Dear Parents and Guardians,

As we move into the final months of the year, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your continued support and involvement in our school community. Your dedication to your children’s education is truly inspiring and plays a crucial role in their success.

Over the next two months, we have several exciting events planned, including our Fall Extravaganza (Adv Chorus & Jr. Thespian). These events provide wonderful opportunities for our students to showcase their talents and hard work. I encourage you to attend and celebrate their achievements with us.

Also, there are only 14 school days in the month of November, so we want to encourage students to be here each and every day. Every day truly does matter!

Thank you for being an integral part of our school family. Together, we can continue to focus our efforts on building a Mustang Legacy that inspires everyone!

Sincerely Your Very Proud Principal,

Mrs. C. Harrell

Fall Fun Day here at SCMS

We want to congratulate our Teacher and Employee of the YEAR!! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication here at SCMS! We are proud to have you as part of our Mustang Family!

• November 4th-SHREK the Musical: Mandatory Dance Audition
• November 9th-Fall Extravaganza Concert @ SCHS 7 pm
• November 11th-Veterans Day (No School)
• November 14th- SHREK the Musical: Audition #1
• November 18th- SHREK the Musical: Audition #2
• November 19th-PBIS Hoodies/Sweater (10MB) SAC Meeting @ 5:30 pm
• November 25-27-Student Holiday (No School)
• November 28-Happy Thanksgiving (No School)
• November 28-Student Holiday (No School)

***Below you will find the schedule for this week's Quarter 1 Rewards for 6th and 7th grade only. Parents, please make sure your student only participates if they have the appropriate wrist band for each grade!

Below you will find our most current student bell schedule.

ALL SCMS students receive FREE breakfast and lunch. Please click the files below to view the breakfast, lunch and snack menus for the month of October.

Parents may also add funds to the students account to purchase things such as chips, ice cream or drinks. You may add funds by either giving the student cash to put into their lunch accounts or by visiting My School Bucks using the link below.

*Parents if your student is participating in any sports you must set up an account on www.aktivate.com and upload all student and sports physical information.

CONGRATULATIONS to our Mustang girls' soccer team. They are now the 24-25 OCMSAC Girl's Soccer County CHAMPIONS!! They had an amazing, undefeated season and took home the trophy! We are all so very proud of our Girl's Mustang Soccer Team!!

Reminder to ALL Parents for any student wanting to attend any home games they MUST have a parent present at all times.

*Student should have their laptops fully charged every day for school.

*All students must have their IDs on and visible at all times.

*Parents, you no longer need a parent portal pin. Focus only requires that you have an email on file. As long as the email is in focus and the email used to create the parent portal matches, you will automatically be connected with your student. If your email has since changed or you would like to use a different email for your portal, you must come to the front office in person to make that change. You must complete a form and provide your ID to make that change.

*Parents, please make sure that students are following the school dress code

• Shirts must have a collar (Colors: Navy Blue, White, Black, Maroon, Gold)
• Spirit shirt may be worn any day of the week; Military/College shirts only on Thursdays
• Pants may not have rips anywhere above midthigh (Colors: Khaki, Navy Blue, Black, or Blue Denim). Student's shorts must also reach midthigh.
• Closed-toed shoes must be worn at all times (No Crocs)
• Hoodies may not be worn unless they have a zipper that goes all the way down

*Please remind students that we are a no-phone zone per state law. This also includes all forms of electronics unless medically necessary. If phones are brought to school, they must be off and in their backpacks at all times.

*Mustang LEAD spirit shirts may be purchased in our front office for $10 cash or check.

• Arrival time is between 9:00-9:25 am. The late bell rings at 9:30.
• Dismissal time is at 4:25 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fri. Wednesdays are early days, and students are dismissed at 3:25 pm.
• Parents, your students need to be picked up no later than 4:25 on regular days and 3:25 on early dismissal.
• For parents wanting to dismiss students early, we ask that they are picked up no later than 4:00 pm on Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri. For early pick-up on Wednesdays, we ask that you please pick students up no later than 3:00 pm.

WALKERS & BIKE RIDERS:

• ALL walkers and bike riders must wait by the Osceola Virtual School gate. The gate will be open no sooner than 9:00 am. Once they are let in, they will walk on the school sidewalk to the SCM side gate. They will then be let into the school, where they will then proceed to their first-period classrooms.
  

CAR RIDERS:

• ALL car riders are to be dropped off and picked up at the front of the school. Students will be let into the car rider gate no sooner than 9:00 am.
• Parents, please pull all the way up the car rider lane to ensure a fast and efficient arrival and dismissal.
• For the safety of our student's parents, please do not attempt to drop off or pick up your students in the front parking lot. Please always go through the care rider lane to drop your student off safely at the gate.

BUS RIDERS:

• ALL students must have their IDs so that they may scan them to enter and exit the bus.
• Please see the flyer below for any further questions or concerns regarding transportation.

For parents needing a before and after-school program for their students, you may sign them up through the YMCA program offered here at SCMS. See the YMCA flyer below the transportation flyer for more information.

Please upload all medical and written excuses for absences or tardies on the Focus Parent Portal

Instructions:

• Log in to the parent portal
• Select the three dashes at the top of the page and then select absences
• Once there, it should show you which day/s student has missed you will then click on the date/s, and the options "Scan, Upload, or Take Picture" will appear
• Click which option you would like and upload the written or doctor's excuse on the portal
• Once you upload it, no further action is necessary; it will then be sent to attendance for processing.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please email Fransua.Gonzalez@osceolaschools.net

Please help make the holiday's extra special for our amazing Mustang teachers and staff. Any of these donations would help us reach our goal!

Students will earn mustang money for their donations!

We would love if all donations were sent in by November 22nd so that we may plan accordingly for our December Holiday Celebrations!

Thank you so much in advanced for all your help!!

Below you will find the file to easily download and view this year's school district calendar.

Are you interested in joining in some fun around town with the family? Check out the flyers below for some fun activities going in November...