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Here's a brief run down on our highlights from this week at MPMS!

Opening Video: 6th Grade Virtual Choir Project

1. Congratulations to our Q1 Honor Roll Students!

2. Congratulations to our November Students of the Month!

3. Picture Day is Next Week - Have you made your appointment?

4. Lots of student work from this week!

---Learning how to add Fractions in Math 6

---Poetry from Marketing Class

---Sweet music loops from General Music Class

---Thanksgiving Poetry from ESOL Class

5. Meet a new teacher at MPMS!

6. Counselors Corner Update!

7. Library Update!

8. Food Distribution!

9. MP City Library Card Sign Up

10. Middle School Sports Update

11. How to Pay Debts to MPMS

12. School Board YouTube Channel (Work Session on Monday, Dec to discuss HS Sports)

13. Dr. Sieloff's Contact Info!

Whew! Enjoy the videos and the newsletter!

This week we are having our first ever Digital First Quarter Honor Roll Ceremony. These ceremonies highlight students who earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher. We had 362 students make honor roll, and we will email every one of them their digital certificate on Monday, December 7th!

Congratulations to each and every student on this list. I wish I could shake your hand - but until then... keep up the great work! I hope to see even more names on this list for Second Quarter!

If you wish to jump to your child's grade/honor roll - please use the following timestamps:

Dr. Sieloff’s Message to Families – 0:00

Superintendent’s Honor Roll:

6th Grade – 2:55

7th Grade – 6:00

8th Grade – 8:14

Principal’s Honor Roll:

6th Grade – 10:37

7th Grade – 13:38

8th Grade – 16:00

Closing Remarks – 18:49

Each month the teachers of each grade level and electives identify students who represent MPMS well every day. Our students of the month are active participants in class, helpful to peers, respectful, and supportive of everyone being successful in school! Congratulations to our Students of the Month for November!

Our Students of the Month will be mailed a certificate next week. (Unfortunately home visits have been cancelled until COVID numbers improve. If you would like a photo with Dr. Sieloff - save the certificate and we will do the photo when schools return to hybrid learning!)

Congratulations!

Aayush Baral

J. Spencer Campbell

Faraz Mogo

Timothy O’Dell

Genevieve Rothwell

Astrid Portillo Mejia

Ahnaya Smith

Franklin Estrada Valencia

Michelle Velasquez

Juna Watson-Horn

Anthony Chaves

Jakelin Fuentes-Ruiz

Sarah Guzman

Andrew Fuentes Rivas

Kaydence Sullivan

Franklin Ramos Valladares

Roberto Carranza Deras

Eldensen (Javier) Chicas-Guzman

Kaiya Greene

Alanna Mallisham

Jocelyn Martinez Argueta

Jonathan Portillo Santamaria

Ricardo Rodriguez Moya

LifeTouch will be at MPMS on Wednesday, December 9th and Thursday, December 10th. All photos will be by appointment only. Sign up first to get your desired photo time!

Like a normal school photo session, pictures will be taken during the school day. Students will be excused from zoom if they are coming to the school to take their photo. (They do need to email their teacher to let them know they are going for their school picture!)

All photo sessions will enter through the main office doors and check in at the table. Both photographers and MPMS staff will be following COVID guidelines.

We hope to see you come in for a school photo! Click below to sign up for your appointment!

If your child is experiencing any technology trouble, please email it.support@mpark.net. They will assist with any technology needs and repairs.

If you need a Wifi hotspot, they are available! Please email it.support@mpark.net to arrange a pick up at MPMS.

This photo requires a little context: This week a student stayed after school with Ms. Sottilaro because they were struggling with adding fractions. After an hour, they were adding fractions like a PRO! Even without paper, students can show their work to their teachers for help until they get the concept!

Ms. Alhawsawi's ESOL classes wrote poems about Thanksgiving in English!

Welcome Ms. Singleton!

Ms. Kim Singleton is our new 8th Grade SPED ELA teacher, coming to Manassas Park from her hometown of Templeton, PA!

Quick Facts about Ms. Singleton:

-Attended Seton Hill University, California University of Pennsylvania!

-Majored in General Education and Elementary and Special Education with Applied Behavior Analysis!

-Likes to read, walk her dog, and organize her house!

-Enjoys having dance offs with students and making funny faces on camera!

-Loves hiking and cooking with her Instant Pot!

When you see her in the middle school or in the community, please welcome Ms. Singleton to Manassas Park Middle School!

If your device isn't working well or needs a physical repair, email it.support@mpark.net to schedule a repair with our IT team.

Don't delay - we want to make sure everyone is ready to learn every day!

Any finally, if you have any tech questions at all, email the IT team at it.support@mpark.net at any time. They will be happy to help you!

