Dear Tiger Families, Happy Spring! After such a tough winter, we are excited to get back on track with our students. We are looking forward to seeing you at our Student-Led conferences and Report Card pick-up on April 9 from 3:20-7:00 (floating) so that your child can share their academic progress this year. Please RSVP so that we can get an accurate count for dinner. Following the student-led conference if you would like to schedule a conference with your child’s teacher concerning your child’s academic progress, please leave your contact information on the sign-in sheet in the classroom. Students are invited to attend Study Hall or Extended Learning on Wednesdays and Thursdays to support their learning. Please check the Parent Assist Website to check grades or attendance. As we approach the End-Of-Year testing season, please encourage your student to set good habits by getting plenty of rest by going to bed at a consistent time and turning off all technology at bedtime. Also encourage them to eat a good breakfast. If at all possible try to schedule outside appointments so as not to disrupt your student’s instructional time and, if possible, leave messages and items that your student may have forgotten with office staff rather than calling your student out of class as classroom participation is crucial to success. Thank you for partnering with us! With Tiger PRIDE, Patrice W. Brown Principal

Principal’s News

CONTENTS

1-Rising 7th Info, Attendance & Illness

2-Concert Dates, Student Led Conferences, End of Year Info, Save the Dates

3-Calendar, NJHS Inductions, Proctors Needed, PTA/Leadership Openings

4-What’s Going On at WGMS in pictures, LEAD Breakfast

5-Music Dept. News, #EscapetheVape campaign, Lost & Found Things to Do on Spring Break

6-8 “New” – Important news from GCS:

OneCard for all students

8-Tiger Ladies Meet

Apr i l 2019 I ssue 8

Western Guilford Middle School Newsletter

***Rising 7th Grade Students*** All rising 7th grade students need the Tdap Booster and the MCV4 (Meningococcal)

immunizations before the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year. Spring Break is a good time to make arrangements and get those immunizations. Please provide the

office with proof of immunization for your child’s records.

Patr ice Brown, Pr incipa l Chase Arr ington, Ass is tant Pr incipa l Chr is t ian Walter , Ass is tant Pr incipa l

401 Col lege Road

School Attendance and Illness

Regular school attendance is important to the academic success of all students. However, if your child has a fever, is experiencing vomiting or diarrhea, he/she cannot attend

school. Your child will need to be picked up if this occurs at school and remain home until fever free for 24 hours and the vomiting and diarrhea has subsided.

Students are successful when they are rested and well!

Visitation Policy It is our goal to accommodate parents in a way that will not disrupt teaching and learning and will permit us to maintain a safe and orderly school. Therefore, we

require that parents/guardians/visitors schedule appointments through the Administration 24 hours in advance. Visitors will not be allowed to enter the

classrooms without an appointment and/or approval from an administrator. For lunch visits with your students prior scheduling is not required. Please remember that all

visitors are required to sign in at the front desk and receive a Visitor’s badge that you are required to wear at all times during your visit.

Student Led Conferences

Student Led Conferences and Report Card pick-up will be held Tuesday, April 9,

3:20-7:00. An invitation and dinner reservation will be sent home April 2 and must be returned by April 5. Your student will choose several examples of her/her work to show you and will practice leading a conference with you. Afterward you will receive your student’s report card. This is an important part of your student’s

academic year. Please be supportive and make every effort to attend. If you wish to stay for dinner, Chick-Fil-A will be available for those who return the

reservation. Following the Student Led Conference if you feel that you need to set up a

conference with your child’s teacher a sign in form will be provided for you to request a conference.

It is always important for you to attend events where WGMS staff can share with you regarding your students’ academics. However, on April 9 it is especially

important because we have important information to share with you about the OneCard, the new Guilford County Schools Student Identification and Access Card.

Please read the article on page 6-8 of this newsletter

CONTACTING YOUR STUDENT

If you call during the school day to speak with your

student we will be happy to have your student call you at

the next class change. If you need to speak with your

student on an emergency basis, please state that when

you call. Our goal is to preserve the instructional time for all students with

minimal interruption to the class.

If you wish to deliver something to your student we ask that you leave the item with the office staff and it will be delivered to your

student at the class change to minimize the interruptions in

the instructional time.

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SAVE THE DATE

End of Year

There will be several activities and celebrations as we move closer to the last day of school. As soon as we have dates, times, and details we will publish that in our

newsletter, post it on our website and continue to inform you through ConnectEd calls. If you are not receiving your ConnectEd calls please check with the front office at 336-

316-5833 to make sure we have your correct contact information. Please make sure your student has returned all Media items and paid all outstanding fees

so that they may participate fully in end of year activities. It is very important to keep your address and contact information updated. Provide the office with a current power/water/gas/oil bill or lease agreement. For 8th grade students having current addresses on records is crucial in order for us to be able to

forward students’ cumulative records to the correct high school setting for the 2019-2020 school year.

Link Up…..

Link your Harris Teeter VIC card to Western Guilford Middle by

using the code 1201 and at Target, just say “WGMS” when

you check out. These stores partner with schools and by

linking your card or remembering “WGMS” our school benefits from your

purchases.

EOG Testing May 28-6 Reading/7-8 Math EOG’s May 29-6-M/7-8 Reading May 30-8 Sci/6-7 NCFE & CFA Sci May 31-6-8 NCFE & CFA-SS May 31-8th Grade Dance 06/07-PTA’s End of Year Celebration June 10-End of Year Awards

In order to participate in End of Year Activities, make sure your student has paid all fees owed

(cafeteria, fundraiser, etc.) and turned in all library books.

