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Winter Concert Preview Assembly--Friday, December 2 (during school day)

CB South/CB West Fill the Bus Event to Support CB Farmer's Market--Saturday, December 3 (details below)

Tamanend Gift Card Drive to Support Tamanend Families--on-going until Winter Break (details below)

Winter Concert #1--Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 PM (details below)

Kindness Assembly--Wednesday, December 7 (during school day) (details below)

Kindness Assembly Parent Presentation--Wednesday, December 7 at 6:30 PM at Tohickon Middle School (details below)

CB Farmers Market at Barclay Elementary School--Thursday, December 8 at 4:30 (details below)

Winter Concert #2--Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 PM (details below)

Holiday Dance--Friday, December 9 at 7:30 PM

Monday, December 5

• No contests

Tuesday, December 6

• 8th Grade Girls Basketball @ Holland (Away; 3:30); bus leaves at 1:15

Wednesday, December 7

• 7th Grade Girls Basketball vs. Lenape (Home; 3:15)

Thursday, December 8

• 8th Grade Girls Basketball @ New Hope-Solebury (Away; 3:30); bus leaves at 1:15

Friday, December 9

• No contests

INFORMATION:

• Family ID opened for Winter sports registration on October 1st. This includes Girls Basketball, Wrestling, and Boys Basketball. All 7th and 8th Grade students interested in playing a Winter sport for Tamanend this year must be registered on the Family ID web site. Please click HERE for detailed information, deadlines, and requirements.
• The deadline for BOYS BASKETBALL registration is 8:00am on Thursday, January 5th. If your child is not registered by those times, you will not receive important concussion information that will only be sent to those who are registered.
• All student-athletes must have completed PIAA physicals (if playing their first sport of the school year) OR PIAA Recertification (if they played a Fall sport) uploaded to Family ID prior to the start of the Winter sports season. The PIAA physical forms can be found HERE. The PIAA Recertification form can be found HERE. Additional items are outlined and explained on the Tamanend Athletics web page.
• Tryouts/Practices will begin on the following dates:
• Boys Basketball: January 9th

· Please see below for CB South ice hockey information.

· If you and would like to receive immediate updates on game schedules, cancellations, etc., visit Tamanend Athletics web page and become a “fan” to get alerts for your child’s team.

FROM CB SOUTH:

• CB South Boys Basketball tryouts will be at the following dates/times for current freshmen: Friday, Nov. 18 from 5:30 - 7pm in the Aux Gym; Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10:30 - 12pm in the Aux Gym; Sunday, Nov. 20 from 10-11:30am in the Aux Gym.

• All students attending games at CB South from now on must present their student ID when purchasing tickets/entering gates. Students will not be sold tickets or allowed inside the gates without their IDs.
• Please see below for CB South ice hockey information.

We hope that everyone will continue to support our athletic teams during the fall season. CB South prides itself on good sportsmanship on the part of players and fans alike. Please keep the following in mind as you cheer for our teams this season:

1. Middle school aged students must be accompanied by a parent.
2. The use of profanity and vulgarity is unacceptable at athletic events. Please do not engage in inappropriate or demeaning chants during games. Students who do not comply with this expectation will be ejected from the games and will face disciplinary consequences. Let’s focus on supporting our team, not degrading the opposing school.
3. Entering/Rushing the athletes’ area of play is prohibited and dangerous to security, teachers, spectators, and the athletes.
4. Students are not permitted to bring purses, draw string bags, backpacks, food, or beverages to any athletic event in the Fall season.
5. Students are prohibited from trespassing on the property of any school in the Central Bucks School District or on any property in any other school district. Damaging school property or engaging in any other activity that inconveniences the other school’s staff is strictly prohibited and will be considered vandalism, resulting in disciplinary and legal consequences. Please do not jeopardize your good standing by engaging in this type of unacceptable behavior.
6. All Central Bucks School District and Central Bucks High School South’s polices apply to students at athletic events. Please be advised that coming to an athletic event under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance is not only extremely dangerous, but also violates School Board Policy 227. If a student chooses to attend a CB South athletic event while under the influence, law enforcement will be notified and a 5-day suspension will be imposed.

CB South’s Administration respectfully requests that parents monitor their child’s whereabouts and actions before athletic events at CB South. Please be aware of your child’s plans before the event, how they will safely get to the event, and how they will safely arrive home from the event.

