7th Grade Weekly News, May 12

With the completion of our Ohio state tests, the year is quickly coming to an end. While the learning process is not ending, there are many fun activities planned for our students.

This is the time of year when students have many emotions as the summer approaches. Please remind your students that school rules still need to be followed. Sometimes, their feelings tend to take over their decision making.

Progress Challenge #2:

This Progress Challenge has been going well, and we have seen a growth in our numbers of students attending school. Thank you parents for getting your students to school each day.

On behalf of the PBIS committee, we are excited to introduce our next Progress Challenge! Starting this Monday, April 15th and going through Monday, May 20th, we will be tracking attendance data for every team. Each week, we will announce grade level winners and award the trophy based upon the highest percentage of students present in school from the previous week. The overall team winners from each grade level will also be awarded a prize to celebrate their achievement once the Progress Challenge is completed.

What We Need From You:

Please have your student(s) prepared and ready to attend school daily unless they are not medically able to do so. We want to end the year strong and attendance is an essential part of education.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Lexi Seiler (Globetrotters) was selected by JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) in January to be one of their Youth Ambassadors for 2024. The JDRF Youth Ambassador program was created for children and teens living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who are interested in becoming involved with the educational, fundraising, and volunteer efforts of their local JDRF community. On April 26th, Lexi participated as both a youth ambassador and volunteer at the 2024 JDRF Cleveland Promise Ball, hosted at Cleveland Browns stadium, which raised over $600,000 to support research in finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

Lexi was diagnosed with T1D in February of 2023, while we happened to be on break for a long weekend. To say this was shocking news would be an understatement, but during the initial few hours of being diagnosed, Lexi jumped in to researching the disease and doing all she could to learn about her new normal. Over the course of the next few weeks, JDRF reached out with valuable information and a community of support. We knew right away, that dedicating ourselves to the organization that was doing all they could to advance life-changing breakthroughs for those with T1D, and ultimately working to find a cure was one of the most important steps on Lexi's journey. Becoming a youth ambassador, was just another stepping stone. Lexi will be once again be walking for a cure during the JDRF One Walk in October. Last year, Lexi's team CARB-o-RAE-tors raised over $8,000 to support JDRF, and is hoping to break our goal of $10,000 this year. Anyone interested in joining her team can get more information here - Lexi Seiler - Team CARB-o-RAE-tors - JDRF One Walk

Erika's Lighthouse: Resources for Families

Good mental health starts at home.

Family Workbook One: We All Have Mental Health: English | Spanish

Learn how you can start conversations, promote good mental health and find easy-to-use tools.

Family Workshop I: We All Have Mental Health: English | Spanish
Understand the basics of mental health, the Erika’s Lighthouse program, and how to support your child.

Email: spietrocini@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-268-5666

Celia Joyce, LISW

Email: cjoyce@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-268-5588

Starting next week, we will be featuring one student from each team that exemplifies positive behavior at SMS. We continue to support students focusing on the pillars of our Model Mustang.

INNOVATIVE

RESILIENT

COLLABORATIVE

GLOBAL

EMPOWERED

These students are well on their way to becoming Model Mustangs and are making a difference at SMS.

Open House Slideshow

A couple key points from the slide show:

Detentions

• No longer after school
• Will be served at 7:00 am and students need to report at that time to the main office
• If a detention is not served, they will be give a Saturday detention
• Saturday detentions will be held at the high school for 2 hours

Progressive Discipline for minor behaviors

• Students can receive 3 detentions then they will be issued a Saturday Detention
• Then students can receive 3 Saturday Detentions then they will be issued In-School Suspension
• Then students can receive 3 In-School Suspensions before out of school suspensions will be issued

**This does not include major behaviors according to the hand book.

Please access our handbook HERE . It is also available on the website. Students and parents should review this together. Students will also review this with staff as well the first week of school.

Email: chowell@scsmustangs.org
Phone: 440-470-7077