Horizon Middle School

Great news, Horizon families!

Our PTO fundraiser deadline has been extended to October 10th—giving you more time to “FILL THE BEAK” and help us reach our goal of $15,000!

🌟 If we hit our goal, every donation at or over $40 will be entered to win one of five amazing prizes:

· Nintendo Switch 2 (One Grand Prize Winner)

· $250 Amazon gift card (Two winners)

· $250 Dave & Buster’s gift card (Two Winners)

Don’t miss out—make your donation today and help support our students and school community!

Join our Private Facebook Group

If you're not part of this private Facebook Group, you might be missing out. Stay in the know and join the discussions.

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/Vp1BTzEfYcBUqM6W/

Students will be participating in the Healthy Youth Survey on October 13.

To learn more about the survey and its purpose, Click Here.

Fall merch can be purchased at the links below.

Hawks Softball – Sho Sho's

Hawks Cross Country – Sho Sho's

Hawks Football – Sho Sho's

Hey Hawks - click the link below and register for Girl's Volleyball and Girl's and Boy's Wrestling. Parent meeting October 27th @ 5:15pm

We can't wait to watch you shine on and off the court and mat this season.

Mrs. Fey

REGISTER FOR VOLLEYBALL AND WRESTLING HERE

Join the Horizon Middle School Coding Club, a proud partnership with the Girls Who Code Learning Academy! This club is open to ALL students in grades 6th-8th, regardless of gender or experience. Whether you're a beginner or already love coding, this is the place for you! No coding experience required!

👩‍💻 What is a Coding Club?

In partnership with Girls Who Code, the Coding Club are spaces where all students can learn to code and join a supportive community of peers and role models, collaborate, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and use Computer Science principles to change the world. You’ll learn from fun tutorials, make friends through activities, and hear from inspiring role models.

📘 What Will I Learn?

Our Coding Club will help you create animations, games, and apps using Scratch and JavaScript

🎯 Can I Join?

This club is open to ALL 6th - 8th grade students at Horizon Middle School—both girls and boys are welcome. N

🗓️ Schedule

Most Mondays after school, until 3:50pm • Starting September 15th in room 175 (Leadership/Art)

🗓️ How to Sign Up:

Sign up on Final Forms https://cvsd-wa.finalforms.com/ also register on the GirlsWhoCode website by scanning the QR code above.

📞 Point of Contact:

•Mrs. H (Christy Hatherley) • 310-409-8113

• christy.hatherley@yahoo.com

DO YOU LOVE TO DANCE AND CHEER ON YOUR SCHOOL? SPIRIT SQUADMAY BE RIGHT FOR YOU!

As a part of the spirit squad, we will cheer for football and basketball games., and occasionally wrestling matches. Depending on interest, we may also attend and cheer on baseball in the spring. All events will be at HMS after school unless home games are moved to UHS. We will cheer at spirit assemblies and perform dances like Thriller for our student body. We will greet guests at special assemblies like Veteran’s day and participate in the Jr. Lilac Parade in May with the HMS band.

Details...

WHO?

Any student at Horizon Middle School, 6th-8th grade is welcome.

WHEN?

We practice Wednesdays from 2:50-4:30. Plan to meet in Mrs. Poisel’s room for our first practice.

We will begin our practices on Wednesday, Sept. 17 . Weather permitting, we will practice outside.

WHAT DO I WEAR?

Wear clothes that you can move in. We start 10minutes after the release bell so you have time to change into athletic clothes. You will need white tennis shoes for performances. Uniforms and pompoms will be provided to you to borrow for the year. You will also receive a bow to wear for performances.

After much talk it's finally official. Due to high demand, the Dungeons & Dragons Club is a real thing. It's in Final Forms as a Fall-only activity. If demand is high it has the potential to extend.

Please register your students to participate on Final forms you can pay the once a year ASB fee for Sports and Activities on PowerSchool under the payments tab.

Open to all HMS students

Thursdays from 2:45 to 4:15 in room 201 with Mrs. Harding

We will have our first meeting on Thursday, September 25th.

The best way to access the payment system to make online purchases is now through your PowerSchool account. Once you sign into PowerSchool in an internet browser (this feature is not currently accessible in the app) on the left hand menu you will select "Purchases and Payments" and then complete your purchase as usual. You can:

• Pay for meals
  • • Pay for student breakfasts & lunches
    • Check balances
• Pay middle school fees
  
  • • ASB Card
    • Activity & athletic fees
    • Club dues
    • Yearbook
• Pay student fines
  • • General fines
    • Library & textbook fines

Should you need assistance with PowerSchool, please click the following link for helpful information:

https://www.cvsd.org/apps/pages/powerschool

The application for free and reduced school lunches can be found by clicking here.

Bowdish Middle School Harvest Festival

UHS Little Titan Cheer Camp

SVT CAMP Castles & Catapults

ABC IPC Construction Trades Night

CVSD Wellness Committee

Join us to help improve student wellness on a committee dedicated to fostering a healthy school environment. Learn more and apply by 10/5 at: www.cvsd.org/WellnessCommittee

Oct 13- Healthy Youth Survey (6th & 8th Grade)

Oct 15- Instrumental Music Concert 7pm

Oct 17- Teacher Learning Improvement Day (No School)

Oct 21- Spirit Assembly

Oct 21- PTO Bite Night @ Dairy Queen on Pines 6pm-8pm

Oct 22-24- Parent/Teacher Conferences (No School)

Oct 27-31- Spirit Week

Oct 29- Choir Concert 6:30pm

Oct 31- PTO Halloween Dance

Oct 31- End of Quarter 1

Nov 5- Picture Day Retakes

Nov 7- Veterans Day Assembly 8:30am

Nov 10-11- No School in Honor of Veterans Day

Nov 25- Hawk Trot Fund Run

Nov 26-28- Thanksgiving Break (No School)

Email: jmurdock@cvsd.org or dhall@cvsd.org
Website: https://hms.cvsd.org/
Location: 3915 South Pines Road
Phone: 509-558-4940