Post from the PTO
Got ideas? PTO is looking for some help! We need a new Fundraising Chair to help us in our efforts to raise money to support Dunbar students, teachers, and new initiatives. Our past chair set up awesome events, such as spirit nights at Mi Patron and FunQuest where the businesses donated a portion of sales to our PTO. Duties include attending our monthly PTO meetings, held the second Monday of each month at 6:30 pm and working with local, regional, or national organizations (if necessary) to raise money for our PTO. New ideas are welcome! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Jessie Thompson, PTO President at jmthompson5@gmail.com.
BoxTops—Just keep clipping, just keep clipping…Hopefully you have noticed the awesome BoxTops drop box in the lobby at Dunbar. Keep clipping the little rectangles found on hundreds of products you know and love -- including cereals, snacks, food storage bags, meals and sides, paper products and juices. Each BoxTop that is clipped and turned in to the school is worth 10 cents. You can also increase the value of those little rectangles—download the BoxTops App—free for IOS and Android. Scan items and your receipts and we get a bonus in addition to the ones you clip from the package! Questions? Contact (stacydarlenecarter@gmail.com) or Nanette Boswell (ntboswell@gmail.com)
Go here to find out more and get the free app. Our school is called “Paul Dunbar School for Innovation” in the app.
http://www.boxtops4education.com/bonusapp
PTO is ready for your Donations: The Dunbar Middle School PTO is very excited about the new Golden Poet program at Dunbar and has already donated money to help get this program off to a great start. Our goal is to help fund this worthy program, and others like it, in order to "Raise the Bar at Dunbar!"
Get on board and donate to PTO to help "Raise the Bar at Dunbar!": The Dunbar Middle School PTO is very excited about many of the new initiatives getting started this year! Please help the PTO help Dunbar by donating to the Dunbar Middle School PTO online using the PayPal link below. No amount is too small, and the funds will be used for initiatives that benefit all the students and staff—including the new Golden Poet initiative and staff appreciation events. Just click on the link, enter the amount you wish to donate, and indicate if you would like to donate through a credit card, or your PayPal account. Thank you for your support of the PTO and Dunbar! (Feel free to share this link with far-away family who may also wish to support our amazing school!)
Click here to donate to Dunbar Middle School PTO online!
Grade Representatives: The PTO has parent grade reps for every grade. If you have grade-level issues, concerns, questions or positive feedback, reach out to your Grade Representatives and they can bring up the issues at our next PTO meeting. For Sixth Grade, the reps are: Laura Bauer (laurabauer01@hotmail.com) and Ashley Khurana (sagesyon@gmail.com) ; for Seventh Grade, the reps are: Michele Bauman (cheleb.g@gmail.com), Sarah Jarrett, (ssjarrett@gmail.com), Carrie Pierce (carriepierce700@gmail.com), and Stacy Carter (stacydarlenecarter@gmail.com); for Eighth Grade, the reps are: Debbie Brabrand (dsbrabrand@yahoo.com), Deanna Aultice (aulticefam5@aol.com), Tia Clark (mrs_jluv@yahoo.com) and Nora McClure (badnora@hotmail.com). All Grade Reps are part of the Dunbar PTO and should plan to attend our monthly meetings.
PTO Meetings: All are welcome at the Dunbar PTO meetings. Our next meeting will be Tuesday 1/17/2017 at 6:30 PM (rescheduled to this date because of the snow days), in the Library. Feel free to join us!
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Updates from Art Class...
Congrats to Ella Grant who has a piece of artwork on display at Delegate Scott Garrett's office. Her tempera painting, "Butterfly Wing Close Up" will be on display the entire semester.
FEBRUARY- DMS artwork will be on display at the School Administration Building in the top floor display cases. (Some artwork may be visible from the street, hanging in windows of the top floor as well.)
MARCH - Youth Art Month!
Academy Center of the Arts will be hosting the LCS Art Gallery showcasing select works from all LCS art students. The show will be the entire month of March. An opening night reception will kick off the event as well as the Art Crawl. (Date to be announced.)
Art Crawl: Local downtown businesses will be hosting and displaying LCS artwork. The artwork will be on display during the month of March as well. Dunbar Middle School Artwork is hosted by the Lynchburg Community Market.
information about the History Fair
Orchestra News...
