Today, Friday, January 27, random canine sweeps were conducted at Crescent High School and Starr-Iva Middle School. Periodically throughout the school year, Anderson 3 will be conducting sweeps as a proactive approach to maintaining a safe learning environment.
All planned canine sweeps are conducted without prior notice to families, students, and staff and are done in a minimally disruptive manner to the learning environment. The use of canines does not indicate that a particular school has illegal contraband on campus. Instead, it demonstrates our willingness to remain proactive in efforts to ensure the safety and security of our schools. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out.
WIDA ACCESS Testing for English Language Learners will be held January 31st-February 10th at SIMS.
SIMS Families:
Visit the following link to get the details and fill out the Google Form Application for Starr-Iva Middle School's upcoming after school program. Feel free to call the school with any questions about the program or to request a paper copy of the application.
bit.ly/3WCbppV
Starr-Iva Middle School hosted the 2023 School Spelling Bee yesterday morning! We are very proud of all of the homeroom representatives who competed, and we want to congratulate Cassidy Evans (7th grade) for winning, and Asher Pamphilon (8th grade) for being the runner-up! Way to go, students!
We’re thrilled to announce that school and community flyers are reaching parents through Peachjar! 🎉🍑
Peachjar allows elementary, middle, and high school parents to stay updated with digital Friday Folders. Flyers may also be accessed here via the Peachjar button on our website/app.
SPRING SPORTS TRYOUT/PRACTICE INFO!
LOTS of opportunities to be active, please share this information.
VERY IMPORTANT…..cannot participate without ALL completed and signed paperwork. Link to the information is here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XekT-kqN5Bat9_L3urNSYsYf4iu7siZ9/view?usp=drivesdk
This year, our Math Department, under the leadership of Mrs. Grice, has restarted its Math Olympiad Program. These students compete with over 120,000 students from every state and 39 different countries. The program's objective is to "teach multiple strategies for out-of-the-box problem solving, develop mathematical flexibility in solving those problems, and foster mathematical creativity and ingenuity." In our first contest, Clayton Tilley (Grade 6 ) scored 4/5 in the Elementary Division while Everett Alvidrez (Grade 7 ) and Asher Pamphilon (Grade 8 ) scored 4/5 in the Middle School Division. Kyley Wiles (Grade 7 ) had a perfect 5/5 score in the Middle School Division. We are extremely proud of these students and the restart of our Olympiad Program. We are looking forward to a great competition season!
SIMS SGA will be selling cookies at recess through the month of December. The cookie bags are $1 each. All proceeds will be used to help send our student leaders to conferences and conventions this spring. Thank you for your continued support of our students!
Starr-Iva Student Government is collecting items for the Richard Campbell Nursing Home during the month of November. Each homeroom is competing to bring in the most. The winning homeroom will get ice cream at lunch. Please help our students support our local veterans with this drive.
Items needed are linked here : https://tinyurl.com/yzsef9km
Mrs. Simpson's science class conducted experiments with pumpkins this past week, and it looks like the students approved! :)
This past Thursday was the "We love our farmers” day meal.
Choices were:
Fried Chicken
Bbq Sliders
Corn on the cob
Over roasted potatoes
Banana pudding
Applesauce
Some of the trays had “golden tickets” on the bottom of them. The yellow ticket winners received chocolate milk donated by our local dairy farm, Milky Way Farm, and the red ticket winners received $10.00 gift cards to Chick-fil-a- donated by Robbie Williams. Thank you, to our Cafeteria Staff, Mrs. Williams and Milky Way Farm for making it such a fun day at SIMS! We all enjoyed the delicious meal as well.
Mrs. Boyce's and Mrs. Simpson's kids are working on a greenhouse project. Students have already planted carrots and tickle me plants. We are very excited about growing our own vegetables. The greenhouse will be a year-round project. Students have already helped put the greenhouse together and have started filling up the shelves with plants. 🌱🪴
Mrs. Simpson’s class worked in small groups to put together Animal Habitat dioramas. Each group presented their dioramas to the class! 🐹🌿
The 2022 Angel Tree Application is currently open online starting today through October 13th. Please go to our district website at www.acsd3.org to complete the application as needed for Christmas 2022. Please understand that this is an application only, and is NOT a guarantee of getting assistance. Eligible families will be contacted for confirmation of assistance after the online application online window has closed.
As the 22-23 athletic season has come upon us, we wanted to share some important reminders and safety information for those middle school students and families who plan to attend any athletic event (Middle School or High School) at CHS or SIMS…
- Students should be accompanied and monitored by a parent/guardian or assigned adult at all times. Students roaming around the event unaccompanied is not allowed.
- Students must have a ride ready to pick them up at the immediate end of the event. Failure to follow this rule could result in a loss of attending future athletic events.
We greatly appreciate your attention to this and your help. Together we can continue to make our athletic events a great place to be! Go Tigers!
We will begin with our iReady Diagnostic testing tomorrow and Thursday. Please make sure your student arrives to school on time with their Chromebook charged and a set of headphones for testing. Let’s make it a great day!
SIMS Yearbooks are on Sale Now! 📖
Visit https://bit.ly/SIMSYB23 to pre-order our 2023 yearbook.
Our school order number is 1351.
Friendly Reminder: Instrument rental for band and strings students will take place night tomorrow night (Thurs. Aug. 18th) in the SIMS band room from 6pm to 8pm.
Please see the important reminders pictured for the new 2022-2023 school year at SIMS. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, August 16th. Go Tigers!
We will host our 7th and 8th Grade Drive-Thru Registration tomorrow (Thurs. August 11th) from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. You may enter through our normal car-rider entrance and a check-in table will guide you where to go next. All fees must be paid in advance or the day of to receive your student's schedule. This event is also open to 6th Graders who did not attend Tiger Camp and still needs to pick up their schedule, if fees are paid. We look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow!
