Middlesex Elementary

Cougar Staff Newsletter

Week of Monday, Jan. 13th - Friday, Jan. 17th

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Weekly Message:

Well this first week was exciting...a delay and an early release! Thank you for helping make sure everything ran smoothly.

As you all know, MES goal is to be a "B" school this year. When we reach this goal, we will be the first elementary school in Nash County to achieve a "B". I'm getting excited looking at data and our growth. We will start after school tutoring for 3rd and 4th grade in January.

You all hang in there! We CAN do this!!!

together

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Vision: Middlesex Elementary School is focused on preparing ALL students for bright futures by providing rigorous and global instruction in every classroom.

Mission: Middlesex Elementary School mission is that we will maintain highly rigorous instruction to support growth for 100% of our students.

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Coming Up

  • Tuesday, January 7th - Friday, January 31st- mCLASS/Star MOY Testing Window

  • Monday, January 13th- ACCESS Testing Opens

  • Friday, January 17th - Mandatory Teacher Workday

  • Monday, January 20th- MLK Holiday- No School

  • Tuesday, January 21st- Mandatory Teacher Workday

  • Tuesday, January 21st- Staff Meeting 8:30- (Media Center)

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  • Wednesday, January 22nd- Mandatory Teacher Workday

  • Friday, January 24th - Report Cards Issued

  • Monday, January 27th - Friday, January 31st - NCCI 5th Grade Science Testing Window

  • Thursday, January 30th- Knapp's Class Field Trip (Bowling)

  • Thursday, January 30th - Kindergarten's Field Trip (Marbles Museum)

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Week at A Glance

Daily:

  • All staff present by 7:15 AM (In the classroom or duty location)

  • Students may begin entering at 7:20 and will report to the cafeteria.

  • At 7:40, all students will report to HR class.

  • Any student arriving between 7:40-8:00 will eat breakfast in the cafeteria before class.

Week at a Glance

Monday, January 13th

  • ACCESS Testing Window Opens

Tuesday, January 14th

  • Regular School Day

Wednesday, January 15th

  • Regular School Day

Thursday, January 16th

  • Regular School Day

Friday, January 17th

  • Mandatory Teacher Workday

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Important Reminders:

**The leadership team met and decided to have teachers wipe down tables and sweep floors in the cafeteria. This will allow the custodians to be in the rooms, vacuuming and pulling trash. Please make sure this is in your sub plans so substitutes are aware. Also, make sure NO student is wiping tables, but students can sweep.

For the most part, the tables and floors are being cleaned. A few classes have left, and the floor hasn't been swept. Please don't forget to sweep before leaving (and a student may do that).

Reminder

** Have your lesson plans in your lesson plan folder by Thursday at 5:00.

**Reminder, the mClass window is open, however INSTRUCTION should not stop! You should be following the district's pacing guide and teaching the standards needing to be taught DAILY! Please let admin know if you need help or assistance with this.

**Reflect on your PDP goals... what do you need to do to ensure you reach your goal? PDPs will need to be updated BY January 17th.

**mClass is open and ends of the 31st. Please remember to complete the vocabulary and spelling components! If students are red on their composite score, they must have a spelling assessment completed but it is not a bad idea to have all the students complete it.

**Teacher Assistants, please make sure you sign up for your PD mini conference by Jan. 15th. The PD is Wednesday Jan. 22nd from 12:30 to 4pm at the Impact Center in Rocky Mount (Word Tabernacle). The link is here to register.

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NCPS Master Calendar

Master Schedule
Grading Deadlines
Grading Deadlines

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Certified Transportation Promotion Information

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Team up with Malcolm Mitchell, Super Bowl Champion, and train to compete in the January 2025 READBowl with a fun, free Marathon of reading minutes! 

Sign up your class for FREE and participate in the 26.2 day READMarathon that begins October 8, 2024.

Read Marathon

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Staff Duty Information

Cafeteria morning duty:

  • Students arriving at school before 7:40 will report to the cafeteria.  

  • Students arriving at school after 7:40 may go to the cafeteria to eat breakfast or go straight to class.

  • As they enter, they go through the line, get breakfast, and sit down where directed.  As the table fills up, move to the next table. 

    • monitor at the entrance as students will try to wait to sit with friends

  • Students should not sit down and then decide to get up to eat.  Warn them several times and then inform an administrator if they still do not follow these expectations.  Do not deny them breakfast!  We will work to get them to follow the policy.

