Principal's Message January 31st, 2020

SSCMS Families,



 It is time for the election of new members to our School Governance Council. The School Governance Council has both parent/guardian and teacher positions open for election. Parents or guardians of students who will be attending our school during  both  the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years are eligible to run for the parent/guardian SGC positions.

Our School Governance Council (SGC) plays a critical role in the success of our school. The SGC works with school leadership and the community to help determine the long-term direction of the school, design innovative solutions to increase academic achievement, and serve as school ambassadors to the local community. Specifically, the School Governance Council has the following powers:

 If you are interested in running for a position on the School Governance Council, please complete and submit a Parent/Guardian  Candidate Declaration Form .  

Forms will be available on Monday, February 3 ^rd .

We are very excited about the work and value-add of our SGC. We hope that you will consider running for a position!  The Candidate Declaration period ends February 26 ^th  and voting in the SGC occurs from March 17 ^th  - 24 ^th . In the meantime, if you would like more information about the charter system or SGC elections visit our school’s website or our  Charter System Website.

-KC

Congrats to the following students who made one of the two SSCMS Jr Spartans 2020 baseball teams:

SSCMS ORANGE - 7th and 8th Grade Team

Coach Barrett

Henry Gill, Colt Reinstein, Antonio Sisson, Nicholas Clyde, Kody Monley, Owen Olson, Austin Scott, Ben Singer, Will Stevenson, Ryan Zaparaniuk 

 

SSCMS BLUE - 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Team

Coach Ward 

 

Harris Cornelius, David Rueda, Jonathan Seawell, Josh Streeter, Jaden Brown, Benjamin Griset, Sean Poret, Dayton Walden, Tory Coats, Aaron Frank, Daniel Gimenez, Andrew Mbow, Andre Medilin, David Miller

Coach Barrett and Coach Ward will be in touch with practice and game schedules - go Jr Spartans!

Attention all 7th and 8th grade students interested in track! There will be a brief information meeting on Thursday, February 20th at 8:25 a.m. in the gym. We will have (optional) conditioning on Tues, February 25th and Thurs, February 27th until 5:45. Tryouts will be Monday, March 2nd-Thurs., March 5th until 6:00 p.m. Students need to attend all 4 days of tryouts with a completed physical and mandatory FCS athletic paperwork turned in to Ms. Shurack (E104) or Ms. Drohan (E117) PRIOR to tryouts.

To celebrate the end of the middle school journey, our 8th Grade Team has put together fun-filled activities for the end of the school year. The cost is $40 which covers decorations for dance, food, t-shirts and movie/snack day. Payments are now being accpted through March 27th - we will not be able to add students to the roster after that date.

8th Grade Students MUST meet the following criteria to qualify for participation in the activities listed. The criteria will be enforced beginning January - there will be NO EXCEPTIONS to the following:

Payment Options

PLEASE NOTE THAT PAYMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM MONDAY, JANUARY 27 ^TH THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27 ^TH . ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED DURING THIS WINDOW.

Directions to Pay Online:

** If creating an account , you will be required to add your SSCMS student to your profile  AFTER you have created your own username and password.  Adding a student to your profile will require that you know your child’s FCS ID number (or “lunch” number). This can be found on their schedule, report cards, bar code on device, and students should know their ID number.

 

Directions to Pay In-Person:

Mrs. AJ Williams (F142) and Mr. Hart (F103) will be available Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:35 to 8:50 AM to receive cash payments. Please report during this time only. 

Congratulations to 7th Grader, Winnie Alford who won the SSCMS Geography Bee! Second Place goes to 7th Grader, Rory Gately and 3rd Place goes to 6th Grader, Aissatou Diallo.

Winnie will go on to take the State Qualifying test. If she does well, she will go on to the State Competition.

A huge congratulations also goes out to our other finalists: 8th Graders, Nasira Bakovic, Austin Scott and Sanai Simmons; 7th Grader, Rebecca Stifel and 6th Graders, John Seawell and Josh Streeter.

National School Counseling Week 2020 is Feb. 3–7. The week, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), highlights the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems and the tremendous impact they can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.

February 18th -21st, SSCMS BeTheVoice and SGA students will sponsor a school-wide anti-bullying campaign entitled, “CHOOSE KINDNESS WEEK.” Special announcements, signing the student pledge to choose kindness, activities like writing thank you letters to friends, family, and teachers, recognizing students for acts of kindness, sending Kindness Grams, and random acts of kindness for parents are some of the activities which may occur during CHOOSE KINDNESS WEEK.  Click Here  for the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation website which "inspires a culture of kindness in schools, homes, and communities." 

February

02/05 Wednesday

02/07 Friday

02/11 Tuesday

02/12 Wednesday

02/14 Friday

02/17 Monday

PTO FACEBOOK GROUP

If you haven't linked into the closed SSCMS Facebook group for parents and guardians yet, please request to join. Lots of important info is posted there throughout the week. Search under "Sandy Springs Charter Middle School PTO Foundation", answer the questions to confirm you're a SSCMS parent or guardian, and you'll be added right away! (you don't have to be a PTO member to join).

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