DATES TO REMEMBER

November 11: Veterans Day Celebration

November 17-19: Lime-stone Middle School Honor Band Clinic

November 18: Texas Roadhouse Pick Up

November 21: Interims Issued

November 22: Parent Luncheon

November 23-25: Thanksgiving Holiday

December 2: Winter Ball

December 6: Band Christmas Concert at 6:00 pm at NHS

December 13: 2nd An-nual Holiday Dessert Theatre at 6:00 pm at NMS

December 19—January 3: Winter Break

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE IS ON PAGE 7 OF THE NEWSLETTER

VOLUME 6, ISSUE OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 NEWSLETTER

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NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Thanksgiving is a time for family, delicious food, and for us, also reflecting on the successes of the past three months of school. We have so much to be thankful for and proud of at Newberry Middle School. Some of which include but are not limited to the following: We have had an outstanding first quarter due to the combined efforts of our students, parents, faculty and staff. Our students have been busy with a variety of events including: fundraising activities; participating in sports and extracurricular activities; and for our 6th grade class and new students, simply finding their way around NMS and adjusting to a new school. Special thanks to our PTO and parent volunteers for all their help with the Otis Spunkmeyer Fundraiser, Picture Day, and Fun Friday. I also want to thank our teachers and Guidance Department for hosting a wonder-ful Report Card Pick Up which provided parents with an op-portunity to meet or conference with teachers. We challenge all of our parents to visit NMS, and get to know our faculty and staff. We will have our “Thank You” Parent Luncheon on November 22nd, and encourage you to come eat lunch with your child!

Kimberly Shelton-Hamilton, MHRD, Ed. S. Principal Newberry Middle School 803-321-2640 ext. 16002 803-321-2641 (fax) 803-321-2641 (fax)

Atención familias Hispanas: Si usted necesita traducción de este informativo, por favor comuní-

quese con el Sr. Nunez al teléfono 803-271-2256.

NMS LIBRARY COLLECTING BOX TOPS

Parents, please collect your Box Tops from General Mills prod-ucts. Our NMS library is collecting them. All proceeds support our school library. We’ll be having our annual Carolina-Clemson Box Top com-petition in November so be sure to collect them for your favorite team!

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SCHOOL WEBSITE www.newberrymiddleschool.org

If you want to know the best way to keep up with what is

going on at NMS, please make sure you check our

school website regularly.

DROPPING OFF STUDENTS For the safety of our students, all students who are

car riders need to be dropped off in the car rider loop

(outside of gym) everyday. Drop off begins at 7:30

a.m. Only students who are tardy (after 7:50 a.m.)

are allowed to be dropped off in the front.

The NMS afterschool FREE tutoring program is off to a great start! This is a reminder that tutoring services are available in ELA and social studies on Mondays and math and science help is available Tuesday afternoons. Stu-dents need to come prepared with homework, classwork, materials to study, or a project to work on. Forms are avail-able in the front office to sign your child up.

CATCH-UP CAFÉ Our morning and lunch Catch-Up Cafe has begun. Each grade level has a designated room for early morning Catch-up Cafe. This is assigned by teachers for students who have missing or incomplete work. Lunch Catch-Up Cafe is open on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. Students must fill out a form to be allowed to stay for tutoring at lunch. Students are given a pass to get to the front of the lunch line before reporting with their lunch and work to Catch-up Cafe.

ESOL Students of the Week

October 10th- Jessica Hernandez Vega October 17th- Pedro Guadalupe Diaz

October 24th- Paola Flores Luis October 31st- Beatriz Sosa

ESOL Student of the Quarter

(1st Nine Weeks):

6th Grade Bertilia Perez Lucas

7th Grade Thania Serrano Balderas

8th Grade Estefani Morales Maldonado

Keyboarding’s Top Typists for

the 2nd Quarter

Top Typist Celebrations! 8th

Christalyn Paul 7th

Travis Harmon 6th

Ahmari Livingston Mya Roireau Caleb Racine

SCIENCE OLYMPIAD NEWS

Science Olympiad members - keep working on your research for the event you are participating in. We look for-ward to a great performance at Science Olympiad in February.

