Bounce & Scratch again had impressive sales today due to three parents from the team showing up and giving amazing support! That is a new parent purchase record in the history of VMS Computer Explorations sales for one team! Great job, parents!
A special thank you to all of the sixth grade helpers who made sixth grade lunch sales possible.
With a total class profit of $132.95, Ms. Cornell and her Computer Explorations class want to thank everyone who helped this year's project be a success. They are still figuring out their individual profits or losses while learning Excel, but the joy of entrepreneurship has definitely been sparked for some students.
Tomorrow students can opt to spend their money on DONUTS during all lunches. $1 Donuts that benefit the school is a gift PTSO keeps giving once a month all year long. Thank you, PTSO!
CONGRATULATIONS to Megan Jensen, Darcy Cluff and Kylie Peterson for their 3rd Place Win of the Idaho Capital Educators Trailer Competition! Emceed by Doug Petcash from KTVB and the wonderful Idaho CapEd members, these amazing ladies received a $150 check for all their efforts on their movie SPIKED! It is the second consecutive win for Megan Jensen in this competition. We are so proud of her and her teams' efforts!
Check out the Cap Ed Trailer movie Youtube channel and this site to find out how to get involved next year: https://capedcu.com/movie/
Victory Middle School teachers Jennifer Shalz, Jennifer Livesey and Nicole Hylands, known as the Fierce Wanderers, jumped into a freezing "lake" in Emmett March 11th to raise money for the Special Olympics Idaho. School Psychologist, Rachel Vachon, their team driver, photographer, and support person took these great pictures of this fantastic event. Our Fierce Wanderers want to thank EVERYONE for your awesome support!
If Ethan's smiles were money, Ethan's business would be the richest business ever as his older brother put a huge smile on his face today buying $20 worth of product to help place them as one of the highest earning businesses during Ms. Cornell's Computer Explorations Student-made Business Project today! Tomorrow is the last day of sales during all three lunches. The whole class is only $49.79 away from breaking even to repaying the school the seed money that was loaned for the project. Will Bounce & Scratch have enough of a business profit to beat out today's big sales by Cracked Popitz? Or, will the Rubik's Cubes still be the VMS favorite? Come buy some fun dip, blow pops or double bubble gum while playing with that new skate board, squishie, squeezie, monkey or popper and see for yourself!
The district had to postpone our 7th grade band festival from Wednesday, March 15, to Tuesday, April 4th, 7 p.m.
Please note: TONIGHT at Overland Park Cinemas you can support your Kodiaks at the Idaho CapEd Trailer Contest awards ceremony.
Thursday, March 16th, after Panda Express lunches are served to those who ordered on time, you have the option to go see the 8th Grade Band Festival at 7 p.m. Cenntenial High School auditorium. If you are more of a Basketball fan, check out our school calendar to see where and when the 7th grade boys and girls are playing.
Friday, March 17th, is St. Patrick's Day! It is also DONUT DAY at VMS! Our amazing PTSO will be providing $1 donuts to students at the price of $1. Will they be green?
BUT, that's not all that's going on at VMS! Today and tomorrow (Weds and Thurs) during all lunches the Computer Explorations students will continue selling their student selected business items. Check out this video for more information: https://youtu.be/ze3WUYlnRi4 ! Send your child with $$$ to support our student businesses. Hopefully their spreadsheets will balance and profits bailing them out from the "red" will be made.
Basketball Concession volunteers are still needed. sign up below:
www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0a45afa82fa3f58-basketball#/
We need volunteers to help at the school dance on April 7. Decorations/setup from 2-3pm. Concessions from 3:15 - 5:15pm. Sell tickets for attending or raffle from 3:15 - 4:30pm. Chaperones from 3:00 - 5:15pm.
Come help our student council with our Spring Dance!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C48A5AF28A4F85-volunteers2
Lights, Camera, Action! Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Overland Park Cinemas come join Ms. Cornell and VMS Filmmakers to find out whether our amazing competitors win one of the top three Idaho CapEd Trailer prizes.
Spiked by Megan Jensen, Kylie Peterson and Darcy Cluff and Replication by Eric Williams, Ayden Vashro and Carson De La Motte will be featured on the big screen as part of the top ten middle school finalists.
This fun event is always a real nailbiter as they show all ten middle school movies and then tell us who won for the middle school division. They then proceed the same with with the top ten high school finalists.
Free popcorn, drink, photo opportunities with local celebrities are all provided by Idaho Capital Educators Credit Union! This FREE family-friendly event is a great time to be had!
March 27th is approaching fast! Have you purchased your VMS yearbook yet? $26.50 to the bookkeeper or online will do the trick.
Time to toot our horns a little! Tonight at 7 p.m. don't miss out on our 7th grade Concert Band and 8th grade Symphonic Band Pre-Festival Performances at MVHS Auditorium.
Tomorrow the 7th grade Band Festival Concert will be held at Cenntenial HS Auditorium. Thursday the 8th grade Symphonic Band Festival Concert will be held at Cenntenial HS Auditorium. For our students' specific playing times during this all day festival, please email grzanic.brendan@westada.org.
2023 Boys Basketball District Champions!
Congratulations again to our 8th Grade Boys Basketball Team on their district championship the other week. Everyone is still feeling good about it, and we are so proud of this group!
Tryouts for all 7th grade teams have concluded and rosters have been formed. I know all teams and coaches are excited to get the season started. The first games will be Tuesday, March 14th when the C-teams play at home vs. Star and Sawtooth.
