We had a great turnout after school on Friday for our winter dance! Thank you to all our PTO families that donated snacks, beverages, and volunteered to set up and chaperone!

This Friday, we held our annual Smith Dodgeball Tournament to raise money for the American Heart Association. Thank you to all the students that participated and to Mrs. Cooper for organizing!

We are looking forward to another incredible Festival of Cultures celebration at Smith Middle School this year. If you are interested in hosting a table to share more about your family's culture, we would love to have you participate! Please scan the QR code to sign up and we will send you details!

We are excited to host the Regional Finals Tournament for the National History Bee, National Science Bee, and International Geography Bee here at Smith on April 15th. All students took a qualifying exam in their social studies classes in December or January. We are proud to say we have a tremendous number of qualifiers eligible to participate in the regional tournament. Students were notified if they qualified through their social studies class. We are looking forward to a great turnout as we are hosting the event for the 2nd year in a row here at Smith. It is now time to register if you would like to participate. Please see the letter with registration details.

Knights+ is a designated time once a month where all Smith students and staff come together to work on our school-wide character traits. Due to the snow day, our next Knights+ Day has been rescheduled to this upcoming Thursday. This year, our focus trait is compassion. The students at Smith Middle School have been working on Compassion Projects to positively impact our school and community. Please ask your child about their project and what support they may need for completing the project. This is not a graded assignment, but rather an opportunity to show compassion in our community as part of our character work. The students are sharing their projects in our May Knights+ meeting. The Compassion projects can also be shared during the 6th grade Celebration of Learning, 8th grade interviews, and students' digital portfolios. More information to come about these exciting events.

Families,

Please take a moment to review the drop-off / pick-up map below. We are seeing some specific issues in the parking lot that we want to bring to your attention.

• The middle lane is for drop-off / pick-up only. Please do not park in that row. Pulling in and out of the parking spots is slowing down drop-off and creating dangerous situations for students and vehicles.
  

• If you are going to park your car for drop-off / pick-up, please use the third row of parking spots highlighted in below in blue.

• Please do not drop students off at the Martell/Cotswold intersection.

Thank you for your continued patience and attention to safety as we have over 600 students entering and exiting our school every day!

We have a great online spirit wear store with a number of new modern styles and items for purchase. You can either pick them up or utilize the option of having your orders delivered directly to your home for a small fee.

Click on the link below to check out the wide variety of styles and prints.

https://smithknights.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Below is a sample of the logo choices for most items...

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