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8th Grade Promotion Video
Word for the Warrior....
Hello Warriors,
We are SO proud of all of our 8th graders who are headed to Dobyns-Bennett! Our 8th grade students are full of life and promise! Many thanks to David Flanary, who created our JSMS Promotion Video in honor of each and every JSMS 8th Grade Warrior!
This week, we invite all students and families to come and return any items that need to be returned to school. We will have a DRIVE THROUGH RETURN/RETRIEVAL on our JSMS Track. Please drive your car into the driveway that leads to the track from Oak Street. We will have red tents set up on the drivers' side of the track that are labeled so that you will be able to stop at tents that apply to you. If it rains, we will likely need you to drive around the track to the doors that lead into the building and we will have volunteers ready to help with returns and retrievals that we can get to you. Tents will be set up to prevent people from getting wet, as best as possible, if it rains.
A-D: Monday, May 18, 8 am - 4 pm
E-K: Tuesday, May 19, 8 am - 4 pm
L-Q: Wednesday, May 20, 8 am - 4 pm
R-Z: Thursday, May 21, 8 am - 4 pm
All 8th Graders should return chromebooks. Rising 7th and 8th Graders are free to keep their chromebooks over the summer, but we will be happy to store them for you over the summer if you would like to return those to us.
Please return all library books...we have 600 books that are currently still checked out to students. (Please ask your child if they have a library book checked out). We are also collecting all textbooks, calculators and uniforms.
We also invite all families to come to school to retrieve items to be picked up! All 8th graders have promotion certificates and a special commemorative JSMS t-shirt as our gift to you. A special thanks to our JSMS PTA for paying for these shirts so that could provide these to 8th graders! We are sad that we were unable to have an in person graduation and so while this won't make up for it, we will have a CELEBRATION TENT where you can come and be recognized and receive your certificate of promotion and your t-shirt! Don't miss it! We also have awards for students to pick up at the CELBRATION TENT. In addition, if you have other items to be picked up SSN Shirts, artwork, projects, etc, those will be available for pick up as well.
If students still have items in lockers, parents will need to accompany students to their locker to get their things. If items from lockers are not retrieved this week, lockers will be cleaned out and all items labeled with student names, bagged and put in the large gym by homeroom. These items will be kept for two weeks and then donated to Goodwill so please make sure that if your student has items left in a locker, that you call us and set up a time to retrieve your child's belongings.
Our KCS Feeding Program will continue through the summer from our school site. Please continue to take advantage of that program. Buses will run this summer and have sites where they stop and food bags can be picked up. Stay tuned for more information regarding the Summer Feeding Program.
We have a video almost ready to push out to all of our Rising 6th Graders that will help to orient them to Sevier and will give them a virtual tour through our building and provide an introduction to all of the many opportunities that Sevier provides. We also hope to have an opportunity for rising 6th graders and families to receive their schedule and tour our building the week before school begins next year! Stay tuned!
Even though the academic year is ending, please know that we will be available all summer to help you in any way! Feel free to call us at any time 423-378-2450. For all families of our rising 7th and 8th graders, we cannot wait to see you this fall! Our Back to School Bash will be better than ever and certainly even more meaningful! For those of you who have students going to DB, please stay in touch! You will always be part of our Warrior Family so please know we will continue to support and be rooting for your children as they journey through high school!
Please have a wonderful and safe summer!
Proud to be a Warrior,
Holly Flora
JSMS JAM...
FAQ
Q: I have items that I need to return to or get from school. How/when should I do that?
Robinson and Sevier will hold a drive-thru pick-up/drop-off event at school, based on the first letter of the student’s last name (entry into the school will not be allowed during this event):
A-D: Monday, May 18, 8 am - 4 pm
E-K: Tuesday, May 19, 8 am - 4 pm
L-Q: Wednesday, May 20, 8 am - 4 pm
R-Z: Thursday, May 21, 8 am - 4 pm
Items that may be dropped off:
School-owned musical instruments (8th grade only...6th and 7th graders will keep instruments over the summer)
Library books
Textbooks
Athletic uniforms
Laptops and chargers (8th grade, those with a loaner device, and 6th/7th graders who wish to turn in their device for the summer)
Loaned calculators
Payment of outstanding financial obligations
Classroom library books
Items that may be picked up:
Yearbooks
Awards & certificates
Medications in the school clinic
Spring pictures
Other end-of-year information:
Refund checks will be mailed to the student’s home address.
Anyone needing to clean out a student locker should call the school to schedule an individual time.
An in-person promotion ceremony will not take place, due to health department regulations. Robinson and Sevier are preparing videos to honor our 8th grade students. These will be shared out via parent newsletters and social media.
Final Report Cards will be communicated through the PowerSchool Parent Portal or mailed to the home address (for students without a Parent Portal account).