Junior Regional Orchestra auditions will take place on Saturday, January 21 at Jack Jouett Middle School in Charlottesville, VA. The snow date for these auditions is the following Saturday, January 28. Transportation will be provided, and the bus will depart from the E.C. Glass parking lot. Please email Ms. Ayers at ayersam@lcsedu.net with questions.
- Snow Day-No School 1/9/2017
- Spirit Week (Postponed due to weather)
- All District Band Audition 1/14
- Junior Theatre Festival 1/13-16 Atlanta GA
- MLK Day (No School) 1/16/2017
- PTO Meeting 1/17 6:30 DMS Library
- Wrestling City Championship at DMS (Purple Crush) 1/26 4:30
- Audition for Bye, Bye, Birdie 1/31-2/3
- Our next touching bases will be in February the date is TBA
- Always check the DMS website calendar for a complete list of DMS events
Spirit week has been postponed due to snow days. We will notify students and parents when we reschedule.
Report cards went home last Friday. We ask that all students get their report card signed and return them to their homeroom teacher so we will know that parents saw their child's report card. You can also send a note to their homeroom teachers confirming you saw their report card.
The Golden Poet Award
Our next Golden Poet Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, January 24th at 6:00PM. We will also be preforming a ribbon cutting ceremony for several local organizations who have signed up as partners in education to help support our students and staff here at Dunbar Students can earn the Golden Poet status once per nine weeks by achieving three out of four of the following standards:
- two hours of community service (must complete a community service form in the main office. See Ms. Bell for a form),
- no discipline referrals or behavior issues,
- no unexcused absences,
- a positive referral
Students who achieve the Golden Poet status will be recognized on our morning news and placed in a quarterly drawing for prizes. This is just another way for us to show our kids that doing the right thing, and going the extra mile, does pay off.
***Don't forget to have your child complete a community service form in the main office. See Ms. Bell for a form.***
Here is a list of students who have earned the Golden Poet Award for Quarter 2 (If you believe your child earned this award but is not listed below please contact Ms. Murphy in guidance 434-515-5310. It may be that they forgot to turn their community service form in...we want to award as many students as possible).
- AYRES, QUINLAN
- BEVERLY, SYDNEY
- CALLAHAM, CALEB
- DENTON, SIMON
- GOMEZ, KYA
- HATCH, SASHA
- HUNT, JR ANTONIO
- KHURANA, SAGE
- PARISH, LUCY
- PATTERSON, IMARI
- PERSONNA, JADE
- RANDALL, EDWIN
- RICE, DESIREE
- ROBERTS, CAMDEN
- ROSSER, SHAVASIA
- RUCKER, NADIA
- STYRSKY, KAI
- THOMAS, D’Ky-Jah
- THOMAS, TYLA
- THOMASSON, ANN-TAYLOR
- WILLIAMS, MAKIYA
- WRIGHT, JAQWAN
Below is a shirt that all of our Golden Poets receive.
Encourage our teachers- Only TWO staff members have been recognized by parents this year...We know our teachers and staff members work very hard and need a pat on the back every now and then. If you would like to recognize a staff member for going above and beyond, you can click here to submit a positive referral using our Google Form, or email me with your nominations browndr@lcsedu.net . (Our teachers appreciate this more than you know!)
The Principal's Challenge
Our Principal's Challenges have been going great! These challenges are simple and quick acts of kindness and respect towards peers and staff. Students will NOT receive any reward or special acknowledgement for completing these challenges. It's just our way of giving them the opportunity to "Raise the BAR!" Please help us out with this by asking your child what the challenge for the week is and how they are completing it. Next week's challenge is to simply "Write thank you notes of appreciation for our custodians, secretaries, and cafe staff." Students can give these notes to their homeroom teachers and homeroom teachers can deliver them to Ms. Bell to be distributed..
Special thanks to our PTO, Mr. Fleshman's and Ms. Edson's leadership classes! Our leadership students created "quote signs" to provide inspiration around the school for their peers. Thanks to a generous donation from our PTO, we were able to have their signs installed around our school. We are very proud of our PTO's and students' thoughtfulness, and hope to install more in the near future (See pictures below).
