Paris Middle School

Paris Middle School has been celebrating Dr Seuss and Read Across America Week by dressing up and competing with grades and classes on their reading time! It has been a fun week celebrating reading!

Paris Middle School is hosting a 5th/6th Grade Read-a-Thon Feb. 26-March8. Please consider supporting a reader by going to https://www.read-a-thon.com/school/_57466 Thank you!

We challenged the 7th and 8th graders to a 30 day Expectation Challenge! For 30 days, we focused on Effort, Attendance and Respect. Effort: no missing assignments Attendance: Zero unexcused absences and no detentions for tardies Respect: no more than 1 lunch detention and 0 office referrals On Friday, we entered the names of those students who met the criteria for one, two or three of these categories and we drew for gift cards! Winners for 7th grade: Effort: Josslyn Smith, Emma Tencleve, Ezekiel Kemp Attendance: Blakelyn McKinney, Kane Miller, Emily Helton Respect: Tanner Robison, Jasmine Salgado, Abery Hamilton Winners for 8th grade: Effort: Kara Massey, Chloe Moore, Riley Floren Attendance: Aiden Hull, Isaac Lowe, Maddi Howard Respect: Landyn Kremers, Kylie Kimberling, Rome Campbell Congratulations to these students and we will roll out our next 30 day expectation challenge soon! If you would like to donate a gift card, please get with Mr Prieur

Dance: Dance through the Decades 2/16/24 in the Middle School gym!! If you want to bump it up a notch you can DRESS like a decade – 80’s, 90’s, etc. get creative!!! Tickets ARE on sale for $5.00 and may be bought during 7th period in room 8 (Mrs. Cole’s room) or at the door day of the dance – 5th and 6th grade dance will be 3:30 – 5:00 (they can stay after school if they are attending the dance) and 7th and 8th will dance from 5:30 – 7:00 (no outside dates allowed). Pick up and drop off will be the same procedures as the normal school day.

REMINDER for Thursday: Paris MS will take the Science Atlas Interim Test and 8th grade students will need to report to the MS in the morning. All grades will take this Interim test, in preparation of the State Atlas test coming up this semester.

REMINDER: Paris Middle School does not accept deliveries, including floral deliveries, for or from students. With Valentine's Day approaching, this policy is important to take note. We appreciate your assistance with this.

DANCE TIME!!! Dance Through The Decades on February 16th! 5th/6th grade from 3:30-5:00. Students will be allowed to stay after school if need be. 7th/8th grade from 5:30-7:00. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased from Mrs Cole or at the door! Paris Middle School does not accept deliveries, including floral deliveries, for or from students. With Valentine's Day approaching, this policy is important to take note. We appreciate your assistance with this.

Paris Middle School students participated in the Battle of the Books competition at the Guy Fenter Education Co-op on Thursday, Feb. 8. Students competing include Camie Adway, Palak Patel, Holly King, Olivia Stringer, Lyla Cozens, Ainsley Wells, Liam Woods, and Preston Donahou. All teams performed well and our 5th-grade team of Olivia Stringer, Lyla Cozens, and Ainsley Wells took home the first-place trophy!

February 5th-9th is School Counselor Appreciation Week and Paris Middle School is BLESSED with the BEST School Counselor for our students, staff and families. Please reach out this week, if you can, and show your appreciation to Andrea Robertson for all she does!

Congratulations to our January Students of the Month: 5th: Saachi Patel, Jace Koch 6th: Alayna Goldsmith, Dacyn Raines 7th: Trenna Hamm, Jayden Her 8th: Taelyn Floyd, Rome Campbell (not pictured)

Congratulations to Braxton Brousseau and Kane Miller. These two were randomly picked out of this week's' Sticky Notes of students caught being good and they received a Day Pass to Daddio's Pinball and Arcade! Congratulations! We appreciate Daddio's for supporting our students at Paris Middle School!

FCA is a group that meets every Friday morning, before school, in the safe room at Paris Middle School. It was well attended this morning as Keith Bullock from CT Church gave a great message on labels! We appreciate the support from our local community investing in the lives of our young people!

This week during our grade level group talks, we have been discussing setting goals and how to achieve them. We have discussed with students reflecting on the first semester and finding something each student wants to improve on during the second semester: grades, behavior, attendance, etc... Please take some time to talk to your child about a goal they have for this semester and how they can achieve it!

Drumroll please........ Congratulations to the 2023-2024 Mr and Miss Paris Middle School. Mr PMS is Athan Wells- an 8th grade multi-sport athlete, honor student and member of the Quiz Bowl. Miss PMS is Maddison Howard who plays volleyball and is a cheerleader as well as an honor student! Congratulations!

FRIDAY: January 19th Paris schools will be in session Friday January 19 starting at 10 am. Buses will run 2 hours later than their normal time. If buses can not get to a stop those students will NOT be counted absent. Any parent that believes it is unsafe to get their students to the pick up stop can contact their child's school office and the student will not be counted absent. Our students and staffs safety is our top priority. Please be safe. All students will report to the middle school by 10:00. The school will be open at 9:40 for drop offs. All students will report to their 10:00 (3rd period) class.

Congratulations to our Spelling Bee Participants and winners: First place: ErraLynn Patterson Second place: Hadley Turner Third place: Katie Massey Other participants: Kyler Cameron, Chase Kimberling, Avri McCubbins, Sammy Hooten, and Wyatt Northcott.

We celebrated our December Students of the Month before the break but we forgot to celebrate them on Social Media!! 5th grade Makayla Collins and TaAron Hamm 6th grade Airicka Cameron and Alex Phillips 7th grade Jenice Boxberger and Hunter Barlow 8th grade Kenleigh Whitecotton and Daniel Gordon!!! 

We are excited to have students back on campus today!! Report Cards for second 9 weeks and 1st semester will be distributed in Advisory Classes this Friday!

The Gingerbread House Competition is complete for this part of the A Games! The winners will be announced this afternoon!

A GAMES are Monday! The last A Games of the first semester! During Monday's activities, the teams will be working on a Christmas Music Video and have a team competition of building gingerbread houses! In the afternoon, we will enjoy a movie and students will be able to purchase snacks from the concession stand! Parents, Grandparents, Guardians...have you ever been curious about A Games? Well Monday is your chance to check it out. We are inviting you to come to the MS cafeteria and watch the teams work together as they build their Gingerbread houses! We will have some refreshments as well. Check the graphic below to see what grades will be when! Please park behind the safe room or on the south side and enter the school through a cafeteria door! Have a great weekend and see you Monday!