Tales From The Nest
January 12th, 2024
Dear Urbana Families,
Urbana Middle School invites you to participate in our school's 2024-2025 Family Survey. Your feedback is very important to us. Your responses will remain anonymous and will be combined with the responses of our other families.
To access the survey online, use this link.
Important: If you have more than one child enrolled in FCPS, please complete one survey per child. If you require a paper survey, please email Mr. Hinson directly.
This survey will remain open until Tuesday, November 19th at 11:59 PM EST. We thank you in advance for your feedback!
Drew Kibler
Principal
Urbana MS
Walk of Honor
American flags with the names of service members that were submitted by our community are posted along the parking lot for families to view. The Walk of Honor will be available for viewing from today until Monday Nov. 11th (weather permitting). Thank you for helping us honor our Veterans in this annual tradition.
Scholastic Book Fair Week
Next week the Scholastic Book Fair will be hosted by UMS. Student will all have a chance to visit the book fair with their ELA class during the first part of the week. Additionally students will be able to visit the bookfair using the same process used to visit the library. There will be evening hours on Wednesday (11/13) from 4 pm -6:30 pm for families to visit.
Scholastic accepts Cash, Credit, Apple Pay and Google Pay as well as its e-wallet accounts. All Sales are final. The UMS Library and ELA departments thank you for your support. For more information visit the website or contact Ms. Domboski at Kathleen.domboski@fcps.org.
National PTA Reflections Arts Competition
Does your student like to be creative? Does your child enjoy the arts? Participate in this year's Reflections program! Students create artwork in response to the theme of "Accepting Imperfections." Students can enter into one or more categories: Visual Arts, Photography, Musical Composition, Dance Choreography, Film, and Literature. Students can earn recognition and prizes at the local, county, state, and national level! Entries are due through email to Jaime Stevenson (JSteve616@gmail.com) by November 15. Click here to visit our website with all necessary information.
Donation Request
If you would be willing to donate prizes (no more than $20 in value) that we could use for our Turkey Trot/1 mile fun run please let us know, drop it off at the office, or send it in with your student. The fun run will take place November 25. We are looking for prizes to award top runners, best dressed costumes for each of the 7 periods, and grade level raffles. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. Any questions please reach out to melanie.boyer@fcps.org and james.herbold@fcps.org
