Sumner Middle School Update

• Focus on Learning: Planner/Handbook, Homework Folders, No Cell Phones

• SMS Parent Booster Fundraiser, Sept 24 at Dairy Queen, 5-8pm

• Drop Off/Pick Up Procedures

• Clubs and Activities

• State Law and Required Attendance

• Proposition 1: K-12 Expanded Student Capacity, School Improvement & Safety Upgrades.

• Have You Purchased Digital Device Coverage? Helps When Chromebooks are Damaged or Lost! Pay Before September for Discount!

• Stay Connected

Planner/Handbook: We spent the first week teaching our Guiding Principles (Belonging, Success, Safety, Freedom & Choices, and Fun) along with campus expectations to all students. You can access our planner/handbook here or on our website. Your child also has a copy of our planner.

• Please review our school expectations with your child

• We also expect students to use their planner daily to keep track of assignments and due dates

Homework Folders: All students were given a yellow homework planner to help them track the items that need to go home along with items that need to be returned to school.

• Ask your child about their homework folder

Visit the Bonney Lake Dairy Queen on September 24 from 5-8pm, and the SMS Boosters will receive 15% of all orders that mention SMS. Families must mention Sumner Middle School when ordering their meal. Read here for more information.

Belonging and Fun are two of our Guiding Principles. To help all students find a place to belong and have fun, we are offering the following clubs this year:

• Morning Basketball

• Game Club

• Video Game Club

• Photography Club

• Yarn Art Club

Specific dates and meeting times for these clubs will be shared with students and parents in the coming weeks.

Students MUST turn in a completed permission form to the club adviser in order to participate. Permission forms can be found in our main office and in our Commons.

The Sumner-Bonney Lake School District and staff care about the well-being and academic achievement of each student. We know that daily attendance is one of the most powerful predictors of school success and on-time graduation. Our goal is to have every student at school on time, every day.

State law for mandatory attendance, called the Becca Bill, requires children from age 8 to 17 to attend a public school, private school or a district-approved home school program. Children who are 6 or 7 years old are not required to be enrolled in school. However, if parents enroll their 6 or 7 year old, the student must attend full time. And, school districts are required, under RCW 28.225.020 and RCW 28A.225.030 to take a series of actions when students accrue absences.

Now that school has begun, you’ve likely seen and heard more about the district’s upcoming bond measure on the Nov. 5 ballot — Proposition 1: K-12 Expanded Student Capacity, School Improvement & Safety Upgrades.

If you’re a numbers person, here’s a quick video that conveys the need for the bond in relation to our current overcrowding — 9 of 14 schools are over 100% capacity, and 4 more are over 95% capacity.

Digital Device Coverage (also known as Chromebook Assurance) helps cover the cost if the chromebook is damaged, lost or stolen. It must be purchased each year. Broken screens can cost anywhere from $150 to $225 to fix. Purchasing digital device coverage means you do not have to pay for the chromebook should it become damaged. If you haven’t purchased Chromebook Assurance, consider purchasing it ASAP. You can send a payment with your child to our main office OR call the main office and give your credit card number over the phone. Call our main office at 253-891-5000 if you have any questions.

If you pay before September 30, you get a $5 discount.

Yearly Digital Device Coverage Fee

$25.00 (No Reduction In Lunch Rate)

$12.50 (Reduced Lunch Rate)

$6.25 (Free Lunch Rate)