Carver Announcements for Nov 26, 2018

Hello Carver Families!

This email is intended to keep parents updated on reminders and announcements during the school year. Be sure to check Carver's webpage for all additional announcements on clubs, activities, and student events!

1.        Pictures were delivered this afternoon to Carver and will come home November 27 (Tuesday). Because of picture return delay, PICTURE RETAKES will be on Friday, November 30, from 8 am – 9 am.  If you do not receive the pictures you ordered, please contact www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com using the password CarverMS. If you know you need picture retakes and would like to order online, please contact Wagner Pictures at www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com using the password CarverMS.

2.        Carver PTSA is hosting Little Caesar Pizza Fundraiser to support the 8^th grade class celebration in May. Please consider purchasing a coupon booklet to support Carver PTSA and our 8^th graders. Click here for more information. If you don’t know a current Carver 8^th grader, but would like to purchase a coupon booklet to help our PTSA and 8^th graders, call the office and we will get you a coupon booklet!

3.        Mid-quarter ended on Friday, November 16. Please check your student’s grades online this week on home access and talk with your student about each grades. Please take time to talk with your child about their grades before the quarter ends on December 20^th. To check grades online, please follow these steps:

·       Home Access Center website: https://homeaccess.sps.org/homeaccess

·       Log-in: Enter User Name and Password

o   If you have not previously logged on, you will be asked to create two questions with answers in case you forget your password in the future.

o   If you need your log-in and password, please come in or call the office.

·       Click on Classes for assignments and overall scores in each class.  

4.        The next Student Council dance is scheduled for November 30. Permission slips were sent home today with qualifications to attend the dance.

5.        Love cooking? Don’t love cooking but love food? Please consider helping Carver cooking club students as they learn about cooking and competing in the Jr. Chef competition. Click here to get more information or to donate to the Donor’s Choose cooking club for Carver students.

6.        Please join us for Carver PTSA meeting in the Carver library on Thursday, December 13, from 4 pm – 5 pm. All parents/guardians are invited to attend. If you would like to participate in Superintendent’s Open Parent Forum, please let PTSA or the office know. If you need more information about Carver PTSA, please contact PTSA via email at CarverPTSA@outlook.com or on facebook at Carver PTSA. We hope to see you at the PTSA meeting!

7.        Basketball games start this week. Student spectators attending home or away games without a guardian present during games must be picked up or have pick-up rides in the stands by 8:00 pm for each home and away event. Students attending the game as a spectator should make clear arrangements to have a ride at the designated pick-up time PRIOR to attending the game. Students picked up later than the expected pick-up time or with no pick-up ride in the stands by 8 pm could forfeit the privilege of attending future athletic activities as a spectator. If the game is not over at the 8 pm pick-up time, the driver/pick-up ride can enter the game for FREE for the remainder of the game to sit with the student in the stands.

8.        Does your student want to visit the WorldStrides trip to Washington, D.C. during Spring Break. Please email scotty617@gmail.com or sgreen@spsmail.org for more information or visit the website at worldstrides.com/signup and use Trip ID 160438.

9.        Reporting safety concerns will now be easier with a new, anonymous tip line launched by Springfield Public Schools. The dedicated tip line will enable students, teachers, parents, or community members to notify SPS School Police of potential safety threats with a quick text message to 417-319-2901, through the MySPS app, or on the district website at www.sps.org/tipline.

10.     Check out the new MySPS app from Springfield Public Schools to access menus, bus delay information, parent resources, online MealPay, directory link, notifications, eschool plus access, canvas access, SPS news, and the school calendar.

11.     Please make sure you have your child picked up by 3 pm each day. If you need after school care for your student or just want to avoid the afternoon carline, sign up for Y-teens after school care at 862-7456 or at the Ward or Jones YMCA buildings. Y-teens is available from 2:45 pm – 6:30 pm each school day at Carver.

12.     Want to stay connected to the weekly announcements using Remind texting? If so, text @1carver to 81010 to get these announcements weekly. The announcements can also be found on Carver’s Twitter and Facebook pages at:

 Our Facebook page is: Carver Middle School Cougars

 Our Twitter handle is: @CarverMSCougars

 Our Instagram account is: CarverMSCougars

13.     Recognizing your child’s teacher or SPS employee is easy! Click on the link here  or find the form on the SPS website! 

14.     Click here to view the SPS 2018-2019 School Calendar.

Have a great week!

Carver Announcements for Nov 19, 2018

Hello Carver Families!

This email is intended to keep parents updated on reminders and announcements during the school year. Be sure to check Carver's webpage for all additional announcements on clubs, activities, and student events!

