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DATES FOR NOVEMBER
Thursday, 11/1
*Red Out Day to support Red Ribbon Week and MMS Character Education!
Sunday, 11/4
*Daylight Savings Time Ends
Monday, 11/5
*7/8 Orchestra Dress Rehearsal @ MHS, 6-7:30
Tuesday, 11/6
*Vocal Music Spirit Fundraiser @ Chick Fil A, 4-6:30
*7/8 Orchestra Concert @ MHS, 7:00-8:00
Thursday, 11/8
*Scholars Bowl @ Valley Center, 3:30
*Wrestling Triangular @ Derby North with Andover, 4:00
*6th Grade Gragson Vocal Music Concert, 6:15
Friday, 11/9
*Winter Sports Pictures, 2:00
*WSU Middle School Invitational for 7/8 Orchestra Students, 6:45-12:30
Saturday, 11/10
*Wrestling Invitational @ MSMS, 9:00
Monday, 11/12
*Wichita Youth Chamber Players, 8:00
MMS Commons
Tuesday, 11/13
*Scholars Bowl @ Hutchinson, 3:30
Wrestling vs. Andover Central & Eisenhower, 4:30
Thursday, 11/15
*6th Grade Vocal Concert Woodruff Classes, 7:30
*Scholars Bowl Tournament @ Andover MS, 3:30
Saturday, 11/17
*Wrestling "B" Tournament @ Derby HS, 9:00
Fall Break November 19-23 No School
Monday, 11/26
*MMS PTO Skating Party @ Carousel, 6:30-8:30
Tuesday, 11/27
*MMS PTO Meeting, 6:30-Library
Thursday, 11/29
*Wrestling @ MMS vs. MSMS & Valley Center, 4:30
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Lunch Menu
The lunch menu can be found on the District Web Site.
Go to Families, Tools for You and Cafeteria Menus.
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Box Tops
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MMS rocks the Box Tops! Thank you to everyone who sends in Box Tops.....and keep clipping! It's an easy way to benefit our school and PTO.
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| MMS SADD Council Helping Others See a Brighter Future: MMS SADD Council is collecting used eyeglasses throughout the school year. If you have any eyeglasses you are no longer using, please send them with your student or bring them to the MMS office. At the end of the year, SADD will deliver them to the Maize Lions Club. |
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Skyward Family Access
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Please take some time to log into Skyward, and verify the contact information on file for you and your student.
Just log-in to Skyward, and click on Student Information to verify all your information is correct. If you have any changes, click on Request Change(s) to my Child's Information at the top right hand side of your screen. From here you can click on the appropriate "Request Changes" Button, depending on if it is Student Information, Family Information, Alert Info, or Emergency Contacts.
It is important that phone numbers and e-mail addresses be correct in our system. Our teachers, administrators and nurse's office often have to use this information to contact parents due to student illness, or other issues.
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Homework Request
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When your student is absent from school and you would like to pick up homework,
you must request it by 10:00 am. The MMS office will only put the request in when a student has been out for
two days in a row. All homework will be in the office after 2:00 pm.
Thank you.
