
Knighthawk Family News
Pleasant Knoll Middle School - October 2021
We are THOUGHTFUL - EMPOWERED - CONNECTED. We are PLEASANT KNOLL!
6th Grade Science: Rube Goldberg Designs
Beta Club: Santa for Seniors
Football Team: Playoff Game
Important Dates
Nov. 8th - Basketball Team Parent Meeting
Nov. 10th - Booster Club Meeting @ 5 pm
Nov. 16th - School Board Meeting
Nov. 18th - KONA Ice
Nov. 23rd - 8th Grade Job Shadowing Day
Nov. 24th - 26th - Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 29th - Basketball vs. SMS (Boys Home/Girls Away)
Nov. 30th - Makeup Picture Day
Every Wednesday morning from 7:10 am - 7:45 am.
Mrs. Hustedt will work with any student that needs extra help.
Students should enter into the front office doors and bring their work.
PKMS Top Knighthawk Teacher of the Month!
Nurse News
Handwashing
How can YOU help prevent the spread of infections? Hand washing is the most important thing you can do to stay healthy and prevent the spread of illness. Parents play an important role in teaching children to wash their hands. Handwashing can become a lifelong healthy habit if you start teaching it at an early age. Teach kids the five easy steps for handwashing—wet, lather, scrub, rinse and dry. Please make sure your children wash their hands before meals, after using the restroom, and if hands are visibly greasy or dirty. Washing with soap and running water is the best way to reduce the number of germs on hands in most situations. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
Handwashing with soap removes germs from hands. This helps prevent infections because:
- People frequently touch their eyes, nose, and mouth without even realizing it. Germs can get into the body through the eyes, nose and mouth and make us sick.
- Germs from unwashed hands can get into foods and drinks while people prepare or consume them. Germs can multiply in some types of foods or drinks, under certain conditions, and make people sick.
- Germs from unwashed hands can be transferred to another person’s hands by touching objects such as door handles, tabletops, and other high contact areas.
- Removing germs through handwashing, therefore, helps prevent diarrhea and respiratory infections and may even help prevent skin and eye infections.
Other recommended prevention and control measures for families include:
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or upper sleeve when coughing or sneezing. Place tissue in a trash receptacle and wash your hands after use.
- Avoid close contact will ill people. Stay home when experiencing flu-like illness until free from fever for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicine.
- Routinely clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs, tables, desks, computer keyboards, handrails, remote controls, etc.
Attention 8th Grade Families!
8th Grade Thanksgiving Community Service Project
The 8th grade team is collecting items to prepare three boxes of Thanksgiving meals for the Charlotte Rescue Mission. They will distribute the boxes to those in need, and the need this year is great. Please consider a donation to this worthy cause. Link to the Sign Up Genius is below. For more information on the Charlotte Rescue Mission click here or email Mrs. O’Brien at obriena@fortmillschools.org .
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D4CADAD2DA5F49-thanksgiving
Thank you!
Knighthawks Give Back!
Pleasant Knoll has a new club called Knighthawks Give Back. This club will be using the Coca-Cola Give program as its fundraiser. When you make Coca-Cola purchases, you simply enter the product codes here: coke.com/give/schools and our school receives a donation. The codes are printed on the inside of bottle caps and the cardboard on 12-packs (any Coke product). If you would like to send the codes in with your student, the club members will enter the codes for you. Just send to your child’s homeroom teacher and we will take care of the rest. All donations will be used to give back to our community. Thank you for your support!
Thankful for our Knighthawk Teachers
Discus is pleased to announce extended tutoring hours in Tutor.com.
Beginning immediately, real time tutoring is available from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. Sunday – Saturday for English and Spanish speakers with no appointment needed!
This service is available for all South Carolina residents of all ages.
Click here to access Tutor.com
Tutor.com offers:
- Math assistance Algebra I & II, Pre-calculus and Calculus, Geometry,
- SAT, PSAT, ACT, and AP test prep
- Grammar, literature, and vocabulary assistance
- Biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics assistance
- Writing tutors
- Computer literacy
- ESL and ELL
- French, German, Spanish, and Italian tutors
- Reading assistance for all grades
With cold weather coming our way, we encourage all students to keep a jacket in their lockers for blacktop time.
PKMS Athletic Booster Club
Congrats to the football, cheer, and dance teams on a fun fall season. We will have a meeting on Wednesday, November 10th at 5pm in the Learning Commons. All parents are invited and encouraged to attend. We will be planning the school dodgeball tournament for December, as well as planning for the upcoming winter sports season.
Rhett Eckhardt
Knighthawk Club President
Go Knighthawks!
Purchasing PKMS athletic tickets
PKMS PTO
AUCTION ITEMS REQUESTED
We cordially invite you to join our Pleasant Knoll Middle School community in participating in the first PKMS PTO Winter Cyberauction from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, 2021.
This event will raise funds to benefit the middle school’s teachers, staff and students throughout the 2021-22 school year. Our goal is to raise enough money to hold teacher appreciation events, support the school’s One Book One School program and other annual needs.
We hope that you will consider donating an auction item, gift certificate or gift basket to our silent auction. We will also accept cash donations. As a donor, you will receive publicity before and during the event to our Fort Mill audience, which includes the families of more than 925 students and 90 teachers and staff members.
Please submit your donation to pleasantknollmspto@gmail.com no later than Nov. 12, 2021, to ensure proper recognition at the auction.
Visitors and Lunch Drop Off
- Parents will NOT be permitted to drop off lunches or other items. School lunch is being provided free of charge to ALL students.
- No visitors will be allowed at this time.
Parent Communication
We would like to keep all of our parents informed of upcoming events, classroom news, and school news. Please use the PKMS website, http://pkms.fortmillschools.org/. It should be a primary source of communication for our families. Please also use our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages for information as well.
Twitter - @PK_Knighthawks
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PKMSKnighthawks/
Instagram - pleasantknollmiddleschool
Counselor Assignments
H - N - Tia Ellam: ellamk@fortmillschools.org
O - Z - Margaret Causey: causeym@fortmillschools.org
PTO: Kona Ice Fundraiser
Mrs. Toms' Class: Wind Turbines
Spanish: Dia de los Muertos
Pleasant Knoll Middle School
Email: zeppelink@fortmillschools.org
Website: http://pkms.fortmillschools.org/
Location: 2320 Pleasant Road, Fort Mill, SC, United States
Phone: 803-835-3770
Facebook: facebook.com/PKMSKnighthawks/
Twitter: @PK_Knighthawks