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.
TWO VMS Filmmaking Groups will shown at the 13TH ANNUAL Idaho Capital Educators MOVIE TRAILER AWARD CEREMONY!!! Congratulations to Eric Williams, Ayden Vashro, Carson De La Motte, Megan Jensen, Kylie Peterson, and Darcy Cluff for making it to the top ten middle school category!
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Where: Overland Park Cinemas - 7051 W. Overland Road, Boise, ID 83709 - View on Google Maps
Schedule: Doors will open at 5:30pm. The ceremony begins at 6:00pm. We will be showing the Top 10 High School and Top 10 Middle School trailers. Awards will be given to the Top 3 High School and Top 3 Middle School trailers.
Please invite your family, friends, teachers, and fellow actors to join you for the ceremony, so that we can celebrate all of the wonderful producers, writers, actors, and future film makers.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
$250 - First Place
$200 - Second Place
$150 - Third Place
The top 3 middle school producers will also receive an Adobe® Creative Cloud® subscription for one year.
These movie trailers (listed in alphabetical order) will be shown at the Award Ceremony.
66° North – Heritage Middle School
Brick For A Day – Middleton Middle School
Kid From Ohio – Eagle Middle School
Middle School Spies – Lone Star Middle School
Replication – Victory Middle School
Sister Dearest – Ernest Hemingway STEAM School
Spiked – Victory Middle School
The Breakfast Battle – Eagle Middle School
The Lisa Lockup – Eagle Middle School
Whispering Pines – Robert Stuart Middle School
Panda Express money is due by this Wednesday. Our Panda Express order form can be found via this link: https://5il.co/1pue1
Basketball for 7th grade boys and girls needs your help in concessions for home games! It's a fun opportunity for parents and students to help the PTSO raise money for the school! Please sign up using this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0a45afa82fa3f58-basketball#/
Two of our fabulous VMS staff members, Mrs. Mel Cook and Mrs. Lisa Calloway, were honored by Dr. Bub as Middle School Employees of the Month during February. Way to go, Ladies!
Today after school 7th grade boys and girls have basketball tryouts!
Seeing Mr. Kinnaman, our 8th grade basketball coach, take off the basketball net after helping his 8th grade boys win the district championships makes us all wonder: how will the 7th grade season end for basketball? Will we win 7th grade district championships as well?
Way to go, Mr. Grzanic and his sixth-grade band members! Over 100 sixth graders did well showing off their newer band skills last night during the 6th Grade Band Spring Concert!
The Blood Drive was a HUGE success!! We had 50 donors and 51 units were collected!
That means that 153 lives will be impacted for the better!! Thank you to all of the participants and people who made this event possible!
