Business Day 2014 Thursday, August 28, 2014 Session 1 @ 9-11am Session 2 @ 4-7:30 pm Athletic Meeting @ 7-7:30 in Forum This is a time to meet your child’s teachers, purchase PE uniforms, purchase a yearbook, see your child’s class schedule, purchase Jaguar Gear, meet our PTO, meet administration, prepay lunch account and tour TMS. Contact your child’s counselor if you have any questions or concerns at 582-7603 or the TMS main office at 582-7600. Ext: 6626 – Mr. Green 7th grade & 6th grace K-Z Ext. 6625 - Mrs. O’Bannon 8th grade & 6th grade A-J State Law requires all rising 6th grade students to receive a current Tdap vaccination BEFORE entering 6th grade. Please email, fax, or hand deliver your child’s immunization record to TMS attention Mara King, school nurse BEFORE the first day of school. 6th grade students who DO NOT meet this state immunization requirement will NOT be able to attend school on 9-2-14, the first day of school. THANK YOU in advance for your cooperation. Latin News….National Latin Exam Chance Nicholas received a certificate on the Intro to Latin Exam. Taylor White placed magna cum laude, and Hannah Pond placed cum laude on the National Latin Exam. Congratulations Ms. Chenault and students! --Designated​Blue Ribbon Music School​, second time since 2008-09 --Destination Imagination Team competed at the international level after qualifying at regionals and state competition --24 Game District Champions two consecutive years --3rd place overall in MS county debate tournament --Giving back to our community totaled more than 3000.00 to various local and state agencies, SECA (operation bus elves-27 gifts), SEA, Fredericksburg Food bank (over 200 pounds of food), Salvation Army (167 cans of food), Hope House Project and other community outreach --local middle school chapters of FBLA and FCCLA, vocational service middle school groups --Boys track county champions --hosted a successful 8th grade semi-formal, field day and awards ceremony --STEM club met after-school --SCOPE teacher received a grant from UMW to equip a STEM lab with 3D printer and other STEM technologies --1st year of PBIS and the 3 R's --1st summer promoting summer math program through Tenmarks math program-recommended by VDOE; over sixty TMS students are enrolled to participate this summer --Expanded use of Jaguar Bucks to reward students for various school accomplishments with a school store to redeem Jaguar Bucks called Jaguar General Store --7th and 8th grade students operated our Jaguar General Store --Successful Veteran's Day Ceremony and recognition of other groups such as Autism Awareness, Disability Awareness, Red Ribbon (Drug Abuse Prevention), Blue Ribbon (Child Abuse Prevention), and Math Education Month to name a few --2nd year TMS sent students to the Richmond Piedmont Science Fair. Four students entered and three placed in 2013 and fifteen students entered and seven placed in 2014 --English (reading) SOL performance increased by nearly 10% points meeting all FAMO subgroups --Science SOL performance increased 4% points --Algebra SOL performance increased by nearly 20% points --Writing SOL performance increased by 5% points --8th grade math SOL performance increased nearly 10% points