UCMS Announcements

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We are excited to announce that our office is officially open! After a summer of renovations, we have moved into our newly updated space. To ensure the safety of all students and staff, all visitors and guests will now be buzzed into the front office to sign in before proceeding. Ms. Dare and Ms. Lindsey are ready to assist you with anything you may need.

💻 Chromebooks!

Most all students should have their chromebooks now. If you don't have one, or if there is an issue, please let us know in the office. Develop good habits of charging them overnight!

👗 Dress Code!

We will be enforcing dress code next week, please be aware of the following guidelines:

• Shorts need to be fingertip length (Boys and Girls)
• Shoulder straps need to be 3 inches across
• No midriffs
• Pants need to be up around your waist (no sagging)
• No vulgar language

Please check your students lunch account!

At the middle school, we offer snacks as an additional purchase. If students are burning through their lunch money extra quick, please speak with them and come up with a snack limit that fits with your expectations.

Carter's Class Update

anita.carter@uc.k12.in.us

458-7438 Ext. 2178

6th Grade Science/HA Science:

We had a great first week of school! We have been and will continue to become familiar with classroom procedures and expectations. Our activities have focused on the learning objective: I can observe, explain relationships, and predict. Most students have had supplies, but just a reminder that they need a five subject notebook for my classroom. Just a reminder, parents should be checking and signing planners for one more week. Thanks for sharing your kiddos with me this year! Please contact me via phone or email if you have any questions or concerns!

6th Grade Computer Science:

I'm excited to have some of my students for two or three different classes! We will be using code.org daily in computer science this year. This curriculum has both hands-on activities, as well as, activities on the code.org website. By next week, your child should be able to log in and show you what they are working on. Students will be required to journal daily, so having paper/notebook is needed. Our first unit is Intro to Problem Solving.

7th Grade HA Science:

I'm so glad to see some familiar faces for Science again this year! Be looking for the syllabus for my class to be coming home next week. We kicked off the year with activities designed to support the objective:I can obtain, evaluate, and communicate information.(SEP 8). We will review scientific method, lab safety, and lab procedures before moving on to our first "official" topic, Forces and Motion. Please contact me via phone or email if you have any questions or concerns!

Hoover's Class Update

haley.hoover@uc.k12.in.us

Mrs.Hoover 7 Science / Biology / Environmental

All students are starting off the year learning and practicing classroom procedures! We are writing in our planners every day so please check out your student's planner for information on what they did in science! Next week all students will be sent home with a lab safety paper that must be signed by an adult and returned to school. Please ask your student about this and make sure it is returned to me promptly. The lab safety paper will be due on August 14!

Severance Class Update

tonia.severance@uc.k12.in.us

Miss Severance:

HALA 7 - EIGHTH Grade ELA - ELA 9 -- Welcome back, Everyone! Students in ALL classes need to have their composition notebooks here by Tuesday so that we can get them set up and ready to use for the year. We will begin our first unit on elements of fiction next week and start with short stories in all classes.

Shroyer Class Update

richard.shroyer@uc.k12.in.us

Mr. Shroyer

STEM Class - We will begin our year looking at microbiomes and how little critters are growing all around us. We will also use SCRATCH to learn to code some fun things simulating these little critters. All students need is a composition notebook and their chromebook.

6th Math - We will begin with what math is and why it is important. We will also look at ways to solve problems and how math can help. The first week will be about finding what we are good at and what we are not as good at yet. Students need two composition notebooks and their math folder. We will also get in the habit of using our planner each day.

Reporting Student Absences (Number To Call For An Absence 765-458-7438) All absences must be reported by the parent or guardian. Absences may be reported by phone, voice mail, electronic transmission, or written note. If a phone call or voice mail or e-mail report is not received by 9:00 a.m., when possible an attempt will be made by the school to contact the home of the missing student to verify their absence. E-mails may be sent to Ms. Dare @ emily.dare@uc.k12.in.us. Should the school have to make this contact because the parent did not call, the absence will be considered unexcused. An absence reported by phone or voice mail needs to include a specific explanation for the reason for the absence. Any absence reported by electronic transmission or written note should be received by school personnel no later than the date the student returns from the absence and is also expected to include a specific explanation for the reason for the absence.

• Please check out the UCMS calendar link on the UCMS home page. This is a great tool to stay up to date on school events and all information pertaining to them.
• Dress Code Guidelines are found on page 26 & 27 of our handbook. When in doubt, rule it out!

• The care of your Chromebook is very important. Please reference UCMS handbook on page 31 & 32. Students and their parents/guardians may be responsible for compensating UCCCJSD for any costs due to loss, theft, damage or neglect of any UCCCJSD computer, laptop, or mobile device issued to or used by the student. Students may recieve a consequence for a violation of UCCCJSD policies, procedures, and rules while using any UCCCJSD computer, laptop, or mobile device.

Please make sure you are able to access your PowerSchool parent portal!

PowerSchool Parent Portal

• Parents will need to create a PowerSchool account the first time they access the Portal.
• The PowerSchool/School Messenger portal is also how parents can set their alert preferences for School Closings and Delays.
• Mobile apps are available for Parents Students on Android and iOS devices (App is called PowerSchool Mobile)
• They require the District Code: SCNZ
• Info about PowerSchool Mobile App
  
• PowerSchool company Parent and Student Help Page

Dear Parent or guardian,

Washington D.C. registration is still ACTIVE and we are looking for more students to join our trip planned for the Spring of 2026. We are encouraging all current 8th grade students to a attend this trip, as there are educational activities being planned alongside the trip.

Since we are hopeful to get the majority (if not all) of the students on this trip, we have been setting up different fundraising opportunities to make the trip more affordable for all families. In addition, ONE parent/guardian is allowed to accompany a student on this trip, but will be expected to pay the same amount as their child to attend the trip. If you would like to attend this trip or still need to register your child, you will need to go the hemisphere website to register and pay a deposit or fill out the paper forms and send cash/check deposit into the school to be given to Mrs. Seibert.

If you were to have any questions during the registration process, please contact Mrs. Seibert at allison.seibert@uc.k12.in.us