SMMS Weekly Update

📚✨ READ-A-THON CHALLENGE ALERT! ✨📚

Readers, the competition is heating up! 🔥 Don’t miss your chance to earn awesome prizes while helping support our school!

🏆 Top Student Earner: Enjoy a FREE lunch delivered right to you (up to $20)!
📖 Top Student Reader(s): Get a morning treat delivered during homeroom (up to $10)!
👩‍🏫 Top Staffulty Earner: Choose your prize — leave school early the day before a break!

Every page you read and every dollar you raise brings us closer to our goal. Let’s make this Read-A-Thon one to remember! 💥

📅 It’s not too late — log your reading and donations today!

At Spring Mills Middle, culture isn’t just something we talk about—it’s something we live every day. We’re proud to announce that we’ve been honored with the Back to School Culture Builder Award for creating an environment where our students feel supported, connected, and inspired to succeed! 💙👏 #PatriotPride #CultureBuilder #EveryStudentEveryDay

Please check out the details below for our 2nd Annual Pumpkin Smash. In this game, students face off against our teachers in three epic volleyball sets.

Parent-teacher conferences for middle schools are on Wednesday, October 22 from 5:00p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This year, conferences will be first-come-first serve. Each teacher will have 10-minute conference time slots available. We invite all parents/caregivers to attend!

Thank you for all of your support in our school’s fall fundraiser. Our sale was very successful! We raised over $5,000 for our students!

This week, we recognized our top sellers with a candy treat and a gift card.

Did you know that teachers at SMMS offer free homework help each week? If your child is interested in attending, please make sure they have a permission slip submitted to the main office PRIOR to attending.

Each week, there is a designated day for each grade level.

• Monday- Grade 6
• Tuesday- Grade 7
• Wednesday- Grade 8

Later this month, we will be hosting a Student Assistance Fund Food Drive. Consider helping us support SMMS families over the holidays. Students who participate could earn cool prizes, and the homeroom with the heaviest donation (weight) will win a pizza party for lunch!

Check out these opportunities our counselors discovered. Reach out to your grade-level counselor with questions.

• Ms. Davis- Grade 6--> tasheena.davis@k12.wv.us

• Ms. Piscitelli --> julianne.piscitelli@k12.wv.us
• Ms. Kantor-Bright --> ebright@k12.wv.us

SMMS offers several opportunities for students to engage in competitive athletics at the middle school level. All students need to have a WVSSAC Physical form on file at the school before you can start. All students must have a 2.0 GPA from last semester.

Boys Basketball

Boys basketball officially begins in the winter. Contact Coach Payton with any questions at noah.payton6@gmail.com for our Varsity Team. Contact Coach Disney at isiah.disney@k12.wv.us with any questions for our JV team.

Girls Basketball

Girls basketball officially begins in the winter, but our teams are holding optional flex/conditioning days. See the dates below. All conditioning dates run from 4:00-5:30 p.m. Contact Coach Coindet with any questions at luz.coindet@k12.wv.us

• 10/27

We welcomed 7th and 8th grade students to surprise Ren Card Rewards events this week: BINGO!

This week, our 8th grade students visited James Rumsey and Blue Ridge to learn about educational opportunities in high school. Thanks to all of our parent chaperones

for their help in making the trip a possibility.

Students in Ms. Detzel's classes worked to figure out proportional relationships with a group.

• October 20- Report Cards Distributed
• October 20-24- Pumpkin Smash Tickets on Sale ($3)
• October 22- Parent-Teacher Conferences
• October 20-November 3- Thanksgiving Food Drive
• October 31- Pumpkin Smash Volleyball Game

Please see the info for our Social Studies Fair this year.