On Thursday, March 16th our Boys A/B teams will be at home against Lake Hazel with the A team playing @ 4pm and the B team playing @ 5:15pm. Our Girls teams will be traveling to play @ Lake Hazel. The A-team will play @ 4pm and the B-team will play @ 5:15pm.
For those that are playing please make sure we receive your pay to play fee ($90) and activity card fee if you don’t have one yet ($22.25). Those payments need to be in before any athlete is allowed to participate.
Go Kodiaks! JJ Riley, Athletic Director/PE
Our AMAZING VMS PTSO is meeting Monday, March 13th, in the VMS Library @ 7 pm - Hope to see you there!
Panda Day is this Thursday, March 16th! YUMMY!
Donut Day is this Friday, March 17th! Double YUMMY at only $1.00 each donut!
Coming in April - Spring Cookie Gram Sales $1
Come out to the Overland Park movie theater premieres of SPIKED (by Megan Jensen, Kylie Peterson and Darcy Cluff) and REPLICATION (by Eric Williams, Ayden Vashro and Carson De La Motte)! These two VMS student made trailers will be featured on the big screen as a part of the top ten middle school videos chosen as finalists for the Idaho Capital Educators Movie Trailer Competition.
Free popcorn, entry and drink await you and your family Wednesday at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.). See you at Overland Park Cinemas! Good luck being chosen as one of the top three winning movies! If this year is anything like last, the competition will surely be stiff!
CONGRATULATIONS to Bridget King, our STAFF MEMBER of this WEEK!
The art work that Mrs. King showcases in the hallway brings so much joy to our school! She puts so much work into her art projects and she builds great bonds with her students where they feel safe and want to do their best work in class. There is not a day that goes by that she doesn't add light and laughter to someone in our school. Thanks for all you do!
Congratulations to Lisa Calloway for being our first week of March's STAFF MEMBER of the WEEK!
Lisa Callaway is inspirational to her students and her colleagues. She is a genuine contributor to a more positive culture at VMS by creating opportunities for students to shine. I really appreciate all of her extra efforts with our school spelling bee, our weekly advisory schedule, and any student council related activities. Her input at leadership meetings and time she takes to share specific input about students for the benefit of all are also much appreciated. Keep up the fantastic work, Lisa! Your a bright star at VMS!
Kylie Peterson was nominated and selected for our VMS student of the week recognition by Mrs. Jennifer Stoor.
Congratulations to our STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Kylie Peterson!
Here is what Mrs. Stoor had to say about Kylie:
“Kylie comes to class every day with a positive attitude and a smile. She is a hard worker and helps others as well. I enjoy Kylie's commitment to doing her best and being such a light at Victory!”
An extra note from Ms. Cornell: If you would like to see Kylie's movie she made with Megan Jensen and Darcy Cluff, come out this Wednesday at 6 p.m. to Overland Park Cinema to support them at the CapEd Trailer Competition! Kylie's a winning Filmmaker from VMS!
Can you believe it's March already?! This weekend you lose an hour as we spring our clocks forward, so please adjust your March 27th Yearbook buying deadline by an hour, too. Make sure that our bookkeeper gets the $26.50 by the end of the school day March 27th, or you will miss out on this year's special moments collection.
Also, please check your phones for school related appropriate pictures and upload them to our snapshot link for yearbook that can be found under our Timely Topics on our website.
Congratulations to our amazing Mrs. Erin Fuss as our STAFF MEMBER OF THE MONTH! Nurse Fuss does more than just take care of all of our bumps, bruises and bloody noses. She educates all on various health related information relevant to school, monitors and supports many people within the school for various health needs and is always ready with a supportive smile to help make any level of headache not seem so horrible. We appreciate your expertise so much, Nurse Erin! Thank you for what you do!
Here’s your Food Drive Update: THANK YOU!!! Before we get to tally updates, we want to thank you for participating and providing food for your community. Think of all the people you impacted by your generosity! Keep it going! What could you do next to help your community?
Now for the tally updates: We’ve now got 6 barrels filled up, which is great news! Yesterday was a huge turnaround for some classes. The top four advisories in the lead as of yesterday were: Team Ferrer, Team Grzanic, Team Maimer, and a tie for fourth place—Team Hylands & Thorpe vs. Team Benzel & Rosbaugh.
Who will be the winners of the breakfast party? Who will get to participate in the kickball tournament? Which class will win the raffle because they donated at least 30 items? All this, coming up on Monday!
We are not able to accept any more donation items for the competition after today. Teachers: please get all your tally slips turned in NO LATER than today at 3:15, or they will not count.
Thursday, March 9th, 2023, our previous recipient teacher, Gina Janke, recognized our kitchen manager Marge Kimball as our "World's Greatest Staff Member of the Month!" by saying "Thank you for being AMAZING, Marge! We appreciate all that you do for our students and staff."
These internal recognitions happen every month at our all staff meetings and mean a lot to the positive culture of our school. We're very fortunate in all areas of VMS to have so many people deserving of this award that the humble receptions of the awards act as positive evidence of why our school is so awesome!
Marge responded, "Thank you so much! This ole “Lunch Lady” is completely humbled and honored to be acknowledged by all of you. Know that I share this award with my staff as well as the student servers, for they are the ones who make my job easier every day. Again, thank you, we will cherish this award for the next month."
The 7/8 Orchestra is performing their Festival Concert along with the MVHS Chamber Groups tonight at 7:00 in the Auditorium at MVHS. Come out and support our young musicians if you are able.
