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August 27, 2021

From the Desk of Mrs. Boytim, SMS Principal

What a great week SMS!

It is such a pleasure having all of our students in our building this year. We appreciate their positive attitudes and attempts to work hard, show expected behaviors, smile and work together every day.

The week ended with many students showing school spirit, wearing green and white! We also celebrated our Vikings team on Friday, as they are the PBIS Behavior Award winners of the week, showing the best PRIDE and positive behavior this week! Great job to our 6th grade team!

We hope all enjoy the weekend and we look forward to seeing our students Monday.

Mrs. Boytim

SMS Fall Sports Update

Football defeated Avon this week- great effort by all, especially performing in the heat!

Cross Country:

Congratulations to the Boys and Girls Cross Country team. They ran their first meet on Monday in the grueling 90 degree heat. The boys finished 2nd out of 14 teams and the girls finished 3rd out of 14 teams. The hard work pays off!

Volleyball 7th Grade GREEN: The 7th grade Green Lady Mustangs started off their season with two thrilling 3 set victories against Brunswick and Highland Middle Schools. Our great serving and communication were key factors in the victories this week. They are off to a great start. Keep up the hard work ladies!

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SMS Sports Picture Day

Sports Picture day will be Friday, Sept 17th at 3:00. More information will be shared by your coaches regarding packages and specific locations and times.

Student Shout Outs of the Week

Announcements & Reminders

Behavior Notifications

Students at SMS will be held accountable to minor behaviors through a system called Behavior Notifications. Staff will give a Behavior Notification to students when they see your student violating a minor student code of conduct. Staff will contact parents via email identifying the minor behavior. Students who progress in this system and reach 5, 7, 9th behavior notification or more, will be referred to the office for formal discipline. At this time, an administrator will contact home and assign discipline.

This system was created to help support students in learning expected behavior and create a consistent system for progressive discipline. It is our hope, through a supportive system of feedback and consistency, that we prevent students from getting to a level of discipline and they can learn from their behavior.

Major behaviors that violate our Student Code of Conduct will be handled immediately by administration and parents will be notified.

Thank you for supporting this process.

SMS MUSTANG SPIRIT DAY!

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Art Picture Collage!

Art class getting to know you project while learning about art supplies and using different materials! Then they turned the project into a photo frame!

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Picture Day

September 15, 2021

Re-take Picture Day- October 27th

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SMS PTA

Please join the SMS PTA. This year we will be accepting memberships through our online store only. The link is https://strongsvillems.memberhub.com/store.

Our meetings will be held the first Tuesday of every month at 9:30am at the middle school.

The 2021-2022 SMS Board Members:

Haley LaBahn - President

Krista Searles - Vice President

Jessica Boytim - 2nd Vice President

Lillian Longley - Treasurer

Marina Maenza - Recording Secretary

Amanda Warvel - Corresponding Secretary

Cinnamon Cifani - Council Delegate I

Jackie Saggio - Council Delegate II

Lesley Placeway - Council Delegate Alternate

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PTA Meeting Dates

2021-2022 SMS PTA Calendar

Meetings - First Tuesday of every month

September 7 – 9:30 AM SMS

October 5 – 9:30 AM SMS

November 2 – 6:30PM TBD

December 7 – 9:30 AM SMS

January 4 – 9:30 AM SMS

February 1 – 6:30 PM TBD

March 1 – 9:30 SMS

April 5 – 9:30 AM SMS

May TBD

Drop Off and Pick Up

Please be sure to drop off and vacate the parking lot as soon as you can as we utilize morning spaces for staff parking as well.
Please be sure to move your car as far forward as possible along the curb lane prior ot letting your student out at arrival. This helps not block the entrance and pushes traffic off of Pearl road.

Thank you for making our parking lot situation manageable.

SIMB Annual Mattress Sale

Strongsville Instrumental Music Boosters Annual Mattress Sale at the high school this weekend. This fundraiser benefits both the band & orchestra programs 5th gr thru 12th grade. Faculty & Staff also get 10% off.

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MASKS

Please make sure that all students have a mask to ride the bus to and from school. It is not a guarantee that a mask would be available to your student in the event they do not bring one on the bus. Please be sure your student packs a mask or two daily.

Stay Safe, Speak Up student hotline

Strongsville's Stay Safe, Speak Up student hotline is located on the district website. It is located on the main page on the top green bar. Students who believe they have been harassed, bullied, victimized by fellow students, or have other concerns which may jeopardize the safety of students, employees, or school facilities, are asked to Speak Up! and promptly report the issue using our District’s student/parent hotline – accessible both online and by telephone.

MUSTANGS TEAM SHOP - ONLINE NOW THROUGH SUN. 8/29

The “Back to School” online Mustangs Team Shop is open now through Sunday, August 29.

Shop for lots of great Strongsville gear, including personalized items! Visit https://mustangsteamshop-fl21.itemorder.com/ for the complete selection of items.

A portion of sales will be donated back to Strongsville City Schools.

Mustangs Lacrosse - FREE Skills Clinics

It’s that time of year again! Time for free lacrosse Fall skills clinics. These are for current players as well as kids who want to try out lacrosse as a new sport.

We are also looking for donations of old equipment for new players to try the sport. Please contact us if you have some to borrow or spare.

Please see the link below for more information:

https://www.strongsvillelacrosse.com/program/fall-skills/650