There will not be school for students on Monday, February 18 in observance of President's Day. School will resume on Tuesday, February 19.

As part of our district’s process to upgrade and improve security for our students and staff, cameras have been installed on some district buses and are being activated next week. Cameras on our school buses provide all-around enhanced safety and security. In addition to monitoring driver and student behavior inside the bus, cameras will help to hold other motorists accountable while buses are stopped for students to get on and off.

We know that our community cares as deeply about the safety and well-being of our students as we do. We are proud to join the many other school districts in Colorado in using this technology as an added measure to ensure that our students and community are safe.

If you have any questions please contact the Weld RE-4 Transportation Department at 970-686-8060.

New website consent forms have been sent home with students for the spring semester. Please review the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies for the websites and applications that are used here at SMS. Then, sign and return to school with your student. If you have questions, please contact Andrea Sporleder, Learning Coach, at andrea.sporleder@weldre4.org. Thank you! Download form here.

As our district continues to grow, the importance for each parent/guardian to have a Parent Portal Account grows too! Our district has moved to an online enrollment and registration process; starting with the 2019-2020 school year, parents will now update their household information via their parent portal account. We will no longer send paper registration packets home for a yearly update. Besides updating contact information, the parent portal account is your place to access grades, report cards, and other student information, as well as paying student fees. It is our main line of communication to parents/guardians. As our district grows and technology pushes forward, it is imperative that parents have an account. We encourage all parents to set up a portal account and are happy to help with the process, stop by Severance Middle School to set up your account today!!

We are excited to again request your help for our Hawk Cage unit. You may have recently received a similar request from Mr. Luce for his classes, but Mrs. Alvine’s and Ms. Johnson’s are on a different schedule this year, and we need your help too! Once again, students will be presenting an idea that they have been working on to improve the community. We have now insisted that students design a project that could help those in need.

We have asked students to think small: stay realistic, and think about what they could actually carry out as 8th graders. Not all our students will carry their idea out, but some are excitedly hoping to do so.

Presentations will be given in Language Arts classes throughout the day on Wednesday, March 20, Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22.

We need volunteers from our community to serve as panelists who can offer feedback as students present their ideas. We hope you can offer encouragement where they have done well, while also helping them be realistic and offering critiques based on a real-world perspective on what you as an actual person in the community would expect if you were to participate in the events you hear being described. You will then give feedback on whether you would recommend students actually carry their idea out, or whether they need to iron out some more details first. In each class period you volunteer, you will hear and offer feedback on three or four presentations.

This year’s presentations range from the need for a traffic light at a particular intersection in town, to a dog-walking business to fund donations to a pet shelter, to a ping pong tournament to raise donations for cancer research, and more.

If you would like to sign up to be a panelist for our students, please email heidi.johnson@weldre4.org to indicate what day(s) and hour(s) you would like to come in. If you have a student in one of our classes, we ask that you NOT serve as a panelist for your own student, since they will likely have already heard your perspective, but we are happy to sign you up for your student’s class when they are not presenting themselves if you indicate which teacher’s class you would like to volunteer in.

You can see the schedule here to find when we still need your help. As always, please email with any questions!

JOIN US! The 2019 Innovate RE-4 Learner’s Showcase is just two weeks away! Students are working hard on their projects and are excited to present them to you. The Learner’s Showcase is an opportunity for students to show off modern day learning through innovative presentations and performance. We’d love to see you in the audience supporting our students!

Innovate RE-4 Learner’s Showcase

Thursday, Feb. 28

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - WHS Symphony Orchestra Performance

6:00 – 7:45 p.m. - Opening Ceremonies and Student Presentations

Windsor High School’s new Innovation Center

1100 Main St., Windsor

All 5th grade parents and their students, who will be entering 6th grade in the fall of 2019, are invited to attend one of Severance Middle School's Parent Information Meetings.

Meetings are scheduled for:

Tuesday, March 19 at 5:15 p.m. in the Severance Middle School Cafeteria
Monday, March 25 at 5:15 p.m. in the Severance Middle School Cafeteria

Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 a.m. in the Severance Middle School Library

Tours of the school will be held at the conclusion of each meeting. If you have any questions, please contact our office at 833-7200.

During Empower this week, all of our SMS students continued to work on building a more positive community in their Empower class and at SMS. Each class worked on building a safe, connected, and empathetic community through activities and team challenges, which gave students opportunities to be active listeners and to show respect and empathy toward their classmates by being mindful of their uniquenesses, viewpoints, and feelings. We discussed the qualities of successful teams before they took on some team challenges. During the Fear in a Hat activity, students practiced showing empathy for each other’s fears, and they realized that some of their classmates shared the same fear.

Email: sms@weldre4.org
Website: sms.weldre4.org
Location: 1801 Avery Plaza Street, Windsor, CO, USA
Phone: 970 833-7200
Facebook: facebook.com/SeveranceMiddleSchoolHawks
Twitter: @SMS_Hawks