MCMS Update - October 22, 2023

Good Afternoon MCMS Families!

We hope all of our families are having a fantastic weekend!  October has been a great month of activity around the MCMS campus.  As we enter the last full week of the month, we are excited to celebrate Red Ribbon Week and making a commitment to live a drug free life!  We look forward to seeing everyone participate in the fun dress days we have this week.  Read below for more information on Red Ribbon Week.

We would like to wish good luck to our 8th grade students who are participating in the PSAT on Thursday, October 26th.  The PSAT is a form of the SAT, which is a college readiness assessment.  This assessment will give them an idea of what they would potentially score on the real SAT.  Our goal is that all MCMS students will leave our school beginning to develop the needed skills to become College or Career Ready.

Stay connected with your child's academic progress by monitoring grades on the Parent Portal.  Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions related to grades.

Please read below for your MCMS Update for October 23rd - 27th, please reach out to the main office (803-364-3634) if you have any questions.

October Student Activity Schedule:

• Red Ribbon Dress Week (more information to come!)- 10/23 - 10/27

MCMS Schedule- October 23rd - 27th

• Monday (10/23)
• RRDD - Team Colors or Gear
• Football Practice
• Tuesday (10/24)
• RRDD - Hawaiian Shirt and/or Lei
• 7th Grade Vision and Hearing Screenings
• Football Playoffs AWAY at Lexington @ 7:00 PM
• Wednesday (10/25)
• RRDD - Camo
• Early Release @ 1:00 PM
• Thursday (10/26)
• RRDD - Clothes from any decade
• PSAT for 8th Grade
• Friday (10/27)
• RRDD - Neon Colors

Sneak Peek at 10/30 - 11/3:

• (10/30), (10/31), NCCC Career Day for 8th Grade (11/1),  (11/2), Club Day (11/3)

Mindset of the Week- Passion First

The Passion First Mindset teaches us that we are all unique expressions of human existence. It’s vital to find out what our individual strengths and talents are so that we might connect them with our goals and visions for the future. In this mindset, we work with students to understand their unique gifts, their skills and strengths, and how to share them with the world to the maximum extent possible. Not only will they explore their interests, they will begin to identify their core values and what they stand for. 

The next step is helping them learn how to make their dreams into reality, tapping into both the courage and perseverance needed to overcome any challenges they encounter in pursuit of the lives they desire.

Live to Give October- Breast Cancer Awareness

One of our 7 mindsets is Live to Give.  The main focus of this mindset is about serving others.  As a school, we feel it is important to model this idea and life quality for our students.  Each month MCMS will focus on one or more causes to bring awareness too.  This month our Live to Give cause will be Breast Cancer Awareness.

Wizard of Oz Auditions

We are excited to announce auditions for the School District of Newberry County district musical.  This year the district will be putting on the Wizard of Oz.  Please click here for audition information.  

MCMS Veterans Day Assembly

You are invited to honor a Veteran at the annual MCMS Veterans Day Ceremony to be held on Thursday, November 9, 2023. Veterans will be served a hot breakfast beginning at 7:30 AM in the cafeteria and the annual ceremony will commence at 8:15 AM in the Big Gym. The ceremony will last approximately one hour.

If you or a family member of someone from the community has served in the armed forces, please complete the MCMS Veterans Day Form by Friday, October 27, 2023.

Red Ribbon Week Dress Days

Red Ribbon Week is held annually at the end of October to help promote kids to choose a Drug Free Life.  The National Family Partnership (NFP) promotes this annual drug prevention campaign.  The NFP is a national leader in drug prevention education & advocacy. Their mission is to lead and support our nation’s families and communities in nurturing the full potential of healthy, drug free youth.  We look forward to celebrating this important event with several fun dress days this week.

• 10/23 - Red Ribbon Dress Day (RRDD) - Team Colors/Gear
• 10/24 - RRDD- Hawaiian Shirt and/or Lei Team Meetings - (10/24), 
• 10/25 - RRDD - Camo 
• 10/26 - RRDD- Clothes from any decade (10/26)
• 10/27 - RRDD - Neon 

We invite all of our students to join us in the Red Ribbon Week Dress Days and to continue to make the choice to live a Drug Free Life!

Fan Cloth Fundraiser

Get your MCMS gear with our Fan Cloth Fundraiser.  Visit https://fancloth.shop/TQGPL to order your gear today.  Proceeds will support our Angel Tree Fund.  

Thank you for supporting this great cause and getting some great MCMS gear!

MCMS Athletics

Our Football team will be completing in playoffs this week.  Good luck to the team as they travel to Lexington on Tuesday for the first round of playoffs, game time is 7:00 PM.  We also would like to wish good luck to our Cheer teams as they continue to compete in events.  We are proud of your hard work and dedication!

Basketball Tryouts- MCMS Girls Basketball will hold tryouts on October 30th, 31st, and November 1st from 3:30 - 4:45 PM in the Big Gym.  MCMS Boys Basketball will hold tryouts on October 30th, 31st, and November 1st from 5:00 - 6:15 PM.  

If you have any questions about MCMS athletics or your child's athletic participation, please reach out to our Athletic Director, Coach David Meetze (dmeetze@sdnc.org).

Thank you for your constant support of our teachers and school.  Mid-Carolina is a great school with a great community!

Have a great day!

Dr. Paul Dobyns

Principal

Mid-Carolina Middle School

pdobyns@sdnc.org

Student Focused, Community Driven!