Saluda Trail Wildcats
February 5, 2023
Principal's Corner
Good evening STMS Families,
I trust you all had a good weekend. We have entered February quickly and it is time for our students to receive progress reports for the third quarter of the school year. Progress reports will go home, Wednesday, February 8, 2023. Parents, I encourage you all to have meaningful conversations with your child concerning their progress reports. Should you have questions, please contact your child's teacher.
I would also like to congratulate our 7th Grade Lady Wildcats Basketball Team on a fantastic season. While the season did not end with a championship victory as we all hoped for, Coach Thomsen did a great job and our 7th Grade Lady Wildcats fought hard. Our 7th Grade Boys Wildcats Basketball Team finished the season with a conference championship victory over Oakridge Middle School. Congratulations to Coach Dunham and the 7th Grade Boys Basketball team.
Please be sure to review this week's newsletter for updates. Let’s have a great week.
Respectfully,
Dr. Marek Marshall
Principal
Saluda Trail STEAM Middle School….Where You Will Experience Excellence Without Excuse!
Grade Level Administrators and Counselors
Our grade level administrators and counselors are here to provide support. Please reach out to them should you have questions or concerns. Their contact information is as follows:
6th Grade Assistant Principal: Ms. Reed sreed@rhmail.org
6th Grade School Counselor: Ms. Johnson QJohnson@rhmail.org
7th Grade Assistant Principal: Ms. Hall SHall@rhmail.org
7th Grade School Counselor: Ms. Hardy-Holmes Wilson NHardy-Holmes@rhmail.org
8th Grade Assistant Principal: Mr. Newton CNewton@rhmail.org
8th Grade School Counselor: Ms. McCoy RMcCoy@rhmail.org
York County Middle Schools "Battle of the Books"
Saluda Trail Academic Challenge Team
The Wildcats defeated Lewisville Middle School at last night's academic challenge match.
At the end of the captain rounds, we were up 11-10 and consistently maintained the lead in the buzzer rounds, resulting in a final score of 22-17.
Thomas Hollinger was our top scorer in the buzzer round and Kade McAllister was our second highest scorer! Amazing work, Wildcats! We are so proud of you!
Congratulations 7th Grade Boys Basketball
DRESS DOWN DAY: SUPERBOWL EDITION
For $2, STMS Students are welcome to dress down on Friday, February 10th Students can wear their favorite NFL/College football team jersey/shirt with jeans OR STMS branded shirt with jeans. Students can see their grade level councilor to participate. Councilors will be collecting from Monday, 2/6 through Thursday, 2/9.
Valentine Candy Grams sold during lunches the week of February 6-10
The counseling department will be selling Valentine Candy Grams. Tell a friend, teacher, or staff member you appreciate them by buying them a candy gram for 50 cents. Students will receive a sucker and message from the sender. Counselors will sell grams during lunch the week of February 6-10. Candy grams will be delivered during core 4 on Tuesday, February 14.
7th Grade Career Fair Update
Dear Parents,
Career Fair is rapidly approaching and we need YOUR experiences! Whether you are a nurse, mechanic, astronaut, custodian or business owner- we need you! We are looking for a variety of people interested in spending time talking to our students about their career. Many of our students are unaware of the career opportunities available to them and this is a fantastic way to provide them with first hand knowledge of potential career paths. This is also a great way for you to get involved at Saluda Trail Middle and make an impact on the students’ future. If you are not interested but know someone who is, please give them the necessary contact information. Saluda Trail 7th Grade Career Fair March 31, 2023 from 8:30-12pm.
Thank you in advance for your involvement!
https://forms.gle/jR8ZuYmexymM2ajQ7
(If you have any questions or would like to get further information please
contact Ms. Jennifer Massey-Blanding at (803)981-1866 or email at jmasseyblanding@rhmail.org.
The Saluda Trail Paw Print
WOOT WOOT CART
To all 8.1 Parents (and all parents in 6th and 7th grade who did not get a chance to contribute to the cart earlier in the year).
The Woot-Woot Cart is a cart that rolls out once a month where ALL 85+ STMS teachers/staff can grab a snack as a monthly mini thank you from STMS families for all that they do for our kids.
The cart is funded by STMS parents through the PTO and every month we reach out to the parents of one or two grade level teams to donate $5 to $15 to stock the cart.
Parents can donate through Friday, February 10th by clicking either the Venmo or PayPal links below:
SPIRIT NIGHT at Showmars on Dave Lyle
Wednesday, February 22nd 5pm to 8pm
Mark your calendars for our next Spirit Day at SHOMARS. 10% of sales during the hours of 5pm to 8pm will come back to STMS!
Important Dates
Monday, February 6, 2023- 8th Grade Boys Basketball vs. Oakridge @ Clover Middle School 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023- Progress Reports go home
Friday, February 17, 2023- Early Release Day
Monday, February 20, 2023- Rock Hill Schools Closed- President's Day
2023 STMS Softball Tryout Info Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd!!! Softball? Yep, info on Saluda Trail’s tryouts below.
Any 7th or 8th grade student athlete that wants to try out for softball. Tryouts for the softball team will be on Feb 15th & Feb 16th from 3:45pm until 5:45pm. Students interested in trying out should email Coach Jennings @ ajenning@rhmail.org to express their interest in order to tryout. All students must have physical, and paperwork completed and sent to Coach Dunham @ cdunham@rhmail.org prior to workouts. If you have any questions, you can email Coach Jennings or Coach Dunham at the email addresses listed above. Thanks in advance and see you at the field!
2023 STMS Track Tryout Info On your marks! Get Seeeetttttt! GO!!!! It’s time for track, info on Saluda Trail’s tryouts can be found below.
Workouts will start on Feb 21st at 3:45 pm at Saluda Trail’s track for any 7th or 8th grade student athlete that’s interested in this year’s track team. There will be a one-week workout period, before we’ll have our team trials on March 2nd. We will end workouts and practices each day at 5:15pm. The trials for this year’s team will be like that of last year’s process, and those that make the cut will be notified on March 3rd of their status on the team. The workout/trial period will give all interested students the opportunity to come out and learn the events to give them the opportunity to get their best time, distance, or heights in before the March 2nd trial date.
Students interested in trying out should email Coach Dunham @ cdunham@rhmail.org to express their interest in trying out. All students must have all physicals and paperwork completed and sent to Coach Dunham @ cdunham@rhmail.org prior to the 21st in order to tryout. If you have any questions, you can email Coach Dunham at the email address listed above or reach him via phone call @ (803) 980-2130. Thanks in advance and see you at the track!!!
South Pointe High School Spring Sports Update
(Boys/Girls)
Monday and Tuesday
4:30-6:00
Practice- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4:30-6:00
Rock Hill High School Spring Sports Update
C Team Baseball:
Monday, January 30th-Wednesday, February 1st from 6pm-8pm at the baseball field
Girls Soccer:
Monday, January 30th-Wednesday, February 1st from 4pm-5:30pm at the band field, located next to the softball field
Boys Soccer:
Monday, January 30th-Wednesday, February 1st from 4pm-5:30pm at District 3 stadium
Boys Tennis:
Please be at the RHHS tennis courts Monday - Wednesday at 3:55 for practices
Softball Tryouts:
Spring tryouts will be February 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Saluda Trail Middle School
Website: https://www.rock-hill.k12.sc.us/stms
Location: 2300 Saluda Road, Rock Hill, SC, USA
Phone: 803-981-1800