7th Grade Weekly News, April 14

Welcome back from break. It's the final stretch, and students have a full slate of activities until the end of the school year. It is amazing the amount of growth we have seen from our students.

Field Trips

Depending on the team, 7th grade field trips will be April 30 or May 1. Permission slips must be filled out and given to your student's team leader by April 21. HERE is a link to the Permission Slip. They can also be picked up in the second floor office.

Progress Challenge #2:

On behalf of the PBIS committee, we are excited to introduce our next Progress Challenge! Starting this Monday, April 15th and going through Monday, May 20th, we will be tracking attendance data for every team. Each week, we will announce grade level winners and award the trophy based upon the highest percentage of students present in school from the previous week. The overall team winners from each grade level will also be awarded a prize to celebrate their achievement once the Progress Challenge is completed.

What We Need From You:

Please have your student(s) prepared and ready to attend school daily unless they are not medically able to do so. We want to end the year strong and attendance is an essential part of education.

Reminders:

Ms. Joyce, our school social worker, is in need of school supplies, gently used clothing or household supplies to fill the SMS Caring Closet. See flyer below.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Erika's Lighthouse: Resources for Families

Good mental health starts at home.

Family Workbook One: We All Have Mental Health: English | Spanish

Learn how you can start conversations, promote good mental health and find easy-to-use tools.

Family Workshop I: We All Have Mental Health: English | Spanish
Understand the basics of mental health, the Erika’s Lighthouse program, and how to support your child.

Email: spietrocini@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-268-5666

Celia Joyce, LISW

Email: cjoyce@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-268-5588

Starting next week, we will be featuring one student from each team that exemplifies positive behavior at SMS. We continue to support students focusing on the pillars of our Model Mustang.

INNOVATIVE

RESILIENT

COLLABORATIVE

GLOBAL

EMPOWERED

These students are well on their way to becoming Model Mustangs and are making a difference at SMS.

Open House Slideshow

A couple key points from the slide show:

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.

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.

Email: chowell@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-470-7077