February News

Happy February Everyone!!! We wish everyone a healthy, happy February as we are now two weeks into the 2nd semester. February and March are very consistent months without holidays and a lot of 5 day school weeks. Please help your child stay focused during this time so they can master their grade level content. Consistent schedules and 5 day school weeks are important for helping students make learning gains. All students start fresh when there is a new semester. If your child is struggling, we do offer tutoring on Mondays and Thursdays. Please note for 6th and 7th grade students, the 2nd semester grades are used to determine if students can play fall sports(football, wrestling, basketball, cheer, girls soccer, and girls basketball). Let's have a great 2nd half of the school year!!!

In February, we have an Early Release day Thursday, February 10, and a Teacher Workday on Monday, February 21. February is also the time when we have several Arts Events and also Academic Competitions. More about that is below.

Students interested in ordering yearbooks can follow these steps:

1. Go to www.strawbridge.net and click on Order Pictures and Yearbooks, and enter Code YB105653

2. Enter your name and email, and then click Access Yearbook.

3. Enter student info and then click Submit Details.

4. Select your product and quantity.

YEARBOOK PRICE- $25.00

DEADLINE- April 15, 2022

Online Code is: YB1055653

After the deadline yearbooks are $30.00

The JCMS MathCounts Team won 2nd place in the team competition this past Thursday. Video and Pictures can be seen on the Onslow County Facebook page. Team members pictured above are Front: Max Z., left to right: Patrick W. Coach Pryce, Adam G., Jaeana F., Kevin R., and Hao N. Hao also placed 3rd overall in the individual student competition. Go Knights!!!

All County Band performed Friday, January 28th. The link to their amazing performance can be found here: https://youtu.be/3xyD6i5BnMg. Pictured below are all-county students Gianna C, Mason A., Sean B., Adryan A., Alexandria H., Kevonte B., Chloe H., and Kadyn M.

Sean, Adryan, Alexis, and Chloe will be representing Onslow County in the regional All District Band.

All-County Orchestra is Saturday, February 5th at Jacksonville High School, beginning at 3:30. Please come out and support our awesome string players! And don't forget, Junior Eastern Regionals is around the corner, with auditions due by March 5th. The orchestra thanks you for your support of our string players as they prepare for this prestigious event! Mariah J. is performing the all-county orchestra and is pictured below.

Our cheerleading team represented us extremely well at the end of January at the Cheer Competition and our girls and boys basketball teams were the regular season champs! The JCMS Lady Knights basketball were undefeated this season and won the regular season and tournament championship trophies. Our boys basketball team won the regular season championship trophy. Go Knights!!!

All girls volleyball and boys soccer games will begin at 4 pm. The schedule is below.

Girls Volleyball/Boys Soccer Schedule:

Thursday, 2/24, Trexler at JCMS

Tuesday, 3/1, JCMS at Northwoods Park

Thursday, 3/3, JCMS at Brewster

Tuesday, 3/8, JCMS at Southwest

Thursday, 3/10, JCMS at Hunter's Creek

Tuesday, 3/15, Swansboro at JCMS

Thursday, 3/17, New Bridge at JCMS

Tuesday, 3/22 No Game

Thursday, 3/24, Dixon at JCMS

JCMS Title 1 budget has been used this year for class size reduction, technology needs, classroom and library materials, tutoring, and teacher professional development. We are interested in learning more about serving our students' families more effectively. Please click the link and fill out the survey so we can serve you better: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2oj0MM90xkqfNEBYMyDapDobvozlkyFNvecBTKR-ywVUODVFVTBWWFJWVTZCNU5FVjZDNkFJRE1TMy4u

February

2/4 & 5 All County Orchestra

2/7 & 8 Talent Show Tryouts in Cafeteria

2/8 Science benchmarks for 8th graders

2/9 Progress Reports

2/9 Boys/Girls Basketball HOME vs. Dixon, 4pm

2/10 Early Release for Students at 12 pm

2/14 Volleyball/Boys Soccer Tryouts

2/14-2/18 ACCESS testing

2/18 & 19 All County Chorus

2/21 Teacher Workday

2/24 Volleyball/Boys Soccer HOME vs. Trexler, 4 pm

2/28 Battle of the Books Competition

March

3/1 Volleyball/Boys Soccer AWAY @ NWPMS, 4 pm

3/3 Volleyball/Boys Soccer AWAY @ Brewster, 4 pm

3/4 Progress Reports

3/8 Volleyball/Boys Soccer AWAY @ Southwest, 4 pm

3/10 Volleyball/Boys Soccer AWAY @ Hunters Creek, 4

3/15 Volleyball/Boys Soccer HOME vs. Swansboro, 4 pm

3/17 Spring Pictures

3/17 Volleyball/Boys Soccer HOME vs. New Bridge, 4

3/18 Early Release for Students, 12 pm

3/21 Teacher Workday

3/25 Grades Close for 3rd 9 weeks

3/24 MS Spelling Bee, Regional Skills Center

3/24 Volleyball/Boys Soccer HOME vs. Dixon, 4 pm

3/25 Baseball Tryouts, directly after school

3/31 MS Geography Bee

April

4/1 Talent Show

4/1 Report Cards

4/4 Track Tryouts

4/7 Baseball HOME vs. Trexler, 4 pm

4/11-15 Spring Break

4/18 Teacher Workday

4/21 MS Chess Competition

4/21 Baseball AWAY @ Northwoods Park, 4

4/25 Progress Reports

4/25 Baseball AWAY @ Brewster, 4 pm

4/26 Mini Tri-Meet #1 (location TBD) (SBM, NWP, JCMS)

4/28 Baseball AWAY @ Southwest , 4pm

May

5/2 Baseball AWAY @ Hunters Creek, 4 pm

5/3 Science benchmarks for 8th graders

5/3 Spring Orchestra Concert, Northside HS, 6 pm

5/3 Mini Tri-Meet #2- Northside HS

5/5 Spring Chorus Concert- Northside HS, 6 pm

5/5 Baseball HOME vs. Swansboro, 4 pm

5/9 Baseball HOME vs. New Bridge, 4 pm

5/10 Mini Tri-Meet #3 (location TBD) (JCMS, DMS, NWP)

5/16 Progress Reports

5/16 Baseball HOME vs. Dixon, 4 pm

5/17 Track Conference Championship Meet

5/24 Spring Band Concert, Northside HS, 6 pm

5/24-6/7 NCExtend1 Testing

5/30 Holiday

June

6/1 Math EOG

6/2 ELA EOG

6/3 Science EOG

6/7 Last day for students

Entry into the New Bridge Middle, Clyde Erwin Elementary, Northwoods Elementary, Onslow Virtual Secondary School, and Onslow County Virtual Elementary School are based on a Lottery System.

Information about the Magnet School Lottery Application Process for the 22-23 school year can be obtained at https://www.onslow.k12.nc.us/domain/4039. Magnet school applications are being received beginning February 14th through March 13th. The lottery selection will occur March 15th.

Email: curtis.ehmann@onslow.k12.nc.us
Website: https://www.onslow.k12.nc.us/jacksonvillecommonsms
Location: 315 Commons Drive South, Jacksonville, NC, USA
Phone: (910) 346-6888
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jacksonville-Commons-Middle-School-108182238018950
Twitter: @jcmsknights