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

Scarborough Middle School Read-a-Thon is a school-wide fundraiser where students collect flat donations for minutes read outside of the required school reading. The website and school will be collecting flat donations from until Wednesday, April 10.Students will earn incentives for donations collected and pages read. Students will participate in a school-wide day of reading on Friday, April 5.

Funds raised will be used for grade-level field trips and educational events!

Here is a link to our SMS Read-a-thon website

Let's get reading!

Happy Spring, incredible SMS families!

I am once again looking to your generosity to help make SMS Staff Appreciation Week an amazing success, and I know you'll help make it happen! Last year we treated the staff to lunches, breakfasts, mailbox treats, and dozens of raffle prizes, all because of the generosity of SMS families and local businesses; let's do it again and make it even bigger and better!

As you may know, this is my final year chairing SMS Staff Appreciation Week, as my younger daughter is in 8th grade. It has been my absolute pleasure to help organize this venture for six years, but I couldn't have done it without loads of help from SMS families along the way, so thank you! This year I have a new co-chair, Maureen Greene, who has a 4th and a 6th grader, so she's learning the ropes and is looking forward to carrying on the tradition of treating our incredibly deserving SMS Staff.

Check out the list of goodies that we'll need and sign up for whatever you can! Any and all donations are appreciated.

Please reach out with any questions to mom2heflmf@yahoo.com or 207-664-3211.

Thank you,

Kim French, Parent Co-Chair of the SMS Staff Appreciation Event

Important information regarding upcoming events and dates for the the Class of 2028 was sent out earlier this week. If you happened to miss it please take a moment to click the link below.

The annual staff vs student basketball game to support Red Storm Strikes out Cancer is back! The 8th grade girls and boys basketball teams will be playing a team of staff all-stars on Thursday, March 28 at the High School. The girls game begins at 6:00 and the boys game will begin at approximately 7:00. Admission is only $5.00. Red Storm Strikes out Cancer t-shirts and food drinks will be sold. Please come support this amazing cause! We Will Find a Cure!

Donations can also be made online by visiting this link!

We have been watching the weather closely and we really thought we could make it happen. Unfortunately, the snow totals keep increasing and with runners going out onto Pine Point Rd we have made the difficult decision to POSTPONE the race.

This is a family friendly event focused on the kids running too and we want to ensure that everyone is safe.

Our race timer does have some availability in April, so the goal is to reschedule soon so that spring sports are not impacted. We will work to get the new date set up as soon as possible and let you know.

Thank you for your support!!

MARCH

RSSOC Staff vs Student Basketball Game!

• March 28

End of Quarter 3

• March 29

APRIL

Early Release Day

• April 3

April 12 - Friday, and April 15 through 19

• April Break - NO SCHOOL

MAY

RSSOC Walk

• May 1- More details to come closer to the event

6th Grade Dance

• May 3: 5:00-7:00

Early Release Day

• May 15

7th Grade Dance

• May 17: 5:00-7:00
  

And.... SAVE THE DATE!

Friday, June 7

• 8th Grade CELEBRATION and DANCE!!

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 form, 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