Switzerland Point Middle School

• January 6: Students Return
• January 7: Behavior Assemblies for 2nd Semester
• January 15: Winterguard Friends and Family Event
• January 16: Report Cards Post
• January 17: Raider Store
• January 20: No School
• January 21: Character Counts! Chats (adjusted bell schedule)
• Week of January 26: Literacy Week
• January 28: Basketball VS GRMS
• January 30: Basketball VS MMS
• January 31: Raider Store

Click on the flier to order.

Please note that the price of yearbooks increased after 12/20/24.

Complete the form on our website to request early check out. It is located on the bottom left (side bar) of the website. The form needs to be completed by 6 AM the day you are requesting early check out. After the 6 AM cut off, please send your child in with a note to the front office like normal. Please do not request early check out more than 2 days in advance.

As a safety precaution, students will only be released to the parent/guardian or the Emergency Contact listed in HAC. A current driver’s license must be presented to the front office to check a student out early. The following procedure will be strictly enforced: NO student may be signed out after 1:15 PM daily. Parents must arrive in the office no later than 1:15 PM in order to sign their child out early. Students who check out during the school day due to illness are not eligible to return to school that evening to participate in activities or to be a member of the audience.

Behavior expectation assemblies will be held Tuesday, January 7th. Expectations were taught and have been reviewed since the beginning of the school year.

• At the end of the year, students can attend a field trip as a reward for their behavior.
• Students who earn ISS or OSS during 2nd semester, to include for tardies and demerits, will NOT BE ELIGIBLE to participate n the grade-level reward trip.
• Students who commit a Level 4 offense during the entire school year, will NOT BE ELIGIBLE to participate in the grade-level reward trip. Please see Section 5, Levels of Discipline, on page 31 in our Student Code of Conduct for examples of Level 4 offenses.
• Students with 15 or more unexcused absences during the school year will NOT BE ELIGIBLE for the trip.
• For 8th grade students, these behavior requirements also apply to the 8th grade formal dance.
• Once a reward trip has been paid for, we will be unable to give refunds or transfer the reservation to another student’s name.

Each month, our staff nominate students who display the pillar of Charcter for that month. Students will be celebrated the first week of the next month with lunch provided by the PTSO.

This month, we look for students who display the pillar of Respect. We look for students who:

• Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule
• Are tolerant and accepting of differences
• Use good manners, not bad language
• Are considerate of the feelings of others
• Don't threaten, hit, or hurt anyone
• Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements

Please congratulate the following students for being nominated by a staff member for having shown exemplary character in all pillars in the month of December. Students will be celebrated at lunch this week.

6th Grade

Lillian Ball

Nandini Bellamkonda

Madeleine Boring

Ellis Erickson

Hunter Hickman

Kayla Humphrey

Jazmin Jones

Adrianna Joyce

Brooklyn Newman

Gabriel Pereverzoff

Samantha Sona

Jillian Wilson

Nalei Wilkins

Kylie Woods

7th Grade

Kaitlyn Brown

Emma Deshaj

Elizabeth LaFleur

Delaney Hill

Connor McCarthy

Nathaniel Perez

Maximus Pineda-Cerritos

James Reynard

Isabella Torres

Natalie Trevino

8th Grade

Ian Brito

Keeley Capps

Soffiia Cherneichuk

Halston Flack

Mara Fransioli

AJ Fryzel

Luis Garcia

Nathan Goslin

Addison Grimes

Ava Hillier

Claire Hurst

Natalie Kelton

Ashlyn Madden

Savannah Morrow

Shayne Murphy

Mackenzie Rell

Kyleigh Rivera-Sotelo

Amelia Sipkousky

Kingston Watson

Rashad Williams

Alysa Zacharieu

In partnership with Resiliency Florida, we will explore specific characteristic(s) each month. You can find out more information by visiting their website: https://www.buildresiliency.org/ . Please see the attached documents that relate to this month's Character Counts! pillar of Respect.

America250 just launched America’s Field Trip for the 2024–2025 school year! America’s Field Trip is a nationwide scholastic contest that invites students in grades 3–12 to share their perspectives on what America means to them through artwork or essays — with the opportunity to earn an unforgettable field trip experience at some of the nation’s most iconic historical and cultural landmarks.

• 25 first-place awardees from each grade level category and a chaperone will receive airfare and lodging for a 3-day, 2-night trip to a select historical or cultural site.
• Second-place recipients will receive a $500 cash award.
• The teacher associated with the top-scoring student submissions in each grade level category will receive a $1,000 cash award.

Visit America250’s website to learn more about how students can enter, and for contest rules, judging criteria, classroom resources, and more. The deadline for submissions is April 16, 2025!

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., ESSAY AND POSTER CONTEST

OUR THEME FOR 2024-2025:

“The time is always right to do what is right.” MLK JR

The St. Johns Education Association is pleased to present the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. essay and poster contest. We work with the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee of St. Johns County to celebrate the life and works of this American hero.

Essays and posters are due on January 31st, by 5:00 pm to the SJEA office: 1260 N. Ponce De Leon Blvd., Suite F, St. Augustine, 32084. Late essays and posters will not be accepted.

Essay and poster judging will take place the first week of February. SJEA will notify all contest winners through their submitting teacher.

We will be hosting our annual awards ceremony in the St. Augustine High School auditorium in February 2025 (actual date TBD).

See attached flier for all the details.

Please see the attached document about Varsity Tutors, a resource that is free to your students!

SPMS National Junior Honor Society is sponsoring an opportunity to send a special birthday or congratulations message to your student via the marquee in the front of the school. Cost is $25. Complete the form here to submit your request (there's a separate link in the form to pay via Schoolpay upon submitting your request). Requests are due the Friday prior to the event and will display the following week (Tuesday through Monday). Example: If you turn in the request on Friday, September 17, then your message will be displayed on Tuesday, September 21.

The Switzerland Submersibles won the Rising All Star award. This is awarded to a new team that the judges are impressed with and who they expect big things from in the future!

The Swiss Submarines won the Championship award and will be advancing to the regional competition!!!

Your winterguard team will kick off the competition season with the annual Friends and Family event on January 15, 2025 from 6-8pm! Come support them so they can get those performance jitters out before they hit the competition circuit! $5 - Keep an eye out for more information!

At this time, the opening of School Daze and The Redemption of Gertie Green have been postponed due to the air conditioning unit breaking in the Auditorium. As soon as it has been replaced, we will be in touch with new dates. Sorry for any inconvenience, and we hope to see you at the theatre in the Spring!

Battle of the Books is a competition team based around knowledge of the Sunshine State Young Reader Award Books (SSYRA). The goal of the SSYRA program is to promote the love of reading for students. The SSYRA list is composed of 15 books from a wide variety of genres and interests. Students can read the books and take a short quiz on them in the media center to earn prizes.

The team will be composed of 5 members and 2 alternates. Membership is based on scores during try outs. Information on try outs will come out in December. Try outs will be in January. Practice will be once a week after school until the competition in March.

Please email Madison.Gowin@stjohns.k12.fl.us if you have any questions about SSYRA or Battle of the Books!

The PTSO would love your help stocking the Raider Store! The Raider Store is where students can spend their hard earned Raider Bucks. Your student earns Raider Bucks from their teachers and staff for showing good character in the classroom and hallways. They can then spend them in the PTSO-sponsored Raider Store. We are always looking for new and fun things to stock the store with to keep the students coming back. Please put your student's name on the gift, and he/she will be credited Raider Bucks for your donation!

Thank you for your support!

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