Wildcat Weekly

Hello, Wildcat Families and Students!

We had a wonderful week of Welcome Back Celebrations, seeing friends, making new friends, and start preparing for a great academic year! I am also excited to announce that our enrollment is up which means we will not be making schedule changes for the first 3 weeks of school to make sure we are scheduling our new students into classes before we make changes. Thank you for your patience Wildcats!

I have to give a shout out to our amazing staff! The teachers and staff have worked hard to prepare and welcome back our Wildcats this year. Thank you SMS for making our 24-25 school year such a successful first week!

A HUGE SHOUTOUT: Thank you parents and families for helping with our paper shortage. Our paper was delayed in shipping. We appreciate each of you!

Information and To Do's for families:

1. Due to higher enrollment schedule changes will only be made for electives. We are not able to make schedule changes for core classes such as ELA, Science, Math, PE, and Social Studies. We will start this process the first week in September. The students will be able to fill out an elective change request. Please know, we will try to make changes to the best of our ability, however all requests may not be able to be granted.

2. Please make sure you have signed up for an Aeries account and are able to log in to check grades. You may also download the app to your phone.

3. Please make sure to download the Parent Square app. This is for communication and to check the messages sent from school and your student's teachers.

4. Check your student's planner every night for homework and classwork. Your Wildcat should be writing something in every box for every subject.

Please do not hesitate to email or call about any questions or concerns.

Important Links:

DISTRICT CALENDAR.

SCHOOL BELL SCHEDULE

Your Super Excited Principal

Angie James, Principal ~ Click to email.

Sullivan Middle School

It was great to see all of or Wildcat Families during Wildcat Days on Friday August 9. We had over 400 families attend to pick up Chromebooks, books, buy PE clothes, and take pictures. Thank you all who helped and attended.

Grades are updated every two weeks. Please check here for grade updates and information.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK ON YOUR COMPUTER:

https://bonsallusd.asp.aeries.net/student/LoginParent.aspx

You can now DOWNLOAD the Parent Square App to keep up to date on all the events at Sullivan!

1. PE Clothes will be sold during lunches on Monday and Tuesday.

2. STAR Assessment for Math this week.

3. Early Release Day every Friday. School is out at 1:15 pm.

1. STAR assessment test in ELA classes the week of 8/26 to 8/30.

2. Back to School Night: September 5 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

3. Make-up picture day: September 13.

4. First LUNCH ON THE LAWN: September 20.

If you were here on Wildcat Day and had your student's picture taken, they are ready!

School Pictures are Ready!

View and order at https://shop.jostenspix.com/login

• NORMAN SULLIVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
• Event Code: FE213924
• Images are secured using the email address(es) provided to us by the school.

If you missed Wildcat Day, Makeup pictures will be taken during PE classes on September 13.

Please complete the following two forms for your student if they still need to get a Chromebook. These two forms must be completed before a Chromebook and textbooks can be given to your student.

If you have already done this, please disregard this email. Thanks!
Chromebook Agreement

Library Young Adult Permission form

Tryouts for all fall sports will begin in a couple of weeks. We will sent announcements out to families. Please make sure your student has a physical and you have uploaded it to HOMECAMPUS.COM

CLICK HERE TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR ALL INFORMATION REGARDS SPORTS.

CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS OF WHAT IS NEEDED AND HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR ATHLETES INFORMATION.

CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THE SPORTS PHYSICAL.

Wildcats were welcomed back with a day of celebration and making new friends, excited to see the old friends. The teachers spent the morning welcoming our Wildcats and created team building activities to help students get to know one another. This helps with collaboration during the school year in each classroom. All students and staff at one lunch, with extended time, our first day so student could get used to the routine and expectations of lunch time. We also reviewed our school expectations every Wildcat received a planner with the student and parent handbook printed in the front.

Our Wildcats were very excited about the day!

School starts every day at 8:00 am and can be dropped off as early as 7:30 am. Please make sure to drop your student off in the lower parking lot because the upper parking lot will be closed to allow our students to walk across the walkway safely.

Your student will receive his/ her class schedule on the first day of school. All of the 6th grade and half of the 7th grade will have first lunch and follow Bell Schedule A.

All of 8th grade and half of 7th grade will have second lunch and follow Bell Schedule B.

Grief Support Group at School in Partnership with The Elizabeth Hospice

Creating a safe and meaningful space for students to share about their loved one who has died provides an opportunity to gain support from peers who have a shared experience. There are many benefits to facilitating a grief support group at school. These include students learning about grief and loss, developing coping skills and tools, honoring and memorializing loved ones, and sharing grief experiences with peers.