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Eagle Honor Roll
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8th Grade
Taylor Allen, Isabelle Blasdel, Faith Burkhead, Zoe Dong, Mason Gutierrez, Ian Hanson, Lesly Hernandez, Lindsay Jeffries, Zachary Johnson, Gracie Kaumeyer, Elsbeth Knaak,
Kaylee Lively,
Catherine Nguyen, Devon Nguyen, Adley Nusz, Jack Ring, Sam Ritchie, Allie Robinson, Maggie Salsbury, Micah Schmidt, Madelyn Shove, Isak Smith
7th Grade
Liliana Cortez, Collin Davis, Elsa Dobbs, Daniel Gomez, Owen Jarboe, Maleigha Johnson, Jena Kirk, Colin Knaak, Sydney Lampkin, Brelee Long, Elena Magana-Garcia, Houston Porter, Miles Rodell, Stahley Sears, Camdyn Stucky, Cooper Tannahill, Caiden Unruh, Hung Vo
6th Grade
Larissa Aguilar-Lopez, Reagan Archer, Thatcher Auten, Owen Beeson, Ethan Benjamin, Emily Benninga, Kaylen Blanpied, Jack Bowen, Ethan Briones, Tyler Carey, Katie Cassity, Tristin Combs, Avi Cooke, Jonathan Crawford, Emani DlLeon, Abigail DeWitt, Lindsay Downing, Adria Dumler, Gage Duron, Madison Fluis, Addison Folse, Jacob Froese, Conner Fuhrman, Allie Gaylor, Bethanie Haag, Alexa Harris, Emma Hays, Leni Henderson, Koen Heuer, Madison Hill, Mitchell Hoyle, Sabrina Hunt, Angel Jefferson, Lauren Jenkinson, Gemma Jones, Jacob Joseph, Abbigail Kelley, Kyah Knutson, Holly Lane, Payten LaPoint, Alex Le, Connor Levey, Abigail Linton, Carys Mauldin, Hayden McBroom, Nevaeh Mclachlan, Danica Miller, Aleksah Moreno, Brooke Neises, Christina Nguyen, Morgan Nicholson, Joey Ott, Chloe Pauls, Grant Pittman-Tifford, Alexander Prebble, Alissa Ragland, Braden Salsbury, Jackson Salsbury, Ashton Schaeffer, Charles Sharp, Kyndall Sites, Johanna Speer, Delaney Sramek, Connor Sternberger, Delainey Stevens, Grant Stewart, Alexis Thompson, Torianne Vo, Ella Wakefield, Jayce Weaver, Lauren Welch, Makenzee Wessley
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Maize Middle School News
Volume 13 Issue 3
October 31, 2018
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Happy Halloween,
We are having a great week for Red Ribbon Week, the students and staff have done such an awesome job supporting the SADD council for each of the themed days. What great creativity we have with staff and students and the outfits that were displayed. In the end, we are hoping that by promoting and reminding students to make those positive decisions we will help them continue to display good character. Thanks to SADD council for their work on the Red Ribbon Week, the student leaders planned a great week.
Great job to our fall sports coaches and athletes; football, cross country, girls tennis and volleyball. They worked hard and continued to improve each week. We had successful seasons and various highlights for each team. We started a new League with 8 other area schools, the Wichita Suburban League. The schools are Andover, Andover Central, Derby, Derby North, Goddard, Goddard Eisenhower, Maize South and Valley Center. The Cross Country team had one team finish as League Champions, the 7th grade boys and the 8th grade boys finished 2nd and 8th grade girls, 3rd. 7th Grade Volleyball had a great season and finished 2nd at the League Tournament. Girls Tennis also had a very successful season and finished 2nd at the League Tournament. Thank you to our coaches for their time and dedication and thank you to the parents for supporting your student athlete.
We had a few fine arts performances and, as always, have been outstanding. The Choir put on High School Musical. The Jazz and Concert Band had their first performance under our new Band Director, Mr. Tysick. The students are so talented and amazing. High School Musical was so well done and the singing and acting were superb. The Band Concert was awesome and I kept thinking this isn't any typical middle school band, they are way better than a middle school band. Upcoming in the next couple of weeks are Orchestra and 6th grade Choir Concerts.
We are underway with Fall/Winter Activities with Scholars bowl having 2 competitions already. The 7th grade and 8th grade teams have each won 1st place in one of the competitions. Wrestling will have its first dual tomorrow at Derby. Basketball tryouts are starting soon, 7th grade boys actually start tonight. 7th/8th Grade girls tryouts start next Monday, Nov. 5 and 8th grade boys start Tuesday, Nov. 6. We wish them the best of luck on the upcoming season.
Looking forward to November and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in a few weeks.
"Be Kind, Be Thoughtful, Be genuine. But Most of All Be Thankful!"
Brian
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Purchasing a MMS Yearbook
As of October 1st
, parents will not be able to purchase yearbooks on Skyward. You will still be able to purchase a yearbook by paying for it at school. You may pay in cash, check or credit card and the cost is $30. The only way to purchase a yearbook online after October 1st
is from the Herff Jones website. Herff Jones publishes our yearbooks and the link is below, or you can click on the word yearbook.
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News from the Library
Thank you to everyone who visited the Book Fair. Sales directly benefit the students at MMS as additional books are added to both the Library and classroom libraries.
Does your student have any overdue Library books? Books are checked out for two weeks, and must then be returned or renewed. Please help us keep our fabulous collection circulating and benefiting all of our students by ensuring that your student returns their book(s) on time. Students are reminded by their Encor teachers each week, and automated emails are also sent home. Thank you for your assistance.
