This week is College and Career Week November 4th-November 8th. Here are the activities your School Counseling department has planned!

Mascot Match-up Monday at Lunch – Match the mascots to their college

Trades Tuesday – Trades apprenticeships and careers will be highlighted

College Wear Wednesday – Wear your favorite college t-shirt or sweatshirt

College and Careers ROAR Lesson on Thursday

Faculty Career Scavenger Hunt on Friday

You will learn a lot about planning for your future. See Schoology for more details.

Reading for pleasure in and out of school has longlasting benefits for our students – unlocking the power of information, imagination, identity, and a love of reading. The Scholastic Book Fair is a reading event that brings a great selection of affordable and engaging books for every reading level. Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair Opens in the QMS Library on Friday, November 1st. We invite you and your student to come to our book fair to purchase books to encourage the habit of reading before it closes on Friday, November 15th. A percentage of sales provides resources for the QMS Library. Thank you for your support.

Spirit Week is upon us and here is what your SCA has planned!

The SCA members will be walking around from 8-8:30 with prizes for the BEST representation of the spirit day that day, so join the fun! They will also have prizes to give out at lunch as well, for the late bus people so no one misses out on the fun!

Monday:  College Day! Wear your favorite college wear and represent. This is a half day.

Tuesday:   Throwback *Decades* Day! 6th grade 60s/ 7th grade 70s/ 8th grade 80s! Dress like your decade

Wednesday:  Disney Day! (No explanations needed)

Thursday:  Spirit Day! 6th grade-Wears Gold/ 7th grade –Wears Blue/ 8th grade- Wears Blue, Gold, and White.    Show your school spirit!

Friday:  Dress like a Teacher Day! Pick a teacher and dress like them Join the fun and show your school spirit!

Quioccasin Middle School invites you to join us to share your career with our students for our school-wide Career Day, which will be held on Monday, March 30, 2020, from 8:00-11:15 AM.  We are in need of 50 presenters who can cover a variety of professions.  Please click on the QMS Career Day 2020 link for more information.  You can click on the following link to sign up http://bit.ly/QMScareerday2020 by December 20, 2019.

Thanks so much!

QMS Career Day 2020

What: Coats for Kids coat drive

When: Oct. 28th – Nov. 14th

Where: QMS Drop off locations- C33, D25, or the Library

We accept any size coats but children’s sizes are especially needed.

Please clean out all pockets and Puritan will clean and repair all coats for the Salvation Army.

Parents – School counselors will be presenting our annual “Signs of Suicide” lesson to all students during their health classes on October 21st, 22nd, 29th and 30th. We are teaching this lesson to offer depression awareness and suicide prevention training to all of our students. While we feel this is vital to social-emotional learning, parents may choose to opt children out of this lesson. Informational letters were sent home through health classes on October 3rd and 4th. We have also posted this letter on the school counseling website. If you choose to opt-out, please return the signed letter to the school counseling office by October 16th.

Students of all ages are invited to come to College and Career Night on October 29th at Mills Godwin High School from 6 to 8 pm. Sample a smorgasbord of possibilities for education and employment at this countywide event that offers a chance to talk with representatives of more than 100 universities, colleges, and professional programs. Hope to see you there!

We’re collecting Box Tops in the QMS Library until October 25th. You can find Box Tops on hundreds of participating products, http://tiny.cc/Q_BoxTops. Each Box Top clipping is worth 10 cents that earns money to help fund student programs, classroom grants, family events, 8th grade year-end activities, teacher appreciation events and more! Thank you for your support.

Monday, October 28th is HCPS College and Career Day. County-wide, students, faculty and staff members are asked to wear college t-shirts and sweatshirts on this day. Come decked out in your favorite college wear!

picture from http://lofrev.net/college-logos-pictures/

On Friday October 25th the SCA and QMS will hold our annual Pink Pumpkin Trot during 5th block, which will be at the end of the day. We encourage our students to wear pink that day and walk for a great cause! A minimum donation of $2 to walk and permission slips will be collected through students’ 5th block teacher until Wednesday October 23rd. All donations are

photo from Pitter and Glink

welcome and donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for research to prevent and cure breast cancer. We also encourage our students to wear pink on Friday October 18th for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We look forward to seeing everyone “pinking out”!