SCHS Playoff Football

The SCHS Touchdown & Quarterback Club's would like to encourage all Saints fans to attend. Every student fan will have a chance to win a free STUDENT POWER PASS at the game by collecting a ticket when they come in the main gate. We'd like to have a big crowd at Friday's game. Game time is 7:00 PM, gates open at 6:00 PM.

MEAP Week Box Tops.

WOW......What I'm about to type amazes me. Here is the breakdown from the Box Tops we collected during MEAP Week: We colleted 6850 Regular Box Tops and 9,722 Bonus Box Tops for a total of 23, 422. That means that SCMS will be receiving a check for $2342.20 sometime in April. Last year we earned $438.68. Special thanks to PTO member Liz Draghiceanu for heading up the organizing and mailing in of the Box Tops and to Mrs. Walton and her NJHS members for cutting/cleaning up the edges so they could be mailed in. The next Box Top drive is the first full week of February. Thanks in advance and start saving those Box Tops.....

District Half Day Thursday October 31st.

Students will have a Half Day on Thursday October 31st while Staff will have professional development in the afternoon. Hours will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd. SCMS students will be dismissed at 11:48.

Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative

Fundraiser for Family in Need

My Bandaged Head

If you see me in the next few days you’ll probably notice that I have a bandage on my head. You might have heard from your student that I got this cut while performing an extreme act of heroism. I told many groups of students during lunch when asked what happened to my head that while driving down the road I noticed a baby on the railroad tracks. I pulled over and noticed a train was coming. I raced down the tracks and was able to grab the baby just as the train bore down on us. Once I had the baby and was walking back to my truck, a bear jumped out of the woods and attacked me. I was able to protect the baby with one arm, while punching the bear in the face with my free arm. After I punched the bear, it ran off into the woods. If you think that story isn’t completely true, you're correct…......there was two bears (I didn’t want to brag). Enjoy your weekend.

SCMS/MCMS 8th Grade Football Game

Our Middle School 8th grade Football Game against MCMS will be aired on Channel 6 Thursday and Friday, October 24th and 25th. The times are 2:00-6:00-and 10:00 (a.m. and p.m.)

SCMS Family in Need

One of our SCMS Families lost their home to a fire this week. Luckily everyone is fine but they lost everything in the fire. One of the things that I'm most proud of is the way that our school community always steps forward in a time of need. SCMS will be having a Hat Day this Friday with all money collected going toward Meijer Gift Cards for the family. We are asking for a $1 donation from students to wear a hat this Friday, October 25th. Thank you in advance for any and all help.

Cookie Dough Fundraiser

The cookie dough from the fundraiser will be delivered on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Pick up time will be from 3:00 to 5:30 PM in the Auxiliary Gym.

East China Job Fair

Bus Drivers and Custodians Needed. November 6, 2013 @ 9:30 am. East China School District Administrative Building 1585 Meisner Road. No Experience Necessary. Training Provided

NJHS Mackinac Island Parent Meeting

Mrs. Walton will be hosting a NJHS Mackinac Island Parent Meeting on Monday, October 28th at 5:30 in her classroom (room 1209, first floor, East end of the building). The meeting will go over the details of the National Junior Honor Society Trip to Mackinac Island which we have done for a number of years.

Thursday, October 10th, is Tiger Day at SCMS

Thursday is a BIG day for our Detroit Tigers and because of that we are making it Detroit Tiger Day at SCMS. Staff and Students are encouraged to wear their Tiger Gear.

Hey-Hey...We're Famous

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the Times Herald. They did a nice article on our Beat the MEAP Week. Times Herald Article

2nd Tuesday of the Month is SCMS Night at Hungry Howies

The 2nd Tuesday of the Month is SCMS Night at Hungry Howies. SCMS will receive 20% of all orders as long as you mention St. Clair Middle School when you place the order. There is a very, very, very short form to fill out that we have in our main office (and HH has behind their counter if you need one). Your help in supporting SCMS every second Tuesday of the month is greatly appreciated.

Shhhhhhhhhh....We're MEAP'ing

Well.......Beat the MEAP Week is now behind us and the tests have begun. For those of you that are veteran MEAP parents, you know that the MEAP is a marathon, not a sprint. Normally all the Rah-Rah motivational things we do will wear off either tomorrow or early next week. This is where we really could use your help. Stressing at home the importance of finishing strong and doing your best is a quality that obviously will help our scores but it’s a life skill that will pay off down the road. We can do this….(that was a little rah-rah for parents)

MEAP Assembly

What a great way to end BEAT the MEAP Week. Our goal was to get the students focused, review some skills, stress the importance of doing your best and to have some fun along the way. I’d say, Mission Accomplished. We had an appearance by MEAP Crusher, some relays and students that CRUSHED a few pumpkins that were painted with the word MEAP across them. All in all, great job to everyone involved. Now…let’s put the pencil to the paper and show the rest of the State what we already know. SCMS is one of the best in the State.

PTO Meeting

There will be a PTO Meeting this Tuesday, October 8th at 7:00 pm in our Media Center. Hope to see everyone there.

More Twitter....

I'm going to try to remember (starting now) to end all of my St. Clair Middle School Tweets with #scmssaints so they'll be easy to find.

If You're a Tweeter....

I'm new to Twitter so I'm not completely sure how this is going to work....I know how I want it to work which is, I want to link Twitter with this Blog so that when I post something on this Blog it'll also appear of Twitter. Here we go (fingers are crossed). If you follow me on Twitter, hopefully these Blog postings will appear, tweet, twit.... My twitter name/handle/account is Mike_Alley59 If you reply to any of my postings, please remember that anything you type is out there for everyone to see.

In Case You're Wondering.....

Just in case you stop by the middle school in the next few days and wonder why I'm wearing tennis shoes, it's not because I'm a slacker (I'm a slacker for totally different reasons). I've done something to my foot. My dress shoes bend right in the wrong spot which isn't helping in the healing process. Although the tennis shoes look a tad goofy with a tie, my hope is that it eases the pain and I can get on the fast track to recovery. (I tired of getting old)