Q: How will students in grades 6-8 have academic progress communicated to them during the COVID-19 closure?
A: Academic feedback will be provided in PowerSchool using the following three designations:
- Work is complete (with feedback provided)
- Work is incomplete (started, but not finished)
- Work is missing (no work attempted) (4/14)
- Related Arts Classes will be Pass/NP=No Participation
Past Information Sent...
Dear KCS Families,
As we approach the end of the 2019-20 school year, a Frequently Asked Questions document has been developed to provide a wide variety of end-of-year information of which you need to be aware. The FAQ can be found online at www.k12k.com or by clicking here.
We continue to hope that you and your family are healthy and well! Have a great weekend.
School Pictures Have Arrived!
School pictures have arrived and are in the JSMS office conference room. If you ordered a school picture of your child and would like to come to the JSMS office, you may pick it up any workday between 8:00-3:00 each day. Also, pictures will be available for pick up the week of May 18th at your assigned up pick up day if you would like to pick them up when you pick up everything else.
Sports Pictures Have Arrived!
Yearbooks!
STREAMWORKS Virtual Camps K–8
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, June summer camps are going virtual! Join us for thrilling, fun, and exciting activities led by your favorite STREAMWORKS staff live from the STEM Gym via video teleconference (Zoom). K–4th grade students will meet M–F, 10 am –12 pm and 5th–8th grade students will meet M–F, 12–2 pm. Choose from several different summer camps (or attend all!) covering computer-aided design (CAD) Space Camp, Engineering Camp, and Coding Camp. Also, expect a few celebrity Zoom pop ins during the camps.
7th Grade Immunizations
TO ALL FAMILIES OF RISING 7th GRADERS:
Students entering 7th grade this fall are required to provide proof that they have had a booster dose of tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine (known as Tdap) by 7th grade.
Students are NOT ALLOWED to begin school on the first day of school and go to class if an immunization form has not been submitted to the school office.
As your child recieves these immunizations, please either mail immunization forms to Sevier or come by the front office of the school between 9:00-1:00 each day.
John Sevier Middle School
1200 Wateree St.
Kingsport, Tn. 37664
Please CLICK HERE to see a sample of the TN Immunization Certificate.
Physicals
All JSMS athletes must have a physical form filled out and signed by a doctor before participation in sports can begin. This includes practice.
Each athlete must have a new physical each year. Currently, physicals are good through the end of June. Beginning July 1, to practice or participate in any sport at Sevier, we must have a copy of your child's updated physical form.
Students may not practice during the month of July or begin practice the first week of school without an updated form. Fall sports that are immediately necesssary for updated forms are: football, cross-country, volleyball, cheer, dance.
You may either mail the physical form to our office, have the doctor fax it to our office, or turn it into our office any work day between 9:00-1:00.
Please CLICK HERE to access the Physical Form.
Summer Reading Choices for RISING 6th Graders
Summer Reading Choices for RISING 7th Graders
Summer Reading Choices for RISING 8th Graders
Free Childcare for Essential Workers
PLEASE respond to the 2020 CENSUS-When You Shape Education, You Shape Our Future
A Challenge from our own SS Teacher, Chris Carr!
I hope your quarantine time is going well. Yesterday, I had an idea. In our 7th grade class, we read lots of primary sources about the major events we cover in our curriculum. I thought it would be interesting to create a student book of primary sources from this unprecedented time we are in right now. After thinking about it some more, I thought it would be important to document the thoughts and actions of ALL KCS families, not just my own students.
What I am envisioning is a collection of diary entries, essays, poems, drawings, photographs, etc. showing the daily activities of our students, while we are waiting this out. Students and parents would email me their submissions, which I would compile using an online publisher, and then have printed into a hard copy, or copies. The result would be a book of primary sources by KCS families, that would give future students insight as to the fears, concerns, and daily life our children are experiencing right now. This could also give children a creative outlet to alleviate the stresses of isolation.
I'm asking each teacher to make mention of this in his or her Canvas or Google Classroom (or whatever platform you are using) lessons. Depending on the grade level, hand-drawn pictures or a few sentences would be great; you know the ability levels of your children. If you wouldn't mind telling parents to email their child's submission directly to me (ccarr@k12k.com), or if you could forward them to me, I can begin compiling them. I would like for the work to include the student's name, and age.
I'm sending this to everyone, because I want your submissions as well! This is your chance to tell future generations how you spent your time during the spring of 2020. Get creative! I'd like to have May 1 as the deadline for submitting work. That way, I can assemble the book, and hopefully have a hard copy, or copies, by the start of the next school year. Thank you in advance for your help with this endeavor. If I haven't made myself clear, or if you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Stay safe, and stay sanitized!