Weekly News

We are excited to welcome our 6th graders and New Students to Orientation on Tuesday, August 17. We are also inviting any virtual or remote student from last year who needs an orientation before the first full day of school.

Students do not need backpacks or bags on this day. This day is dedicated to familiarizing students with ABMS.

Schedule

· 7:15-7:40 – Buses and Car Lane Drop-Off

· 7:40 – All students meet in the ABMS Commons for a Welcome

· 7:45 – 6th grade students will be escorted to their first period class by their teacher

· 7:45 – 7th and 8th grade student attending will meet with counselors to be guided to their orientation location.

· All students will attend each of their 9 classes to meet the teacher and see the classroom spaces.

· 9:40 – 6th, 7th and 8th grade students will report back to the Commons for release to bus and car lanes.

Now that we know more specifics about mitigation expectations for the year, we will be offering lockers to any student who wishes to have one within the first 5-10 days of school. We are happy to make special arrangements for students who need to have a locker on the first day of school. Please contact our counseling office if your student needs a locker on the first day.

• Wednesday, August 18 is our first full day of school!
• Students may enter the building beginning at 7:15 a.m.
• Schedules should be live on StudentVue after 1:00 on Tuesday, August 17.
• Paper schedules will be available on August 18 for students who want them.
• Our school day ends at 2:50 p.m.
• During pick-up and drop-off, cars should pull all the way to the marked car lane (by the football field) in order to move traffic through our loop quickly. Please follow the signs and supervisors who are working the car lane.
• Please be patient and courteous in the car lane.

• Each grade level eats as a group.
• Students who may be concerned about lunchroom procedures or food choices may want to bring their lunch from home until they acclimate themselves to the lunchroom procedures. Hot lunch is always available to all of our students.
• Every student will have plenty of time to eat lunch. Please be patient as we model and teach lunchroom procedures.

Please take a minute to compete this Google Form so that we can gauge your student’s interest in our fall sports. We will be full KSHSAA activities this year. Once again, any student who wants to participate muse complete the required district forms.

Blue Valley Middle School Participation Packet

There will be a meet the coach night for all fall sports (Volleyball, Football, Cross Country and Cheer) Monday August 23th beginning at 4:30 in the Aubry Bend Commons. We will be sharing some general information and also specific practice information for each individual fall sport.

Practice locations and times are updated below. Please contact coaches with individual questions.

Greetings,

My name is Taylor Stewart. I am eager to begin my 5th season as head football coach at ABMS. I would like to provide information to the families who have a student athlete interested in playing football this fall.

Attached below is the ABMS Football Calendar 2021 .

****All athletes must have their District Participation Packet turned into the office before they will be able to participate. ****

Our first practice will be August 16th 3:45pm-5pm. We are meeting in the ABMS gym.

Athletes will need to bring:

-Wear athletic clothing (shorts and T shirt)

-Football Cleats & Tennis Shoes

-Mouth piece (not clear)

-Personal water bottle

We will begin in the ABMS Gym with equipment check out.

Athletes will receive:

-helmet

-shoulder pads

-Hip, tail, thigh, knee pads

-belt

-Practice jersey and pants

There will be more communication to come once the season gets rolling. If you have any questions do not hesitate to email tkstewart@bluevalleyk12.org!

Thank you all for your support in your student athlete!

GO WOLVERINES!!!!!!

Head Coach: Christyn Haberly Chaberly@bluevalleyk12.org

Open to 8th grade girls

Wednesday August 18th 3:00 -5:00. Athletes should change and report to Coach Haberly in the gym.

Head Coach: Minnie Beechner-Holmes mbeechnerholmes@bluevalleyk12.org

Open to 7th and 8th grade students.

Cross Country Parents/Guardians: Our first day of practice has moved up to Tuesday, August 17th. This is an optional practice. If your athlete is able to join us, they need to have their participation packet turned in and they should bring their sneakers, as well as a water bottle. We will meet in the 8th-grade pod outside of Room 110.

Head Coaches: Alicia Parker and Kim Lambrecht aparker@bluevalleyk12.org kmlambrecht@bluevalleyk12.org

Open to 7th and 8th grade students

Monday August 23rd 3:00 - 4:00. Athletes should report to room 309. Please note athletes and parents are invited to the Meet the Coach Meeting on August 23rd at 4:30.

The Teacher Appreciation Committee welcomed our teachers back to school on Thursday, August 12th with smoothies from smoothie king, donuts, and goodies bags chock full of protein bars, trail mix, candies and a special ABMS kindness water bottle sticker. Families donated the items for the goodie bags.

Our first PTO meeting of the 2021-2022 school year will be Friday, August 27th at 9:00am via zoom. To join PTO go to your Parent Vue account and sign up! We also have a few more positions to fill so please get involved and join the fun https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090c44abac23aafc1-20212022.

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SOCIAL MEDIA- Be sure to follow along with all of the latest and greatest PTO happenings via our social media channels! You can LIKE our page on facebook (ABMS PTO) and follow us on twitter ( @AbmsPto)

SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY: Get your Five Schools One Family, BLEED GREEN Community Spirit Apparel, check out our web store: https://mccwebstores.com/4962/shop/home and then wear it to the Community Wide Tailgate Party and Green & White Scrimmage on August 20th! Lets start the year off with a bang!

We have had an AWESOME week welcoming back our entire staff!!! The energy in the building is electric as our teachers work together to plan and prepare for 783 amazing kids to start school next week!

On behalf of our entire team, I would like to thank the many PTO volunteers who donated items, created gift bags, put together decorations, and set up the commons for a welcome back breakfast for our team. We continue to be in awe over the wonderful kindness and support of our parent community. Thank you! We feel loved and supported!

Please be sure to read the items in the newsletter above. We have attempted to keep the information succinct, yet pertinent. If you have any question that we haven’t addressed yet, please feel free to contact our office via phone or reply to this email. We’re happy to help!

We can’t wait to welcome our kids next week! We love our community and want you to know that you can depend on us!

Sincerely,

Diana Tate, Principal

Email: AubryBendMiddle@bluevalleyk12.org
Website: www.bluevalleyk12.org/ABM
Location: 12501 West 175th Street, Overland Park, KS, USA
Phone: 913-624-2300
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