What to expect?

• Each group will have 8-15 students at your school site.
• Each person in the group has also experienced the death of a loved one.
• Group will run for 7-8 weeks, meeting weekly during school.
• Each group follows the same structure: an opening exercise, an activity to write and/or draw about loved ones and grief experiences, an opportunity to share, a closing.
• Group is meant to be a safe space where children can share their feelings, thoughts, memories, experiences about their loved one and grief as well as who and what supports them in coping with their grief.

To ensure the participation for your student, please sign the authorization link below. One form per student is required. Our team will confirm receipt of consent. For any other questions, please reach out to Kyliegh Fox, School Psychologist, at kyliegh.fox@bonsallusd.com.

o Student Authorization

o SPANISH - Student Authorization

About Love On Your Back

Love On Your Back was founded by Carol Wood, a teacher who taught in the Bonsall School District for 32 years. Upon retirement, Carol started the non-profit organization, along with the help of many others, to address the issue of Bonsall students who may have minimal access to food. The backpack program supplements food for low income families or children whose families are in crisis. These students rely on free or reduced breakfasts and lunches at their schools. Love On Your Back supplements these children by filling backpacks with nutritional food to last over the weekend when they are not in school. It is our belief that children need proper nutrition in order to learn. The goal of Love On Your Back is to fill that need for any student in the Bonsall Unified School District who is food compromised. No child should go hungry.

If you want to register for our program, please do so at your child's school in the front office. All children in the family can be registered on one application.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Hello AMAZING Wildcat Families!

Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year. As you know we are always needing Parent volunteers. The Volunteer Packet must be completed every school year. If you already have the Lifescan (fingerprints) with BUSD, you do not need to get new ones. If your TB test is over 3 years old, we will be asking you for an updated negative TB Test result. You will need both of these extra forms along with the volunteer form to volunteer on campus or on field trips where you will be or could be alone with students. If you would be open to being a driver for sports, we will need all of the above and the drivers form.

I've attached all the forms to this email. Please feel free to complete them and scan them back to me..

Please let us know if you have questions. You can reach our AMAZING OFFICE MANAGER, LINDA PIPE at linda.pipe@bonsallusd.com

Thanks for all you do,
Sullivan Middle School

• Download Bonsall Unified School District Transportation Private Driver Registration Form (field trips, sports, performances, etc.) (1).pdf

• Download SMS Volunteer Packet (4).pdf

ATTENTION PARENTS!

Only emergency vehicles, buses, those with handicap placards, and those with other special placards have access to the upper lot, emergency lane closest to the front of our schools. You will need to show your placard to Campus Security.

We ask that If you have a parking pass because your student received the ROAR Award for that month you may continue to have access to the upper lot at the end of the school day. Please do not park in the bus lanes or block the handicap spaces.

This decision to enforce our existing parking lot plan aligns with the recommendations of our community safety partners and will increase our ability to maintain a safe and secure site:

• When dropping students off, please use the lower levels of the parking lot.
• When visiting either the middle or the high school office, please park in the lower levels, bring your ID to the front, and check in with the appropriate staff.

Gates accessing the upper lane will continue to be closed to secure the campus. We appreciate your partnership and support in our efforts to provide the highest levels of safety for our students

Exciting news!: Students will be able to eat for free during the 23-24 school year!

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM NUTRITION SERVICES and lunch menu.

Sullivan Middle School hosts a Lunch on the Lawn monthly for parents and families to eat lunch with their students on campus. Parents and families are welcome to bring lunch, chairs, or a blanket and eat lunch on the front lawn of Sullivan. Parents will be asked to check at the Welcome Booth before entering the campus.

Here are the dates for Lunch on the Lawn:

September 20 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

October 11 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

November 22 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

December 13- Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

January 17 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

February 14 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

March 14 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

April 11 - Friday

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

May 16 - Friday: LAST LUNCH ON THE LAWN

Lunch A - 10:27 to 10:57

Lunch B - 11:13 to 11:43

We discussed fundraising opportunities and fun events to start planning for our Wildcats and discussed classroom/ teacher needs for this school year.

Please check out our membership information. You can help by donating or signing up for any of our events.

Thank you for your support!

Click here to sign up!

Contact Ms. James here.

Website: https://sm.bonsallusd.com
Location: 7350 West Lilac Road, Bonsall, CA 92003, USA
Phone: 760-631-5209