MVMS Pride Monthly Newsletter
March 2018
Spring
As the snow melts and the weather changes, students will begin spending the mornings before school in the athletic fields as they did in the fall. Make sure you dress accordingly. Sometimes those dewy spring mornings can be a little chilly. As long as it is above 35 degrees and not raining, we will be outside.
The warm weather and spring fever also may tempt students to begin to push the dress code. Please remember the dress code is still in effect regardless of the temperature outside. For specific information on the dress code, please refer to page 13 of the Student Handbook. Thank you in advance for your support with this.
MVMS Celebrates 1,000 Acts of Kindness with Recycled Percussion
Drumming through the halls of MVMS.
Welcome home!
Humble beginnings
The Show Must Go On
In next month's newsletter, we hope to post a video of the night's full performance. Stay tuned!
Destination Imagination
After months of hard work, the MVMS Destination Imagination Team competed at the regional tournament in Meredith, New Hampshire last weekend. For their selected team challenge, “Unlikely Attraction”, they had to create an amusement park attraction in an unlikely location. They then had to include the attraction as well as three scientific principles in an original skit that they wrote and performed. The performance of their solution went well, and they received many positive comments both from the appraisers and from people stopping by to check out their claw machine within a claw machine. They also scored high on the Instant Challenge, a problem-based task that they are presented with the day of the tournament. Congratulations to the team on a job well done!
Staff vs. Student Basketball Game
Thank you to the National Junior Honor Society for putting on the event which ended up raising $460. Proceeds from the event were donated to the Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester.
Donations to Date
8th Grade Community Project Update
What is the Community Project?
The Grade 8 Community Project is a major activity for students to complete during their 8th grade year at Merrimack Valley Middle School. The Community Project focuses on community and service and gives students an opportunity to develop an awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning.
The goals of the Community Project are to encourage and enable students to:
Participate in a sustained, self-directed inquiry
Generate creative new insights and develop deeper understandings through an in-depth investigation
Demonstrate the skills, attitudes, and knowledge required to complete a project over an extended period of time
Communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Demonstrate responsible action through service learning
Appreciate the process of learning and take pride in their accomplishments
*Source: MVMS Community Project Guide 2017 - 2018
Student Service Projects
- Making fleece blankets for children at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHAD).
- Growing food and donating it to rescue pets.
- Teaching the elementary students in Webster about the local food pantry, and volunteering at the pantry.
- Providing entertainment, companionship, and kindness to men and women at a local retirement home.
- Teaching a modified PE lesson for students with disabilities.
- Making dog toys to donate to a local animal shelter.
- Working with the Concord PD and/or NHDOT to offer a bike safety course at Penacook Elementary.
- Volunteering to speak with 5th grade elementary school students about drug prevention strategies.
- Research on teenage sleep deprivation and how this impacts academic performance.
- Creating a venue where MVMS students could showcase talents and express creativity.
- Raising awareness for the Friendly Kitchen in Concord.
- Visiting children at the Penacook Community Center (PCC) to serve as positive role models and educate the children about the importance of being active and eating right.
Growing Food
Mentors at PCC
Making Blankets
Mark Your Calendars
- Krypto Tournament (MVMS) - Wednesday, March, 4 @ 5:30
- School Board Meeting (MVHS) - Monday, April, 9 @ 7:15
- Team Picture Day (MVMS) - Friday, April, 13 @ 2:30
- Spring Vacation - April 23 - April 27
Merrimack Valley Middle School
MVMS's mission is to promote an environment that teaches students to be active learners, critical thinkers, and responsible citizens in an ever-changing global society.
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