Monday, December 13, 2010

December 2010--Good News Happenings

Congratulations to our 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year--Ms. Gena Loflin, 8th grade social studies !!









Congratulations to Mr. Davis & Mrs Abrams and all the participants in the December Play.  Everyone did an outstanding job!

  • 8th graders: Ryan Francis, Evan Hardy, Sara-Alysse Atkins, China Brown
  • 7th graders: Khari Church, Dusty Uhrig, Meg Johnson
  • 6th graders: Lauren Priddy, Delaney Hobson, Kaitlin Francis
  • Mr. Davis was brilliant as the director of this play.


Kudos to Mrs. Hartle for helping Ms Mooney's sub while Ms. Mooney was taking time with the recent loss of her Mother.  Ms. Hartle also wanted to recognize the 5 reflection contest winners from her homeroom!

Congratulations to Mr. Mercer & Mr. Bryant for an outstanding volleyball season.  Many thanks to the many other faulty and parents who helped too--especially Ms. Hall, Ms. Francis.

Great news from Mr. Atkinson who was awarded a Grant for $700.00 !

Speaking of Mr. Atkinson, what a fantastic job that he and Mr. Bryant did in demonstrating the technology of the 21st Century classrooms at the PTA open house on Thursday, December 8th!  Also,  kudos should be given to the other members of the technology committee including Ms. Holland and Mr. Schnably who worked on the technology brochure.

Congratulations to Ms. Tamara Hughes who was recently engaged to be married!

Best Wishes to Ms. Friesen who announced she is expecting a baby next June.

Ms. Peverall praised her students who ran in the Mistletoe race in Winston-Salem this December:  JP Hayes, Brock Newsom,Spencer VanFleet, Starnice and Staraya galloway, Jackie Lin, and Nick Mandragona ran the 5k mistletoe race (fitness club members) on Saturday Dec 4th


Many Thanks to Kathy Anderson who filled in during our search for Ms. Fernandez's replacement!

Accolades to Ms. Loflin for coming up with an idea to not waste food in the cafeteria

Praise goes out to one of Ms. Cummings students Elisabeth Regnery -whose christmas card was featured in the December issue of Forsyth Family Magazine

Mr. Cardarelli celebrated December with a cake to commemorate the fact that Jefferson Middle School achieved high growth for five consecutive years a feat shared by only 24 (out of 433) other Middle Schools in the state of North Carolina.  This represents an achievement only 5% of schools have attained.