Midland Messenger

Email: midland@fpschools.org
Website: http://midland.fpschools.org/
Location: Midland Elementary School, 105th Street East, Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone: 253-298-4500
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Midland-Elementary-Mustangs-112865059416899/?ref=settings

The Midland Staff hopes that you have a safe and wonderful time with your family and friends over the Winter Break. Midland will be closed for Winter Vacation from December 19th through January 2nd.

Remember that school resumes on Tuesday, January 3, 2023!

It's great to be a MUSTANG!

~Dr. Paula Dawson

Your voice is important and we would like to hear form you about your child's and family's experience at Midland Elementary School. It is important for us to learn how we can improve!

Last week you received an email from Franklin Pierce Schools and Panorama with a link to the district's family survey. If you did not receive the email or don't remember getting it, this link will take you to the survey! https://surveys.panoramaed.com/fpschools/2824073411

Please be sure to complete this 10-15 minute survey no later than Friday this week. Thank you!

Franklin Pierce High School students and staff adopted every classroom and student at Midland to share holiday love! Classrooms completed crafts and opened gifts with high school students who spent the morning at our school. There was laughter, joy, happy tears, and most of all, LOVE!

December 14 ~ HOPE Assembly

December 14 ~ 1:55 Dismissal

December 16 ~ PTO Family Game Night 7-8:30 pm

December 19-January 2 ~ No School for Winter Break

**For additional future scheduled activities, please check out our Midland calendar at https://midland.fpschools.org/**

The Gift of Time:

Take Time and Give Time This Holiday Season

😊 Midland’s students and families are a true gift!

We anticipate the need for volunteers this year as well. If you are interested in volunteering as a chaperone for field trips or in any other capacity that may come up, please complete the volunteer application as soon as possible. It may take up to two weeks to process an application and we don't want you to be left out of a volunteer opportunity because you are not approved yet! Click here to begin your volunteer application. If you were cleared as a volunteer last year. Please complete an application as well. Volunteer applications must be completed every year.

In the event of emergencies, a team of Franklin Pierce Schools staff work to balance safety and our commitment to support student learning. The choice to delay or cancel the start of a school day includes assessing road conditions and consulting with other local services. Franklin Pierce Schools will attempt to offer updates about delays and closures by 5am.

Staff and families can expect to receive information about school closures and delays in the following ways:

• Recorded Telephone Message contact the main office at your child's school to ensure your contact information is up to date

• SMS Message for families/staff who have opted-in, click here for Text Message if you would like to opt-in

• Email from info@fpschools.org

• Website www.fpschools.org

• Flash Alert Notification sign up to receive email notifications and download the Flash Alert App, click here.

• Local Media including KIRO 97.3 FM, KOMO 1000 AM, KIRO TV Channel 7, KOMO TV Channel 4, and KING TV Channel 5

• Social Media Facebook and Twitter

Serving students at ALL 8 Elementary Schools

Right at School will operate before and afterschool programs at all eight Franklin Pierce elementary schools! Right at School offers a safe environment for students to learn, to play, and to grow!

Franklin Pierce Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Questions and complaints of alleged discrimination should be directed to James Hester, Compliance Coordinator for State and Civil Rights Laws; Wendy Malich, Title IX Officer; or John Sander, 504/ADA Coordinator at 315 129th ST S, Tacoma, WA 98444-5099 or at (253)298-3000.