Mead Middle School Weekly Update:
Education Foundation
Tribute to Teachers is just that – A Tribute to honor top teachers from every school in the district. Please nominate teachers who have done/are doing a tremendous job at helping students achieve to the best of their abilities. Everyday, teachers, paras, counselors, administrators, support staff, bus drivers and other district employees are giving their best to build a world class school district with world class education.
The Education Foundation for the St. Vrain Valley seeks to honor over 150 teachers with Encore awards and select 4-6 of the very best nominees to receive Spotlight Awards. This year, King Automotive as a Tribute to Teachers sponsor, is providing to one of the Spotlight winners, a new car lease for 12 months and a second new car lease to be shared by the other Spotlight finalists on a monthly basis. King Automotive’s generosity is greatly appreciated and becomes an additional means by which to say thank you to teachers. While we can recognize only a few from each school, we seek to pay tribute to all of your accomplishments on behalf of each student in a St. Vrain Valley School.
The Education Foundation for the St. Vrain Valley also uses this event to raise funds for the Classroom Grants we award each fall to help teachers be even more creative and innovative in your classrooms. This year we awarded over $48,000 in such grants. We received requests totaling over $170,000. Our goal is to make Tribute to Teachers the best it has ever been and raise enough support so that we can double the number of classroom grants we award next year.
Nominate a teacher for an Encore Award. See these flyers:
Flyer English, Spanish
Encore Awards English, Spanish
Parent and Community Update Night:
Please see the attached flyer for our Mead Feeder Parent and Community Update night. We hope you can join us.
Parents of 6th & 7th Graders – Registration for Next Year
6th graders will be given their registration papers for next year’s classes on Wednesday, March 9.
7th graders will be given their registration papers for next year’s classes on Thursday, March 10.
They need to be signed and turned in by Thursday, March 17.
We will begin scheduling students for classes for next year. It is important that we get the sheets signed and returned, otherwise students may not get the classes they want.
PAC Penny War Fundraiser is coming!
The PAC is running it’s only whole school fundraiser from March 7th – March 11th. This year’s fundraiser will be a penny war between all advisory classes.
-Classes get 1 point for each penny in their container.
-Classes can put silver coins or paper money in OTHER classes advisory containers to subtract points.
-The winning grade level will get ice cream from the PAC
-The winning advisory will also receive a prize.
-Our goal is to raise $6,000 for our PAC.
-10% of all profits will go to Mead High School’s Frank’s Battle Benefit.
Please support this event. The PAC supports all sorts of special events and activities in the school. A few examples are:
-All School Dances
-The Dinner Theater
-Library Books
-Jr. Solar Sprints
-Math Counts
-Technology
-Teacher Dinners for Conferences
Mead High Registration Forms:
8th graders attending Mead High School next year need to return their yellow registration form either to Mead High or Mrs. Vaughan by February 29th.
iOS Issue with iPads:
Apple has identified an issue with iPads and iPhones that can completely disable the device, causing it to go into a reboot loop. This is only caused by a user manually adjusting the date and time of their device to a specific date in the past. At this time, the only way to resolve this will be to send it to our vendor as a hardware repair.
Insurance will work as it normally does, due to the fact that manually changing their device’s date and time is not encouraged or needed for anything district related. For a student with no insurance, there will be a charge for this repair.
Upcoming Events:
Check out our awesome video announcement to see what is coming up at Mead Middle School.
Spring Testing April 12-22, 2016
All students will be taking the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) tests for English language arts (ELA) and math.
In addition, 8th graders will take the CMAS (Colorado Measure of Academic Success) test for science.
The testing window will be April 12-22, 2016. Attendance is vital during this time. We wanted to let you know early so that appointments and vacations are not scheduled during these days.
We have attached a schedule of when the tests will be administered to students.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
Spring Testing Schedule
Follow Mr. Barnett on Twitter:
@MeadBulldogs
Mead Middle School has a new and active Facebook page. Please like us on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/MeadMiddle
We do collect Box Tops for Education as well as Milk Caps from Longmont Dairy. Please turn those into the office.
Mead Middle School PAC News:
Hey Bulldogs,
-Apparel is available for ordering online at shop.fishesstreetwear.com You can find a link to our school in the menu. We also have Mead Middle Trucker Hats and the Fitted Flat Bill Hats available for purchase in the office.
-The next PAC meeting will be on March 14th at 5:45 in the library. Cupcakes will be provided:)
Mead Middle School
Spirit Night
Get moooving and join us for our Spirit Night
Chick-fil-A Longmont
(in front of Lowes and Michaels on Ken Pratt Blvd.)
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 from 5:00pm-7:30pm.
Chick-fil-A will donate 15 to 20% of our school’s ticketed sales between 5:00pm-7:30pm to Mead Middle School. When ordering at the front counter or drive thru, tell the cashier that you are here to support the Mead Middle School. Put your receipt in one of the designated baskets labeled Spirit Night at the register, and we will get 15 to 20% of the receipt’s collected that night for our organization. So the more people we bring in to eat, the more money we will generate for our school.
So don’t chicken out…stop by and bring your appetite!
Bulldog Den Update:
March Late Start: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Bulldog Den is having a late start movie from 7:50 am to 10:10 am (School starts at 10:20 am)
The cost is: $5 before 2/29/16; $15 aDer that (cost includes snack) Complete this form or register online at https://stvrain.revtrak.net/
Learn about leadership in a fun, new way! Leadership is a quality that serves students in any capacity. It will help them with their friends, their school work and their team involvement. It is more than running for an office. Join us each month as we explore leadership with movies, games, teamwork and challenges.
NOT ABLE TO GET YOUR KIDS AFTER SCHOOL?
Mead Middle School has an after school ENRICHMENT program called Bulldogs Den that begins at 2:50-6:00 pm in the Cafeteria. We are open Monday-Friday (when school is open). We provide snacks, homework time, activities, games, free-time, and friendships. Bulldogs Den provides a safe place for them to grow and enjoy networking with other students.
For Clubs and Athletics, please check out the calendar of upcoming events.
Kim’s Corner:
Hello Parents,
With the ever increasing presence of technology in our world, it can sometimes be hard to decide how much to allow your child to interact with it, and what types of interactions you approve. Social media is something that children in middle school often want to engage with, and also need guidance about HOW to participate! Much like other relationships, there are social norms and expectations that need to be learned. In addition, the online world is one in which people often behave differently than they would in person, leading to confusion for our tweens and teens about appropriate ways to speak, behave and interact.
I recently came across this article from the NY Times, and thought it gave great advice for parents who are considering letting their children begin to use social media, and also for parents of youth who are already participating in it. It sometimes feels like the easiest thing to do when concerned about something is to restrict access, tighten the reins, and deny permission to do certain things. In reality, there are times we do need to do that to ensure our children’s safety. The other side of this coin is recognizing we have the opportunity to guide our children as they learn how to navigate new challenges with healthy decisions. Social media is a new and constantly changing landscape. While helping our youth learn how to be responsible participants and users of it, we can foster wonderful communication about many things including friendships, communication skills, trust, self image, and many more.
Helping Tweens/Teens Start Social Media Use the Right Way
Hope you enjoy the read!
Kim Styles, LCSW
MMS Interventionist
Kim Styles is our Mental Health Counselor and Interventionist. Periodically she will be sharing information about mental health issues facing middle school age students.
Please look at the district website for any flyers for sports, fundraisers, etc that are approved by the district. Here is the link to the flyers.
MYSA
Career Development Center (CDC) Open House