Saber Happenings!

Athletic Director's Message

We are nearing the end of season one sports at SLMS! Baseball, fastpitch, and track are wrapping up shortly, and we are turning our focus to season two sports: wrestling, girls basketball, and boys soccer.

A couple of key pieces of information to know:

If you want your child to participate, please register via Final Forms as soon as possible. Season two sports are Boys and Girls Wrestling (hosted at CJH), Girls Basketball (hosted at SLMS), and Boys Soccer (hosted at SLMS).
Common clearance issues --> If your student is not cleared, they either need to sign some forms, pay their ASB, or update their physical. You can register your student on Final Forms (https://fife-wa.finalforms.com)or check to see their status (or email me). ASB payments don't automatically sync to Final Forms, so if you pay ASB, give me a few days to update the payment.
Practices/tryouts start on Monday, October 26th. Basketball and Soccer will practice at SLMS every day. Wrestling will be hosted at CJH, and your students will take the Sports bus down to CJH(Bus #24). They will need to be picked up at CJH at the conclusion of practice.
Cuts-- We are disappointed that we do not have the facilities and coaches to accommodate every athlete, but it is an unfortunate reality. It is likely that boys soccer and girls basketball will have more athletes than we have space to host. If this occurs, they will have cuts.

For questions about clearance, please respond to me. Brady Vallala-

bvallala@fifeschools.com
For questions about Wrestling, please reach out to Coach Robertson - Grobertson@fifeschools.com
For questions about soccer, please reach out to Coach Scott -- Rscott@fifeschools.com
For questions about basketball, please reach out to Coach Rutter -- Trutter@fifeschools.com

Brady Vallala

SLMS Athletic Director

-Mark Beddes

SLMS Principal

Surprise Lake Middle School (253)517-1300

Cell phone (253)678-0031

mbeddes@fifeschools.com

"The vision of Surprise Lake Middle School is to collaboratively provide a learning experience where all students grow academically and socially in order to develop students who are prepared for their experiences beyond Surprise Lake Middle School."

October 21st - Native American Education Program - Fife High School – Cafeteria 6-7:45pm

October 30th - End of 1st Quarter

November 12th - Fall Conferences

January 22nd - 1st semester ends (Grading Window opens 1/14 and closes 1/23)

March 21st - 3rd Quarter Ends (Grading Window opens 3/21 and closes 4/9)

June 16th - Last Day of School (Grading window opens 6/5 and closes 6/19)

Red Ribbon Week is coming up October 26-30th and it's a Spirit Week! We’ll be having a Red Ribbon Assembly on October 30th. Sign Ups will be in next weeks Saber Haps/

The following students will be pieing Mr. Beddes at our upcoming Assembly:

Owen W., Lyla J., Milo B., Alondra K., Brambila U., Arlyne F., Grace K., Hudson N., Piper A., Ashtyn A., Zoe O., Jeremiah W., Hayden P., Xander T., Nala R., Oliver W., and Lillian P.

Our Top 3 School of Walk Contributors who will be receiving a catered:

Oliver W. $745

Lillian P. $700

Nala R. $650

Thank you again for all those who donated to the School of Walk! We raised $14,891.91. If you haven’t yet please let us know how we did so we can continue to make this event a success: https://forms.gle/cdn83298qiHtRTZo7.

SLMS Kindness Wall!

Do you have something nice to say about a student or a staff member? Post it here and it will show up all around the screens at our school!

On November 2nd, Surprise Lake Middle School will host the first meeting of their newest afterschool club: Middle School Collector Club! The purpose of this weekly club is to let students meet fellow collectors in order to play, trade and show off their collections. With that said, in order to generate interest and provide items for students to read, play and trade, we are looking for donations to the club. The type of donations we are looking for are items that our students are interested in and stuff you might have hanging around your home. I have provided a list of possible items below:

Football/Basketball/Baseball trading cards
Pokemon/Magic the Gathering cards
Comic Books
McDonalds Happy Meal toys
Funko Pops
Action Figures
Bey Blades
Panini Sports stickers
LEGO pieces/sets
Hot Wheels cars
Backpack clips
Squishy/fidget items
Blind bag items
Anything else you know middle school kids are interested in collecting…

All items will be made available to students at each meeting and stored at the school. In addition to playing, trading and show and tell, we will also be learning about how to identify items, online resources, secondhand market values and other collecting tools.

Your help will be greatly appreciated and items can be delivered to either Mr. Stevens’ classroom via your student or to the front office at SLMS.

Thank you kindly for your support,

You can check this document for meeting times and advisors!

Athletics

Here is a link to our Athletic schedule for the year

If you have any questions please email the Athletic Director (Mr. Vallala) at bvallala@fifeschools.com

Event Information

P.I.E. Meeting

Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 5:30

When?

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026, 05:30 PM

Where?

Surprise Lake Middle School, Milton Way, Milton, WA, USA

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Staff Appreciation Food for Conferences

We need help from SLMS families! On November 12th our teachers will be working late that day for Conferences and we are providing dinner for them. We are asking for donated items for this meal, and food items can be store-bought or home-made by SLMS families. Donated items should be delivered to SLMS on November 12th by 2pm. If you would like to contribute, but aren't able to drop-off, please text Stacy: 253.227.1110 - she can coordinate pickup, or even do the shopping for you. Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

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Information You Can Use!

What To Do When Your Child Won't Go To School

This helpful article has suggestions for how to handle it when your child is refusing to go to school.

Daily Bell Schedule Here

Saber Gear!

Are you interested in some SLMS swag?!? We have an apparel store so that you can pick up some great SLMS gear.

Do you want to volunteer?

Go to our volunteer site: https://fifevolunteers.myschooldata.net

If you have questions, contact us at volunteers@fifeschools.com

Core/Focus on Math online textbook

Khan Academy

Bus Route information

Skyward Login

Bell Schedule and Attendance Information

SLMS Student Handbook

District Calendar

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Principal's Office Podcast

If you'd like to get to know our SLMS staff a little more, be sure to check out our Principal's Office Podcast! Click here for all of our teachers. Click here to subscribe on iTunes, or click here to subscribe on Spotify.