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YEARBOOKS FOR SALE

$35.00 FOR 2017 YEARBOOK

SEE MRS. PITTS IN

ROOM 503

WE ALSO HAVE OLD YEAR-

BOOKS FOR SALE FOR

$10 AND $5

VETERANS DAY CELEBRATION

Calling all Veterans! Please join us for a Veterans Day Assembly on Friday, November 11th at 8:00 in our school's gym. We will have some speeches and musical selections performed as a way to honor our Veterans and show a small token of our appreciation for their valiant efforts.

NMS LIBRARY NEWS

The library is holding our annual Carolina-Clemson Box Top competition. Be sure to start turning those Box Tops into the library. We’ll be giving updated to-tals and the winning team will be announced on Tiger TV the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. We also recycle used printer cartridges so please send those to school and help our Newberry Middle School library. All Box Tops are due to the library by Nov. 21st. The student who turns in the most Box Tops will receive a prize from the library. The winning team will be an-nounced on November 22nd.

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6TH GRADE NEWS

Parent packets for the 6th Grade Field Study will be sent home next week. Field Study Destination: Myrtle Beach, SC Cost of Trip per person: $200 Payment Due Dates: *November 10–$50 down payment due *January 2017–$50 *February 2017-- $50 March 2017-- $50 or remaining balance due (no exceptions, as our school’s final payment is due to the travel company.) All trip expenses will be paid before we depart. Fund-raising opportunities: *Otis Spunkmeyer-- School-wide fundraiser. *Raffle Tickets— Wal-Mart gift cards -- each student gets $1.00 credit for every ticket sold. *Other fundraisers to be determined.

8TH GRADE WASHINGTON TRIP

The NMS 8th Grade Washington Trip will be Wednesday, March 22, 2017 through Friday, March 24, 2017. Admin-istration reserves the right to require a parent to travel with his/her child if he/she: Has not made academic progress. Has an UNSATISFACTORY attendance record. Has shown disrespect or has been insubordinate to those in leadership positions. Has been a source of disruption; a discipline problem or whom they believe would jeopardize the smooth operation of the trip. A student who has received an out-of-school suspension during the school year will be deemed ineligible to attend the trip.

The 2016-2017 Washington D.C. trip costs $595 maximum for each student.

Parents will make payments to Newberry Middle School. Payments may be made in installments or one single payment. No checks will be accepted for the final payment.

Payment Instructions Make checks or money orders payable to: Newberry Middle School. The payment schedule is as follows:

The entire balance must be paid by February 17, 2017. It is highly encouraged to stick to the pay-ment schedule if a lump sum payment is not made. No checks will be accepted on the final pay-ment. Cost estimates are based on each bus being fully loaded and quad occupancy. If you have any questions, please contact Charlene Kenley or Tiffany Chaplin at 803-321-2640.

December Fund Raiser for 8th Grade Field Trip- Raffle for dining gift cards

(Examples: Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, and/or Applebee's).

Payment Amount Date Due By

Payment 3 $119.00 November 18, 2016

Payment 4 $119.00 January 17, 2017

Payment 5 $119.00 February 17, 2017

NMS ACADEMIC BOWL TEAM Practices for the Academic Bowl Team are as follows:

November 17 December 1 December 8

December 15

7th Grade Field Study Information

The next payment is due November 14, 2016. If you have not made a deposit, but are still interested in the trip you can bring your deposit to Mrs. Mulieri on or before November 14th.

After November 14, 2016 NO NEW DEPOSITS will be accepted.

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PHONE NUMBER CHANGE?

If any of your child’s contact telephone numbers

change, it is very important that you let the

school office know! This includes any emergen-

cy contacts.

NOTE TO CAR RIDERS Car rider line - Attention drivers, PLEASE pull up as far as you can when picking up your child. This will allow us to move more vehicles into the pick up area and help with speeding up our line. Kindly do not stop for your child if there is space for you to pull forward.

Thank you for your help in this matter.