As a standing tradition, we will be having the annual Multicultural Night… VIRTUAL style 😊 We are excited to announce that we will be compiling a video, made by all of you, as something we can share with the school and community here at Manassas Park. Although we recognize that this is an event that brings people “together” with different performances, cultures and food, we hope to make it interesting and an experience that will not be forgotten. Please feel free to think about what interests you and fill out the google form if you are wanting to participate and show off a preview of your life. We look forward to receiving videos from you all in the upcoming weeks. For now, think about what type of video you are going to create and more instructions will be out in the upcoming News Letters.

Thank you,

MPMS School Counselors

https://forms.gle/eT1yrmM1PefoJKbN9

It looks like we’re going to be virtual for a while, so the library bought some more of your favorites as eBooks. Take a look and see what’s new!

Mrs. O’Connell is available on Zoom every Tuesday through Friday from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Students, parents, and teachers are welcome to visit to ask questions, say hi, or listen to a read-aloud story. Once you have joined our Canvas course, you’ll see announcements with the Zoom link. See you there!

It looks like a beautiful weather forecast for Monday, so Mrs. O’Connell and Mrs. Jones will be on one of the Bookmobiles, at the Manassas Park Community Center and the Manassas Park City Library from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm . If you put a book on hold in the library catalog, we’ll put it on the Bookmobile that’s closest to your address. We’ll also bring books that can be checked out on the spot! The video below shows how. We will use hand sanitizer, masks, and physical distancing to help keep us all safe.

Please return library books to the Bookmobiles!

Books from all four Manassas Park City Schools may be returned to the Bookmobiles on Monday. Books will be quarantined for 7 days before circulating again. We never charge overdue fines (late fees) for books, as long as they are returned.

Log in to the library catalog (http://destiny.mpark.net) and put the book on Hold BEFORE 9:00 AM MONDAY MORNING.

Pick up the book from the Library Bookmobiles on Monday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

• Manassas Park City Library
• Manassas Park Community Center

We hope to see you there!

Now you can pick up 5 lunches and 5 breakfasts at a time for your child(ren) for FREE!

This drive-thru style pick-up will be held at FOUR locations every Monday.

***Please note the time adjustment at CES and MPMS, if that is your preferred pickup site.

From 9:00 to 11 am at Cougar Elementary via Cougar Court

From 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at the MP Community Center/Dog Park

From 1:30 to 2:30 pm at Sandstone Way & Manassas Drive

From 4:00 to 6 pm at Manassas Park Middle School

Meals are limited to one set of meals per child, per week.

Proof of enrollment, or bringing a child(ren) to pick up, is required for parents to pick up meals. Proof of enrollment can include a student ID card, report card, or any other school communication containing the students name(s). If you need assistance with providing proof, the food services department can make an ID badge which you can use for future visits.

If your children are not school aged, our food services team will work with you to provide a proof should you wish to pick up without children in the future. Please talk to them during the pick-up time slots noted above.

We hope that replicating our Summer Feeding Program and adding an additional pick up location and window will permit more families to take advantage of this FREE service.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work to serve as many people in our community as possible.

In addition to your school library, you can get two public library cards to access even more resources. For the new Manassas Park City Library, sign up with your parents present by clicking here https://manassasparkcitylibrary.org/get-a-library-card/. Use your home (not school) email address. If you do not have a Prince William County Public Library card, you can sign up here as well https://www.pwcgov.org/government/dept/library/Pages/How-To-Get-A-Library-Card.aspx.

11/6/2020 Update: Middle School Sports will not attempt to resume prior to February 9, 2021. At this time, there is no information about what sports may be offered, or what a middle school sports season would look like.

Once we get closer to a opening sports season, additional details will be shared. No final decision has been made about rescheduling fall sports to the Spring at this time.

If your child is getting an annual physical with their pediatrician and plans to play a sport this school year, please have your doctor fill out the sports physical form (link below.)

Sports physicals are good for the entire school year, so any completed this fall will still be valid for a potential winter or spring sports season.

Please pay and settle all outstanding fines (technology obligations, library fines, etc.) as soon as possible. Payments can be made by cash or check or online at myschoolbucks.com. If you are paying for a technology obligation by check, please make checks payable to MPCS.

If you have any questions or need to know what your student owes, please contact Mrs. Wence, the Bookkeeper, in the front office. 703-361-1510, x17102 or via email at kim.wence@mpark.net.

Thank you for your assistance.

All School Board Meetings and Work Sessions will now be taped and available for viewing the day after the meetings take place. To view, visit the Manassas Park School Board Channel on YouTube. Type “Manassas Park School Board” into the YouTube search engine or visit the channel by clicking the button below!

Weekly newsletters are great, but if you would like daily updates and pictures of the great things happening at Manassas Park Middle School, follow @MpMiddle on Twitter!

If you want to be the first to know about any school delays or cancellations, follow our Superintendent @MPCSmcdade

There are also a number of teachers who are showing off what's going on in class on Twitter. If you like their tweets above, follow them!

Check us out!

Email: matt.sieloff@mpark.net
Website: mpark.net
Location: 8202 Euclid Avenue, Manassas Park, VA, USA
Phone: 703-361-1510
Twitter: @MpMiddle