Pella Middle School
News from November, 2019
Important Dates
- 11/27 - 90 Minute Early for Thanksgiving
- 11/28 - Thanksgiving - No Classes
- 11/29 - Thanksgiving - No Classes
- 12/4 - 90 Minute Early Out - Professional Development
- 12/11 - 90 Minute Early Out - Professional Development
- 12/16 - Pella CSD School Board Meeting @ 4:30
- 12/20 - 90 Minute Early for Winter Break
- 1/6 - Classes Resume
Joe Tangen Selected to Direct at Opus Honor Choir Festival
Joe Tangen was selected by the Iowa Choral Directors Association to direct the 7th and 8th grade Bass Clef Honor Choir at this year’s state Opus Honor Choir Festival.
Four different choirs participate in the festival, and each choir selects 180 singers from across the state. The concert was held at CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames on Thursday, November 21.
Congratulations to Joe on this tremendous honor!
Pella Middle School Students Voted!
Guinness World Record's - World's Largest Stacking Event
One hundred and eighty seven 7th grade students and staff at the Pella Middle School took part in the “World’s Largest Sport Stacking Event.”
7th grade physical education classes, along with sport stackers from all reaches of the world, stacked and down stacked pyramids during a 24 hour period. The current record of 624,390 stackers has been broken with 638,831 stackers and still counting!
Opus Honor Choir Festival
Congratulations to our middle school students who were selected to perform at the Opus Honor Choir festival in Ames on November 21: Jack Conrad, Hayden DuBois, Eli Ebeling, Kaiden Hol, Olivia Hood, Ashton Huizer, Kolton Messer, Riley Thornton and Thomas Tangen!
Thank you for sharing your amazing talent! #pellapride
Martial Arts at Pella Middle School
Students Volunteer their Service at Crossroads of Pella
Student Council Hosts Fall Festival
School Resource Officer (SRO)
Officer Wolff is working hard to establish and foster relationships with students and staff during the two days he is here a week. Officer Wolff spends time at Pella and Pella Christian High School on the opposite days. Currently, he is supporting our safety teams to improve all of our building and district safety plans, and his school resource officer role will continue to adjust and enhance our district as we work in collaboration with Officer Wolff and Pella PD. We are thankful to have him in our buildings.
SafeSchools Alert Anonymous Tip Reporting System
The Counselor Connection
Mrs. Jourdan Van Wyk
Mrs. Van Wyk 641-628-4784 or jourdan.vanwyk@pellaschools.org
The American Psychological Association shares research on a range of benefits of mindfulness, including stress reduction, boosting working memory, focus, less emotional reactivity, and increase of cognitive flexibility, and we are dabbling with mindfulness as the winter months creep in. Our intent is to give students and staff a minute to center themselves in order to be fully present. If you are interested in learning more, please click below.
7th Grade Business Planning
The 7th graders had multiple business owners and experts help them while planning their own concession stand business. The students learned about spreadsheets, strategies, setting prices, and supply and demand.
Thank you to all of our guests: Mike & Jessie Richards of Pella Technology Services; Jeff Namminga from the Newton Valle Drive In; Tim TeGrootenhuis, owner of Culver’s; Lora VanEssen of VanEssen Auto; Lyons Printing out of Florida; Matt Hanson from Alliant Energy; Marc VandeNoord of VandeNoord Homes; Necole Loftis, manager of Applebee's; Peter Decious from Vermeer; Travis Thompson, owner of Heartland Tire and Auto; VanVeen Chocolates' owner Marja Miller; Steven Krayaanbrink from Marion County State Bank; Corey Oltrogge with John Deere; Mark Bishara with Vermeer; Don DeWaard of DeWaard Financial; Jeana Clark from Pella Corporation; and Sarah Kroes, owner of Kroes Fit Co.
Van Essen Auto
VanVeen Chocolates
Valle Drive-In Theater
Applebees
Alliant Energy
Culver's
Marion County Bank
Heartland Tire and Auto
VandeNoord Homes
Pella Corporation
DeWaard Financial
Pella Technology Services
Vermeer Corporation
Shamrock Dental Co
Vermeer Corporation
Pella Middle School
Email: msoffice@pella.k12.ia.us
Website: https://www.pellaschools.org/schools/middle-school/
Location: 613 East 13th Street, Pella, IA, USA
Phone: 6416284784
Twitter: @pellamidschool