The Paw Print

Next week is kindness week at Berry Middle School. Remember to wear your pink shirt on Wednesday. On Thursday, we will have our career day. Please remember to wear college colors that day. Our Berry houses will also be collecting cans next week in honor of two by two rescue. Each can brought in earns a point for your house! So show kindness and support Berry houses!

Eighth Grade Students-

If you received an email invitation last week to join the NJHS google classroom, then you have met the requirements for membership in the Berry Middle School National Junior Honor Society. The google classroom contains information about the benefits of membership and about the induction ceremony that will take place Friday, March 14th. Students, please review this information with your parents, and plan to join us as we honor our new members in an induction ceremony. Among the requirements for membership, students must have a combined first semester of eighth grade average of 93% or above in math, social studies, language arts, and science with no individual nine weeks grade in any class lower than 80%.) Please make sure you have joined the Google Classroom and completed the form.

Contact Alisha Slay (aslay@hoover.k12.al.us) or Karen Howell (khowell@hoover.k12.al.us) with questions.

The month of February, Ms.DeLuca is sponsoring a contest for the Phoenix called "Thrive in 2025" based off of the question "What Makes You Thrive?" You can submit art work or poetry to Ms. DeLuca in the art room, 227 or via e-mail to ddeluca@hoover.k12.al.us. Prizes and certificates will be awarded to the top winners!

6th and 7th-grade girls, if you are interested in trying out for the 2025-2026 volleyball team please join the Google Classroom, code: cjd5hj5. Tryouts will be held April 28-30th. The paperwork is due 4/25/25

Chloe is an 8th grader at Berry Middle on team 8-2. Chloe is currently on the Spain Park girl's varsity softball team. Chloe's biggest inspiration is Coach Rit. Chloe's advice is to try your best and to work smarter, not harder.

Mr. Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi. He grew up with 2 older brothers and 1 younger sister. He now has 3 kids and has been married to his wife for 15 years and they newly adopted a dog named Maggie. His hobbies growing up were soccer, guitar, and reading books. He used to work at John Carroll and then he went into banking. Then he realized that he wanted to make an impact on the futures of his community, so he went back into education. He worked at Bumpus and then came to Berry. At Berry, he is a physical science teacher on 8-2 at Berry. A fun fact about MJ is he would rather sleep in a tent than in a bed. He also boxed in college and was undefeated in featherweight class. If he wasn’t a teacher, he would be chef because he begged his parents to let him go to culinary school but, they would not let him. He said maybe one day he still may open up a restaurant.

CJ Moon is a great football player here at Berry. He is number 66 in football. His biggest inspirations are Marquarius King and his uncle, who took care of him for three months. On the weekends, he likes to hang out with his friends and mess around. His favorite thing about Berry is Mr. Carns. His favorite food is hot dog buns.

Berry Middle School has created a site that is open for all students and staff! Just search up the link below to get updated on assignments and upcoming events at Berry:

bit.ly/JagUpdate