Category: Middle School
No School – Monday, April 8
Dear Schalmont families, Schalmont would like to share with our families our plans for Monday, April 8, when the solar eclipse will take place. After considering a number of factors, Schalmont has decided to cancel school Monday, April 8. We will use one of the days we would normally use for a snow day, which …
MS Leaders Visit Jefferson
Schalmont Middle School students taught first graders about feelings and connecting those feelings to different scenarios during a visit to Jefferson Elementary last week. The group of Middle School leaders visit Jefferson Elementary throughout the year to work with younger students while also building their own leadership skills. “Students made sensory jars that helped them …
Sign Up for New Payment System
Schalmont would like to remind our families to please sign up for LINQ Connect, the new payment system for student cafeteria accounts, as MySchoolBucks will no longer work after Friday, March 1. You can sign up for the new system at www.linqconnect.com or by using the LINQ Connect mobile app, which is available in the …
Coding Club Designs P.I.T. Crew Website
Schalmont Middle School’s P.I.T. Crew has a new website thanks to the school’s Coding Club! Students of the afterschool club worked with members of the P.I.T. (Partnership, Involvement Teamwork) Crew to design a website where families could find information about upcoming events and how to get involved. A link to the website is on our …
Grade 5 Celebrates 1,000 Days of School
Schalmont 5th graders celebrated the 1,000 day of school Tuesday with a 1,000 link paper chain representing each of their school days from the first day of kindergarten to the 100th day of school this year! Students gathered in the hallway at the end of the school day to hold the chain and see how …
Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament at MS
Congratulations to Greyson Karl who recently won Schalmont Middle School’s Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament! Dozens of members of the school’s Sabre Nation participated in the friendly competition that focused on team building, student engagement, decision making and patience! Congratulations also to Alexa Carney, Bella Santabarbara, Brenden Majkut and Gabe Woodrow, who were recognized for demonstrative …
2nd Quarter Honor Rolls Announced
Congratulations to our 2nd Quarter Honor Roll students for all your hard work! High Honor Roll Grade 6: Taylor Alex, Riley Benkoski, Nicholas Beyer, Lillian Burnham, Brayden Cartier, Anna Catalano, Christopher Corradi, Kenneth Dagostino III, Joseph DiSanto IV, Mason Fitzgerald, Gunner Foley, Simon Garretson, Peter Gorman III, Dylan Greklek, Jacob Gromoll, Maris Hindes, Brycen Husch, …
7th Graders Hold Debates
Schalmont 7th graders sharpened their debating skills last week as Ms. Harvey’s ELA classes held classroom debates about school dress codes. Students prepared for the debates by studying the 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, a landmark case dealing with free speech in schools. For many of the students, it was their first …
Future Cities Team Wins Two Awards
Congratulations to Schalmont Middle School’s Engineering Club who won two awards at Saturday’s Future Cities Regional Competition! Their city, Trumonopolis, won Best Transportation Planning and Best Public Transportation System at the competition. Future City is a competition that challenges students to use their creative and innovative imaginations to design a city of the future. Students …