing our music fundamentals, playing djembes and composing our own music for drums.

~Mrs. Danielle Beltz, Art Teacher

In art we have been drawing, painting and collaging so far! We also collaborated on Randall Middles’ version of Vincent VanGogh’s “Starry Night”.

We are working on area in our classroom using different hands on activities. One way we are using hands on activities is by using cheezits to create different shapes to find the area of.

~Mrs. Samantha Wyant, 6th Grade Teacher