Weekly Update
August 8th, 2023
February 19-23, 2024
Message From the Principal
Student led conferences will be held on Monday February 19th from 12-7:30pm. Please make sure you bring your child with you to conferences. 7th and 8th grade students will need to bring their iPads to their conference to go over their slide show presentation. These conferences are held in your child's advisory teacher's classroom. If you want to meet with other teachers please reach out to them for their availability.
In light of the recent situation we had at the Middle School this week we as a district are looking at better ways to improve our communication moving forward. We will continue to collaborate with other school districts, law enforcement and KSDE officials to do all we can to communicate the safety and security of our students, staff and schools. We have also discussed better ways to increase security at the middle school with the current location of our main office.
As always don't hesitate to reach out if you have thoughts, ideas and suggestions for ways to improve. We will all continue to work together to do our best for our students.
After School Program
Don't forget to sign up for ASAP if your child is needing some extra help or time to complete their work. This 9 weeks we will be able to offer it 4 days a week to help students get caught up on missing assignments and get extra assistance and homework they might not understand.
The after school program is offered from 3:30-4:30pm.
Monday- Mrs. Kahler
Tuesday- Mrs. Clark
Wednesday- Mrs. Patterson
Thursday- Mr. Hicks (Mr. Baker's student teacher)
If you would like your child to stay please fill out the form below.
Connecting with the Counselor
8th Grade Job Shadowing Experiences
I am working on finalizing some placements for students for their Job Shadowing Experience. Students will do their Job Shadowing experience from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, March 6th. In order for this event to be successful, we need some help with transportation from parents. Parents, please fill out THIS GOOGLE FORM to help us start making travel arrangements so all of our students have a successful experience!
All Things Activities and Athletics
Boys Basketball-
Monday boys play at Riverside- no school that day, bus leaves at 2:40pm students need to be here by 2:30pm. As always games will start at 4:30pm with A teams first and B teams to follow.
8th Grade will play in Elwood
204 North 12 th Street; Elwood, KS 66024
7th grade will play in Wathena
705 Jesse Street; Wathena, KS 66090
Scholars Bowl- First meet is on February 20th at Home. The first round will start at 4:00p pm
HEADS UP- If your child is wanting to do track Coach Williams plans to start practice in the gym on March 5th until 5pm and then the parent meeting will follow that first practice in the Middle School Gym.
Fees
If your child is in art this semester they will need to make sure the fee gets paid. Even if they were in art 1st semester there is another fee for 2nd semester.
Let's Talk About Food
Cost for Breakfast is $2.10- we start serving breakfast at 7:30 am
Lunch cost is $3.25- We are offering a hot meal, a sandwich and a salad option please make sure you let your child know what is on the lunch menu so they know what they would like when their teacher takes lunch count.
JWMS Calendar
Events for the week of February 19-23, 2024
Monday- No School- Student Led Conferences from 12:00 pm- 7:30pm
Boys basketball at Riverside
Tuesday-
Scholars Bowl Home Meet- Starts at 4pm
Wednesday-
Joint Site Council at the Middle School at 5:30pm
County Spelling Bee at 5:30pm at Jefferson County North
Thursday-
Scholars Bowl at Royal Valley starts at 4pm
Friday-
Booster Club Business
Booster Club has created a fundraiser just for the Middle School. More information will be sent out on Tuesday, so stay tuned!