1.        Mid-quarter ended on Friday, November 16. Please check your student’s grades online this week on home access and talk with your student about each grades. Please take time to talk with your child about their grades before the quarter ends on December 20^th. To check grades online, please follow these steps:

·       Home Access Center website: https://homeaccess.sps.org/homeaccess

·       Log-in: Enter User Name and Password

o   If you have not previously logged on, you will be asked to create two questions with answers in case you forget your password in the future.

o   If you need your log-in and password, please come in or call the office.

·       Click on Classes for assignments and overall scores in each class.  

2.        Mark your calendar, picture retake day is November 27.  Pictures will be returned prior to picture retake day. If you know you need picture retakes and would like to order online in advance, please contact Wagner Pictures at www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com using the password CarverMS. Extra copies of the picture order form are also available in the office.

3.        The next Student Council dance is scheduled for November 30. Students who qualify to attend will bring home permission slips next week.

4.        Please join us for Carver PTSA meeting in the Carver library on Thursday, December 13, from 4 pm – 5 pm. All parents/guardians are invited to attend. If you would like to participate in Superintendent’s Open Parent Forum, please let PTSA or the office know. If you need more information about Carver PTSA, please contact PTSA via email at CarverPTSA@outlook.com or on facebook at Carver PTSA. We hope to see you at the PTSA meeting!

5.        Basketball games start this week. Student spectators attending home or away games without a guardian present during games must be picked up or have pick-up rides in the stands by 8:00 pm for each home and away event. Students attending the game as a spectator should make clear arrangements to have a ride at the designated pick-up time PRIOR to attending the game. Students picked up later than the expected pick-up time or with no pick-up ride in the stands by 8 pm could forfeit the privilege of attending future athletic activities as a spectator. If the game is not over at the 8 pm pick-up time, the driver/pick-up ride can enter the game for FREE for the remainder of the game to sit with the student in the stands.

6.        Does your student want to visit the WorldStrides trip to Washington, D.C. during Spring Break. Please email scotty617@gmail.com or sgreen@spsmail.org for more information or visit the website at worldstrides.com/signup and use Trip ID 160438.

7.        Reporting safety concerns will now be easier with a new, anonymous tip line launched by Springfield Public Schools. The dedicated tip line will enable students, teachers, parents, or community members to notify SPS School Police of potential safety threats with a quick text message to 417-319-2901, through the MySPS app, or on the district website at www.sps.org/tipline.

8.        Check out the new MySPS app from Springfield Public Schools to access menus, bus delay information, parent resources, online MealPay, directory link, notifications, eschool plus access, canvas access, SPS news, and the school calendar.

9.        Please make sure you have your child picked up by 3 pm each day. If you need after school care for your student or just want to avoid the afternoon carline, sign up for Y-teens after school care at 862-7456 or at the Ward or Jones YMCA buildings. Y-teens is available from 2:45 pm – 6:30 pm each school day at Carver.

10.     Want to stay connected to the weekly announcements using Remind texting? If so, text @1carver to 81010 to get these announcements weekly. The announcements can also be found on Carver’s Twitter and Facebook pages at:

 Our Facebook page is: Carver Middle School Cougars

 Our Twitter handle is: @CarverMSCougars

 Our Instagram account is: CarverMSCougars

11.     Recognizing your child’s teacher or SPS employee is easy! Click on the link here  or find the form on the SPS website! 

12.     Click here to view the SPS 2018-2019 School Calendar.

Have a great week!

Carver Announcements for Nov 12, 2018

Hello Carver Families!

This email is intended to keep parents updated on reminders and announcements during the school year. Be sure to check Carver's webpage for all additional announcements on clubs, activities, and student events!

1.        Families of children who currently attend Carver are invited to participate in the Free Grocery Distribution on November 13 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am. The family member who is picking up food must show ID when receiving food.  Please bring at least two boxes or laundry baskets with you day of distribution.  If you are walking, a wagon is great! Rain or shine, the distribution goes on unless school is cancelled. Need help with a Thanksgiving meal? A local church has offered to help. Please reply to this email or call the office at 523-6800 and we will submit your name.

2.        DODGE BALL TOURNAMENT IS BACK!!! Do you love Dodge Ball? If so, join us on November 16 at 5:30 pm for a Dodge Ball PTSA fundraiser tournament! Create your own 5-member team to play in the adult tournament or the student tournament or show up at the door to join a team! It’s $5 to play or $1 to laugh from the stands! Click here for the team form. Click here for permission form. Concessions will be available. Be sure to bring extra money to buy extra lives and to browse at the PTSA book fair during the event! Want to volunteer to work at the gate or concessions to help out? Click here to volunteer!

