6th Grade News

Dear 6th Grade Parents and Families,

We are moving into our final week of the first quarter. It's hard to believe how quickly the school year goes...Please take a look at your child's schedule on Power School, as their Voyager Class will be changing on October 16th. This course will change for 2nd period and 10th period only. Please remind your child about the change and we will do the same here at school.

Our Veteran's Day Parade is coming up. All the details are written below in the newsletter. If you would like to participate with a Veteran from your family or a friend, please RSVP for the event. We are hoping for great weather so that we can have the parade -if not we will have a nice event inside.

Also as many may be aware, we had some students who did not receive their pictures from LifeTouch from Picture Day in August. LifeTouch has informed us that these pictures are no longer available.

Therefore, if you ordered pictures and did not receive pictures, please plan to have your child take their school picture again on Picture Re-take Day on October 10. For those families who have already submitted a picture packet and paid for school pictures and did not get their pictures, LifeTouch has this on file, they just do not have a picture.

Therefore, your student does not have to repay, or bring in anything additional, rather, just take their picture. LifeTouch plans to schedule another re-take day at a later time in the event students may need to retake pictures after this date. All students also have an opportunity to re-take their pictures on the 10th if needed as well.

Thank you for your understanding and plan to smile on October 10th!

Have a great week Mustangs!

Sincerely,

Mrs. J. Peters

Assistant Principal - Grade 6

You are invited to our VETERANS DAY PARADE at SMS.

If you are a Veteran, or if you know a Veteran, you are invited

to join our Veterans Day Parade!

The Parade will be on Monday, November 13th at 9:00am at Strongsville Middle School.

More Details to follow!

Mrs. Peck (media assistant) will be putting together a slideshow using pictures sent to her of SMS students' family members who are veterans of our military. Here is the procedure for your child to submit pictures:

For all SMS students and staff who have veterans in their family and would like them included in this year’s Veterans Day slide presentation, we need the following information e-mailed to jpeck@scsmustangs.org by October 27th.

• Student name
  
• Student team
  
• Veteran’s name
  
• Veteran’s relationship to student
  
• Branch of the military (example: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard)
  
• Where/when served (example: Afghanistan, Desert Storm, WW 2)
  
• Picture of veteran (or student and vet) in .jpeg format (included as an attachment)
• ****If a picture was sent in last year, you don't need to resend, just let us know you want us to use it.

Note:

Deadline will be Friday, October 27, 2023

Information must be E-MAILED TO: jpeck@scsmustangs.org

Pictures MUST be in .jpeg format

Each week we feature one student from each team that exemplifies behavior that is

expected at SMS. We continue to support students to become the following:

INNOVATIVE

RESILIET

COLLABORATIVE

GLOBAL

EMPOWERED

These students are true Model Mustangs.

They are making a difference at SMS!

Hello!

My name is Celia Joyce and I am the district social worker.

Please reach out for any of the following needs:

- Help with basic needs
- Referrals for community/family support
- Mental health services/support, groups, therapy referrals
- Crisis intervention
- Safety planning for student/family

Celia Joyce, LISW
cjoyce@scsmustangs.org
440-268-5588

We have developed behavior expectations for all students at SMS. We have High Expectations and High Accountability for Everyone. Please take some time to read the content below so that you know and understand the process of discipline at SMS. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out with questions at any time.

One focus this year has been on our behavior systems and making sure we are holding our students to the high standards that we have here at SMS. To help with that we've made some changes to our behavior system and discipline.

Detentions

• No longer after school
• Will be served at 7:00 am and students need to report at that time to the main office
• If a detention is not served, they will be give a Saturday detention
• Saturday detentions will be held at the high school for 2 hours

Progressive Discipline for minor behaviors

• Students can receive 3 detentions then they will be issued a Saturday Detention
• Then students can receive 3 Saturday Detentions then they will be issued In-School Suspension
• Then students can receive 3 In-School Suspensions before out of school suspensions will be issued

**This does not include major behaviors according to the hand book.

HERE is our OPEN HOUSE PARENT MEETING Slide Presentation to reference to if needed.

Please access our handbook HERE . It is also available on the website. Students and parents should review this together. Students will also review this with staff as well the first week of school.

Minor/Major Infractions Behavior Matrix

Thank you for being part of Strongsville Middle School.

Email: jpeters@ssmustangs.org
Website: www.strongnet.org
Location: 13200 Pearl Road, Strongsville, OH, USA
Phone: (440)572-7078
Twitter: @SMSMustangs