Adams Middle School - Week Ahead

In this newsletter, you will find observations from the previous week, important dates ahead, and newsworthy announcements!

Please check out all of the information below, and don't hesitate to reach out to the Front Office with questions!

August 31st - Town Hall Meetings for 6th Grade (Corewell Health)

September 4th - NO SCHOOL - Labor Day

September 7th - NO SCHOOL - Labor Day

September 16th - Title 1 Parent Meeting (Zoom) - more info to come

Fish and Shellfish Restrictive

• We are a fish and shellfish restrictive school. No fish or shellfish products are permitted at school or on buses. We will always support the safety of our students. As a result of a couple Eagles having serious fish and shellfish allergies, we are officially a fish and shellfish restrictive school. Do not bring fish and shellfish products to school such as tuna fish and sushi. Thank you!

Believe it or not, we're already working on the year book for this year!

Families, staff and students can share pictures to possibly use in the Adams yearbook! Please share those photos of special events and they just might be in our yearbook at the end of the year.

Upload your photos here: https://community.lifetouch.com/invite?code=ADAMSMS-27

Pre-Order your yearbooks here: ybpay.lifetouch.com

Wayne-Westland Community Schools is launching a new school bus safety program with @buspatrol to help make our roads safer for students.

As part of the program, we’ve added stop-arm cameras to our school bus fleet. These cameras can detect vehicles that fail to stop when a school bus is stopped with its stop arm extended.

Important dates:

Now through September 27: Warning period

Beginning September 28: Local law enforcement will begin enforcing violations

When you see a school bus with its stop arm extended, STOP. Give students the time and space they need to safely get on and off the bus.

Together, we can help protect our students and make every trip to and from school safe.

All registration documents must be completed by August 26th.

Returning WWCSD Student Tasks

• Log into Parent Connection (Click here for Directions)

• Update All Current Student Enrollments on Parent Connection. This can be done starting now and will be available until September 16th. (Click here for Directions)

• Complete the Online Household Reporting Form. (Directions and Screenshots) (if you are unable to complete this process online, please fill out this Household Reporting Form and have your student return the completed form to their 1st hour teacher on August 26th).

• Complete the MCIR FERPA form. This form will be due to 1st hour teachers by September 1st.

• Pay all fines owed to WWCSD with cash or cashier's check in exact amount. We do not have change.

New WWCSD Student Registration

• To register your student please complete our online pre-enrollment at https://www.wwcsd.net/new-families/enroll-today/ located under Enrollment Process.

• If pre-enrollment was completed before August 14, 2025, contact Chrisena Orr at our board office (734-419-2083).

• Contact Mrs. Chene at 734-419-4379 or chenek@wwcsd.net if Pre-Enrollment is finished after August 12, 2025. Complete the documents located in this New Student Enrollment Packet. These documents can also be found on the Pre-Enrollment page at WWCSD.NET (follow the new family process).

Need Vaccines? We will have the vaccine clinic here to provide any vaccinations your child may require. We will share the information once we have secured a clinic date.

** Please note that a health appraisal is required for all students new to our district.**

For your ease and convenience, there is an app that has been created to have quick access to your Parent and Student Connection. In your Google App or Play store, type in "MiStar" and you will have the option to download the "Q ParentConnection" app for yourself and also the "Q StudentConnection" app for your child. I downloaded it and found it to be very easy to use. The convenience of having an app, rather than locating the website and looking up my PIN and password each time, was great. I highly recommend downloading if you have a device.

If you get the app, you can select the "Re-Enrollment" in the drop down menu to submit your information that way as well.

All wireless communication devices (including, but not limited to, smart phones, cell phones, airpods, tablets, and smart watches) must be turned off or locked in the student's locker during class time.

Consequences Framework for Middle Schools (grades 6-8):

• First Offense: Tracked warning and parent communication

• Second Offense: Phone brought down to the office by student or behavior coach, parent communication, student picks up phone at end of day.

• Third Offense: Phone brought down to the office by student or behavior coach, parent communication, parent pickup.

• Fourth Offense: Phone brought down to the office by student or behavior coach, parent communication, parent pickup, and cell phone “detention” (student brings phone to office every day and pickup at end of day for a predetermined amount of time).

