KENNETT SQUARE >> The Kennett Consolidated School District is proud to announce that U.S. News & World Report has named Kennett High School one of America’s Best High Schools. To produce the 2017 Best High Schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report teamed up with North Carolina–based RTI International, a global nonprofit social-science research firm. The comprehensive rankings methodology is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show it is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.

“This award is meaningful because it reflects the growth in academic achievement realized by our students.

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Attention 8th Grade Students:

Please make note of the following schedule change.

• Following lunch, all 8th grade students will report to their LEAD classroom in preparation for the field trip. All book bags and other items should be left in your LEAD classroom until we return from TCHS.
• Conner, Fox, and Matthews LEAD classes should meet Mrs. Stoudemire in the large gym after leaving the cafeteria. Mrs. Stoudemire will direct you from there.
• Mr. Cattano’s LEAD class should report to Mrs. Schumacher in room A005.
• LEAD classes will be directed to board buses via the PA system. After all LEAD classes have been dismissed, all students remaining at KMS should follow the schedule provided.

Again, be sure to double check the posted lists for bus assignments. All last minute permission slips will be accepted in the Counseling Office until 8:00 AM. Permission slips that arrive after 8:00 will not be accepted. Please see Mrs. Stoudemire by or before 2nd period with any questions or concerns.

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Next week the 8th grade will take the PSSA Science. A few classes need to be relocated because the 8th grade wing will be unavailable during period 1-4 so please pay special attention:

Mr. Lynch’s 1st and 2nd period will go to C201 (Mrs. Wessleman’s room)

Mr. Nisenfeld’s 1st period will go to C003 (Mrs. Keer’s room)

Mr. Fox’s 2nd, 3rd, & 4th period will go to C108 (Mr. Reggio’s room)

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The yearbook order deadline has been extended AGAIN until 4/28/17! If you still need to order a yearbook, do it now! See outside Mrs. Lozada’s room, B001 for the website and information on ordering.

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If you have some time this weekend check out ART ON THE SQUARE STUDENT SHOW.

You will see works of art by students from all over Chester County including art from our own KMS students.

The show runs from Friday April 28th to Sunday April 30thand is located at American Legion Building on S. Broad St. in Kennett Square.

Show times are 11am to 8 pm.

Hope to see you there!

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8th Grade! If you received a pass to the Chester county Futures presentation but could not attend, please pick up materials in the Counseling Office. See Mrs. stoudemire with questions.

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Attention all KMS Students. Did you know that 52,000 service members have been physically wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, or that an unprecedented number of servicemen and women have sustained wounds of such severity that they will require lifelong assistance with things that we do every day that we take for granted? My name is Christian Dahms, and as the son of a former serviceman who has taken care of many of these people, I know the seriousness of this situation. So, starting this Thursday, April 27th, we will doing a fundraiser called Hoops For Troops. We will be selling raffle tickets during all lunches for an opportunity to participate in a school-wide basketball trivia Kahoot! Tickets cost 1$ each and will be sold Thursday April 27th through Tuesday, May 2nd. The Kahoot game will be based entirely on basketball trivia. 20 tickets will be pulled at random on Tuesday, May 2nd and those students will be the winners! They will get to participate in the Kahoot Basketball Trivia game during 9th period on Friday, May 5th. AND…the top 3 winners of the Kahoot game will get to play a 3 on 3 game of basketball against Mr. DeAngelis, Ms. Levi, and Mr. Moore. This all goes down on May 5th, which is next Friday, so make sure you buy your tickets asap! Remember-The more tickets you buy, the better your odds are of getting selected as one of our 20 winners! And- Even if you are not into basketball, we will still accept monetary donations to benefit our cause without the purchase of a ticket. All donations for this fundraiser, Hoops For Troops, will go directly to the Wounded Warrior Project. Help us support the brave men and women who lay their lives on the line for our safety. Thank you. Christian Dahms

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Now over to Joe Bertz with a sports report.

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Congratulations to Both the 7th & 8 grade boy’s lacrosse teams beat Downingtown today. 8th grade won 10-3 and 7th grade 13-1. Both were great team wins!

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Today We have a few games. 

Good Luck.

Please stay tuned for Flocabulary.

Have a Great Day KMS!

The Kennett PRIDE Committee, Kennett Middle School Team Leaders, and the KMS Principals have collaborated to develop a new initiative which we will call our #ALLin Events. Three areas of common concern among middle school students are Attendance, Learning, & Laws. The #ALLin events serve to address these three areas and increase student accountability and resilience.