EARLY PICK-UP FROM SCHOOL

If your child needs to be picked up early from school, they must be

signed out in the main office. Only persons who are listed on the stu-

dent’s sign-out card will be allowed to sign them out. Anyone who

signs a student out early must have a picture ID with them. These

measures are in place for the protection and safety of all of our stu-

dents. No students are released from the office after 2:45 p.m.

every day. It is very important that students are present for all instruc-

tion throughout the day, so please try to make appointments after

school.

BETA CLUB CONVENTION NEWS

Beta Club Convention payments Payment 2 $50 is due 21 November Payment 3 $50 is due 14 December Final Payment $50 (or less - TBD) due 4 Jan 17

Students of the Month OCTOBER

The following students are Students of the Month:

6TH GRADE

Spartans-Dylan Shannon

Romans-Keirsten Frazier

Babylonians-Ethan Bright

Coleman-Sierra Martin

7TH GRADE

Explores-Tomi Thomas

Philosophers-Kris Andrade

Pathfinders-Kanaija Davis

Cooley-Brantley Rogers

8TH GRADE

Challengers-Madison Jones

Voyagers-Alejandro Hernandez

Holmes-Carlos Leyva

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Attention Beta Members

Please get started on your service hours. You are expected to com-plete 10 by the end of the semester. Our club will soon be collecting our school's recyclables as well as helping beautify our campus by picking up trash. This should provide you with a total of 3 hours of service earned right here at school. NMS Beta Club members are required to put in 10 service hours each semester. These are hours spent in the community helping with a community project. It cannot be doing chores for family or any work they get paid for. If you or someone you know in Newberry County has an event or activity and you are in need of some student volunteers, please contact Mr. Corsini. He will see if he can get some of our Beta Club members in-volved.

NMS CHORUS NEWS The NMS Chorus will be performing a special patriotic piece, titled "American Tears," as part of our Veteran's Day Assembly on Friday, Nov 11th at 8:00 am in the NMS Gymnasium. The song will feature vocal soloists Shakeemah Washington (8th), Kalynne Amick (7th) and Stephanie Gibson (7th), as well as an original dance rou-tine performed by Shanya Saddler (8th). Chorus stu-dents should wear blue jeans (no holes) and a red, white or blue top. This is a mandatory, graded performance for all chorus students and parents are welcome to attend. The NMS Chorus will host our 2nd Annual Holiday Des-sert Theatre on Tuesday, Dec. 13th at 6:00 pm in the NMS cafeteria. Come support the singers, enjoy some refresh-ments and help us spread holiday cheer in our communi-ty! For this performance, chorus students should wear concert attire, consisting of black pants, a white, collared shirt, and dark colored shoes. This is a man-datory, graded perfor-mance for all chorus students. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated- come join us!

NMS BAND NEWS

N o v e m b e r 1 7 -19: Limestone Middle School Honor Band Clinic! Six students from NMS were select-ed for the Limestone Band Clinic. They are Denise Cobon, Carson Carey, Phillip Orne, Az-ucena Mejia, Axel Tre-jo, and Ty Cook. These students will have a day and a half of re-hearsals before per-forming a concert on November 19th! We are so proud of them and know they will rep-resent the school well! December 6th: NMS/NHS Band Holiday Concert @ 6PM @ NHS Auditorium! Stu-dents should wear b l a c k p a n t s with Christmas sweat-ers/red shirt/green shirt.

NMS Sports Schedules

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2016-2017

NMS Tigers

Basketball Schedule

Date Opponent Location Time

November 30, 2016 CMW Away 5:00

December 1, 2016 HT Home 5:00

December 5, 2016 SC Home 5:00

December 8, 2016 WCS Away 5:00

December 12, 2016 GC Away 5:00

December 15, 2016 CMR Home 5:00

January 4, 2017 MC Home 5:00

January 5, 2017 CMW Home 5:00

January 9, 2017 HT Away 5:00

January 12, 2017 SC Away 6:00

January 18, 2017 WCS Home 5:00

January 19, 2017 GC Home 5:00

January 23, 2017 CMR Away 5:00

January 26, 2017 MC Away 5:00

January 30, 2017 Girls Tourney Round 1

TBA TBA

January 31, 2017 Boys Tourney Round 1

TBA TBA

February 1, 2017 Girls Semi-Final

TBA TBA

February 2, 2017 Boys Semi-Final

TBA TBA

February 6, 2017 Girls & Boys Championship

CMS TBA

Nursing Notations

Fighting the Flu Get vaccinated! It is the best way to fight

the Flu. You can do this at your health care provider’s office, county health de-partment, or Flu clinic.

