Middle School Matters

The Mission of Portsmouth Middle School is to create a strong and safe learning environment: promote social, emotional and physical well-being and to provide opportunities for each student, to the best of their ability, to meet high academic standards, develop responsibility, and achieve the positive social values and behaviors to become productive citizens.

On behalf of our admin team, we want to acknowledge our dedicated faculty and staff during teacher appreciation week. I say faculty and staff because we all work together to ensure that your children have an excellent experience at school. When I was hired, I realized quickly that we were blessed to have an experienced staff who know what a middle schooler needs to be successful both at school and beyond. They provide a personalized learning environment, which helps students feel connected to school. Please join me in thanking our faculty and staff this week and beyond.

Today honored School Nurse Day. We are thrilled to have Mrs. Joncas at our school everyday not only representing us, but also the district the Nurse supervisor. She is a person that our students feel very comfortable going to for any type of need they have including just a friendly person to check in with. Thank you Mrs. Joncas for your service to our school and district!

Please click here to read a letter about upcoming scoliosis screenings for Grade 6 and 8 students.

Please see the link here for a special dinner fundraiser on behalf of Team Atkinson taking place on May 18th. Tickets are selling fast so do not miss out.

PMS Anchored for Life, in collaboration with Team Atkinson, will be hosting a bake sale during the PHS community yard sale on Saturday, May 18th from 10:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. We are looking for student and parent volunteers to help staff our table. Please fill out this google form if you are interested in helping out. Ms. Naron will be in touch with you as the date gets near. Please reach out to naronm@portsmouthschoolsri.org if you have any questions

The PMS social justice club will be hosting a “Be The Change” fundraiser starting next week and going until June 1st. Each learning center will be collecting spare change in their social studies classrooms. The learning center with the most money collected at the end of the month will earn a special prize. Money will be donated to Team Atkinson.

Please click here for the Officer Holly raffle calendar. You can turn in the slip and money to the office.

Kids4Action is organizing a fundraiser this June 9th - a family Color Run - 4K with 1K option. See picture below of what they look like. Secondly - we will have Dunk Tank at the event and looking for well-known community/school individuals willing to have a segment in the Dunk Tank. Please see the link here for more details.

Please check out our students who participated in the RIMEA's Honor's Festival on Sunday, May 5th.

The Spring Band Concert report times for students and families - Monday, May 20th.

Nine members of our robotics competition teams have expanded their innovation project, met with leadership, and begun implementing a robotics mentoring program at our elementary schools. Through engaging tasks and lessons, they are introducing the world of robotics to 21 students at each elementary school. They have designed lessons in order to share their passion for robotics and coding, sparking curiosity and fostering collaboration. We hope that this will spark even more interest in the robotics community moving forward.

Learn 365 Programming free for current 8th graders to learn about Maritime opportunities in sailing. Please click the link here for more information. Program organizers will come to lunches to recruit interested students. There are a limited number of spots available. There will be a bus available at PMS for pick up and drop off for this event.

Please click the link here for information regarding the school planner cover contest for next school year.

Please click the link here for information regarding a summer basketball camp.

When students arrive at 7:45, they are meeting our core value of "Be Ready to Learn". Thank you for helping your child be a responsible Portsmouth Patriot!

Patriot Pride is a system to recognize students who are meeting our school-wide expectations. Students are eligible to be Patriot Pride winners by entering Patriot Pillars they earn in their grade level collection container. A winner from each grade level is selected daily and recognized on our school-wide morning announcements.

Students receive Patriot Pillars when they demonstrate our school core values: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Ready to Learn.

We are proud of our Portsmouth Patriots!

We want to thank our PTO and families for their support of Teacher Appreciation Week. Our faculty and staff have appreciated the daily activities and treats that have been supported by everyone's generosity. The culminating event will be a catered lunch on Friday. All faculty and staff felt very special this week.

Please see the flier linked here for a Mini Golf event from the PTO.

Save and send in your Clement’s receipts in your child’s folder and sent to the main office. The PTO receives 1% of sales. There is no date too old. All Clements receipts will be taken as long as it shows Clements logo and pre-tax sales total.

If you would like to volunteer in school or help on a field trip, please use this form going forward to become VIS approved.

Sophia Genereux, Grade 8, won the Middle School Art award from the Portsmouth Art Guild.

Here is the May newsletter.

Please check out this flier for information regarding a tennis opportunity in the community.

Please see the link here to the PHS yard sale opportunity.

Please see the linked flier for a summer program taking place in the community.

Hoop Island Basketball Camp- from June 24th-28th for boys and girls grades 3rd-8th at the Portsmouth Abbey School. For more detailed information please click here.

SPORTSmouth Summer Camps- two separate weeks for boys and girls grades 2nd-8th at the Pennfield School. Week I- August 5th-9th and Week 2 - August 12th-16th. For more information click here

Future Stars Recreational Summer Basketball League- is for boys and girls of all abilities, which will be held at Portsmouth High School. This league is comparable to a town league and more information can be found here

Check out the Craftastic Kidz Camp.

National Inventor’s Hall of Fame (NIHF) is once again offering Camp Invention virtual camp sessions at no-cost to military-connected students for summer 2024. Registrants MUST be children or dependents of active-duty military services, reserves or National Guard, and the opportunity is available for students in grades K-6.

Registration (invent.org/connect/dod-stem) opens 10am ET on May 1, 2024 and we have frequently see these spots go quickly!

RIMTA/IYRS Summer Boat Building Program

Here is the link for more info and how to apply:

https://www.iyrs.edu/workshops/canoeprogram

PMS and PHS combined Jazz Concert