Edison Middle School PTSA Announcements
306 West Green Street
Champaign, IL 61820-5099
Phone: (217) 351-3771 Fax: (217) 355-2564
Edison's Mission
It is our mission at Edison Middle School to work collaboratively to place the focus on the academic, social, and emotional needs of each individual student first and ensure that
ALL students are prepared for post-secondary education.
Band Concert this week: Plan to be in the Edison auditorium this Wednesday (Feb 24) for the Edison Bands spring concert, 7 pm.
For the past four years, the state of Illinois has asked all families of public school students to complete the 5 Essentials Survey. The survey will only take a few moments of your time, but has the potential to give us quality information about how our school is serving our children. Please take a few minutes to click this link: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/ to complete the survey.
Box Tops are getting sent in again soon. Thanks to everyone who has sent in Box Tops so far! Please send any additional Box Tops you may have collected to Mrs. Wells ASAP. We will need to get this round into the mail by the March 1, 2016 deadline. A special thanks goes to the Clark family all the help with getting the Box Tops ready! Mrs. Wells continues to collect the Box Tops throughout the year so please keep collecting and sending them in!!
Applications for the Edison chapter of the National Junior Honor Society are now available from Mr. Cain (room 128) and in the main office (and attached to this message). Applications are due to Mr. Cain by March 4, 2016. Current National Junior Honor Society members do not need to complete the applications for this year, but should contact Mr. Cain about their 2015-2016 community service hours. If there are any questions please contact Mr. Cain at cainza@champaignschools.org or 351-3771.
Attention 8th grade students: The Champaign Central High School Marching Maroons will hold clinics and auditions for students interested in being part of the 2016 Drum line. All clinics and auditions will be held at Central HS in the band room (near the corner of Park and New Streets).
Wednesdays - 3:30-5:30
4/13 - 4/20 - 4/27
5/4 (clinic & audition date)
Students will participate in a doodle survey to indicate their availability for summer rehearsals.
The drum line is only one section of our nearly 200 piece marching band. Students not placed in drum line will be encouraged to choose a different role in the marching band including pit percussion, horn line or color guard. More information about marching band - including the full fall schedule will be made available later this spring. In the meantime, please contact Jennifer Currey with any questions you may have:curreyje@champaignschools.org.
On Saturday, March 12, Bottenfield Elementary School will host a 5K run/walk in honor and memory of Wendy Huckstadt. Mrs. Huckstadt served in Unit 4 for 14 years. She passes away after battling cancer. She was known to motivate students and families to live an active and healthy lifestyle. In honor of her commitment to health, this race is in her honor. To get more information, there is an attached flyer or you may register online at: www.bottenfield5k.weebly.com or Mrs. Wells has information as well.
Love jazz? Love dancing? Come to Swing Central on Friday, February 26, 2016 at Champaign Country Club, 1211 S. Prospect Ave in Champaign. Visit http://maroons.org/swing/ to reserve your tickets or see the full color flyer for more information. To make a donation or sponsor a table, visit http://maroons.org/sponsorships.shtml.
Celebrate our jazz bands and dance the night away at the annual Swing Central held at the Champaign Country Club. Come and enjoy the following:
· Champaign Central's three jazz bands plus additional jazz bands from Edison Middle School and Urbana High School
· full dinner buffet
· Cash Bar
Ticket Prices are $30 for adults and $20 for students. Student dance only tickets $10. Please contact Deborah Miller at miller9@illinois.edu if you are interested. Due to a caterer deadline, the final day for all ticket sales is Tuesday, February 23. No tickets will be sold at the door. Band members must pay the student price for the dinner buffet. All order forms should be returned to the band room or mailed to: Central Music Boosters, 610 W. University Ave, Champaign, IL 61820
Pens to Lens 2016: The Champaign Urbana Film Society invites K-12 students to submit 1-5 page screenplays for short films by February 29, 2016. See attached flyer or www.penstolens.com for more information.
The results are in! Edison's 2014-2015 literary arts magazine, Retro, was rated as an EXCELLENT by the NCTE this past year! All Edison students should consider submitting their work this year for a chance to be featured. Retro is a student-created magazine that is published at the end of the school year with the year's best student writing, art, and photography. The submission deadline for this year is March 9th. We accept writing, art, and photography.
To submit, share your work with edisonretro@gmail.com , making sure to put at the top:
1. The title of the piece
2. Your name*
3. Genre of the piece (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, or photography)
4. Your grade
5. Your homeroom teacher
*Note: All authors'/artists' names remain anonymous to Retro members during the selection process. If you wish to remain anonymous in the magazine itself, please put an * next to your name in your submission.
Lastly, we are still looking for students for our team! Come to room 226 on Thursdays from 2:50-3:50 to be a part of the team selecting and arranging the work for the magazine. Questions? Contact Mrs. Wolz or Ms. Garber.
Edison Clubs: a list of Edison clubs is attached.
Students, Parents & Staff: want to help create the EMS 2015-2016 Video Yearbook? Please send your school-appropriate pictures and videos to: cometyearbook2016@gmail.com
Email announcements of the past can be found on the Edison Middle School website here: http://www2.champaignschools.org/schools/news/?id=20
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