Wash your hands frequently with soap and

water. You should wash them for about 20 seconds (as long as it takes to sing the “Happy Birthday” song twice). This helps to remove germs and viruses.

Avoid touching eyes, nose, and mouth.

Germs spread this way. Avoid contact with persons known to be ill /sick.

Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue

when coughing or sneezing and then throw the tissue away. Cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve if no tissue is available. Wash hands afterwards.

Eat healthy foods, exercise, and get plenty

of rest. Stay home / keep your child home if fever

of 100.0 or more before medication is given to reduce fever. In most cases, your child may return to school after he or she has been fever free for at least 24 hours without taking fever reducing medications.

Make sure the school has a way to reach

you during the school day. Students who become ill / sick at school must be sent home.

If you have any questions please feel free to

contact the school nurse at 803-321-2640.

Stay Healthy,

Nurse Tracy

6TH GRADE

Frederic Boyd

Ethan Bright

Abigail Corbett

Sarah Corona

Kaden Crawford

Lapri Cromer

Zaytraivius Cromer

Carlita Davidson

Devanie Gonzalez

Perla Hernandez Lozano

Jessica Hernandez Vega

Carol Illiescas

Lawson James

Faith Jiminez

Derrick Jones

Yuvika Kumari

Ahmari Livinston

Adamari Lopez

Jaasai Montes Torres

LaDaisha Piotrowski

Jasmine Quarles

Tayshaun Riley

Evangelina Rodriguez

Aniyas Ruff

Bryson Savage

Dylan Shannon

Jacob Sims

Tanasia Singley

A Mari Sligh

Joseph Voest

Kameron Wilson

Sabrina Worthy

7th GRADE

Andrea Aguilar

Jimena Aguilar

Emily Allen

Ryan Barnett

Tyler Beach

Isaac Castro

Coye Cutshall

Katelyn Davis

Isabelle Donahue

A’Mya Flemon

Carlos Flores

Hailey Gallman

Travis Harmon

Lacy Hawkins

Nitalia Herrera

Riley Hightower

Nicole Hill

John Kessler

Kaley Laprise

Jackson Lawrence

Rayahna Lindsay

Gissela Luis Sanchez

Nadia Marshall

Josue Mendoza Gomez

Eden Miller

Laura Mohler

Abby Nunley

Kevin Paez Morales

Elio Pendell

Ava Perkins

Shyanne Powell

Hannah Rikabi

Kenneth Ruff

Leo Sanchez

Hanif Sligh

Jacob Wilbur

Amaya Wilson

8th GRADE

Denise Cobon-Recinos

Aaron Corbett

Sydney Glasgow

Shakira Graham

Philip Livingston

Melanie Moore

Melanie Perez

Shevante Powell

Jenny Rodriguez-Vazquez

Liliana Rojas Alderette

Mattie Rumfelt

Conner Shannon

Ansely-Brooke Springer

Kaitlyn Stone

PRINCIPALS HONOR ROLL

6th GRADE

Kennedy Aldrick

Destiny Anderson

Rubit Arvizu Molina

Jamyia Barksdale

Autumn Bell

La Asia Brown

Ryan Brown

Jesse Bundrick

Carrie Burns

NyAriel Cannon

Jaxirit Carranza Benitez

Iyana Carter

Carolina Cervantes

Robert Coffey

Angel Cook

Clinton Corley

Noah Davenport

Ahjayreon Dawkins

Zoe Dominick

Mariam Encisco Vazquez

Dionte Epps

Alan Espinoza Cristano

