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🦃 November:

• November 11: Schools Closed- Veterans Day
• November 18: Report Cards Issued
• November 22: SMS Turkey Trot
• November 25: Staff Workday & Family Conferences; Student Holiday
• November 26: Staff Virtual Workday; Student Holiday
• November 27-29: School Closed- Thanksgiving Holiday

We would appreciate your feedback for us to continuously strive towards our goal. Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions so we may best serve our students and families.

Link to survey

In conjunction with the Isle of Wight County Schools Strategic Plan, the division supports a recognition program that is open to any member of the Smithfield Middle School community. Staff, teachers, students, volunteers, parents, and community members can all be nominated for a monthly SMS ISLE award.

The award focuses on the four broad areas of the Strategic Plan: Inspire, Succeed, Lead, Empower.

Across SMS, people are demonstrating acts of inspiration, success, leadership, and empowerment. The ISLE award welcomes nominations that demonstrate how someone in the SMS community has embodied one of these areas. From November through June, four nominees will be selected for recognition--one in each category-- and will be highlighted on our social media pages, website, and newsletters for our school and for IWCS.

Link to nomination form

MRC & KidWind November 20

MRC (7th only) December 4, 20

KidWind (8th only) December 11

Chorus After-School Rehearsals:

• Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 3-4:30pm in Chorus Room (8th grade only!)

• Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 3-4:30pm in Chorus Room (7th grade only!)

• Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024 3-4:30pm in Chorus Room (All grades)

• Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 3-5pm in Chorus Room/Auditorium (Mandatory, All grades)

SMS Winter Concert:

• Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024 6:00pm in Auditorium (Call time in Chorus room is 5:15pm.)

Dear SMS Parents,

Fall photos are ready! 20% of the net profit from fall photos will go directly back to support the school.

Photo Website: https://www.bluedominionstudios.com/sms

Makeup & Retake Day: Wednesday 11/20 during lunch.

The times are as follows:

1st block: 8:05-8:35

2nd block: 9:30-10:00

3rd block: 11:25-11:55

4th block: 1:30-2:00

If your student(s) ride an IWCS school bus, please join our new Remind group by using this code: @smsbusinfo.

Through this group, SMS will begin sharing bus updates in the morning and afternoon as we receive them from transportation. Thank you!

Please use the link above to submit parent/guardian notes of absence.

Student attendance is very important to us at SMS. We want our students to be present everyday as student attendance is vital for success.

However, if your child is ever absent, please complete one of these options to prevent attendance plans and/or truancy:
- Complete the Google Form (included in weekly newsletter).
- Send in an excuse note to the front office.
- Email our front office staff (Mrs. Ashley Davidson at adavidson@iwcs.k12.va.us).

Families can only submit 5 parent/guardian written excuse notes per semester.

All students enrolled in Isle of Wight County Schools are given an opportunity to apply for free and reduced price meals. Applications may be completed privately and securely online at www.schoolcafe.com Forms can be obtained from your school's cafeteria or main office.