South Gibson Co. Middle School

Congratulations to our SGCMS Band students for performing in the West Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association Solo and Ensemble Festival on Saturday, March 25, 2023 and receiving 'Superior' and 'Excellent' marks! Lucas James, clarinet, Superior Sydney King, clarinet, Superior Landon Richardson, trumpet, Superior Jacey Williams, trombone, Superior Micah Crockette, trumpet, Excellent Timmy Layne, trombone, Excellent Izabella Osisioma, snare drum, Excellent Gabriella Sanchez, trumpet, Excellent We are so proud of your musical accomplishments!

South Gibson County Middle School Student wins in 2023 Tennessee Association of School Librarians Bookmark Contest Over 150 students from across Tennessee submitted an original design for the annual bookmark contest, sponsored by the Tennessee Association of School Librarians. The theme of this year’s contest is “Read, Learn and Explore at Your School Library.” Student entries were judged by Lexington High School art teacher, Mrs. Amber Douglas, in the categories of creativity, execution of the theme and use of materials. South Gibson County Middle School, 8th grader, Jeremiah Bailey placed as Honorable Mention in the Middle School division. He will receive 25 bookmarks of his design, an enlarged poster copy, and an award certificate. His librarian, Krista L. Grace, will receive 100 bookmarks of Jeremiah’s winning design, and an enlarged copy. Copies of Jeremiah’s bookmark will also be sent to the Tennessee State Legislature and distributed to librarians across the state at the TASL conference this fall. #SGCMS #SGCMS Library #TASLTN @tasltn

SGCMS is partnering with Emmanuel Primary School in Gamasara, Tanzania to help meet several needs. They currently serve 250 students. Of the 250 students, over half of them are sponsored for $440.00 per year, which pays their tuition. The tuition covers their uniforms, 2 meals a day and helps pay for some supplies. They are in need of money to bring electricity to the school, items to help equip the new kitchen that is being built soon, two Samsung Galaxy tablets. Our school motto is, “Be a Better Me”. We want to help our students, to help students across the world to also be able to exemplify that motto and to have a better life from the ability to obtain an education. We will be raising money for Emmanuel Primary School through April 14th. Let’s help others have the opportunities that we all have by putting our school motto, “Be a Better Me” to work.

We had so much fun celebrating World Down Syndrome Awareness Day! You can check out our students on WNBJ 39 tonight at 6 and 10pm! #rockyoursocks 💙💛 https://www.wnbjtv.com/single-post/south-gibson-county-middle-school-celebrates-world-down-syndrome-day

The baseball game at Trenton and the soccer game at home have both been canceled due to the potential for more rain.

GCSSD In-District Transfer Request forms are now available for the 2023-2024 school year. Please click on the link for more information. https://www.gcssd.org/page/transfer-requests

The 6th Grade Teachers would like to congratulate the Students of the Month for March. L to R: Alli Malone, Josiah Castano, Korben Ward, and Kynleigh Reece. These students have displayed outstanding character and an unmatched work ethic. Congratulations!

Congrats to these six students for winning our SGCMS School Bookmark Contest! Their artwork did a great job illustrating the theme for the Tennessee Association of School Librarians state bookmark contest. The theme this year is “Read, Learn, and Explore @ Your School Library”. Each student won a cash prize, 50 copies of their bookmarks to share with friends and family and a poster of their winning design. Their bookmarks will be submitted next week for the next level of judging in the state contest. Left to right: Division II: Carly Coble-1st Place, Juliana Winter-2nd Place, Bella Kolwyck-3rd Place Division III: Jeremiah Bailey-1st Place, Zoey Johnson-2nd Place, Kinsley Brady-3rd Place

Tomorrow is the last day for our spring fundraiser and we are currently $8,000 short of our school goal. If you would like to donate please visit the school Facebook page for the donation link.

SGCMS is currently in the middle of our spring Power of Purpose Fundraiser. If you didn't receive an invitation and would like to make a general donation to SGCMS through this fundraiser, please follow the link at the top of the school Facebook page. Thank you so much for your participation and support.

Beginning last week, our students began sending out invitations to donate to SGCMS on their behalf as part of our Power of Purpose Fundraiser. If you didn't receive an invitation and would like to make a general donation to SGCMS through this fundraiser, please do so at the following link. https://app.pop4kids.org/southgibsonms38355

The National Education Association launched Read Across America in 1998 as a year-round program to celebrate reading. SGCMS will celebrate Read Across America next week. We hope all students and faculty will join in the fun!

Strawberry pickup for the Booster Club fundraiser is tomorrow (Friday) from 3 PM - 5PM. Pickup is in the cafeteria.

Coordinated School Health is conducting a mock DUI crash scene on the high school campus on March 1st at 10:00 AM. The mock crash is a staged event that uses real vehicles and actors where alcohol is the reason for the crash. Emergency (police, fire, ambulance, etc.) personnel will respond to the scene as if it were real. These are conducted for seniors only around prom time to raise awareness of the dangers and deadly effects of drinking and driving. While middle school students will not attend this event we wanted to make you were aware of the emergency personnel/vehicles that will be present on campus that day.

Coordinated School Health is conducting a mock DUI crash scene on the high school campus on March 1st at 10:00 AM. The mock crash is a staged event that uses real vehicles and actors where alcohol is the reason for the crash. Emergency (police, fire, ambulance, etc.) personnel will respond to the scene as if it were real. These are conducted for seniors only around prom time to raise awareness of the dangers and deadly effects of drinking and driving. While middle school students will not attend this event we wanted to make you were aware of the emergency personnel/vehicles that will be present on campus that day.

SGCMS Spelling Champion, Braden Atkinson, has qualified to compete in the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee in Nashville on March 4th. Congratulations Braden! #HornetProud #GCSSD

Parents - our spring fundraiser information will be coming home this afternoon. We thank you for any and all participation.

The annual spring blood drive at SGCMS will be going on all day tomorrow. Any parents that would like to participate can stop by the school. The blood mobile will be parked in the front parking lot.

All online picture orders for band, boys’ soccer, baseball, and volleyball are due tomorrow, February 17. Go to Amy Bratton Photography on Facebook to order. 8th Grade parents - If you were scheduled this morning to register for high school please go in and reschedule for an open slot at another time today or Tuesday.

All GCSSD schools are currently in a two hour delay start time due to weather concerns. A future announcement will be made if further delays are required.