The dates for the Spring Music Concerts are as follows:

• May 21: 6th and 7th Grade Band, Orchestra and Chorus – 6:30 pm • May 23: 8th Grade Band, Chorus and Orchestra – 6:30 pm

All concerts will be at 6:30pm in the multi-purpose room with a 5:45 call time for

students.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 April 1 is April Fool’s

But we’re not kidding,

We still have school!

2 Rising 6th Grade

Parent Night

3 4 Guilford Elementary

visits

5 6 Saturday Academy

8 Jefferson Elementary

visits

9 Alderman

Elementary visits Student Led

Conferences & Report Card Pick

Up 3:20-7pm

10 6th Grade goes to

11 7th & 8th -Jr.

Achievement for a Day

12 PTA Dance 6-8

13 Saturday Academy

Music Dept. Performs at Carowinds

15 PBIS Celebration

16

PE Intramurals to replace Bowling

17

8th Grade OBX Trip

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SPRING BREAK BEGINS

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29 1st Day back a�er

Spring Break

30 May 1 May 2 May 3 International Day Leadership Day Talent Show Interims Go Home

May 4 Saturday Academy

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LEADERSHIP TEAM & PTA

2019-2020 Parent Leadership Team

Representative Nominations are Open:

We are seeking a parent representative for 6th , 7th, and 8th grade our 2019-2020 Parent Representatives for

our School Leadership Team. We are also seeking parent officers for our 2019-2020 PTA . If you would like

to be nominated, please return the nomination slips that will be distributed at

Student Led Conferences on April 17th. We appreciate

your cooperation.

EOG Proctors are Needed

We are seeking proctors to assist with EOG

testing, which will be held from May 30- June 12th.

Please contact Mrs. Draper at (336)316-5833

if you are available.

Twitter: @TigersGMS

Facebook Search: “TigersGMS”

NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTION CEREMONY

On Wed., Mar. 27, 2019, WGMS inducted 6 new

members into the National Junior Honor Society:

MaDyson Johnson Aubrey Comeau Courtney Taylor Abiah George

Zoey MacIntosh Amiyah Staples

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These students were honored at the March LEAD Breakfast: Alana Massey Alexanda Avila-Juarez Daisy Call Eduardo Cortes Jonathan Redmer Rodney Crite Emily Diaz-Delgado Izzay Denny Faith Harris Marishka Santos Davian Lane Michelle Marquez-Barragon Blakley Mathieson Heaven Medrano-Nie Kimberly Serrano Seynabou Ndiaye Colin Nguyen Jaylyn O’Daniel Aaliyah Raleigh

First Home Track Meet

on our beautiful

new track!

WGMS Softball & Baseball

Teams getting ready for the

1st home game on the new

fields.

Suzanne’s Corner, the WGMS Food Pantry

receiving donations. Suzanne’s Corner is named in memory of former WGMS Data Manager, Suzanne

Mehaffey

On Mar. 1 Cindy

Cipriano, NC resident, and

author of many books for

middle school and young

teens, visited WGMS for

STEM Literacy Night. She

autographed books, spoke to crowd and posed with families for pictures.

Celebrating birthdays for Principal Brown, our School Social Worker, Mrs. Fox and

School Nurse

NJHS selling snacks to

raise membership

fee

WHAT’S GOING ON AROUND THE WGMS

CAMPUS?

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Things to do on SPRING BREAK-4/19-26

½ Price Sundays at the Greensboro Children’s Museum

Saturday morning story time at the NC Civil Rights Museum

Visit the North Carolina Zoo

Visit the Greensboro Sci-quarium

Easter Festival at Old Salem

Grab a good book, a picnic lunch and head out to one of Greensboro’s great parks or visit one of these great parks only an hour away:

Hanging Rock State Park

Pilot Mountain State Park

Guilford Courthouse National Park

Dan Nicholas Park & Rowan Wildlife Adventures

Catch a Greensboro Grasshopper’s game

Plant container gardens. You don’t need a lot of space to grow flowers and vegetables. An old bucket grows great tomatoes. A large can or milk jug is great for flowers.

Visit Blandwood Mansion, built in 1791 and home of former NC Governor John Morehead 1841-45 Go Ice Skating at the Greensboro Ice House-a sure way to cool off on a hot day Step back in time at Korner’s Folly in Kernersville, 22 rooms, all original furniture built in 1880 Take a quiet moment and enjoy the beautiful butterflies at All A Flutter Butterfly Farm in High Point Visit the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill where they always have an interesting program Take a walk in the Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden, 7.5 acres of beautiful local plants, trees, flowers Or the Greensboro Arboretum Visit the Greensboro Historical Museum or the Children’s Museum Access this link to even more wonderful things to do over Spring Break: https://www.familydaysout.co

m/kids-things-to-do-usa/greensboro/nc

Music Department Recruitment Trips On Thursday, March 7, The Chorus, Orchestra and Band Department visited 4

Elementary Schools, Guilford, Alderman, Jefferson and Morehead, as part of a recruiting tour for the 2019-2020 school year. The 3 groups performed for the students in an effort to promote the positive influence that music has in the academic success

of students and to encourage the rising 6th graders to enroll in Encore classes for band, chorus or orchestra.

National “Kick Butts” Day #Escapethevape

ARE YOU MISSING A LUNCH BOX? Check the Cafeteria wall? Miss Susie hangs all forgotten lunch boxes there.

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TIGER LADIES The WGMS Tiger Ladies met Mar. 28 to discuss personal business plans, a task that the Tiger Ladies had been given at the last meeting. A “special guest” surprise the members. Aaliyah Raleigh, Tiger Lady Member and

owner of her own catering business, Beloved Catering, presented to the group and demonstrated her cooking skills. Sampling some of Aaliyah’s specialties was a real treat!