• Fifth Offense: May result in ISS/OSS. Any beyond five offenses will result in progressive discipline.

To be clear, there is no educational, social, or emotional benefit to a student having a cell phone or headphones/earbuds/etc. in our building. It only serves as a distraction or catalyst to inappropriate behavior.

Certain allowances are made for medical reasons, but those must be coordinated with administration.

If you need to reach your student during the school day you must reach out to the front office.

Transportation will begin on the first day of school, Tuesday, August 25th, for all eligible students. Your transportation information (route and pick up and drop off times) will be found under the 'Transportation' tab in your Parent/Student Connect account.

Bussers

Please note students are expected to load their bus immediately at the dismissal bell. Dismissal is at 2:40pm and buses depart at 2:47pm. Buses will not return to the school for students that missed the bus. Students will need to come to the main office to contact their parent/guardian to be picked up.

Parent/Guardian Pick up

Students that are picked up from school are not allowed to wait in the building. They are dismissed outside with all other students. Students will need to be picked up in a timely matter as afterschool supervision is not provided for late pick ups.

Walkers

Students that walk home need to leave the premises immediately after dismissal. Reentry into the building is not allowed and students are not to hang out on school property or at the surrounding businesses.

Wayne-Westland Community Schools has partnered with Here Comes the Bus to offer families an app that will help avoid students and parents from waiting too long for the bus. Here Comes the Bus allows parents to see where their child's bus is along the route and when it will be at their bus stop.

DIRECTIONS:
Visit herecomesthebus.com
Click the "Sign Up" button
Enter school code 87839 and click "Next" followed by "Confirm"
Complete the "User Profile" box
Under "My Students," click "Add." Enter your child's last name and student ID number
Once you confirm your information, you're ready to begin using Here Comes the Bus!

All students participating in athletics MUST HAVE A MHSAA ATHLETIC FORM TURNED IN to the Counseling office or Athletic Director BEFORE THE FIRST PRACTICE OR TRYOUT (whichever is first). Physical forms may be picked up in the main office HERE for the digital form.

If your child has any medical needs during the school day, please bring the necessary documentation to the main office. Any medication to be kept in the office must be brought in by a parent or guardian. Click HERE to access the necessary forms we will need on file prior to the start of school.

It is the WWCSD district policy that NO prescribed or over-the-counter medication can be in school without WWCSD medication forms signed by a doctor and parent. If the form turned in is for "self carry" orders, the student may keep the medication with them. If it is not a "self carry" order, only parents or their listed contacts may bring in the medication which will be kept in the main office. Blank medication forms can be picked up if needed in the main office during the school year.

You can schedule a sports physical at the Corewell Health Clinic located at Adams Middle School, too!

The style and manner in which a student dresses while they attends school shall be the responsibility of their parents. Parental discretion shall be the major criteria for student dress.

The District, however, maintains the right to impose reasonable restrictions on dress for the following reasons:

If the style of dress or grooming is disruptive to the educational process or is detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the student or other students with whom he/she attends school.

Students, together with their parents, have the responsibility to dress and groom themselves in a manner appropriate for school. Principals have the responsibility and right to interpret the Dress Handbook in a consistent, fair and reasonable manner.

This list is not exhaustive and includes, but is not limited to:

1. Safe footwear must be worn at all times.
2. Clothing for school will cover the shoulders to mid-thigh.
3. Hats or headgear (other than for religious or medical reasons) are not to be worn inside the building.
4. Sunglasses are not to be worn inside the building.
5. Pajamas, slippers, underwear that is exposed, halter-tops, bare midriffs, bare sides, sheer articles of clothing, low cut tops or skirts/shorts that do not reach below one's fingertips, and t-shirts with drug or alcohol literature are examples of clothing not permitted.
6. Clothing, jewelry or accessories that denote membership in a group which advocates drug use, violence, or disruptive behavior or that promote inappropriate or illegal behavior, indicate profanity or unacceptable language/double meanings, are not to be worn.
7. Wallet chains and other forms of chains over 6 inches in length are not permitted nor are spiked jewelry.