SMMS Weekly Update

Students may enter the building at 7:12 a.m.* Staff members are not available prior to that time to supervise students.

For morning drop-off, parents must enter the side parking lot to drop off at the side door when buses are using the front loop. Students will walk to the front to enter the building after 7:25 a.m.*

Late arrival in the morning is 7:30 AM. Students will be marked tardy if they are not in the building and in homeroom by 7:30 a.m.

*Denotes change

If cell phones or wireless headphones /earbuds are brought to school, the phones and wireless headphones/earbuds are required to be turned off and kept in the student lockers. Cell phones are not permitted to be used on school property to make phone calls, take pictures, check social media, or text/receive messages during school hours from 7:15 - 2:30. If the student must be contacted, parents may call our school at (304) 274- 5030. If a student has a phone in his or her possession, the following consequences will be given:

• 1st Offense- Lunch detention, phone returned to locker
• 2nd Offense- 1 hour after-school detention, phone in the safe
• 3rd Offense- 2 hours after school detention, phone in the safe
• 4th Offense – ISS, parent must pick up the phone

This policy also applies to possession of a cell phone, regardless of the phone’s ownership.

• Report Cards issued on Monday, January 8th
• Social Studies Fair will be held on January 11th in the library.
• Renaissance Pep Rally on Friday, January 16th
• Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held from 5:00-7:00 PM on January 18th (Specific information about conferences will be sent out next week in our weekly updates.)

297 is the number of 6th graders enrolled at SMMS on Friday, January 5th.

Students that are assigned the C731 model will receiving a new Chromebook next week. This older model is recognized by the round charger and smooth gray lid. The C731 model could no longer be updated and compatible with our state testing. Students with the 731 model are being asked to bring the charger to school so it can be returned when their class is scheduled for the updated device. The new devices will also be distributed with a Belkin Chromebook case and is expected to remain on the device while it is assigned to the student.