Scarborough Middle School

Hello Scarborough Middle School Families,

Please take a close look at this week’s Friday Family News. There are lots of important pieces of information included this week.

Respectfully,

Kathy Tirrell, Principal

Chris Murphy, Assistant Principal

Your child’s final Q3 grades will be viewable on PowerSchool on Friday, April 11, 2025. Below are instructions on how to access PowerSchool, and we encourage you to view your child’s progress on a regular basis.

How to use PowerSchool:

• PowerSchool Parent Access Information

• Parent Portal Information

• PowerSchool Mobile App Information

PowerSchool login page:

• Scarborough PowerSchool Login

Where to view grades:

• Once in your child’s portal, click on Grades and Attendance, see grades in Q3 column under Course Information

Grading and Reporting Guide:

• Grading and Reporting Guide

We have declared a penny war here at SMS!

This is our only school wide fundraiser that helps to fund activities throughout the year and end of year trips.We truly appreciate any support you can give!!

Our lost and found here at SMS is overflowing! Please have your student take a peek to see if any of their missing items are in there.

Any items left in the lost and found at the end of the school day on April 17 will be donated!

Tickets for the SMS Production of Matilda JR are on sale now!!!!!

You can click this link to purchase tickets.

Scarborough is like all other school districts and is struggling to find enough bus drivers. There are some days that bus routes have to be combined and/or run later than expected. When changes are made, communication will go out via the My Rides K-12 app. Please make sure you have registered to receive messages via the app to receive all of the communications. All of our bus routes are loaded in MY Ride K-12 software.

You can access the bus routes via the My Rides K-12 app on your cell phone or by the My Rides k-12 website on your computer. Here are the directions to access via the phone app or the website. If you don’t know your child’s ID number, please call the school your child attends and they can share the child’s ID number (it is the same number as your child’s lunch number).

Please consider donating your Hannaford School dollars to Scarborough Middle School. With your help last year SMS was one of the top participating schools!

This week student’s continued to learn about the RULER tool called the Meta-Moment by thinking through scenarios and how they could respond using the meta-moment. They posed the question, “how would their best selves have responded?” Next week, they will build emotional vocabulary by exploring the words anxious and empowered.

Reminder that yesterday was our second (and final) "Traditional Snow Day." This means that per our school calendar and plan, any future school cancellations due to inclement weather will be remote learning days. Remote learning days will be asynchronous days (students will not login for live classes).

Lessons and Assignments

Teachers will give students an assignment a day or a couple of days before a possible snow day, in case school is canceled. Teachers will also post the assignment on their Google Classrooms. Students are responsible for checking their Google Classrooms based on their class schedule. The assignments will be due within two school days upon returning to school.

Teacher Availability

Provided that teachers/staff have power, they will be available between the hours of 7:40-2:40 by email to support students who may need assistance in completing their assignments or need to check in for any other support.

Attendance

A Google Form will be sent out to students’ email addresses by the office staff to collect attendance/participation information. The form will be sent out by 8:30 a.m. and we ask students to fill the form out by 10:00 a.m. Parents will also receive a reminder email that their student(s) need to fill out the attendance form. If this information can not be collected due to power outages, please contact the office the next day at 730-4800 or by email msoffice@scarboroughschools.org.

SMS Remote snow day #1 Attendance form: this form will be accepting responses on the day of our first remote snow day.

SPS Closure Hub

Meals will be provided during remote learning snow days. Non-perishable meals will be sent home in advance with all students who a meal has been requested for. Please fill out this form to have your child's name added to the list of kids receiving a meal. If you have multiple children, please fill out the form for each child individually. After each remote learning snow day, we will send home another non-perishable meal for possible future remote learning days. You do not need to resubmit on the form again for each remote learning snow day. Once you are on the list you are on it for the winter, if you would like to be removed from the list, please contact your school.

2024-25 Scarborough School Calendar

NEW 2025-26 Scarborough School Calendar

APRIL

April 4

• End of Quarter 3

April 9

• Early Release Day

April 18- April 25

• April Break- NO SCHOOL

MAY

May 2

• 6th Grade Dance 5:00pm-7:00pm

May 7

• Early Release Day

• 7th Grade Dance from 5:00pm-7:00pm

May 20

• 6th,7th 8th Grade Band Concert at SHS

May 21

• SMS Chorus Concert at SHS

• NO SCHOOL- Memorial Day

May 28

• SMS Art Show- More information will be shared closer to the event

JUNE

June 4

• Early Release Day

June 6

• 8th Grade Celebration and Dance- More information shared closer to the date

Families should report their middle school student's absence from school by calling the SMS main office at 207-730-4800 or by email at msoffice@scarboroughschools.org. A reason for the absence must be stated, otherwise SMS office staff will reach out to determine the reason for the absence.

Excusable reasons for an absence:

• illness
• appointment
• religious holiday
• family emergency
• planned absence

For Planned Absences (a day out of school which is not illness or medical appointment related), families should fill out the Scarborough Middle School Planned Absence for which is found here.

For questions about attendance, please contact the Scarborough Middle School main office at 207-730-4800 or email us at msoffice@scarboroughschools.org

Email: msoffice@scarboroughschools.org
Website: https://sms.scarboroughschools.org/
Location: 21 Quentin Drive, Scarborough, ME, USA
Phone: (207) 730-4800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarbmeschools/
Twitter: @scarbmeschools