Rebecca Jones
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| On Tuesday, October 23rd, Maize Middle School KAY club along with Maize High School members collected money door to door for the annual Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF event. They collected door to door for one hour and returned to the High School for a pizza party. Over $750.00 was collected.
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Just a heads up...the MMS food drive will be
November 12-16! More details to come. We are looking forward to blessing the Maize Community with food items and a monetary donation!
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11/12-11/18/2018
Charlie's Car Wash Fundraiser
MMS PTO is having a fundraiser with Charlie's Car Wash (formerly Green Lantern)from November 12th-18th. We will be sending home flyers with the students soon. For every car wash at the 21st and Maize location using our fundraiser's bar-coded flyer, MMS PTO will receive half of the sales. There is no selling, collecting money, or distributing products with this participation based fundraiser. Please support the fundraiser by using the flyers during our scheduled week 11/12-11/18.
11/26/2018 6:30-8:30 p.m. Carousel Skating Party
MMS PTO is hosting an 80's theme skating party at Carousel Skate Center, 312 N. West Street from
6:30-8:30 p.m. on
Monday, November 26th. The new play structure is also open. Cost is $6.00 for skating only, $6.00 for the play structure only, or $10.00 for both (skate rental included). Show off your 80's style, hang out with your friends, burn off those Thanksgiving treats, check out the new play structure and support your school by coming to the skating party!
11/27/2018 6:30 p.m. MMS PTO Meeting
MMS PTO will have their second meeting
Tuesday, November 27th in the MMS Media Center (Library).
Parking is on the east side of the building (in the bus lane). We hope to see you there!
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MMS Cheer took 2nd place in the Maize Fall Festival parade for their "Using our gift for a better community" float.
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Mrs. Gragson 6th Grade Music Class
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Mrs. Gragson's MMS 6th graders are working hard preparing for their fall vocal music concert! The students are performing a variety of music, so there will surely be something for everyone. We hope you can make it!
The concert will be
Thursday Nov. 8th, 2018 at 6:15 in the MMS Commons, students have been asked to wear a solid color t-shirt, blue jeans, and tennis shoes!
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If you are moving out of district, please contact Dawn Ingram, MMS Registrar/Data Secretary, at dingram@usd266.com or by phone at 729-2464. Please include the new school, city and state you will be transferring to so we can prepare your students records for transfer.
If you have moved or will be moving, but are still in district, please send a Proof of Residency to the MMS office as soon as possible. You can email it to dingram@usd266.com, or fax it to our office at 316-729-2479.
Acceptable Proof of Residence includes a copy of your mortgage/lease agreement, including signature page, or a current copy of your gas, water or electric bill. If you have any questions regarding Proof of Residence, please don't hesitate to call the MMS office.
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FROM THE MMS FRONT OFFICE
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To help the Front Office of MMS run as smooth, friendly and efficiently as possible and communicate important information, please be aware and reminded of the following processes:
Front Office Hours:
When your student is absent:
- Please call the front office at 729-2464, do not rely on email or teacher notification
- Provide your students name (and spelling)
- Provide a reason for the absence (ill, out of town, etc.)
- If you plan to have your student out to school for 3 or more days stop by the MMS office to pick up an administrative approval form
When dropping off something for a student:
- Please have it labeled with their first/last name
- Checks/Cash in envelopes with student name
- Front office is not responsible for any items left for students
When you have to leave a message for your student:
- Please call 729-2464
- Provide your student's name/spelling
- Concisely state your message
- Your student will be notified through instant messaging with the teacher, or a note will be delivered either 4th hour or Encore through an office aide
- Messages must be received 30 minutes prior to dismissal
Students will not be called out of class and to the office until a parent is present to sign them out. Our goal in the Front Office is to not disrupt classrooms during the periods except in the case of an emergency.
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| MMS MISSION STATEMENT EXPECT EXCELLENCE*****DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY and CHARACTER*****PRODUCE RESULTS and ACHIEVEMENT*****PROGRESS Principal Brian Thompson bthompsonl@usd266.com 316-729-2464 Ext. 2303 Assistant Principal Christine Kerbs ckerbs@usd266.com 316-729-2464 Ext. 2304 Assistant Principal Athletic Director Chad Cramer ccramer@usd266.com 316-729-2464 Ext. 2305
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