Middle School Matters

The Mission of Portsmouth Middle School is to create a strong and safe learning environment: promote social, emotional and physical well-being and to provide opportunities for each student, to the best of their ability, to meet high academic standards, develop responsibility, and achieve the positive social values and behaviors to become productive citizens.

Winter break has come at a great time for all of us. We have accomplished quite a bit as a school in the first four plus months of the school year. We are going to take the time and reflect on how we would like to open the new calendar year and build the six month plan to make the 2023-2024 school year a memorable one.

Collaboration! Creativity! Purposeful conversation about our core values! The engineering-design process! Positivity! Focus! Leadership! Creating a positive school-climate!

Our Door Decorating Contest is proving to be a huge success! Students and staff have been working together to create a shared vision to represent our core values while talking about what makes us Patriots. It doesn't get any better than this! Final touches will be added on Tuesday during advisory, with judging of the doors happening after school on Tuesday.

We plan on sharing photos of completed doors in an upcoming newsletter!

The mid-quarter progress reports will be coming out this week. Feel free to check in with your child to ensure that their work is passed in and not outstanding. The progress reports are used to determine eligibility for after school sports/activities.

We will be holding a Winter Clothing Drive in the month of December to help support families within our community. We have dedicated boxes set up in each grade wing for items such as gloves, hats, scarfs, sweaters, jackets, etc. If you have any clothing items you would like to donate please have your child bring them into school and they can drop them off in one of the 4 bins we have placed in each grade wing. Thank you!

If you would like to volunteer in school or help on a field trip, please use this form going forward to become VIS approved.

Yearbooks are on sale for all families. If you would like to purchase one, you can do so by clicking the link here. Sales will end on December 31st.

Please see the letter linked here from the PTO regarding board openings for next school year.

Please see the link here for a local weight training program taking place within the community after the New Year.

Please click the link here from RI Student Assistance Services and the Portsmouth Prevention Coalition.

• Students should visit the lost and found outside of the gym before Winter break. Items left will be donated.