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March Madness is here! Sign up to join March Madness as a basketball player, a cheerleader, a halftime dancer, or a halftime stepper. Remember, all skills are yours! This is another student-led event with a twist. To ensure fairness, we will select the teams after you sign up. The final game will be an All-Star game of the best against the best. Parents, we are not sure if we will have time, but our students are asking if the All-Star team can challenge the parents to a game. Email Principal Smith and let us know if you are a parent who still has a little game left in you. LOL!

The Karma for Cara (K4C) Microgrant Program is the bridge between ideas and action. By providing microgrants in varying amounts up to $1,000, K4C helps our innovative Tiger leaders execute and magnify their initiatives to help repair our world.

Tigers may apply for funds between $250 and $1,000 to complete service projects in their communities. Examples of fundable projects include turning a vacant lot into a community garden, rebuilding a school playground, or helping senior citizens get their homes ready for winter. Microgrants are awarded four times a year. Upcoming Deadline: April 1, 2023.

We have so much vacant space at Sanders. I am sure our Tiger Leaders have great ideas for a youth microgrant. If so, use the below link to find out more about the Karma for Care Microgrant Program.

Over the next week we will have classroom guidance lessons to register our rising 7th graders (current 6th graders) and our rising 8th graders (current 7th graders) for next year's courses. The core classes, ELA, math, science, and SS, have already been selected for students.

Students will select their related arts classes only. However, no class will appear as a selection for the student if they have not met the criteria for the selection. For example, if a rising 7th grader has not taken Beginning Dance, the student will not see Interm Dance as a 7th grade selection.

Students will make related arts selections within their SS classes. Parents will be able to view student selections within PowerSchool and will then be able to request a change once all requests have been completed for the entire school.

Students need their laptops to complete this process. If you do not have a laptop, you will receive a paper schedule to complete; however, your information will have a delay in scheduling.

Students who are not making progress towards promotion will have their requests canceled on May 26, 2023.

See below the 2023-2024 related arts class options for each grade level. You do not see PE because it has been added to all schedules.

Name

Courses

25210200 INT DRAM

25310000 INTERM BAND

25410000 INTERM CHORUS

25250400 ADV DANCE

25210400 ADV DRAM

25510200 ADV ORCH D

25018300 ART: ADVANCED 8

506300CH DISCOV COMP SCIENCE 2

Use the link to the Middle School Master Course Catalog to look up a description of the course you wish to add to your class schedule.

Selecting the Principal for the Principal for A Day Event has been difficult. We have four additional persons to speak with and then we will announce our selection. We apologize for the delay.

The deadline to apply for all other positions is March 13, 2023, 5:00 pm. All are encouraged to apply to serve in a leadership position during the Second Annual Principal for A Day Event. Interviews will begin as soon as we review ALL of the many submitted applications. Students are so eager to showcase their leadership!

See application links for various positions.

All students who are selected as Principal, Assistant Principals, Monitors, Office Managers, Reporter, Videographer, and as other roles will be trained by FranklinCovey on March 31, 2023, from 9am - 2pm. This will be a leadership training to help you better prepare for your upcoming leadership role at Sanders and for any other leadership roles in your future.

The Principal for A Day event will be held in late April/early May. Parents and others will be invited into our building on this day to observe our students as they become the leaders of W. G. Sanders Middle School.

We are coming together to get our school fresh and springy. When we return from spring break, we return to a busy schedule of performances, testing, and getting ready for the end of the year. All of this busyness, especially testing, will be calmer in a fresh spring cleaned building. We need your help by donating, to your child's class/hall, the following items:

• small cleaning buckets
• microfiber cleaning cloths
• mops
• brooms
• wet wipes
• easy to grow potted plants for the classroom
• extra trash bags

Thank you so much!

As the weather gets warmer, students are beginning to wear less. Please remind your child that by Richland One board policy, we must enforce a standardized dress code at W. G. Sanders Middle School.

March

13th: Staff Workday/Student Holiday

16th: Report Cards Issued

16th: Track Meet at Lower Richland HS (7/8 graders) 5:45pm

20th: Early Release 12:30pm

20th: Parent Conference Day (4:00pm-7:00pm)

23rd: Track Meet at Keenan HS (7/8 graders) 5:45pm

30th: Track Meet at Eau Claire HS (6th graders) 5:45pm

We are WG Sanders Middle School, a leader in transforming lives through education, empowering all students to achieve their full potential and dreams.