  • Students should sit quietly…eat, throw trash away, and wait to be dismissed

  • Dismiss students by tables, regardless of grade

    • monitor in the halls as students will try to wait to walk with friends

  • Monitors will be on duty in the cafeteria each morning to assist students…be on time!!!

Cafeteria lunch:

  • Teachers are expected to follow the lunch schedule as closely as possible, be on time, and leave at the designated time.  

  • Monitor the classes while they are in line and while they are eating to ensure that students are not making excessive noise.  

  • Each class should be seated at adjoining tables to be more easily supervised.  

  • During lunch, the teacher or assistant must accompany the students to the cafeteria, remain in the cafeteria during the scheduled lunch, and escort them back to class. 

  • There should be absolutely no talking for the first 10 minutes. If students get too loud, warn them to lower their voices. If they do not comply after a warning, they should not talk for the next 5 minutes.

  • Teachers should assign students the responsibility of cleaning the tables and floors, as needed, before leaving the lunchroom to avoid leaving an unclean area for the next class.  Cleaning tables means picking up trash and wiping their crumbs on plates.  Students may sweep but are not allowed to use the spray and wipe table.

Dismissal:

  • All teachers should have students packed up and ready to be dismissed by 2:55.

  • Dismissal begins at 3pm

  • Mrs. Yebra/Mrs. Elder/Mrs. Jones will go through the line and enter the information into PikMyKid

  • teachers should have an interactive panel logged into PikMyKid (see email)

  • Students' names will pop up on the screen

  • Send them out

  • Dismissal staff will be at cones to assist

  • cones will now be numbers (1, 2, 3, 4), not colors

  • At 3:30, all car riders will go to the front office.

  • At 3:30, all K-2 bus rider students will go to Mrs. Holley's room for September.

Classroom:

  • Must be posted on the board (daily):

    • Clear learning purpose

    • I do, We do, You do (alone/together)

  • Orderly, neat, and student-centered

  • Attractive and interesting to students

  • Students should be assigned tasks to straighten and pick up the room daily.  

  • Rooms should always be left orderly, with materials put away. 

  • When leaving school, you should be sure windows and/or doors are locked, and the lights turned off. 

It is the job of all members of Middlesex Elementary School to keep our school clean. 

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Middlesex Elementary School HUB 24-25

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Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to all the staff members who celebrate a birthday this month!!

January:
02- Cessy Flores
20- Rhonda Jones

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Shout Outs

Shout outs come from different staff members. Please click on the image to send a shoutout to a staff member.


staff shout outs

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Check-in
Please complete the check-in weekly. This is a great way to let us know if you need support. Click on the link to complete the Google form.

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Resources and Inspiration

STEM JANUARY

Introduction Math Lessons & Google Slide Links

ROOMS: Campus Message Portal within Infinite Campus will not replace Rooms. Please continue to use ROOMS. Click on the link to view teacher expectations.

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HE-BoKKChcyi-TWE2CtkjNrTZNzlSw6r?usp=drive_link

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Greetings from Infinite Campus Training, 

For live webinar training event of the 2024 - 2025 Yearly Event Series, Adventures in Ad Hoc & Core Reports! To view and sign up for live sessions please visit our YES: Session Registration Grids webpage. 

 This year we are also introducing prize drawings where learners will have a chance to win an Infinite Campus YES Yeti tumbler! Learners who attend at least 3 sessions during the event and anyone who submits feedback for the sessions that they attend will be entered for a chance to win! 

 Can't attend live? No problem! Sessions will be recorded and available to review all year long. You will receive an email notification the week of September 23rd with instructions on how to access the recordings for each session. 

Thank you, 

Infinite Campus Training 

Questions? 

Training@infinitecampus.com  

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Opportunity Culture

We are part of a national community of Opportunity Culture schools committed to reaching every student with excellent teaching consistently. You can read more about this on OpportunityCulture.org.

The cornerstone of an Opportunity Culture school is the Multi-Classroom Leadership model: small, collaborative teaching teams led by teachers with leadership skills and a record of high-growth student learning. Schools and districts around the country have joined the national Opportunity Culture initiative, and research shows that MCL teaching teams produced strong learning gains for students.

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NCPS Traditional Calendar 2024-2025

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Click on the image above for the Traditional School Calendar.

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Contact Us

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Click on the image above to access MES website.

Principal: Ginger Carey
Email:glcarey@ncpschools.net

Assistant Principal: Lorena Gonzalez
Email: lgonzalez@ncpschools.net

Middlesex Elementary School
13081 West Hanes Avenue
Middlesex, NC 27557

Phone: (252) 462-2815
Fax: (252) 235-5216