Westside Middle School

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Monday, September 7th (Labor Day)

Tuesday, September 8th (Teacher Professional Learning Day)

At the bottom of every newsletter you will find buttons that will take you directly to our Social Media sites, WMS Website, Homework Tracker, and Lunch Menu.

Westside Middle School and Westside High School's libraries offer digital access to a curated collection of ebooks and audiobooks through the Sora app. The Sora app now offers parental controls that can be used to view the digital collection, lock individual books, see your student's checkout history, and receive email notification when books are borrowed. To set up these controls, please use the following guidelines to access your student's account. If you have any questions or need support, please contact Ms. Saetveit, the WMS librarian, at 402-408-8662.

This next week in homeroom, students will review the Virtual Club Fair Link to review. We encourage students to be involved here at the middle school and hope that families will do the same.

Students are expected to report to the health office for vomiting, fever, or having more than one episode of diarrhea. Please keep students home when ill. Students will need to remain home until 24 hours after symptoms subside per WCS policy.

As teachers put grades into PowerSchool you may notice some codes that are bing used. Below is a picture and description of them. They are also listed at the bottom of PowerSchool.

Community Club Meeting – Everyone Welcome!
Join us for our first Community Club meeting of the school year on Thursday, September 10 at 3:30. We’d love to have new and returning parents join us!

Community Club uses funds to provide meals at conferences for teachers, different supplies/equipment for the school throughout the year as well as the 8th grade end of the year dance!

Join Westside Unified for the 25th annual Step up for Down Syndrome Walk. The event will take place on Sunday, September 27, 2026, from 2:30 pm to 5:00 PM at the Baxter Arena parking lot, located at 2425 south 67th street. The flyer includes the Westside Unified and 25th anniversary logos, as well as a QR code that can be scanned to register for this team. Use the link https://p2p.onecause.com/stepup2026/team/westside-unified?participant=jill-foster-5 to register.

Don & MIllie's partners with WMS every month for a Caring and Sharing Day. Every first Monday of the month you can eat out at Don & Millie's on 108th and Center and they will donate 20% for every dollar to WMS that is spent. Please make sure you tell the cashier!!

Please consider donating to our Warrior Buck Store by purchasing something off of our Amazon Wish List! Our students work hard following expectations and we want to make sure they are rewarded!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/313RZ43VLT2LG/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2

Please make sure you are calling 402-390-6464 or email wms.attendance@westside66.net for attendance.

If you are picking up your student early we need at least 1 hour in advance in order to make sure your student is in the main office ready to go.

Our first Community Connections event will be on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 at 5:00 pm at the American-Italian Heritage Society. It's a BOCCE BALL LEARN & PLAY experience! Come learn about the American Italian Heritage Society and Bocce! Try your hand at this fun Italian lawn game - no experience needed.

Event is free but RSVP's will be required - families and all are encouraged to attend. See flyer that is attached.

Great Plains Boys Volleyball League provides a low-cost, low-commitment opportunity for boys who are interested in playing volleyball to compete. We welcome all skill levels for male athletes who are in Grades 3-7 to play in our Middle School League. The League will meet 1x per week throughout October. The first two weeks will primarily be skill work, and the last two weeks will be primarily live play. There will be two locations athletes can register for: a Lincoln League and an Omaha League.

Here is that link: https://www.greatplainsvolleyball.org/boys-league-middle-school

2026-27 WMS Administration:

Kim Eymann - Principal eymann.kimberly@westside66.net

Jordan Rhodes - Assistant Principal (Dean 7C, 8A). rhodes.jordan@westside66.net

Amber Biegler - Asst Principal and Special Education Coordinator biegler.amber@westside66.net

Dan Carlson - Dean and Athletic Director (Dean 7A, 7B, 8C). carlson.daniel@westside66.net

Kellon Johnson - Dean (7D, 8B, 8D). johnson.kellon@westside66.net