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The Board of Education approved an amendment to the 2024-2025 School Year Calendar to provide a make-up day for the use of inclement weather days. Schools will be in session on Friday, March 7, 2025, with a 2-hour early dismissal. To view the full school year calendar, visit www.smcps.org/calendar.

Linked is the SMCPS 2024-2025 Amended Calendar.

Additionally, the Chesapeake Public Charter School amended its calendar to include a school day on March 17. The CPCS Calendar can be viewed here: CPCS 2024-2025 Calendar

Link to SY 24-25 Calendar

March

February 24 - March 14 - Joe Corbi’s/Claire’s Gourmet Fundraiser

March 3-7 - National School Breakfast Week, Read Across America Week and School Social Worker Week

March 3 - PTO Meeting & School Improvement Plan Update @ 4 pm, Media Center

March 7 - 2-Hour Early Dismissal

March 9 - Daylight Saving Time Begins

March 17 - Musical Theater Troupe Performance @ 7 pm, Gym

March 28 - 2-Hour Early Dismissal

March 28 - Children’s Business Fair @ 6 pm, Gym

Looking ahead to April

April 7 - Joe Corbi’s/Claire’s Gourmet Delivery Day

April 7 - PTO Meeting @ 6 pm, Media Center

April 8 - Report Card Distribution, HAC Opens

April 10 - Spring Individual Portraits & Class Groups

April 11 - 2-Hour Early Dismissal, Professional Responsibilities

April 14-17 - Spring Break, No School for Students and 10-11 Month Employees

April 18 - Holiday - All Schools and Offices Closed

April 21 - Spring Break, No School for Students and 10-11 Month Employees (Possible Make-Up Day)

April 28 - Spring Vocal Ensembles Concert @ 7 pm, Gym

MES Families,

Co-workers love Joe Corbi’s!

In addition to family, friends and neighbors, you can also take your brochure to work. We hear a lot from folks who used to sell Joe Corbi’s as kids and now they crave that authentic sauce and family-recipe cheese and spice mix. Collect one big order and you can deliver it right to work!

Each item purchased helps raise money for MES. Register at https://joecorbi.com/login/.

As of 2/28/25 – Congratulations to Parker A. in Mrs. Cable’s class for being the fundraiser’s top seller so far with 13 units sold.

Ready to get started? CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

View Brochure Here

We appreciate your support of this fundraiser, as it provides much needed funds to support our students and teachers. Check out these great INCENTIVES: https://joecorbi.com/prizes/. Here is our kickoff video: https://youtu.be/Japm4ZrHgYQ

TOP SELLER – $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD

(Must sell a minimum of 20 items to qualify for Top Seller Award)

DRAWING PRIZE - $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD

(Earn 1 chance for every 10 items sold)

Sell 5 Or More Items – FREE Kid’s Meal At Texas Roadhouse!

Teagan , Ella , Presleigh and Joshua: This group showed respect and responsibility while working in a group on a writing assignment. They followed along, added to the discussion and stayed on task while the assignment was being modeled! They set an amazing example for others! They encouraged other to remain on task and show such leadership among their peers!

Christopher Raley, Eli Tripp, & Bradley Peterson: These gentlemen showed immense responsibility while working on a Social Studies group project. They worked together, divided the tasks, equally contributed and kept each other on task the entire class period! This showed leadership and set a great example of how to work together on group assignments

DJ held the door to the gym for all of the car riders. All of the car riders could easily get into the gym so that they could sit down and get ready to line up when their name was called.

Garrett was very diligent about completing his classwork in whole group ELA today. He even checked for missing work from the day before! This showed such responsibility! It set a great example for others!

• The St. Mary’s County Citizens’ Advisory Committee for Special Education (CACSE) Rise Up Awards: The Rise Up Award recognizes a teacher, administrator, therapist, assistant to an educator, or anyone in the Special Education system who has truly gone to extraordinary efforts to contribute, in a compassionate and caring way, to the growth, happiness, and general well-being of our children with disabilities. If you are a parent or caregiver who would like to nominate a person who has positively impacted your child’s life, please consider nominating them for the Rise Up Award. When educators go above and beyond to help our children “Rise Up” and exceed in life, it is our pleasure to recognize and thank them for the amazing jobs that they do. (The nomination deadline is March 7, 2025)

PTO Board

Nicole Rumaker- President

Dawn Roach- Vice President

Jennifer Shaffer- Secretary

Maria Mosher- Treasurer

Nicole MacLean- Member At Large

Email: mes.pto@yahoo.com

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