April TJMS Good News

Good News:

• Ben Knight, 3rd place in the Technology/Engineering section of the Science Fair
• Lynn Palm--Was nominated by fellow teachers since she goes above and beyond whenever an EC teachers needs help!
• Evan Lowrance:
• Was first chair on all state Band for the Bassoon, will participate in all-state Honor's band on May 1st in GSO
• Ms Hamby/Blevins:  TJMS Yearbook received recognition in a nationwide competition--with Balfour Yearbook publications-- honorable mentioned, and only 5% of schools nationwide receive this award.
• Conger Davis--Ms. Hartle won $1000.00 savings bond--attending Elk's Lodge--"Proud to be an American contest reception"
• Ebert-- story hatchery writing contest:
• 12 year old category
• First Place--Hennah Khan
• Second Place--Maggie Cox
• 13 Year old Category:
• 2nd Place Michael Hubbad
• Henneh Khan's short story will be published in the Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine.
• Public Service Announcements from encore are awesome--Riddle/Barfield did a great job along with Eric Schoulda

Ms. Barfield is our MVP for February!

Congratulations to Ms. Barfield!  She was voted as Most Valuable Player (MVP) by our School Improvement Team for the month of February.  Ms. Barfield is one of our Career and Technical Education (CTE) Teachers, and during the month of February, she coordinated a number of activities for Black History Month.  In addition to her efforts there, she also organizes the Give a Kid a Coat Campaign each year at our school and has served as School representative for CTE.  Ms. Barfields classes also make holiday cards for troops serving overseas.  These are just a few wonderful things we can say about Ms. Barfield :)  Kudos to Ms. Barfield!!

Coats collected by Ms. Barfield's classes during the holiday season...

US Troops' Holiday Cards created by Mrs. Barfield's BCT and Keyboarding classes

Science Fair Winners

On Tuesday February 22, the WSFC School district wide Science Fair was held at SciWorks.  Two Jefferson students placed in the top five of their division.  Applying her interest and concern about the recent oil spill, Katy Kneisel placed 2^nd in the Earth and Environmental Division for her project entitled “There’s an Oil Spill in My Backyard”.  In the Applied Science, Technology and Engineering Division, Ben Knight won 1st place with his project entitled “Living Up to your Potential Energy”, working with capturing sustainable energy.  Ben competes in the Regional competition on Wednesday.  Congratulations to our Patriot Scientists!

Valetine's Day--Recent Good News

We have several miscellaneous pieces of good news to report!

We had several Essay contest winners.  The  "Why I am Proud to be an American" Elks Lodge essay produced the following winners at our school:

6th Grade:
1st place Connor Davis
2nd place Laura Reyes
This is for Division I
7th Grade:
Lauren Sears  3rd place , 2nd division
Nicole Williams, 1st place 2nd division

• Two  of Ms. Allison Pegram's art students won thousand dollar scholarships  by being chosen in the Art Key contest:
• Katherine Bell was a Gold Key Winner and Samantha Wooldridge was a Silver Key Winner

• Our very own Cindy Dietrich will be presenting at the North Carolina Middle School Conference on a technique of discipline that she uses in her class called "Time to Teach"--We are honored to have her represent our school!
• A big Thanks to Lisha Vannoy and all the parents, students and teachers who helped with the 8th grade dance!  It was a huge success!
• A big thanks to the 6th grade teachers and faculty who helped make our rising 6th grade open house night a big success--many parents have called and reported how impressed they were.
• Thanks to Mr. Schnably (for his powers of persuasion)  and Dr. Martin (for  allowing us) to have our 8th grade Award Ceremony at Wait Chapel!  The setting is just perfect for our size and what we need that day.
• Congratulations to the Icons team who helped raise money for "Jack and Hunter's Fund--Freak the Mighty"
• Ms. Pickell's exchange students from South Korea reported many good things about our school!  They were impressed with the number of computers we have per classroom; (Mr. Downs is shocked at that!) the number of calculators; and the type of discussions that happen between teachers and students. (they were accustomed to teachers doing most of the talking)  They were also amazed at the seating arrangements :)
• Finally we had a very nice compliment given to us my a teacher at Kernersville who was very impressed by our basketball coaches and their upbeat attitude and overall camaraderie with the athletes.  They said the way that Jefferson conducted itself was "refreshing"!