We hope that you continue to show your enthusiasm and school spirit as we enter the fall athletic season. The Faculty and Administration at CB South has always considered your ability to support our teams in a positive and respectful manner as one of our key points of pride. Please join your classmates in continuing this proud tradition.

The Tamanend Music Department is excited for our upcoming Winter Concerts! Both Concerts are free to the public. Here is specific information regarding our two-night event.

Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 PM: String Ensemble, Gold‘n’Blues, 7th Gr. Orchestra, 9th Gr. Band, 8th Gr. Chorus, 8th Gr. Orchestra, 7th Gr. Band, 9th Gr. Orchestra

Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 PM: Chieftain Chorus, Barbershop Ensemble, 8th Gr. Band, 7th Gr. Chorus, Sym. Swing Ensemble, 9th Gr. Chorus

Concert Attire for Performers:

7th Chorus / 7th Band: ANY COLOR: button-down shirt, tie, & dress pants OR dress OR dressy shirt with skirt/dressy pants OR jumpsuit. Dressy shoes

8th Chorus / 9th Chorus: BLACK: button-down shirt, dress pants, tie (any color) OR BLACK dress OR dressy shirt/skirt or dressy pants OR jumpsuit. BLACK dress shoes with BLACK socks (if appropriate).

Chieftain Chorus / Gold’n’Blues: BLACK: button-down shirt (GnB with a pocket!), dress pants, shoes, socks (if appropriate), and provided ensemble accessories

8th Grade Band / 9th Grade Band / Swing Ensemble: BLACK: button-down shirt, dress pants, shoes, and socks (if appropriate). ANY COLOR tie.

All Orchestras: BLACK: button-down shirt, dress pants, shoes, and socks (if appropriate)

On December 7, we will hold an assembly about encouraging our students to be kind and to take care of each other in our school community. Our guest speaker will be Reggie Dabbs from the Youth Alliance. We will follow up the assembly with a discussion and activity in Advisory on Friday. To learn more about the presenter, please click here. In addition, there will be a follow-up presentation for parents on the evening of December 7 at 6:30 pm at Tohickon Middle School. This presentation is open to all CB middle school parents. The parent presentation will be livestreamed at the following at this link for those who cannot attend in person. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s guidance counselor.

Join us on Thursdays during Tiger’s i in the Library for games of strategy, critical thinking, problem-solving, and a little luck. Choose from Catan, Pandemic, Azul, The Quest for Eldorado, Chess, escape room games, and 1000-piece puzzles! A reminder that students must be in good academic standing (good grades, not make-up work) in order to attend enrichment activities during Tiger’s i. Please email Mrs. Walter at twalterveverka@cbsd.org to sign up.

This December 2nd and 3rd, CB South Titan Thespians present “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a zany adventure that is the prequel to the beloved family show “Peter Pan.” You can visit www.cbsd.org/starcatcher to go directly to our ticketing site.

At Tamanend, we are thankful to live in a caring and generous community. There are many opportunities to help families in our school and the community at-large this holiday season. Two are highlighted in this section of the newsletter:

Tamanend Gift Card Drive to Support Tamanend Families

CB South / CB West Fill the Bus Event to Support CB Farmer's Market--Saturday, December 3 at Giant in Warrington

Tamanend is committed to ensuring that every child has a positive experience at our school. We work hard to ensure that we have financial supports in place for families in need. Please be aware that we can help with the following resources:

• Food--pantry with healthy snacks and personal care items available all day outside of Guidance; meals to take home (students and/or parents and guardians can contact Mrs. Consoletti in the Guidance Office or Mrs. Myrtetus in the Health Office); weekend food packages to take home (students and/or parents and guardians can contact Mrs. Consoletti in the Guidance Office or Mrs. Myrtetus in the Health Office)
• Clothing
• Internet access
• Field trips, school supplies, fees
• Holiday gifts

If your family experiences a financial hardship, please feel free to email one of the staff members below so that we may help:

Brian Caughie (Principal) bcaughie@cbsd.org

Kyle Dudley (Assistant Principal) kdudley@cbsd.org

Lauren Myrtetus (Certified School Nurse) lmyrtetus@cbsd.org

Jeff Klein (Guidance Counselor and Athletic Director) jklein@cbsd.org

Mandy Cammann (Guidance Counselor) mcammann@cbsd.org

Andrea Consoletti (Guidance Secretary) aconsoletti@cbsd.org

If you would like to help us provide assistance for the holidays (Thanksgiving and winter holidays) to our families at Tamanend, please consider donating a gift card. Gift cards may be dropped off in the Main Office to the attention of our certified school nurse Mrs. Lauren Myrtetus. Any gift card is much appreciated, but we are especially in need of gift cards to retailers that sell both groceries and other items (i.e. Target, Walmart, etc.). If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Lauren Myrtetus a lmyrtetus@cbsd.org. Thank you for helping brighten the holiday season for families in our school.

