What's new with Watkins Middle?

• We are extremely excited to welcome students to the start of the 2024-25 school year. See below for specifics:
• Thursday August 15 is for sixth graders only. Students will work on locker access, building procedures, team building, and learning about the sixth grade experience.
• Friday August 16th is the first full day for all students.
• August 22nd is our Open House/Meet the teacher night. We had a time change from the previous posting. This event will take place from 5:00-7:00pm.
• Thankyou to all parents and students that were able to make our annual schedule pick up days. Apologies that we had an error related to locker assignments. That error has been corrected, and new schedules were printed with the corrected info. All students will be provided with another copy of their schedule on the first day of school in homeroom. Lot's of time will be spent practicing locker combinations!
• Please be aware that the middle school is very full in terms of class availability. Schedule requests changes will not take place until the week of the 26th unless the request is associated with an issue related to a core class or missing periods. Sections are very full, and options may be limited.
• As a reminder to parents, middle school is an exploratory experience for kids. We do our best to meet the elective requests made by families, but please remember that they are requests, not guarantees.
• Please take a look at the drop off map below regarding AM & PM drop off routes. As a reminder to parents. Please help ensure the safety of all students, and maintain a consistent flow of traffic by supporting us with the following:
• Do not enter the bus loop while busses are present, and no person should ever pull in between buses during arrival or dismissal times.
• When navigating the parent drop off line please...
• Abide by the one way traffic. Do not go against the flow of traffic.
• Drop your child off by the 600 hall where staff are present.
• Pick your child up by the 600 hall where staff are present.
• Please stay alert for other children and avoid changing lanes, do not drive up the middle.
• Do not park or pick up your child in the west (Rugby field lot) as this is our pick up location for our special needs bus. Please do not pick your child up in the middle of Watkins rd, or in the court of the neighborhood to the south of WMS.
• Parents are encouraged to exit and drive west on warrior way to help with the flow of traffic. Remember that buses will have the right of way on school properties.
• Please be patient, alert, and polite.
• Is your child transported by an older high school sibling? The district runs a sibling shuttle from the high school to the middle school. Once your high schooler parks your middle school student can board bus #32 to hitch a ride down to the middle school.
• Attention 8th grade parents!! Our first DC trip parent meeting will take place on August 22nd right after open house. The meeting will take place in the middle school cafeteria at 7:00pm.
• Planning on monitoring your child's grades this year? Once school begins you will want to sign up for 'Progress Book' access. If you are new to the building you will likely need to wait until the start of school. See directions on how to do so by clicking on the progress book button below.
• Please be aware of, and share with your child, the following policy changes for the 24-25 school year.
• Cell phones must be turned off and away.
• Bookbags will not be permitted in classrooms. locker use will be reinforced to start the day, before & after lunch, and at the conclusion of the day.

Please click the link below for all of your athletic ticketing and scheduling needs.

Hometown Ticketing

• Varsity Ticket events are $7 up to 1 hour before the event. At the gate tickets are $8 (use of a card includes a fee at the gate). Middle School tickets are $5.

• All athletes should enter and exit the building through the 600 hall (Door 7) entrance before and after practice each day.

August 8th Schedule pick-up 8:00am-2:00pm

August 9th Schedule pick-up 8:00am-2:00pm

August 15th 1st day of school, 6th grade only

August 16th All students start

August 22nd WMS Open House, 5:00-7:00pm

Email: jball@laca.org
Website: https://wms.swl.k12.oh.us/
Location: 8868 Watkins Road Southwest, Pataskala, OH, USA
Phone: (740)927-5767
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gowatkinsmiddleschool
Twitter: @WatkinsMiddle