School News

On to Week 4: School is in full swing! We have had our first sporting events, our first sets of quizzes and assessments and experiments... We are rocking!

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This is our LAST newsletter of the 23-24 school year! We have only two days remaining. We will wrap up final projects and exams on Tuesday. Then Wednesday is our final fun day!  If your student has ANY library books, get them turned in at the Library. If they have ANY laptops, chargers, styluses, laptop […]

We are really ALMOST finished with 2023-2024. So much to be thankful for, so much excitement, and so many new steps on the horizon for students. We are still full steam ahead with project-based learning and game like activities to maximize our time in classrooms. Students are learning content to jump start NEXT year.

We are really ALMOST finished with 2023-2024. So much to be thankful for, so much excitement, and so many new steps on the horizon for students as we welcomed rising 5th graders this week and are preparing our 8th graders with resumes to attend the "Get Hired" event at Roane State.

We are finally finished with our TCAPS! However, the show must go on! Students will continue to have learning opportunities in every classroom, much of it hands on and project-based. Our Eagles are expected to finish strong, and we appreciate our JMS families helping us to remind students to do their best every day, every class period, every minute!

We have ONE more testing day left. Your students take these tests seriously, and we are very appreciative. All we ask is that they come to school well-rested and with a mind to finish their testing strong.

We will continue to run the announcements and information below in our letter to parents, as we are now one week into TCAP testing! Our benchmark data shows that we are preparing your students well. Historical data shows that we outperform our own benchmarks when it comes to the TCAP exam.

Our benchmark data shows that we are preparing your students well. Historical data shows that we outperform our own benchmarks when it comes to the TCAP exam

We in are our final regular week before we start TCAP testing. Our teachers will be pushing to teach remaining standards and review hard with your students. TCAPs are one of the ways in which we measure your student's progress. It is important, but YOUR STUDENT IS MORE THAN A TCAP score.