Sunken Treasure

Happy Friday Pirate Nation!

Students have been incredibly resilient this past week as we began a new schedule for 6th and 7th grade students. Our 8th grade team continues to Pilot the Humanities and STEM block.

Through our daily Home Room and WIN (What I Need) time we are reviewing our HERO expectations (see the button below to see our building-wide expectations), discussing respecting ourselves and others, and focusing on teambuilding.

Yesterday, our Home Rooms created a team name, chant, and handshake. Ask your student to show you at home.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Have a wonderful and safe extended weekend. We look forward to seeing the students back on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

Best wishes,

Mr. Steve Mercer

Principal, Piper Middle School

smercer@piperschools.us

Follow us on Twitter @piper_middle

Mrs. Andrea Paulakovich

Assistant Principal, Piper Middle School

apaulakovich@piperschools.us

Follow me on Twitter @PaulakovichA

Phone: 913.721.1144

Fax: 913.721.1526

If you have a 7th, 8th, or 9th grade student that is NOT involved in a fall sport, there will be 2 separate baseball camps taking place this Fall.

The Future Crew Fall Camp Offense: September 12-15, 2022

The Future Crew Fall Camp Defense/Throwing: September 19-22, 2022

Thank you for the patience and grace you have allowed as we finalized the master schedule as part of our ReDesign efforts. While changing the schedule this week was unconventional, it has allowed us to not only reduce class size, but also create a more streamlined schedule for students and teachers. To that end, at the current time we are not accepting individual student schedule requests unless it relates directly to student safety in order to allow our students and teachers to build rapport and consistencies with schedules.

Thank you for your understanding as we settle into the 2022.2023 school year!

If your student is playing a fall sport, there is a $25 fee. This fee can be cash or check brought to the front office - or you can pay on Skyward.

Click the button below for step by step instructions on how to pay on Skyward.

We hope you can join us next week to cheer on our Pirates.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Volleyball vs. Clark at HOME - 8th Grade

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Football vs. Clark at HOME - 7th Grade

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Volleyball vs. Warren at HOME - 7th Grade

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Cross Country at Lexington Park

Saturday, September 10, 2022

8th Grade Volleyball at Lexington Trail Quad (A Team ONLY)

7th Grade Volleyball at Clark (A Team ONLY)

We want to ensure the safety of all community members, staff, and students during pick up and drop off.

• If you are dropping off students in the front of the building, please pull all the way to the flag poll to make sure we can alleviate back up of vehicles. Also, please remain in line. If a car pulls in front of everyone else, it could cause a potential wreck.
• We want to ensure the safety of students, staff, and community members. Thank you for staying off your cell phone when driving through the car line.

We wish everyone a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend. As a reminder, we have no school on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend.

You can click below for next week's lunch menu at Piper Middle School.

Parent Consent Due Date: September 9, 2022

*Consent Form: Please click the button below that says Parent Consent Panorama.

*More Information is provided in the Parent Consent Form

Our school will be administering the Panorama SEL Survey the week of September 12-15, 2022 during WIN (What I Need). Panorama is taken by students in grades 3-12 and takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.

To learn more about the questions students will respond to, please contact building principal, Steve Mercer (smercer@piperschools.us).

Parent Consent Due Date: September 9, 2022

Consent Form: Please click the button below that says Parent Consent - KS Communities that Care.

Our school will soon be administering the Kansas Communities That Care (KCTC) Student Survey.

This survey is taken by 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th grade students statewide. I believe this survey is a valuable tool to help us understand how students behave, think and feel about alcohol, marijuana and other drug use, bullying and school safety. The KCTC survey measures teen substance use, delinquency, and related problem behaviors in schools and communities. The survey gives us insight into the problems students face and shows what we can do to help them succeed. The information is important for planning effective prevention programs in our school and community and provides data to assist in applying for grant funding.