Mr. Fossa is our MVP for February 2011

Mr. Fossa was voted by our School Improvement team as Jefferson's Most Valuable Player for the month of February!  Mr. Fossa is one of those faculty members who is always willing to help his fellow colleagues.  Mr. Fossa coaches basketball (for free) and most recently has served on a school district committee to help determine ways the school district can save money next year through scheduling changes.  This is a huge commitment of time and effort, and we truly appreciate all that Mr. Fossa is doing to help our school and the students and teachers of Forsyth County!



Feb 2011--Spelling Bee, Chorus

On Friday, January 28, 43 students participated in the Jefferson Middle’s School Spelling Bee. After six rounds of perplexing spelling, five students qualified as finalists. In an intense head to head challenge consisting of five rounds, two finalists were determined.

We are proud to announce 7th grader Jackson Hayes as the 2010-2011 Thomas Jefferson Middle School Spelling Bee Champion. Congratulations Jackson! Jackson will compete in the district wide Spelling Bee on February 18th. Good luck Jackson!

Congratulations to our school Spelling Bee Finalists

• R’nold Tanchico
• Katie Kneisel
• Sohm Dawalbakta
• Ruth Moffatt
• Jackson Hayes
• 1st runner up Sohm Dawalbakta

 Here is a list of the participants in this year's Spelling Bee: 

 

6th grade
Bowles, Jordan (alt James Flynt)
Boyer, Nick
Cummings, Adrionna
Hudson, Tirrezz
Lyons, Chase
McCluney, Justin
Morales, Boris
Nesbi, Matthew
Owens, Zach
Rajamahanty, Aishwarya
Reaves, Asuante (CamRon Williamson)
Rutter, Jake
Spangler, Avery
Tanchico, R'nold
Udodirim, Kelly
7th grade
Blair, Jourdan
Collins, Sam
Dawalbhakta, Sohm
Douglas, Chelsea
Farley, Cole
Gortman, Haley (alt John Pelham Pickell)
Hayes, Jackson (alt Heerali Patel)
Joyner, Wayland
Lance, Chloe (alt Tyra Moore)
Lin, Amy
Moffatt, Ruth
Morales, Nelsy (alt Bailey Clapp/ Stephen Snow)
Ramirez, Leslie
Thomas, Naim
8th grade
Allen, Elyse
Carpenter, JayShaun
Green, Daniel
Greene, Bryce
Igoe, Bailey
Jacobius, Josh
Kelly, Sarah
Kiger, Andrew
Kneisel, Katie
Phillips, Patrick
Salehani, Sara
Scanlon, Erin
Vaughn, Brieanna
Wooten, Robbie



All-County Chorus is  Tuesday, February 1st.

The following students should be congratulated for this achievement:
8th Grade: Nikki Almengual, Emma Hamilton, Evan Hardy, Derrick Horne, Taylor Kearney, Amber Shelton, Christine Smith
7th Grade: Jackson Hayes, Tripp Tiner
6th Grade: Tom Aldhizer, Anna Ball, Cheyenne Banjoko, Matthew Barrett, Sydney Bitancor, Reynolds Craver, Will Fangmann, Emma Hayes

New Year, Good News!



Congrats to the five Jefferson Middle School students who auditioned for and were selected for the Northwest NC All-District Honor Band! 

• Evan Lowrance, Bassoon (First chair overall and will get to audition for All-State!)
• Maria Roberts, Clarinet
• Vincent Patella, Trombone
• Gordon Davis, Trombone
• Aaron Radford, Tuba

 Marc Schaub, Jefferson Band

 

Congratulations to Mrs. Pickell for being voted Jefferson's "most valuable player" for the month of December and January !!

 

 

Ms. Pickell is to be commended for going the extra mile in working with the Math department at TJMS, arranging for the guest bullying speakers, and overall just being a great Patriot Team player.  Thank you Mrs. Pickell :)

 

Also, congratulations to our TJMS Geography Bee winner, 7th grader Jackson Hayes!!

 

Here is a link to all the participants of the 2011 Geography Bee...

 

Many Thanks to the faculty who gave donations to Melvin Johnson, a custodian at our school who recently became seriously ill.  We were able to pay his gas bill for two months and collected $155 in gift cards.  There were at least 15 boxes filled with different items. 

 

 

Some of the food boxes:

 

 

Mr. Johnson: