On January 12th, we will be hosting another Parent/ Teacher Conference Night! If you are interested in visiting one or more of your child's teachers, please SIGN UP ONLINE NO LATER THAN 5:00pm on January 11th! Conference sign-ups will close 24 hours before the event begins. You may sign-up for a virtual OR in-person conference with any teacher.

Please call the main office if you have any questions about conferences and click the link below to select your conference times.

We had several NMS students who were chosen for the Region IX Honor Band! These students will perform with students from all around Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties. They are:

Aaliyah Jackson, flute
Antonio Marjanovic, baritone sax
James Riley, trumpet
Nate Riley, trombone

Lily Salisbury, trombone

Luke Smith, percussion

Noah Milburn, percussion

Matthew Wolford, baritone

Ms. Cline and the entire NMS community are SO PROUD of you! Keep up the good work!

Led by Miles Liverpool and Jaedon Carter-Butts, the boys JV team had wins this week against Hedgesville and Charles Town to remain undefeated. AJ Stephenson and Khari Hafley led the Varsity team to do the same! The Boys basketball team is stunning crowds with a 6-0 record right now! Both the boys and girls teams are working hard playing excellent basketball!

This week, both the boys and girls teams will play on Monday night against Hedgesville Middle (boys are at home) and Wednesday night against Musselman Middle (girls are home).

**PLEASE NOTE, the usual Thursday games were moved to Wednesday due to Parent/ Teacher Conferences.

Ms. Gantt's Science classes studied whether blinking was a voluntary or involuntary bodily response by throwing cottonballs at each others faces and recording their observations. Ms. Gantt reported that students were very excited to throw cottonballs at their classmates! Students who finished early this week were also allowed to "make snow" using baking soda and hair conditioner!

In Social Studies PLS this week, Ms. Moreland had students complete the Index Card Similarity Tower. Students had to write things they had in common with their team on the index card and then use those cards to build the tallest tower.

On Friday, Ms. Simmons & Ms. Zahradnik's first period classes teamed up to practice argumentative/ persuasive dialogue using a game called "Trust No One." Using a computer program called "GimKit", students had to work together to run investigations on class "crewmates" to determine if they were imposters trying to sabotage their spaceship. Students had to use their knowledge of argumentative writing to persuade their classmates to vote off members of the crew who could have been the hidden imposters! A great time was had by all!