Starting this marking period, Kennett Middle School will challenge all students to meet criteria for Attendance, Learning, and Laws. The attendance criteria requires that students have zero unexcused absences or tardies. The learning criteria requires students to have all of their grades above C-. Lastly, the laws criteria requires that students avoid behavior infractions. Students will be given #ALLin status updates in LEAD that inform them whether or not they are meeting the above criteria midway through the 4th marking period. For students that are meeting all three (3) criteria, they will be considered #ALLin, and must maintain that status until the end of the marking period. Students who are not currently meeting all three (3) criteria will not be considered #ALLin. However, all students who are not #ALLin have an opportunity to climb out of the “out” status and into the “in” status.

Students who miss the attendance criteria should submit signed absence and tardy notes to the attendance window in a timely manner. Students who miss the learning criteria should meet with their teacher(s) and develop a plan to improve their grade. Students who miss the laws criteria must complete an extensive behavior reflection form and have it signed by their principal, counselor, teacher, and parent(s).

At the end of the 4^th marking period, we will determine which students have met all three (3) criteria for our #ALLin events. Those students who meet all three (3) criteria will be considered #ALLin. Students who do not meet all three (3) criteria will not be considered #ALLin. The first # ALLin event that KMS will host will be this year’s Field Day. In order to attend this year’s Field Day, a student must be #ALLin. If a student is not #ALLin, he or she will remain inside of the building during Field Day to complete missing work. Again, the #ALLin events serve to address the areas of Attendance, Learning, and Laws, and aim to increase student accountability and resilience. If you have questions, please call 610-268-5800.

The new Kennett High School football coach, Josh Kaufman, will be having an introductory meeting on Monday, April 24th in the high school auditorium at 7:00 pm. Please come out to meet the new coach and welcome to our community. Middle school student athletes and parents as well as high school student athletes and parents are all welcome to attend.

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The yearbook order deadline has been extended AGAIN until 4/28/17! If you still need to order a yearbook, do it now! See outside Mrs. Lozada’s room, B001 for the website and information on ordering.

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Calling all those KMS Students that are interested in the Health Career Field, there is a lunch and learn offered on Friday, April 28. You can come and learn about exciting careers in health careers that include: nursing, nutrition, sports medicine, sports psychology and more. Sign up outside the guidance office to secure your spot at this information session.

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This Friday is HAT DAY, if you would like to wear a hat bring at least one dollar to your homeroom teacher to support research to cure muscular dystrophy, if you would like to join the run for our sons race this Saturday checkout the flyers located above the water fountains.

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On Tuesday, the 8th grade girls lacrosse team beat Stetson to earn their first win of the season. The game was tied at half time and a strong second half earned them the win. The team was led in goals and draw controls by Emma Schwarz and Taylor Heimann – with 3 goals apiece. Also contributing on offense with goals were Greta Wolff, Holland Sellers, Julia Kosara, Devon Johnson and Ellie Matthews. Paige Brown had a good game in goal and was supported by strong defensive play of Olivia Sparacino, Isabella McLaughlin, Maddie Sallurday and Ally Davis.

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“Attention Reading Olympics.. We will be meeting this week on Friday, April 21 at all lunches. Please be sure to attend. Thank you.”

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April 26 from 5 to 8 PM is our next night at the market! The market at liberty place will give back 15% of all proceeds to our school! Come hang out with friends and celebrate the end of PSSA’s! There are a few new businesses in the market, so please come out and check them out!

Please stay tuned for this day in history.

Have a Great Day KMS!

FCA will have a huddle this Thursday, April 20th at 6:50 am. We will meet in Mr Bowling’s room.

Bring a friend. See you Thursday.

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Today we have LEAD 7th period. We will get a chance there to look at grades and plan for your success.

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There will be Work Wednesday this week. Please report to the library after school. You need to arrange a ride to pick you up at 4:00pm.

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Attention all students:  If you attended the Picture This field trip AND contributed artwork for the alphabet books for Mary D. Lang, you should attend a meeting Thursday after school in D109 to discuss our trip in May to read to the kindergartners and to receive your copy of the book. The meeting will be over by 3:30. See Mrs. Uhl, Miss Conner, or Mrs. Jester if you cannot attend.

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April 26 from 5 to 8 PM is our next night at the market! The market at liberty place will give back 15% of all proceeds to our school! Come hang out with friends and celebrate the end of PSSA’s! There are a few new businesses in the market, so please come out and check them out!

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Please stay tuned for buzzword Tuesday.  “Famous”

Have a Great Day KMS!