Derby Middle School

2023-2024 School Year ! Some laughed, some cried, but all left school excited for the !

Congratulation Derby Dragons on another successful school year.

ENJOY YOUR SUMMER!

Keep an eye out for back to school emails in August.

WEB week, 2024-2025 PTA, membership, tool kit, enrollment, and much more.

It’s a GREAT time to celebrate your incoming 6th Grade Derby Dragon with A Derby BEF Welcome Kit!

(Please share with any new incoming Dragon Families too!)

Link to register:

https://supportbef.ejoinme.org/middleschoolkit2024

Cardboard & Duct Tape Boat Races are back! 8th Graders will be competing on Monday June 3. View the live stream on YouTube (tinyurl.com/DerbyBoats2024). Thank you to Runco Waste Industries for sponsoring and supporting us every year! Parents are welcome to attend their child's hour. Please reach out to Mrs. Wind or Mr. Hickmott to coordinate.

Our 8th Grade Derby Dragons are having the best time on their Washington DC Trip!

We could really use some volunteers to help with an exciting event. Are you interested in helping students to prepare for the real world? Then this is the opportunity for you!

On Tuesday, May 21, Derby Middle School will be hosting the Amazing Shake. The Amazing Shake is an event that creates a lively and fun opportunity to teach our young people manners, discipline, respect, and how to conduct him or herself in a professional environment. The Amazing Shake is an exciting competition where leaders and role models from our school’s community will work together with our students to reinforce professional skills necessary for future success. Students will learn the mechanics of a proper handshake, eye contact, and other necessary soft skills that they will practice using in an obstacle course of case-scenario situations (“gauntlets”) staged around the Derby gymnasium.

We are in need of community members to serve as judges as the students move through the gauntlets on May 21 from 8:45 A.M. to 12:05 P.M. There will be a short tutorial meeting for judges beginning at 7:45 A.M. with coffee & bagels.
Please email [email protected] if you would like to be part of this fun event.

Final Meeting of the Year! This Thursday at 9:20am. Join us 💓

It’s time… time to celebrate our Amazing Derby Staff! xDerbyPTA

Hey Party People! We are in the home stretch of planning an awesome night to celebrate our 8th Graders last hurrah at Derby! 8th grade parents, please see the signup below to donate gift cards to be given away as prizes at the 8th Grade Celebration Dance. The committee will be purchasing other items as well but the PTA cannot purchase gift cards.

Thank you for your donations!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094AA8AC2DA7FD0-49466514-8thgrade #/

Come support the Seaholm Women's Soccer Teams on Monday, May 13 for Middle School Night!!

8th Grade Parents-Official invitation packet will be sent home next week. You will receive an email to check your child's backpack the day we send it home.

Help Make Teacher Appreciation Extra Special!
(Deadline May 3 - see the sign up link below)

Get ready to show some love for our amazing Derby teachers and staff🐉❤️

Our PTA has some fantastic plans in store, but we need your help to make it extra special. Consider signing up to donate a gift card or some drinks to make their week unforgettable!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A45A5A72FA2F49-48934572-teacher

Let's come together to honor those who inspire, educate, and help shape our children and their future.

*IMPORTANT*Time Sensitive*
(Please share)

Make a point to review the BPS new ELA/Literacy (Reading) instructional materials for grades K-8.

Your insights are invaluable in ensuring we meet the diverse needs of our students.

Materials will be available for review at the Education Administration Center building (TODAY) April 11 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

There is also an opportunity to review the materials and provide feedback virtually.

** The Curriculum Design Team will consider community feedback submitted virtually until Saturday, April 15, at 11:59 p.m. We will continue collecting feedback until April 22 at 7 a.m.**

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Exciting news! VP ‘The Man’ Costello will be giving the Principal Update for Derby PTA meeting on Thursday April 11 at 9:20. Come join us at Derby or check out the FB Live!

Also, the BEF has a wonderful way to Give a Gift in Honor of a Teacher for Teacher Appreciation. Check out their website to find out more. Just make sure to Order by May 1💐

https://www.supportbef.org/teacher-
appreciation.html

Derby was all in for the Eclipse viewing! Great learning experience!

PLEASE DROP OFF UNWANTED SOLAR ECLIPSE GLASSES HERE AT DERBY. COLLECTIONS BOXES ARE IN THE VESTIBULE AND OUTSIDE THE MAIN OFFICE. ALL RETURNED GLASSES WILL BE SENT TO LATIN AMERICA FOR THE CHILDREN TO VIEW THE ECLIPSE IN AUGUST 2024.

Friends of Different Learners COMMUNITY MEETING

Open and Free to all.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4TH, 2024
7PM in the Media Center of the
BIRMINGHAM COVINGTON SCHOOL

Presenter JENNY STEWART

Revolutionizing communication and education within Birmingham Public Schools.

THE FOCAL POINT OF THIS INITIATIVE IS THE SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF SIMPLE SIGN LANGUAGE INTO BOTH EARLY EDUCATION AND SPECIAL EDUCATION SETTINGS.

THIS INNOVATIVE APPROACH ENVISIONS CLASSROOMS AND
PROGRAMS EQUIPPED WITH ASL MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
WHERE COMMUNICATION CAN EXTEND BEYOND CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES.

We have an amazing Derby Parent Community!

THANK YOU for all the donations to help support our Teacher’s during the Student Conferences ~ it was a HUGE Success! GO Dragons!

Great season wrestlers!!! 🤼🤼‍♂️🤼‍♀️At the recent league wrestling tournament, the team wrestled very well.

Derby's National Junior Honor Society visited Pembroke Elementary School's kindergarten and first grade classes. The students played a reading getting to know you game, created puppets and read stories to each other. It was a fun filled morning reading and celebrating MARCH IS READING MONTH

On Wednesday 3/18, the Derby wrestling team lost a close match to Royal Oak Middle School.

Friends of Different Learners

VIRTUAL MEETING
OPEN & FREE TO ALL!

MONDAY MARCH 18TH, 2024 7PM
@ ON ZOOM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81113061706?
pwd=dGFXNFRzQ3ErTHVhV1htclh6cIR5Zz09

Assisting a student in moving from elementary school to middle school can pose challenges and stir up emotions.

When an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 is involved, these challenges can intensify. The tips, tricks, and insights from those with experience may help make that transition a bit easier for all involved.

Come hear more to best support your student and ensure you are all ready for this big move!

📣Attention Derby 🐉 7th & 6th grade parents 📣

The Derby PTA has a few remaining positions available for the 2024-2025 School Year!

Great time to get involved and in the know at Derby! Don’t forget to nominate an amazing friend too.

🌟🌟
EXTRA points for connecting incoming 6th grade parents & amazing BPS Elementary School Parent Leaders 🙌

Below is a link for more information, but please reach out if you have specific questions about a position.

This is a great way to stay connected to the happenings at Derby.

www.signupgenius.com