Keirsten Frazier

Alberto Fuentes

Bhavkuma Gajera

Ta Leah Gallman

Cashia Gauci

Robert Glymph

Joselin Gomez

Shaquil Good

Kevin Graham

Hannah Griffith

Zechariah Hare

Danielle Harmon

Sha Diamo Henderson

Lisette Hernandez Rodriguez

Alicia Hernandez Vargas

Jessica Hernandez Vega

Cooper Holmes

Tyler Houseal

Jasmin Hyler

Aniyah Johnson

Kearria Joiner

Allahjah Jones

Taylor Kinard

Caitlyn Kingsmore

Jayla Lindsay

Sonny Longshore

Abigail Luis Sanchez

Yiddisha Lyles

James Madison

Sherill Martinez Rubio

Nathalie Mendoza

Lexi Morales Gonzalez

DeShana Peoples

Bertilla Perez Lucas

Luz Perez Rivas

Cinthia Pineda Garcia

Jalen Richmond

Taliyah Robinson

Alliyah Ruff

Shane Shackelford

Jacob Shealy

Cadence Smith

Aerial Stoudemire

Makizer Strother

Miliani Suber

Datricia Workman

7th GRADE

Shanayah Abrams

Mahonry Acosta

Daniela Aguilar

Kaylnne Amick

Kris Andrade

Rebecca Aquino Chavez

Elijah Austin

Harley Bennett

Colby Bickley

Eric Bishop

Gigi Blackmon

Jeremy Bland

Santrez Boyd

Joe Brehmer

Jamaya Brown

Jason Carrouth

Zechariah Chalmers

Ty Cook

Keshawn Cooper

Juan Cruz Lopez

JaQuan Davis

Kanaija Davis

Nieam Douglas

Joshua Eason

Christopher Edgins

Tylik Elkins

Zsyheim Epps

Tavaris Gallman

Stefani Gibson

Leila Marie Gomez

Janyiah Goode

Cameron Grier

Pedro Guadalupe Guardado

Rosa Guadalupe Guardado

Jade Hardin

Marwan Hassan

Marbella Hernadez Castillo

Maria Jose Herrera

Colton Holden

Taz Holley

Lanaya Jackson

Diamond Jones

Leann Krist

Serena Letterman

Ramarah Lever

Kirdland Lown

Shelby Martin

Tamera McClurkin

Naomic McGowan

Luke Morris

Taylor Nelson

Greissi Perez Martinez

German Ponce Espinoza

Paeton Radford

Jomara Ramirez

Griseida Ramos Ordaz

Toby Richardson

Heath Rikard

Kenya Rush

Eduardo Sebastian Pedro

Sheilin Silvero Domingot

Jalayah Sims

Beatriz Sosa

Christopher Tellez Lucas

Tomi Thomas

Nichole Tlahuechtl-Huerta

Stephany Vazqquez Gonzales

Noah Waldrop

AJ Ware

D Erica Wilbourn

Jamal Williams

Ahmirah Wilmore

Tyrese Wise

Sherylyn Zamora

8th GRADE

Sarali Acosta Vazquez

Ambrosia Aguilar

Kaylin Austin

Taureana Bennett

Ashley Boswell

Marci Bouknight

Carson Carey

Cameron Caughman

Zerolar Chapman

Jahliah Coleman Eigner

Mykell Cromer

Akira Cruz Alvarez

Urian Dimas Alvarez

Somaria Ellis

Tyzha Griffin

Mohamed Hassan

Eric Hernandez

Megan Hunter

Madison Hutchison

Autumn Joiner

Bethany Jones

Madison Jones

Colby Kneece

Carlos Leyva Alderete

Azaria Lindsay

Devante Mathis

Sean McFadden Newman

Azucena Mejia Santiago

Trishten Miller

Chase Minick

Ana Gabriel Morales

Rodrigo Nava Munoz

Brandon Nichols

Ryan Para Mendoza

Christalyn Paul

Alejandro Rivera Hernandez

Kyshari Singley

Giselle Villegas

Zymaurlasia Watts

Tyler Wilson

Andre Wise

Ivy Woods

Jarrett Worthy

A / B HONOR ROLL

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