Warrior Connection

Hello Families,

I have had several emails recently about student retrieval of items and return of items. I have also had questions about grades. I will answer those questions below, but am also pasting the prior communication that has gone out that includes a link with many of the questions that may be coming to mind. It is located on the KCS link at www.k12k.com

This week is our LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL! It is certainly, not how we would have chosen to end our school year. We miss the students and the lack of sense of closure is hard!

We look forward to seeing you next week! We will have a CELEBRATION TENT for students where they can pick up award certificates, promotion certificates and eighth Graders will receive a special promotion gift!

We appreciate your continuation of support and connection with us during this closure! We miss you all and wish the end of the year could have been the celebration with which we are familiar! For those of you who will return, our Back to School Bash will be better than every! For our eighth Grade students, we will certainly continue to follow your path and be your biggest cheerleaders!

Please know that even though the year is reaching an end, we are still here for you! Please reach out and call us or email if we can help you with anything! We are a Sevier Family and that never ends!

Proud to be a Warrior!

Holly Flora

• Robinson and Sevier will hold a drive-thru pick-up/drop-off event at school, based on the first letter of the student’s last name (entry into the school will not be allowed during this event):

• A-D: Monday, May 18, 8 am - 4 pm

• E-K: Tuesday, May 19, 8 am - 4 pm

• L-Q: Wednesday, May 20, 8 am - 4 pm

• R-Z: Thursday, May 21, 8 am - 4 pm

• Items that may be dropped off:

• School-owned musical instruments (8th grade only...6th and 7th graders will keep instruments over the summer)

• Library books

• Textbooks

• Athletic uniforms

• Laptops and chargers (8th grade, those with a loaner device, and 6th/7th graders who wish to turn in their device for the summer)

• Loaned calculators

• Payment of outstanding financial obligations

• Classroom library books

• Items that may be picked up:

• Yearbooks

• Awards & certificates

• Medications in the school clinic

• Spring pictures

• Other end-of-year information:

• Refund checks will be mailed to the student’s home address.

• Anyone needing to clean out a student locker should call the school to schedule an individual time.

• An in-person promotion ceremony will not take place, due to health department regulations. Robinson and Sevier are preparing videos to honor our 8th grade students. These will be shared out via parent newsletters and social media.

• Final Report Cards will be communicated through the PowerSchool Parent Portal or mailed to the home address (for students without a Parent Portal account).

A: Academic feedback will be provided in PowerSchool using the following three designations:

• Work is complete (with feedback provided)
• Work is incomplete (started, but not finished)
• Work is missing (no work attempted) (4/14)
• Related Arts Classes will be Pass/Fail. If students complete work, they will receive a passing grade. Fail will only be given if no work is completed.

Dear KCS Families,

As we approach the end of the 2019-20 school year, a Frequently Asked Questions document has been developed to provide a wide variety of end-of-year information of which you need to be aware. The FAQ can be found online at www.k12k.com or by clicking here.

We continue to hope that you and your family are healthy and well! Have a great weekend.

School pictures have arrived and are in the JSMS office conference room. If you ordered a school picture of your child and would like to come to the JSMS office, you may pick it up any workday between 8:00-3:00 each day. Also, pictures will be available for pick up the week of May 18th at your assigned up pick up day if you would like to pick them up when you pick up everything else.

SPORTS pictures, taken by Allen Greene, have arrived and are in the JSMS office conference room. If you ordered a school picture of your child and would like to come to the JSMS office, you may pick it up any workday between 8:00-3:00 each day. Also, pictures will be available for pick up the week of May 18th at your assigned up pick up day if you would like to pick them up when you pick up everything else

We received word from LifeTouch (company that prints our yearbook) that due to COVID-19, several of their plants have shut down and this has caused a delay on us receiving yearbooks. They assure us that we will receive yearbooks, but we have not been told when we will get them. We HOPE to have them by next week so we can distribute them in our drive through return/retrieval, but if they have not arrived, we will notify everyone when they do arrive.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, June summer camps are going virtual! Join us for thrilling, fun, and exciting activities led by your favorite STREAMWORKS staff live from the STEM Gym via video teleconference (Zoom). K–4th grade students will meet M–F, 10 am –12 pm and 5th–8th grade students will meet M–F, 12–2 pm. Choose from several different summer camps (or attend all!) covering computer-aided design (CAD) Space Camp, Engineering Camp, and Coding Camp. Also, expect a few celebrity Zoom pop ins during the camps.

www.streamworkseducation.org

TO ALL FAMILIES OF RISING 7th GRADERS:

Students entering 7th grade this fall are required to provide proof that they have had a booster dose of tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine (known as Tdap) by 7th grade.

Students are NOT ALLOWED to begin school on the first day of school and go to class if an immunization form has not been submitted to the school office.

As your child recieves these immunizations, please either mail immunization forms to Sevier or come by the front office of the school between 9:00-1:00 each day.

John Sevier Middle School

1200 Wateree St.

Kingsport, Tn. 37664

Please CLICK HERE to see a sample of the TN Immunization Certificate.

All JSMS athletes must have a physical form filled out and signed by a doctor before participation in sports can begin. This includes practice.

Each athlete must have a new physical each year. Currently, physicals are good through the end of June. Beginning July 1, to practice or participate in any sport at Sevier, we must have a copy of your child's updated physical form.

Students may not practice during the month of July or begin practice the first week of school without an updated form. Fall sports that are immediately necesssary for updated forms are: football, cross-country, volleyball, cheer, dance.

You may either mail the physical form to our office, have the doctor fax it to our office, or turn it into our office any work day between 9:00-1:00.

Please CLICK HERE to access the Physical Form.

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I hope your quarantine time is going well. Yesterday, I had an idea. In our 7th grade class, we read lots of primary sources about the major events we cover in our curriculum. I thought it would be interesting to create a student book of primary sources from this unprecedented time we are in right now. After thinking about it some more, I thought it would be important to document the thoughts and actions of ALL KCS families, not just my own students.

What I am envisioning is a collection of diary entries, essays, poems, drawings, photographs, etc. showing the daily activities of our students, while we are waiting this out. Students and parents would email me their submissions, which I would compile using an online publisher, and then have printed into a hard copy, or copies. The result would be a book of primary sources by KCS families, that would give future students insight as to the fears, concerns, and daily life our children are experiencing right now. This could also give children a creative outlet to alleviate the stresses of isolation.

I'm asking each teacher to make mention of this in his or her Canvas or Google Classroom (or whatever platform you are using) lessons. Depending on the grade level, hand-drawn pictures or a few sentences would be great; you know the ability levels of your children. If you wouldn't mind telling parents to email their child's submission directly to me (ccarr@k12k.com), or if you could forward them to me, I can begin compiling them. I would like for the work to include the student's name, and age.

I'm sending this to everyone, because I want your submissions as well! This is your chance to tell future generations how you spent your time during the spring of 2020. Get creative! I'd like to have May 1 as the deadline for submitting work. That way, I can assemble the book, and hopefully have a hard copy, or copies, by the start of the next school year. Thank you in advance for your help with this endeavor. If I haven't made myself clear, or if you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Stay safe, and stay sanitized!