Happy Sunday Cavalier Families!

The semester got off to a great start this past week! Hopefully your weekend has been a good one as well. We are excited to see our students again tomorrow. We are expecting some cold weather again this week, so please make sure that your student(s) are dressed appropriately. 🥶

This month, we’re focusing on an essential value that helps build strong relationships and a positive school community: respect. At this stage of middle school, students are learning how to navigate more responsibilities, friendships, and interactions with others—including their families.

Respect starts at home, and we want to partner with you in encouraging your child to demonstrate kindness and consideration in their words and actions. Here are a few ways we’re fostering respect at school and how you can reinforce it at home:

At School:

• Modeling Respectful Behavior: Teachers and staff are modeling polite communication and encouraging students to do the same with peers and adults.
• Classroom Discussions: On Fridays, during Cav Connection, we’re talking about empathy, active listening, and understanding different perspectives.

At Home:

• Practice Gratitude: Encourage your child to thank family members for their help and support, whether it’s a ride to school or preparing a meal.
• Set Expectations: Talk about respectful ways to express feelings, even when they’re upset or frustrated.
• Be a Role Model: Kids mirror what they see—when they see respect in your interactions, they’re more likely to adopt it.

We know parenting middle schoolers can come with its challenges, but your guidance and support make a huge difference. Thank you for continuing to nurture respect and responsibility in your child. Together, we’re helping them grow into thoughtful, considerate young adults.

We are looking forward to a Cav-tastic week with your students!

Christina Harris

Monday, January 13th -

Lady Cavalier Basketball vs. PAMS (games start at 5:30PM)

• 8th grade @ PAMS
• 7th grade @ CPMS

Tuesday, January 14th -

MAP Testing: Reading

Field trip: Skills to HEB

Wednesday, January 15th -

SBDM meeting (4:00PM)

Thursday, January 16th -

Cavalier Boys Basketball vs. PAMS (games start at 5:30PM)

• 8th grade @ PAMS
• 7th grade @ CPMS

Spirit wear: College spirit shirt

Friday, January 17th -

Spirit wear: Cavalier spirit shirt

Saturday, January 18th -

Field trip: Theatre Arts to KHS (12:30PM)

If you have a 5th grader, we would love for you to join us next Tuesday to learn about the courses available to them next year.

If you know someone who has a 5th grader attending CPMS next year, please share the flyer below!

Please reach out to our parent liaison, Twila Hill, if you have questions or need assistance. She is here to help our families so that our students are as successful as possible.

Aviana Gongora--Student Volunteer

Shawna Collins--Family/Adult Volunteer

Darieck Foster--Staff Volunteer

This Month's CKH Character Trait: Respect - Act with thoughtfulness.

Monday: Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. What does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Tuesday: When you show respect for others, you are setting a good example for those watching you.

Wednesday: If you have respect for people as they are, you become more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Thursday: Respect comes when people consider you to be honest, dependable, and courageous.

Friday: Be a reflection of what you would like to see in others. If you want love, give love, if you want honesty, give honesty, if you want respect, give respect. You get in return, what you give!

The Counseling Office will be doing small group counseling sessions during every grade level lunch on Wednesdays in Room 211. If you would like to your child to participate, please encourage them to get a permission slip from the counseling office or print & fill out the slip below. Our primary focus is effective communication & conflict resolution. For the sessions to be effective, the groups are kept to a maximum of 15 students. New groups begin every 6 weeks to ensure more students are able to participate. Have your student sign-up today!

Please notice the drop off and pick up areas for cars at CPMS. For the safety of our students, please do not drop off in the bus loop.

Parents/Guardians should only be driving in the yellow area indicated on the map.

The red area is for buses only. Parents who enter the red area are putting students and staff at risk as there is limited visibility when buses are present.

Student Code of Conduct cards were sent home this past week. Please make sure that you have read over the SCOC so that you know the expectations for behavior.

Electronic Devices and Pouches – Secondary students will maintain their phone, and all communication devices, in a locked pouch during the school day.

E-cigarettes/Cigarettes

1st Offense Violation:

Students will be assigned one day of ISS and one day of Saturday School. Secondary Students will attend at their home campuses (the curriculum will be provided for all students who attend for cigarette/e-cigarette violations).

If the student fails to attend ISS, Saturday Detention and/or complete the lessons, a due process hearing will be held with a recommendation for DAEP placement for 10 days. Students will be allowed one make up opportunity to complete Saturday Detention.

2nd Offense Violation:

A due process hearing will be held with a recommendation for DAEP placement for 20 days.

Consequences for School Bus Violations:

For school bus safety violations, and for serious violations, as defined in this document, that happen on the bus, the 3rd bus offense shall invoke at least a temporary removal (possibly a permanent removal), and the 4th offense will invoke a bus suspension for the rest of the school year. For students attending a DAEP, the 2nd bus offense will result in permanent bus suspension for the time the student is placed in DAEP; any flagrant bus offense prior to the 2nd violation may result in immediate bus suspension. Students who fight on the bus will be suspended for three days. If after a thorough investigation, fighting is confirmed, then the students involved will be removed from the bus for 30 school days. Under severe circumstances the Director for Transportation Services reserves the right to implement temporary or permanent bus suspension at a date earlier than prescribed by this regulation.

Click below to view the 2024-2025 KISD Student Handbook and the 2024-2025 KISD Student Code of Conduct.

All students will receive free breakfast!

Families must apply for free or reduced lunch.

Click the photo below to complete your application. Lunch will be $3.00 for secondary students.

Welcome to CAV Nation—where we are Cavalier Strong, there are No Excuses and we are Relentless because our future is Limitless. We will Rise above all challenges and Reach our goals because that's the Cavalier Way! We will strive every day to Do Better and Be Better in order to help our students find Success--Nothing Less. Through our actions and our words, we will Make It Count every day!