The annual 8th grade Harbor Cruise is tomorrow from 5-10pm. Tickets sales ended on Friday, May 27th and the event is now closed.

Students will need to be at TPMS by 5:00pm to begin checking-in. No backpacks or bags will be allowed on the bus. You may take money to purchase items and a coat or jacket is strongly suggested. The schedule for the evening can be found below:

• 5:15pm - Pizza in the lunch area @ TPMS
• 5:45pm - Board busses
• 6:00pm - Depart from TPMS
• 7:00pm - Set sail on San Diego Harbor
• 9:15pm - Board busses and head for home
• 9:45pm - Arrive back to TPMS

*Please remember that all school rules, including dress code and those that define student behavior, apply to this event. Students who violate school rules may lose the privilege to participate in other 8th grade activities including the 8th Grade Breakfast, 8th Grade Olympics, and the promotion ceremony.

• August 10th: 6th Grade (8am - 1pm*)
• August 11th: 7th Grade (8am - 1pm*)
• August 12th: 8th Grade (8am - 1pm*)

*Last Names A-L (8-10:30am), Last Names M-Z (10:30am-1:00pm)

If you have more than one student (6th and 8th grader), you can register them both on the same day. Makeup registration will be on August 15th from 2-4pm in Room 102. No pictures will be available during make-up registration.

If you are interested in these camps please click here for more information and to sign up.

Hey 8th graders! Our 3rd Annual End of the Year 8th Grade Breakfast is just around the corner on Tuesday, June 7th from 8:30-10:00am. This breakfast will be a final hurrah with all of your peers before we go off to high school. We will have tasty food, snazzy music, and awesome decorations that will ensure everyone will have a great time! This amazing event will definitely be a highlight of your middle school career! However, we need a little help from our 8th grade families to make this celebration extra special for our amazing students. We are hoping you all can support our breakfast celebration. Any donations, large or small, would be greatly appreciated. If you are interested in helping out, please respond on this Donation Signup Genius before Friday, May 27th.

Thank you so much for your support as we celebrate our 8th graders before we send them off to high school! Please see the link below if you are able to help out!

Click HERE for Donation Signup Genius

Chrome Book Care / Self-Check:

Our district is excited to continue the 1:1 take home device program for next year. It is important to us that all students begin next school year with a functioning Chromebook in hand. Please examine your student’s Chromebook and ensure it is working properly. If the Chromebook is damaged, we ask that you turn it in to your school for repair as soon as possible.

Please remind students to treat their devices with care over the summer and to always practice good digital citizenship. Additionally, if your student will not be attending a PUSD school next year, they will need to return their Chromebook prior to June 8, 2022.

Starting on Monday, March 14, students and staff in TK-12 schools will no longer be required to wear masks while indoors on school campuses, although they are still strongly recommended. At Twin Peaks MS, we value and respect individual choices on our campus. Some of our staff and students will continue to wear their masks, and some will choose not to. As a community, we need to respect the choices that each individual makes. Please speak with your child(ren) on your family’s expectations regarding masking, as well as, how to respect the decisions made by others. Our teachers will have similar conversations in their classrooms. Our counseling team is also available to support any students experiencing anxiety or difficulty with this transition in masking requirements.

Please Note: Staff and Students who have tested positive for COVID 19 will continue to isolate per the CDPH and SDCOE Decision Tree. If an individual tests negative on Day 5, they may return to school on Day 6 as long asymptomatic or symptoms are resolving and a mask must be worn that fits snugly over the mouth and nose while indoors and when around others outside. If one chooses not to wear a mask, they are required to return on Day 11.

Please continue to self-screen and take your temperature each morning before you come to work. If you feel sick or show any symptoms of being sick, please stay home. If you need to schedule a test, you can do so for you and your family members at Pharmatech LINKED HERE. Please continue to wear your masks indoors with students and require them to keep their masks up over their mouth and nose. If you are an unvaccinated adult on campus, you are asked to wear your mask at all times when indoors. If you have concerns about a student not wearing their mask properly or consistently indoors, please reach out to a member of our admin team so we can review the mask expectations with that student and their family.

For staff who have tested positive for Covid-19, per the California Department of Public Health updated guidance on isolation and quarantine as of December 30, 2021, PUSD staff may return to work when:

• 5 days from symptom onset (or if no symptoms then 5 days from positive PCR COVID-19 test date) AND
• Symptoms are not present or are resolving AND a negative COVID test (antigen test is preferred) taken on day 5 or later. (If unable to test or choosing not to test, and symptoms are not present or are resolving, isolation can end after day 10)

• Fever free for 24 hours (without fever reducing medication) AND
• Wear a well-fitting mask around others for a total of 10 days, especially in indoor settings

STUDENT CLOSE CONTACT

The updated CDPH K-12 guidance gives school districts the option of using the three quarantine model or the Group-Tracing Approach to Students Exposed to COVID-19 in a K-12 Setting. PUSD will be using the Group Tracing approach. Per the K-12 Guidance 2021-2022 Questions and Answers, tracking results from all exposed students is not required.

Parents should notify schools of positive results.

1. Schools will notify group of students who spent more than a cumulative total of 15 minutes (within a 24-hour time period) in a shared indoor airspace (e.g., classroom) with someone with COVID-19 during their period of infectiousness.

• Notification will occur to "groups" of exposed students (e.g., classmates, teammates, cohorts, etc.) rather than contact tracing to identify individual "close contacts" (e.g., those within 6 feet).
• Notifications should be provided to all individuals, including those who are vaccinated and/or recently infected.

Please click HERE to access the updated Covid Guidelines and Protocols on the PUSD website.