CMS Apprenticeship Highlight 11.12: Thank you to our CMS Yearbook Staff for this latest edition for our Bulldog Scoop Newsletter ❤🐾🖤
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CMS Bulldog Family (students, parents, community members, stakeholders) we need your help! In honor of Thanksgiving, we would like to celebrate and recognize our CMS Staff/Faculty. Please use the Google Form to nominate any/all CMS Staff Members that you are thankful for ❤🐾🖤
Homecoming Week this Week! Tuesday (Teacher/Student Swap Day), Wednesday (Hawaiian/Aloha Day), Thursday (Grill Dad/Soccer Mom), Friday (Pink Out)
*CHS Homecoming Parade on Cedarown Main Street @5:00PM*
BooGrams (only $1 each) on sale all week (and will be sold every day until Friday, October 25)! 100% of the profits go directly to our CMS AR Student Rewards!! Boo-Grams will be delivered to Homerooms on Halloween (Thursday, October 31)!!! ❤🐾🖤👻🎃
Purchase your Boo-Gram in-person with Mrs. Cox in the CMS Media Center (cash or check payable to CMS) or online:
https://polkcountyga.schoolwindow.com/.../cmsmediacenter...
CMS Encouraging Literacy Highlight 10.21: Our CMS Fall Book Fair will be in the Media Center until Friday, October 25! Shop online or set up an e-wallet for your CMS Student or Teacher!! Cash, credit/debt card, and checks payable to CMS are all accepted!!! ❤🐾🖤
It's Book Fair Time!
bookfairs.scholastic.com
🛎⛈IMPORTANT - WEATHER UPDATE🛎⛈
Based on conversations with state and local emergency management agencies regarding the incoming inclement weather from Hurricane Helene, Thursday, September 26 and Friday, September 27 will be Learn-from-Home days for all Polk School District campuses.
Please refer to communication channels from your student’s respective school/teacher for guidance and expectations regarding assignments.
A decision related to extracurricular activities/sporting events for Friday and Saturday will be announced at a later time. We apologize for the inconvenience, but will always make decisions in the best interest of our students and staff, keeping safety our first priority. Thank you for your continued support and stay safe.
⛈WEATHER UPDATE⛈
As part of our commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of our students and staff, we are continually monitoring updates from state and local emergency management agencies on the anticipated effects to our area from Tropical Storm Helene. The latest briefing indicates that school district operations could be impacted for Thursday and/or Friday. In an effort to help you best plan and prepare, we will provide an update regarding any potential delays or cancellations after 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 25. We appreciate your understanding and continued partnership.
CMS Partners in Education 9.19: Vargo Orthodontics (Rome, GA) donated $50 to CMS as a thank you to our Holden Stephens, 6th Grade, for being an amazing patient! Holden chose to donate the money to his Math Teacher, Mrs. Lisa Hitchcock, for classroom supplies!! Thank you to Dr. Vargo and his wonderful staff for being a CMS Partner in Education!!! ❤🐾🖤🦷
CHS Cheerleaders will be at CMS to sell CHS Spirit Items TOMORROW morning (Sept 13) in the CMS Gym (Beads $1, Pom $2, Tattoo $1)!!! ❤🐾🖤📣
Congratulations to our Mrs. Angela Williams and Coach Jeff Collier for being named CMS August 'Mindset' Winners! We honor and celebrated them today for their positive mindset and dedication to "Raising the BarK" everyday!!!❤🐾🖤 #HearOurBark
CMS Coca-Cola Fundraiser starts today! Students were given order forms this morning!! Money and order forms are due to Homeroom Teachers on Thursday, September 26!!! ❤🐾🖤
CHS Cheerleaders will be at CMS to sell CHS Spirit Items TOMORROW morning (Sept 13) in the CMS Gym (Beads $1, Pom $2, Tattoo $1)!!! ❤🐾🖤📣
SAFETY UPDATE:
Polk School District families,
As your Superintendent, but most importantly as a parent, I understand the uneasiness and uncertainty you may be experiencing regarding your child’s safety while at school. Last week’s horrific event proved that we can never put too much emphasis on protecting our most valuable assets–our children. As such, we have many security measures in place to protect our students and staff on a daily basis. Some of these safeguards which have been in place for three years or more include Centegix alert badges for all employees, multiple metal detectors at all schools/district facilities, access controls on all external doors, KIST (Keep It Safe to Teach) locks installed on classroom doors and throughout the building, mental health therapists, and a fully staffed Police Department that includes an officer at every school in our district, including two at each of our high schools, one of which is a K-9 officer. This list, however, is not exhaustive of all of our safety efforts because we do not want to compromise our security measures by sharing them publicly with those that could potentially use the information to do harm. We hope you can appreciate this added layer of protection.
As a district, we firmly believe that school safety is a shared responsibility. We ask that you take the time to have a conversation with your student(s) about the importance of their actions, especially when it comes to potential threats. We ask that all stakeholders that see something, say something by reporting alarming information to school authorities or through our anonymous tip line. In addition, we ask that you stress the consequences for students that make threats, whether spoken or written, in person or online. Any such act directed towards our students, staff, or schools, upon investigation, will result in the appropriate charges by our law enforcement officers. Please discuss the seriousness of such behavior with your child.
Lastly, we ask for your continued partnership in helping us maintain a secure environment by adhering to our district policies and procedures. While they are not always convenient, they are all in place to protect those in our care. It takes all of us to ensure our schools are a place where staff can teach and students can learn because they feel safe and secure.
Respectfully,
Dr. Katherine M. Thomas, Superintendent
Congratulations to our CMS August 2024 Students of the Month! Raising the BarK: 6th (Zoey Forston, Wyatt Bauer), 7th (Lance Easterwood, Dixie Armstrong), 8th (Enma Ramirez-Chun, Manuel Hernandez)!! We are so very proud of these students!!! ❤🐾🖤
CMS Weekly Newsletter for Sept 9-15, 2024! Have a safe and happy weekend!! Go Dawgs!!! 🖤🐾❤
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Don't forget TOMORROW (Thursday, Sept 5) to show your school spirit and wear your grade-level colors to celebrate our CMS Fall Sports Teams (6th/white, 7th/red, 8th/black)!!! ❤🐾🖤
