Malcom Bridge Middle School

🔴⚫️ Join us in welcoming Mr. Jackson Huckaby, his wife, and sons to the Malcom Bridge family! You may recognize Mr. Huckaby as he has taught at North Oconee High School for the past 12 years. We look forward to his continued dedication to Oconee County Schools and leadership as an assistant principal at MBMS! Go Bolts! ⚫️🔴

⚡️Thank you to Fit Body Boot Camp for their donation to MBMS and MBMS Bolt PTO!

🍎 Earlier this summer, MBMS teachers and staff helped deliver for Oconee Area Resource Council’s Summer Food for Kids. We are thankful for this program and the volunteers who help prepare and deliver to 95 families in our community throughout the summer!

☕️ We enjoyed having ESP’s Java Joy visit MBMS during post-planning today. They served delicious cups of coffee and spread joy to all this afternoon!

♥️⚡️🖤 The Bolts are officially on summer break and Dr. Smith completed his final afternoon of bus duty! Bolts, thank you for a great 2023-2024 school year!

⚡️The weather was beautiful for our Bolt Fun Day sponsored by MBMS Bolt PTO! From games, snow cones, a photo booth, music, and more, students had a great time with their friends!

Thank you to our PTO for planning this awesome end of the year event, and thank you to our connection teachers for helping supervise all day! ♥️

Eighth grade Field Day…☑️
⚡️We didn’t expect anything less from these Bolts! They were fast, loud, fun, and full of spirit! Congratulations to Mrs. Kinchen’s homeroom for winning the championship belt!

🎓 While we didn’t get a picture of all of them that visited, we loved seeing some former Bolts in the halls of MBMS one more time! Congratulations, North Oconee High School Class of 2024! We are so proud of you!

Oconee County Schools

⚡️Seventh grade students and teachers did not let the weather rain on their parade, and Field Day was a success! They were so loud, so awesome, and full of so much spirit! Congratulations to Mrs. Williams’s homeroom for winning the championship belt!

⚡️At last night’s Oconee County Schools Board meeting, students of our morning announcement team presented our MBMS Points of Pride. They shared about the many ways our Bolts and stakeholders receive news and announcements about MBMS. Great job, Blakely, Elizabeth, Burke, and Lincoln!

Our morning announcement team do a great job every morning leading our school in the Pledge of Allegiance and delivering announcements about club meetings, student achievements, sports updates, and more. Thank you for starting each day for our Bolts and showing kindness, respect, and leadership!

⚡️Remember the last day is a half day and dismissal is at noon! Finish strong!

Rayvin, an 8th grade student, helped make the bulletin board and is pictured with our family and consumer sciences teacher, Mrs. Hester.

🥎 Congratulations to these student-athletes! We look forward to these Bolts representing MBMS on the field and in the classroom.

The MBMS softball online spirit store is open! Scan the QR code or go to mbms-softball.spiritsale.com

📖 Bolts, this is your friendly reminder to continue reading this summer! The Oconee County Schools middle school summer reading is linked on the MBMS homepage and our Facebook bio.

👏 Congratulations to Mrs. Hawkins, Coach Dobbs, and Mrs. Johnston for being selected by the Bolt Brag student winners as the Teacher Bolt Brags for the month of April!

⚡️Our 8th grade students and teachers had a full day of fun at Funopolis and ended the day with Kona Ice. We are enjoying our last days with these Bolts as they wrap up their middle school years at MBMS!

⚡️ We enjoyed hosting Step Up Day for the rising sixth grade students from MBES, HSES, and RBES! Thank you to our cheerleaders, Malcom Bridge Middle School Band, MBMS Chorus & Drama, Bolt Ambassadors, FCCLA, and Mrs. Whiten and Dr. Sikes for a successful morning welcoming our future Bolts to MBMS!

👏 Thank you to the MBMS yearbook staff for their dedication and talent in producing an outstanding yearbook that highlights our year! Also, a huge shoutout to our yearbook advisor, Mrs. Dorsey! She spends many hours and works closely with our students in the creation of our yearbook.

📸 Students enjoyed reading the pages in their new yearbooks, reminiscing about the year, and getting friends and teachers to sign pages. We hope our Bolts always remember their 2023-2024 school year at MBMS!

📢 Thank you to the MBMS Communication Team! From the morning announcements to the school website to the scrolling slides on the TVs around the school to our social media posts, this team makes sure our Bolts and community know what is going on at MBMS!

⚡️Sixth Grade Field Day was a blast! The Bolts were competitive, loud, fast, strong, and fun! They had so much team spirit and showed tons of good sportsmanship! Congratulations to Mrs. Stephens’s Smashers for winning the championship belt!

👏 Coach Rudell and Coach Wells deserve a major shout out! They planned, organized, and ran a *full day* of events for our students. Thank you!

👏 Also, thank you to the sixth grade teachers! They pumped up the Bolts all day long and participated in so many teacher events!

📸 Stay tuned for more pictures and videos from today!

👏Bolt Brag Winners and Nominees👏

Congratulations to our Bolt Brag winners and nominees for the month of April. These students were nominated by teachers and selected by administrators for going above and beyond in showing KINDNESS, RESPECT, & LEADERSHIP! Way to represent and be a Bolt! ⚡️

♥️ Thank you, MBMS PTO, Malcom Bridge Middle FFA, Planet Smoothie on Epps Bridge, and The Picnic Basket Meal Market, for showing our teachers so much love this week!

☀️ Students in Mrs. Lovett’s sixth grade science class are currently studying energy resources. Today they started making their solar ovens to make s’mores.

♥️ Thank you, Nurse Amanda, for taking care of our Bolts! We appreciate you today and everyday!

💪 Bolts, get decked out in your homeroom color and bring the fun on Field Day! Thank you to our PE coaches, Coach Rudell and Coach Wells, for all of their work to prepare an awesome day for the Bolts!

♥️ This afternoon friends, family, and colleagues celebrated the retirement of Mrs. Freeman, Dr. Smith, and Mrs. Parsons. Thank you for everything you have done for the Oconee County Schools family, both blue side and red side! We will miss you at MBMS and wish you an enjoyable retirement! Congratulations!

Thank you, Rafferty’s of Athens, Paul Snellgrove, and MBMS PTO, for our ✨jackpot-themed✨ lunch today!

👏 We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our Bolts at Honors Night!

✨We are soaking in the last moments with our Bolts in 8th grade! Thank you, MBMS PTO, students, and staff, for a memorable 8th grade dance to celebrate the Class of 2028!