STINGRAY NEWS

Each week, as part of our PBIS program, a student in each grade level is nominated for the Student of the Week. Students may be recognized for displaying one or more of the six Pillars of Character Counts, or the GRMS Expectations of Growth, Respect, Mindfullness, Safety.

Our YRD (Youth Resource Deputy), Deputy Gomez, is recognizing an outstanding student each month. Staff will provide nominations from which he will choose one student to recognize on the last of each month. Students will receive a certificate, picture with Deputy Gomez, a YRD coin, a SJSO uniform patch, a $10 gift card, and 5 PBIS tickets. Our first Student of the Month is 8th grader Acacia Miller. Congratulations to Acacia and her family!

The first progress monitoring session for FAST (PM1) begins on Monday. Please see the schedule below as well as the letter attached. Thank you for getting your student to school on-time. This is always important, even more so when these testing sessions are occurring as it can be a disruption to everyone if entering the room after testing has begun.

Monday and Tuesday, September 8th and 9th – 8th grade

Thursday and Friday, September 11th and 12th – 7th grade

Monday and Tuesday, September 15th and 16th – 6th grade

Our Media Center Specialist, Mrs. Bohanan, put together a cool lesson for students as they learn more about the library. See below, as well as some pictures that follow. Thank you Mrs. Bohanan!

Over the past two weeks ELA classes have been coming to the media center for library orientation. They learned about resources available, book check out policies, and participated in a scavenger hunt to learn about the various sections of the library. Students worked in teams to answer questions about the library, and the winning group in each class got to spin the prize wheel!

Help support the entire student body at GRMS by participating in our schoolwide Charleston Wrap fundraiser. Proceeds will go towards our PBiS program to reward students as they show the qualities of the Character Counts! Pillars and G – Growth, R – Respect, M – Mindful, S – Safety (PBIS Schoolwide Expectations). We have weekly and quarterly activities, field days, and other activities throughout the year. We also have drawings at the end of each quarter where students having earned and submitted their tickets are eligible for higher priced rewards. We earned a little short of $3000 last year and only a small percentage of students participated. Our goal is $6000 this year. We appreciate your support but please only purchase things you would use and comfortably within your discretionary budget. Attached are letters on how to participate as well as incentives for students. Below is also an update on how we are progressing towards our goal.

September 8 thru 16: FAST PM1 (More info in this newsletter)

September 16: Home Volleyball vs LMS - 5:30 Girls with Boys to follow; $4 entry fee

September 18 (change from the 25th): SAC (School Advisory Committee, more info soon) GRMS Library at 3:15 pm

September 18: Home Volleyball vs SMS

September 19: Professional Learnign Day - No School for students

Everyone should have received information regarding the new communiction tool, Parent Square.

This will enhance the ability for all stakeholders to connect.

This newsletter is still be created using Smore and shared via School Messenger. However, this will be changing in the near future as yours truly has more time to get comfortable with the new resource. Below are introductory flyers that will help you get started, in both English and Spanish.

The mission of Gamble Rogers Middle School is to support the development of positive character and academic achievement that meet the unique needs of each student.

Office hours are Monday thru Friday, 7:00 am - 2:50 pm.

If you call and get the machine, please leave a message. There are times when the receptionist is on the line and unable to answer. Thank you for your patience.

There have been a few issues with bus transportation to start the year, but very few. If you have not yet logged into Bus Planner, please download the App and follow the directions. The link below will give you a step-by-step.

https://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BusPlanner-User-Guide.pdf

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GRMS has a new Facebook page: GRMS Facebook