Families and community friends of Waimea Middle School are invited to “Get The Scoop” on the soon-to-begin 2012-13 school year with an informal gathering from 5 to 6 p.m. July 19 in the school cafeteria. It’s free and will include scoops of hot soup.
Families and community friends of Waimea Middle School are invited to “Get The Scoop” on the soon-to-begin 2012-13 school year with an informal gathering from 5 to 6 p.m. July 19 in the school cafeteria. It’s free and will include scoops of hot soup.
The gathering will include a brief presentation at 5:30 p.m., first introducing the school’s new Principal Matt Horne, and then the school’s newly appointed local advisory panel, which recently elected Kamana Beamer as its chair. Panel members represent all school stakeholder groups including students, families, faculty, staff, school administrators, community representatives and members of Hookakoo Corp., the WMS not-for-profit local school board.
The welcome briefing also will celebrate recent student and faculty achievements and preview the year ahead, including such highlights as continuing the process to secure accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Also to be shared will be academic plans for the coming year and how families and the community can support student achievement.
Everyone is invited, and no reservation is required for the gathering.
The 2012-13 school year will begin for Waimea Middle students at 8 a.m. July 30. Families are urged to take advantage of the school’s annual back-to-school Gear Up from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 23 to 27 to pick up class schedules, register for free after-school Homework Help+, purchase uniforms, pay for busing and lunch, yearbook and student dues, as needed. Families may come to the school office daily before then to purchase uniform T-shirts and pick up a school supplies list. The supply list, school year calendar, uniform order form and everything else families will need for the start of the school year can also be found on the school website, waimeamiddleschool.org.
No registration is required for students moving from Waimea Elementary to Waimea Middle, however families with students coming from other schools should stop by the school office as soon as possible to complete registration.
For more information, call 887-6090, ext. 222, or for the school’s community liaison, Patti Cook, call 937-2833. For the school’s registrar, Betty Healy, call 887-6090, ext. 228.