Weekly Update
August 8th, 2023
Student led conferences will be held on Monday February 18th from 12-7:30pm. Your child's advisory teacher should have sent links home to sign up for this. Please reach out if you have not received a link from your child's advisory teacher. We are having a competition to see which advisory teacher can get the best participation for this!
Game and Dance Night will be on Friday February 16th for JWMS students in good standing, you can not have excessive absences, more than 5 missing assignments or Fs. 5th and 6th grade is from 6:30-8:00pm and 7th and 8th grade is from 8-10pm. Please look at the bottom of the newsletter in the Booster Club Section for volunteer and donations sign up links
5th Grade
We started to learn about our first Career Cluster this week! First, we talked about what a Career Cluster was -- a group of jobs. If you took all the jobs in the world, you could categorize them by their characteristics into groups. Over the next few weeks, we are going to be looking at six different career clusters. But this week, we looked at the Agricultural Science Career Cluster and learned about jobs like Veterinarian, Veterinarian Technician, Zoologist, Farmer and Gardener.
I also wanted to share the poem that I read to the students at the end of the class period...
Pick a career that catches your eye,
That sparks an enthusiasm that you cannot deny,
More towards what you want rather than what you need,
That ignites a burning passion within so you can succeed,
Trust your passions, take calculated risks too,
Dare to take a career path chosen by few,
Take advice from many, carefully weigh the pros and cons,
For a career is what you do through many dusks and dawns,
Do not blindly follow your parents or peers,
And end up working a career that you will regret for years,
Be independent, make your own choices in life,
Choose a career as if you are choosing a husband or wife,
Pick a career you love and make sure you love what you do,
The most profound advice that will bring happiness to you,
Focus less on the money and more on what evokes zest,
Once you have found it, you will surely be the best!
8th Grade Job Shadowing Experiences
I am working on finalizing some placements for students for their Job Shadowing Experience. Students will do their Job Shadowing experience from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, March 6th. In order for this event to be successful, we need some help with transportation from parents. Parents, please fill out THIS GOOGLE FORM to help us start making travel arrangements so all of our students have a successful experience!
THANK YOU!
As we wrap up National School Counseling Week, I wanted to let all of the Jeff West Middle School parents know how much I appreciate them. It truly does take a village to raise these middle schoolers, and I'm honored to be a part of yours. I have also included an infographic about all of the cool things I get to do as your student's school counselor.
Boys Basketball-
Monday boys play at Home- this is the last home game of the season. We will recognize 8th grade Cheerleaders and their parents as well as the 8th grade boys basketball players and their parents. Recognition will take place between the A and B games in the middle school, please plan to be here by 5pm.
Thursday boys play at Perry, 7th grade plays at the Middle School and 8th grade plays at the High School, games start at 4:30pm.
Knowledge Bowl- Tuesday February 13 practice at 6:30am or 3:30pm
Wednesday February 14 practice at 3:30pm
Thursday February 15 practice at 6:30am or 3:30pm
There will be no more practices once competition starts which is next week.
We will host the first meet of the season on February 20th- Mrs. Williams is in need of volunteers, please reach out to her if you are able to help with things.
HEADS UP- If your child is wanting to do track Coach Williams plans to start practice in the gym on March 5th until 5pm and then the parent meeting will follow that first practice in the Middle School Gym.
