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.

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

Our Door Decorating Contest was a huge success! Students and staff worked together to create a shared vision to represent our core values while talking about what makes us Patriots. More photos, including our winning doors will continue to be shared!

Congratulations to our PMS robotics teams on a great showing at the FLL Qualifiers. Techno Turtles placed in 7th in the robot games. Robotics Rulers placed in 2nd in the robot games and advanced to States. Octobots placed in 3rd in the robot games, earned the Core Values award for their exemplary team work, and are also advancing to States. A huge thank you to Ms. Medeiros, our amazing Robotics Coach, and all staff who were able to support the event at PMS!

We will continue to focus on building a positive social culture for our students during 2024. Beginning in January, we will begin a system of reinforcing expected and positive behaviors, aligning student expectations to our school core values: Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Ready to Learn.

Expected behaviors will be taught and students will be recognized when those behaviors are demonstrated.

On Thursday, we will review hallway expectations. Ask your student to share with you PMS' expected hallway behavior.

Patriot Pillars will be shared with students and will be collected by grade level to track our progress. Ask your student if they have earned any!

PHS is hosting their CTE open house on January 18th from 6-7:30 P.M. at PHS. Please see the flier linked here. This is important as we will begin the 8th-9th grade scheduling process this month.

Please see the link to a new afterschool program with limited capacity. This afterschool program runs on Tuesday’s. The sign up form is on the flier.

The PTO will be hosting their January meeting this Wednesday at 6:00 P.M. in the library.

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

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 see the flier here for more information on the job opportunities within the district for our food service company, Chartwell

Please check out the link here for the December newsletter from the RI Student Assistance Services.