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.

Congratulations to Atiba Brown, Ryleigh Clarke, Anna (AK) Inman, Adam O'Brien, Kylie Salveson, Max Sarkady, Eoin Soler, Kyla Walton, and AJ Weldon who were selected as Students of the Month for October.

Please click here for a look inside Ms. Straube, Ms. Younkin, and Ms. Desrosiers' ELA class this week. The team worked with Mr. Spaltholz, our Instructional Systems Coach, to incorporate station rotations in to this week's ELA lessons.

Program Day 3

SOCIAL MEDIA

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🚨FUNDRAISING UPDATE🚨We are up to $5,680 of our $8,000 for outdoor improvements, field trips, and enrichment, but time is ticking! We only have until 11/30/2023 to reach our goal. ⏰

❓Have you completed all tasks on your Student’s MyBooster dashboard?❓

At MYBOOSTER.COM, it’s easy to let family and friends know how they can help our school. By sharing, you can help our school raise funds, earn cool rewards for your student, and earn entries to the daily prize giveaway. 🎉

That means more funds for our school with the simple click of a button. ☝️Remember, any funds raised DIRECTLY impact students and staff! Thanks so much!

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 fill out this form if your child is interested in trying out for girls or boys basketball.

Come and join the PBruins for Portsmouth MIddle School night! There is a link to the flyer here. There will be a God Bless America Performance by the members of our very own Portsmouth Middle Schools Tri-M National Music Honor Society & Chorus Members chorus on Sunday, December 17th at 4:05pm! Group rate tickets are $25 and all kids receive a FREE P-Bruins Hat!

www.providencebruins.com/Portsmouthmiddle

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

Please see the link here to a flier advertising the 1st annual Chess Club Tournament host by Portsmouth Middle School.

Kids4Action would like to thank the Portsmouth Middle School for participating in the Ukraine Kind-it-Note Letter Writing Campaign last spring. PMS wrote 313 Letters out of 1140 total across the Portsmouth School District and were hand delivered to the Ukrainian youth in October!

Over 200 letters were written back by Ukrainian children and those letters will be shared across Advisory in the next few weeks. Thank you for bringing positivity to a war-ravished country and being part of the Multiplier Effect!

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

Please see the linked flier to the Annual Portsmouth Grid Iron's Holiday Tree and Wreath Sale.

Please see the linked flier regarding a winter soccer program.

Please see the linked flier regarding winter basketball programming.

Fire drills occur on a regular basis. State law requires each school to conduct eleven fire drills, two lockdown drills and two evacuation drills each year. Shelter in Place drills are conducted throughout the school year. Children are given instruction on all procedures. Children are expected to behave in a calm, orderly manner during these exercises. Please review the importance of such exercises with your child and emphasize the need for appropriate behavior.

A lockdown is an alert to a school community that students and staff should not leave the classroom and should gather in one area of the room until provided with further direction.

An evacuation requires all students and staff to exit the building and meet at a designated safe place.

A shelter in place is an alert to a school community that movement outside of classrooms is being restricted for a brief period of time. It is typically used when a student or staff member is requiring some sort of attention (sometimes medical) and the school is trying to keep that area clear and/or protect that person’s privacy. If there were a serious safety concern the school would not issue a shelter in place.

We will send notification of lockdowns, evacuations, and shelter in place drills and events via email.

For access to your child's schedule and grades, please log in to the Aspen Portal.

If you are having issues accessing Aspen, please email familyportal@portsmouthschoolsri.org with your child's name, date of birth, grade level, and your name. The system administrators will be able to restore access to your account and make sure that you can login.

• Students should come to school with a charged Chromebook
• Students should come to school with a reusable water bottle.