Do you know a person or a family that could use a free meal? Meals are provided for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and occasionally some non-holidays. All meals must be picked up at Saint Robert Bellarmine’s hall, 856 Euclid Ave in Warrington on the designated day. Click here to fill out the request form.

UPCOMING HOLIDAY MEALS:

THANKSGIVING 2022:
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
PICKUP 2-6 PM

CHRISTMAS 2022
Friday, December 23, 2022
PICKUP 2-6 PM

Students interested in learning more about MBIT are welcome to visit/tour MBIT on Tuesday, December 6th. The bus will leave Tamanend at 11:45 and return at 1:45. Students attending this field trip are responsible for all missed work. In order to attend, students must take care of two (2) mandatory items: submitting a signed permission slip (available in the guidance office) by 8:00am on Monday, December 5th AND completing this Form so that students can be accurately grouped for tours.

On Wednesday, 11/16 we kicked off our NJHS holiday food drive to support the Farmer’s Market. We collected over 50 boxes of food and over $600 to purchase baby diapers for families in the community.

The Tamanend Middle School yearbook advisors have opened a website to upload 9th Grade baby pictures for the 2022-2023 yearbook. We are inviting you to include a photo memento in your child’s school yearbook that he or she will have as a special reminder in their last year at Tamanend. Submitting your child’s baby picture is a great way to honor your child in the yearbook at this special time in their life. The cost is $5. If you would like to participate in this optional yearbook addition, please download the submission directions and order form here. All picture submissions/uploads and payment must be received no later than Thursday December 22nd. Please know that yearbooks are unfortunately not free to 9th graders. If your child would like a yearbook in June, one must be ordered one the Jostens site, here. If you have questions, please contact Mrs. Gerth at kgerth@cbsd.org.

Wind’s in the East, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewin’ and ‘bout to begin! Why yes, there IS something brewin’ at Tamanend! The countdown to opening weekend has officially started as Tamanend Players enthusiastically rehearsed the opening scenes of Mary Poppins this past Tuesday.

If you order online prior to January 31, 2022 the cost of the full-color, hardback yearbook is available for $40 (plus tax). This is also the deadline if you’d like to add any additional personalization to your child’s yearbook. The price of the yearbook will increase to $45 (plus tax) from February 1st- April 30th. After this April 30th date, we unfortunately cannot guarantee your child will be able to purchase a yearbook at the end of the year. Please click the link here to take you to Jostens online ordering page for Tamanend. No pre-orders will be accepted in school – all orders must be done through Jostens. If you have any questions, please email Kristen Gerth at kgerth@cbsd.org. If you have a financial concern, please contact our school social worker Mrs. Raquel Riad rriad@cbsd.org .

If you are a Tamanend parent/guardian interested in volunteering at Tamanend this year, please click on link below to our Sign Up Genius--https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0849AFA62CA4FB6-parent Our first volunteer opportunity will start next week. Please review the volunteer requirements below before signing up. Thank you for your support!

Pennsylvania law requires all persons having direct contact with school children to obtain background checks and clearances. If you are planning on volunteer in in a Central Bucks school during the 2022-2023 school year, you will need to go to Volunteer Required Paperwork, and complete what is needed to be an approved volunteer in our school. Thank you!

We received a donation of brand new backpacks. If you would like one for your child, please email one of the following staff members and we will set one aside for you:

Brian Caughie, Principal bcaughie@cbsd.org

Patti Hartz, Secretary phartz@cbsd.org

Andrea Consoletti, Student Service Secretary aconsoletti@cbsd.org

Tamanend Middle School empowers students to grow academically, socially and emotionally. Students, staff, and families work collaboratively to model the acronym ROAR.

Respect yourself, others, and property.

Own your behaviors.

Act appropriately.

Remember Kindness.

We believe that a caring, positive school culture and learning environment foster respectful, thoughtful, appropriate, and kind citizens.

