DRMS Flight Line Newsletter
December 11, 2023

December Happenings!❄️
December 13: ELAC Meeting @ 4:30
December 13: Basketball game Boys at 4:30/ Girls at 6:30 @ Park Middle
December 14: Basketball Championships (TBD) @ Black Diamond Middle
December 15: "Spirit of Giving" activity with Mrs. Velma (By sign up/invitation only)
December 20: Noon Dismissal (the main office closes at 2:00)
December 21 - January 9: Winter Break
January 10: Students Return to School
During the winter break from school, we are grateful to everyone for helping to restore a routine for showing up to school while supporting students and families.
We appreciate everyone’s efforts to avoid taking extra time off during the winter break. As long as your child is healthy, please encourage showing up to class when school is in session.
Every day of school is an important opportunity for students to learn as well as to connect to their peers and teachers.
We thank:
● Our students and their families who do their best to show up daily even when it isn’t easy.
● Our teachers who go above and beyond to make school a welcoming and safe place for all students to learn.
● Our administrators who help us work together to ensure we create a physically and emotionally safe and engaging learning environment.
● Our many, many healers and helpers - the support staff and community volunteers who provide the extra hands and attention our children need.
We appreciate each one of you. May these days off be restful and healing.
● If your family or your child needs support, please reach out to your child’s Vice Principal for help.
● We look forward to seeing you again when school resumes on January 10, 2024.
Thank you for partnering with us!
Yearbook Sales
Yearbooks are currently on sale, but prices go up again January 1st.
Students who buy their yearbook before December 19th will be entered into a drawing for a $50 Visa gift card!
Posters for yearbook purchases are posted around campus. Scan the QR code and complete the purchase using a credit card.
Hurry before the price goes up and have a chance to win that gift card!
DRMS Vision and Mission
Our Vision:
Our responsibility is to prepare every student for success in high school and beyond.
Our 2023-2024 vision
At Dallas Ranch, we will:
· Increase Scholar engagement
· Reduce discipline referrals
· Increase academic gains
· Increase College and career-readiness
· Heighten teacher satisfaction and retention
Our Mission:
Dallas Ranch Middle School will be a school of excellence; strongly connected in the community where students achieve their full potential academically. We will focus on students’ positive character development so students are prepared for success in high school, college, and careers. We want students to make positive contributions to the community.
At Dallas Ranch Middle School:
Ø We believe that ALL members of the school community: students, parents, teachers, administrators, and support staff must model good character by displaying trustworthiness, respectfulness, responsibility, fairness, caring, and positive citizenship.
Ø We are a place that values diversity, where students are active participants and feel a sense of belonging and pride. Aviators learn to be responsible for the success of themselves and others.
Ø Students understand the importance of learning and have a desire to achieve to the best of their ability. They receive support in their academic endeavors and learn to be critical thinkers.
Ø Aviators are well-rounded individuals with opportunities to develop their bodies and minds through sports, clubs, electives, and other extra-curricular activities.
Attention!
Please remind your student/s not to loiter at local businesses after school. It can be a safety issue.
Dallas Ranch Middle School
Home of the Aviators
1401 Mt. Hamilton Dr.
Antioch, Ca. 94531
925-779-7485