Holiday Food Drive

Seckman Middle School is helping families in the community this holiday season by donating food baskets to families in need as well as to the Arnold Food Pantry. In November, each advisory adopted a family and started collecting holiday food, as well as monetary donations to fill a basket for their adopted family. In addition to the advisory challenge, students also brought in canned goods and donations to vote on the 7th and 8th grade candidates running for court. SMS collected a total of around $900 and numerous canned goods from both activities. Once everything is purchased for the food baskets, all extra money and food items will be donated to the Arnold Food Pantry located on Richardson Road. Twenty two families were adopted by SMS and the baskets will be delivered before the holiday break, December 21st.

JagCast

 Jagcast is a new and popular newscast that is unique to Seckman Middle School. Each day the Jagcast presents the daily announcements, weather forecast and may also entertain with jokes, riddles, trivia, etc. Also this has been a wonderful avenue for kids to show their dramatic skills to the school with short skits and the creation of commercials to try and promote school events.

The Jagcast is shown to all students during the 5^th hour class via video. Students are in charge of creating how information is presented. Select students have also been trained to create the entire cast with a catchy introduction, addition of music, and credits at the end.

Jagcast has been a great addition to SMS and helps to disseminate information in a creative, interesting way! The Jagcast ends their presentation each day by repeating the SMS specialized acronym LEAP: Take the leap Jags! Learning  Excellence Achieving Pride!

Here's a sample Jagcast.

Robotics Club

The Robotics Club meets approximately once a week to design, build, and program robots in preparation for a local competition against other robotics groups in the metro area.  We are a First Lego League and we are sponsored by Boeing this school year.  Students work in teams of 10 to design, build, and program the robot to do various tasks on the robotics course. Mr. Martin, Mrs. Spraul and Ms. Lindhurst are team sponsors.

Archery Club

The 2012 SMS Archery Club has begun.  The club is based on the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) and is open to all students that wish to participate.  We began by going over rules, regulations, course set-up, and techniques.  At our first meeting, we had nearly 50 eager students show up.  We shot with the high school so our students could learn from other experienced archers.  They were a great help and we look forward to competing alongside them at our upcoming tournaments.
Practices are currently on Thursdays or Fridays, depending on gym availability.  Archery Team tryouts will be held at our practice on February 1st.
Our first tournament will be at Seckman High School on March 3rd.  After that, we will head to the Missouri State Competition on March 23rd in Warrensburg, MO.
We expect a great year since many of our archers have experience from elementary school and have competed previously.
If anyone has any questions, please contact our coaches, Mr. Reed or Mr. Sattley.

 

The National Archery in the Schools Program promotes international-style  target archery as part of the in-school curriculum, to improve educational performance and participation in the shooting sports among students in grades 4-12.

  


National Archery in the Schools Program

 
Missouri National Archery in the Schools Program 

2012 Winter Mixer

Seckman Middle School's Winter Mixer was well attended on December 7th. This years Court was made up of:

7th Grade - Mallory Reed, Ty Sattley, Brooke St.John, Allison Mabley, Kacie Koslowski, Nathan Robinson, and Mackenzie Trigg.

8th Grade - Jack Weindel, Kyle Blake, Olivia Smith, Drew Floeh, Kristen Butler, Frankie Cardinale.

And the winners are...

7th Grade King and Queen:  Ty Sattley and Brooke St.John

8th Grade King and Queen:  Jack Weindel and Kristen Butler

Green Machine

Green Machine is an after school club that meets twice a month and monitors Rock Creek behind the school. We are an officially recognized Missouri Stream Team and we are supported by the Missouri Department of Conservation with equipment and training. Anyone can sign up and we do frequent litter clean ups around campus and up and down the creek bed.  We also monitor the creek organisms and macro invertebrate, which gives a good indicator of water quality. Ms. Lindhurst is the club sponsor. For more information email Ms. Lindhurst or stop by Room 20 at SMS.