In order to operationalize our mission, Tamanend utilizes a school-wide positive behavioral intervention and support plan (SWPBIS). This plan helps us establish a social culture in which students expect and support appropriate behavior from one another— creating school environments that are socially predictable, consistent, safe, and positive. This helps to reduce problem behaviors that lead to office discipline referrals and suspensions, and to change perceptions of school safety.

A reminder that in order to attend school, students need to be fever free for 24 hours without medication. A fever is considered 100.4 or higher.

Families can access the online application for Free & Reduced Meals by clicking here. The application must be submitted each year.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

CBSD is currently accepting applications for Free & Reduced Lunch. Students who qualify for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program may also qualify for a variety of needs-based assistance based on their program eligibility. Federal law requires the family’s consent before Central Bucks School District can use or share eligibility status for purposes other than the provision of free or reduced lunch. This information will only be shared if you consent to help provide needs-based assistance to your student that may be beneficial to your family. Your decision to share or not share this information will not in any way affect your eligibility status for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program; it is completely optional.

If your student(s) qualifies for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program, you will receive a notification of a document that needs your attention in the Parent Portal. The Free/Reduced Lunch Information Sharing Consent Form requests permission to use the eligibility status to qualify for various needs-based assistance and programming. You may consent for all areas listed below, decline consent to all areas, or provide partial consent. See the link below for instructions to complete this consent form.

Free/Reduced Lunch Information Sharing Consent Form Instructions

Best wishes for a wonderful start to the school year.

For supervision and safety reasons, students may not be dropped off at school before 7:10 a.m. If you are driving your student to school and arrive before 7:10, please remain in your car with your student until 7:10 a.m.

Students are not required to purchase a CBSD issued physical education uniform; however, students will be required to change into athletic attire and sneakers to participate safely and practice good hygiene. Student attire must adhere to the dress code guidelines presented in the student handbook. CB locks will still be required to purchase to ensure personal items are secured in a locker. Locks are available for purchase on MyPaymentsPlus.

If parents/guardians decide to drive students to school, please plan enough travel time to allow for safety and congestion on Stuckert Road and in our school parking lot. The speed limit in our lot is 15 mph.

Below is a map of how the student drop-off will work in our parking lot. Drop off should only happen along the sidewalk in the front parking lot up to the Main Entrance, as indicated by the yellow highlighted area on the map. For your safety and the safety of our students, please follow these directions and do not drop your student off on Stuckert Road, the Visitor's Parking area, or in the middle of the Main Parking Area.

When dropping off your child, please remember that you should MAKE A RIGHT-HAND TURN INTO/OUT OF THE PARKING LOT. Please stay to the right of the parking lot, along the sidewalk, all the way up to the Stop Sign across from the Tennis Courts. Pull up as far as you can when the cars in front of you clear, and let your child out on the sidewalk. PLEASE STAY IN A SINGLE-FILE LINE WHILE IN THE PARKING LOT.

When picking up your child, please remember that YOU SHOULD ONLY MAKE A RIGHT-HAND TURN INTO THE PARKING LOT. The line of traffic will extend back toward the baseball field (Kelly Rd.). Please stay in the line of traffic and continue moving up as the car(s) in front of you move up. If we follow this procedure, all cars we be gone by 2:40.

When the weather is poor (heavy rain, low temperatures, etc.), more and more parents/guardians choose to drive their children to school. A reminder that students are expected to be in their 1st Period classes by 7:30 AM. If a child is late to school because of CBSD transportation, their tardiness will be excused. If a student is late to school because of car trouble, over-sleeping, or they are in the car drop-off line, their tardiness is unexcused. Typically, there are few cars in the drop off line from when the doors open at 7:10 until about 7:20. After 7:20, the line begins to get very long.

If you drive your child to school and the weather is poor, please consider leaving home earlier so that your child arrives to class on time.

Thanks for your assistance!

The regular school day is from 7:30--2:30.

7:10: Students may be dropped off at Tamanend.

7:10--7:20*: 7th Graders wait in the Auditorium; 8th Graders wait in the Cafeteria; 9th Graders wait in Main Gym

7:20: Classrooms open to students

7:27: Reminder bell rings

7:30: First period classes begin

*Breakfast is available to students in all grades beginning at 7:10 in the Cafeteria.

Last year, CB middle schools began running a weekly intervention and enrichment period. The purpose of this period is to provide time, space, and support for students to receive help from a teacher, to participate in enrichment activities, and to prepare for upcoming assessments and projects. At Tamanend, we called this time Tiger's i. For the 2022-2023 school year, our middle schools will be expanding this from a weekly program to a daily program. Students' Tiger's i groups will meet during the I & E block on their schedule.