3.        PTSA Scholastic Book Fair started today! The dates for the book fair are November 12 – 16! Make plans to attend the book fair this year and browse the selection of books! Click here if you would like to volunteer for PTSA and earn Scholastic book dollars.

4.        Mid-quarter ends on Friday, November 16. Please check your student’s grades online this week on home access and talk with your student about each grade before mid-quarter ends Friday! An alert now phone call will be coming home after mid-quarter reports for each student with all A’s and/or all B’s and each student with a D or F at mid-quarter. Please take this time to talk with your child about their grades before mid-quarter ends and before the alert now phone call. To check grades online prior to mid-quarter, please follow these steps:

·       Home Access Center website: https://homeaccess.sps.org/homeaccess

·       Log-in: Enter User Name and Password

o   If you have not previously logged on, you will be asked to create two questions with answers in case you forget your password in the future.

o   If you need your log-in and password, please come in or call the office.

·       Click on Classes for assignments and overall scores in each class.  

5.        Basketball games start this week. Student spectators attending home or away games without a guardian present during games must be picked up or have pick-up rides in the stands by 8:00 pm for each home and away event. Students attending the game as a spectator should make clear arrangements to have a ride at the designated pick-up time PRIOR to attending the game. Students picked up later than the expected pick-up time or with no pick-up ride in the stands by 8 pm could forfeit the privilege of attending future athletic activities as a spectator. If the game is not over at the 8 pm pick-up time, the driver/pick-up ride can enter the game for FREE for the remainder of the game to sit with the student in the stands.

6.        Mark your calendar, picture retake day is November 27.  Pictures will be returned prior to picture retake day. If you know you need picture retakes and would like to order online in advance, please contact Wagner Pictures at www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com using the password CarverMS. Extra copies of the picture order form are also available in the office.

7.        The next Student Council dance is scheduled for November 30. Students who qualify to attend will bring home permission slips next week.

8.        Please join us for Carver PTSA meeting in the Carver library on Thursday, December 13, from 4 pm – 5 pm. All parents/guardians are invited to attend. If you would like to participate in Superintendent’s Open Parent Forum, please let PTSA or the office know. If you need more information about Carver PTSA, please contact PTSA via email at CarverPTSA@outlook.com or on facebook at Carver PTSA. We hope to see you at the PTSA meeting!

9.        Does your student want to visit the WorldStrides trip to Washington, D.C. during Spring Break. Please email scotty617@gmail.com or sgreen@spsmail.org for more information or visit the website at worldstrides.com/signup and use Trip ID 160438.

10.     Reporting safety concerns will now be easier with a new, anonymous tip line launched by Springfield Public Schools. The dedicated tip line will enable students, teachers, parents, or community members to notify SPS School Police of potential safety threats with a quick text message to 417-319-2901, through the MySPS app, or on the district website at www.sps.org/tipline.

11.     Check out the new MySPS app from Springfield Public Schools to access menus, bus delay information, parent resources, online MealPay, directory link, notifications, eschool plus access, canvas access, SPS news, and the school calendar.

12.     Please make sure you have your child picked up by 3 pm each day. If you need after school care for your student or just want to avoid the afternoon carline, sign up for Y-teens after school care at 862-7456 or at the Ward or Jones YMCA buildings. Y-teens is available from 2:45 pm – 6:30 pm each school day at Carver.

13.     Want to stay connected to the weekly announcements using Remind texting? If so, text @1carver to 81010 to get these announcements weekly. The announcements can also be found on Carver’s Twitter and Facebook pages at:

 Our Facebook page is: Carver Middle School Cougars

 Our Twitter handle is: @CarverMSCougars

 Our Instagram account is: CarverMSCougars

14.     Recognizing your child’s teacher or SPS employee is easy! Click on the link here  or find the form on the SPS website! 

15.     Click here to view the SPS 2018-2019 School Calendar.

Have a great week!

Carver Announcements for Nov 5, 2018

Hello Carver Families!

This email is intended to keep parents updated on reminders and announcements during the school year. Be sure to check Carver's webpage for all additional announcements on clubs, activities, and student events!

1.        Please join us for our Veteran’s Day Assembly at 8:30 am on November 12 to honor our veterans! All families are welcome to attend.

·          If you have a family member in the military (past or present), please submit a picture for the assembly. You can reply with an emailed copy of the photo or send a photo to the office with the family member name, student name, and branch of the military. We will get the photo back to you after scanning it.

·          We have reserved seating at the assembly for veterans or those currently serving and their families. Please let us know in advance if you can attend the assembly. On November 12, we will escort you to your reserved seating.