You may report your child's absence in any of the following ways:

• Phone (Attendance hotline): 267-893-2920
• Written note to be turned in to Main Office
• Through Portal. Click here to learn how to report student absences through Portal.
  

Tamanend is committed to ensuring that every child has a positive experience at our school. We work hard to ensure that we have financial supports in place for families in need. Please be aware that we can help with the following resources:

• Food--pantry with healthy snacks and personal care items available all day outside of Guidance; meals to take home (students and/or parents and guardians can contact Mrs. Consoletti in the Guidance Office or Mrs. Myrtetus in the Health Office); weekend food packages to take home (students and/or parents and guardians can contact Mrs. Consoletti in the Guidance Office or Mrs. Myrtetus in the Health Office)
• Clothing
• Internet access
• Field trips, school supplies, fees
• Holiday gifts

If your family experiences a financial hardship, please feel free to email one of the staff members below so that we may help:

Brian Caughie (Principal) bcaughie@cbsd.org

Kyle Dudley (Assistant Principal) kdudley@cbsd.org

Lauren Myrtetus (Certified School Nurse) lmyrtetus@cbsd.org

Jeff Klein (Guidance Counselor and Athletic Director) jklein@cbsd.org

Mandy Cammann (Guidance Counselor) mcammann@cbsd.org

Andrea Consoletti (Guidance Secretary) aconsoletti@cbsd.org

Please click on the link below to learn about food assistance for families in Central Bucks:

https://vimeo.com/748146211 (English version)

https://vimeo.com/748143109 (versión en español)

Any Central Bucks family who may need a little extra food assistance is welcome to join on us at Barclay Elementary School. Our 2022-23 drive-up food distribution runs from 4:30 to 5:30 PM on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. We generally have free dry goods, fresh produce, milk, eggs, and bread, and often have some frozen meat and poultry. At each event we pass out an average of 10,000 pounds of food. No advanced sign-up is necessary. We kindly ask that you do not line up before 4:30 so as not to interfere with our student dismissal, and that you do not block our neighbors’ driveways. If you do line up during our student dismissal, you will be kindly asked to leave. Also, do not pull forward until you are certain that you have enough room and will not block someone’s driveway. Our neighbors are very understanding and supportive of our work, but also need to come and go during our events.

Here is a list of ways Tamanend communicates with students, families, and the community:

• Tamanend website: includes important information, resources, calendar of school events, and daily announcements
• Calendar of school events (posted on our website)
• Daily announcements (Posted each school day morning on our website and in Canvas. Look for the “Tamanend Announcements” course. Students will self-enroll in this course during the first week of school.
  
• TV show (weekly, during Advisory period)
• Email blasts from Tamanend administration regarding important news, new procedures, and reminders
• Parent Portal: student information, grades, and attendance
• Tamanend Connections newsletter: useful information, important reminders, and school highlights emailed weekly during school year and posted on Tamanend website
• Twitter: @CBTamanendMS highlights of activities, events, and daily life at Tamanend
• CBSD app: highlights of activities, events, and daily life in Central Bucks
  

¡Bienvenidos a Tamanend! Yo soy Brian Caughie, Director de Tamanend Middle School. Soy hispanohablante. Pasé mucho de mi vida en España. Estoy aquí para apoyarles a todos los estudiantes y familias en Tamanend. Favor de llamarme or escribirme (en inglés o en español) si Ud. tiene cualquier duda o pregunta.

Correo electrónico: bcaughie@cbsd.org

Oficina: (267) 893-2900

Starting with the 2022-2023 school year, Tamanend is changing how we publish daily announcements. We will continue to post our daily announcements on our website. We will also be publishing daily announcements through Canvas. We believe this change will make students more connected to the many activities and events available at our school. Tamanend Students will self-enroll in the "Tamanend Announcements" Canvas course during the first week of school. If parent(s)/guardian(s) wish to receive the daily announcements via email blast, they should email Mrs. Patti Hartz.

Tamanend students make a difference in our community. Share your story about the accomplishments and good work of a Tamanend student with Dr. Caughie at bcaughie@cbsd.org so that he may highlight this good news in an upcoming edition of Tamanend Connections.

Email: tms@cbsd.org
Website: http://www.cbsd.org/Domain/25
Location: 1492 Stuckert Road, Warrington, PA
Phone: 267.893.2900