·          The PTSA Book Fair (located in Carver library) begins November 12 – 16, but will be open immediately after the assembly for parents and guardians.

2.        Basketball games start this week. Student spectators attending home or away games without a guardian present during games must be picked up or have pick-up rides in the stands by 8:00 pm for each home and away event. Students attending the game as a spectator should make clear arrangements to have a ride at the designated pick-up time PRIOR to attending the game. Students picked up later than the expected pick-up time or with no pick-up ride in the stands by 8 pm could forfeit the privilege of attending future athletic activities as a spectator. If the game is not over at the 8 pm pick-up time, the driver/pick-up ride can enter the game for FREE for the remainder of the game to sit with the student in the stands.

3.        Flu clinic is coming to Carver on November 7. Click here for vaccine information. Click here for consent form. Please contact Nurse Nancy Sadler, at 523-6830, for more information.

4.        Please join us for Carver PTSA meeting in the Carver library on Thursday, November 8, from 4 pm – 5 pm. All parents/guardians are invited to attend. If you would like to participate in Superintendent’s Open Parent Forum, please let PTSA or the office know. If you need more information about Carver PTSA, please contact PTSA via email at CarverPTSA@outlook.com or on facebook at Carver PTSA. We hope to see you at the PTSA meeting!

5.        Families of children who currently attend Carver are invited to participate in the Free Grocery Distribution on November 13 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am. The family member who is picking up food must show ID when receiving food.  Please bring at least two boxes or laundry baskets with you day of distribution.  If you are walking, a wagon is great! Rain or shine, the distribution goes on unless school is cancelled.

6.        DODGE BALL TOURNAMENT IS BACK!!! Do you love Dodge Ball? If so, join us on November 16 at 5:30 pm for a Dodge Ball PTSA fundraiser tournament! Create your own 5-member team to play in the adult tournament or the student tournament or show up at the door to join a team! It’s $5 to play or $1 to laugh from the stands! Click here for the team form. Click here for permission form. Concessions will be available. Be sure to bring extra money to buy extra lives and to browse at the PTSA book fair during the event!

7.        PTSA Scholastic Book Fair is coming November 12 – 16! Make plans to attend the book fair this year and browse the selection of books! If you would like to volunteer and earn Scholastic book dollars, please contact Carver PTSA.

8.        Mark your calendar, picture retake day is November 27.  Pictures will be returned prior to picture retake day. If you know you need picture retakes and would like to order online in advance, please contact Wagner Pictures at www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com using the password CarverMS. Extra copies of the picture order form are also available in the office.

9.        1^st quarter grade cards were available Oct 19 online. To access grade cards online, please follow these steps:

·       Home Access Center website: https://homeaccess.sps.org/homeaccess

·       Log-in: Enter User Name and Password

o   If you have not previously logged on, you will be asked to create two questions with answers in case you forget your password in the future.

o   If you need your log-in and password, please come in or call the office.

o   Click the GRADES at the top, center of the page.

o   Click on Report Card.

10.     Does your student want to visit the WorldStrides trip to Washington, D.C. during Spring Break. Please email scotty617@gmail.com or sgreen@spsmail.org for more information or visit the website at worldstrides.com/signup and use Trip ID 160438.

11.     Reporting safety concerns will now be easier with a new, anonymous tip line launched by Springfield Public Schools. The dedicated tip line will enable students, teachers, parents, or community members to notify SPS School Police of potential safety threats with a quick text message to 417-319-2901, through the MySPS app, or on the district website at www.sps.org/tipline.

12.     Check out the new MySPS app from Springfield Public Schools to access menus, bus delay information, parent resources, online MealPay, directory link, notifications, eschool plus access, canvas access, SPS news, and the school calendar.

13.     Please make sure you have your child picked up by 3 pm each day. If you need after school care for your student or just want to avoid the afternoon carline, sign up for Y-teens after school care at 862-7456 or at the Ward or Jones YMCA buildings. Y-teens is available from 2:45 pm – 6:30 pm each school day at Carver.

14.     Want to stay connected to the weekly announcements using Remind texting? If so, text @1carver to 81010 to get these announcements weekly. The announcements can also be found on Carver’s Twitter and Facebook pages at:

 Our Facebook page is: Carver Middle School Cougars

 Our Twitter handle is: @CarverMSCougars

 Our Instagram account is: CarverMSCougars

15.     Recognizing your child’s teacher or SPS employee is easy! Click on the link here  or find the form on the SPS website! 

16.     Click here to view the SPS 2018-2019 School Calendar.

Have a great week!