Shepherd Middle School

Dear Stakeholder, Shepherd Public Schools wants to communicate more effectively with our families and community. We need your help in understanding how we can better communicate information and through what platforms we use to communicate. Why We Need Your Help: We want to understand what is working well, identify areas for improvement, and explore new ways to keep you informed and involved in your student's education.  How We Will Use Your Answers: We will look at all the answers to see what we need to do better. Your answers will help us make our communication better for all families. How Much Time Will it Take: The survey has 20 questions and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.  Thank you for your time and help. https://forms.gle/DAxUJofB7s1qyzNt5

Dear Stakeholder, Shepherd Public Schools wants to communicate more effectively with our families and community. We need your help in understanding how we can better communicate information and through what platforms we use to communicate. Why We Need Your Help: We want to understand what is working well, identify areas for improvement, and explore new ways to keep you informed and involved in your student's education.  How We Will Use Your Answers: We will look at all the answers to see what we need to do better. Your answers will help us make our communication better for all families. How Much Time Will it Take: The survey has 20 questions and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.  Thank you for your time and help. https://forms.gle/DAxUJofB7s1qyzNt5

Tonight's Boys Basketball Regional game has been pushed back to a 7:30 start time. The following information is from the MHSAA - Your BLUE ticket is good for the Shepherd vs Powers Catholic game ONLY. Game one – Saginaw vs Arthur Hill – is sold out. Game two fans will not be admitted until the conclusion of game one. Game one starts at 5:30. There are plenty of seats available for your game, so there is no need to arrive early. In order to have a smooth transition between games and give fans plenty of time to exit and enter the arena, the game two starting time has been adjusted to 7:30.

The 65th annual Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival will be here before we know it and preparations to make it a safe and enjoyable experience for all is an ongoing effort. As many of you are aware, BOGO Buddy Night (buy one get one free Thursday only) has grown to be an extremely popular and, therefore, overly crowded evening. The uptick in attendance has forced us to make some changes to aid in crowd control and to ensure the safety of all who attend. In collaboration with Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival, Shepherd Police Department, Shepherd Public Schools and Elliott‘s Amusements LLC, the following changes have been made: ● The BOGO offer, for Thursday, April 25, will be available to Shepherd Public Schools students only. Must present coupon to redeem offer ● It’s not a requirement that the “Buddy” be a SPS student ● The website will no longer show the BOGO offer on Thursday ● No more than one coupon per student is allowed ● Coupons will be distributed to the following buildings the third week of April ○ Shepherd Elementary - Friday Folders ○ Winn Elementary - Friday Folders ○ Shepherd Middle School - SOAR classrooms ○ Shepherd High School - Office ○ Odyssey Middle/High School - Office

This month we highlight Shepherd Elementary School. Thank you again to GI-TEC students, in the Digital Media program, for the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERn9dH1IXQ

Later this month, January 20th, Shepherd Public Schools is playing host to the a day of Special Olympic basketball. If you, your family, or your friends are available to volunteer some time that day to help make this an incredible event, I know a lot of Special Olympians would be grateful. Check out the link to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0845AFA628A2FCC25-45687902-area?fbclid=IwAR3MKvicTmYo9IBqob0i1v4P6wnV71XfKSOyFwCduEuWlI0YEgT2dUx_jhg#/

The Shepherd MS Robotics - FTC Team 15399 - Blue Steel competed at Bullock Creek this past Saturday against 35 other teams from around Michigan. They have been building , testing, and coding this robot for the last 8 weeks. They performed well and their robot performed well when everything was working as it should. A few lessons were learned about checking wires, connections, and mechanics after every match and especially after you have had to fix a part on the bot, like a broken winch spool. The team had 2 wins and 3 losses in the 5 matches they competed in. This was the most complex robot we have made so far since the inception of the MS Robotics Team in 2018. When you have 8 motors and one servo controlling 4 tires, 1 winch, 1 drone launcher, 1 linear slide, a pivot for a claw device, and a claw device, driving can get hard. There is a big challenge getting two drivers to communicate to control all those moving parts at the same time. Driver one controls the drive wheels and the direction of the robots travel, as well as the drone launcher, and the winch mechanism for climbing, while the second driver controls all parts involved in scoring pixels, the pixel claw, the pivot, and the linear slide. I am confident that with more practice driving and controlling the mechanisms on the bot that perform would be much improved.

Check out the some of the highlights and action around Shepherd High School's Community Clean-up 2023. (Video credit: Shannon McNier, SHS Senior) https://youtu.be/1imVNYMVmIE

Check out the some of the highlights and action around Shepherd Public Schools during the first month of the 2023-2024 school year. (Video credit: Shannon McNier, SHS Senior) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6i3aTutFEw

The Shepherd Middle School will be hosting a blood drive on Thursday (9/21/2023) from 9:00 to 2:00. See the graphic for details and a QR code to make an appointment.

Back to school shopping? Don’t forget to buy some Shepherd Middle School apparel! SMS Student Council and Sandlot Sports have an online store that sells Shepherd Middle School merchandise. We have three Shepherd Middle School designs printed on a variety of apparel - shorts sleeves, long sleeves, crew sweatshirts, hoodies and more - there’s something for everyone. Click here - the online store is up and running. It is set to close by the ordering deadline of September 10th and orders are estimated to be complete after September 25th and will be distributed at Shepherd Middle School. https://shepms2023.itemorder.com/shop/home/?fbclid=IwAR0XGTzoj7PFZbgEYA88Tygvkc-kBUNfdmoU-K25aPV3BhQazDVkwnzEBGU

6th Grade WEB Orientation, for all incoming 6th graders at Shepherd Middle School, is Thursday, August 17, 8am to 12 noon, at Shepherd Middle School. Parents have an informational meeting in the Shepherd Auditorium, 11am to 12 noon.

Farewell photos and video today from the current Winn Elementary School. What a wonderful legacy for this building and its inhabitants over a sixty-plus year span! Thank you to Andrew Curtiss for providing the drone footage and photos! https://youtu.be/sRCg1_PcDts

Farewell photos and video today from the current Winn Elementary School. What a wonderful legacy for this building and its inhabitants over a sixty-plus year span! Thank you to Andrew Curtiss for providing the drone footage and photos! https://youtu.be/sRCg1_PcDts

MIDDLE SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL For those students entering 7th or 8th grade in the fall, please fill out this form so coaches can be in contact with you over the summer. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeoBFB098610QdWKh32H0VryUl4z7RGFzyAi1SjRAycnrj4Q/viewform Don't forget that you also need to have a physical on file (FinalForms - https://shepherd-mi.finalforms.com/ ) before you are able to participate, other required paperwork can also be found on this site.

Shepherd Athletics is very excited to announce that we have has partnered with FinalForms, an online forms and data management service. FinalForms allows you to complete and sign athletic participation forms for your students. The most exciting news is that FinalForms saves data from season-to-season and year-to-year, meaning that you will never need to enter the same information twice! FinalForms also pre-populates information wherever possible, for each of your students, saving you time. You may review your data at any time to verify it is current. You will be required to sign your forms once per year and after any update. Click on the Parent Playbook (url below) to get started in FinalForms. If you require any support during the process, scroll to the page bottom and click “Use Support”. We are asking that ALL parents of athletes use FinalForms. Please register at: shepherd-mi.finalforms.com Once there, just follow the prompts to create your account, create your students (please use their Shepherd School email address) and sign your forms. Thank you for your assistance in streamlining our paperwork processes at Shepherd Athletics. Garth Cornwell, Athletic Director https://drive.google.com/.../1MfxPYxJLgBit6hxGS3B.../view...

Shepherd Middle School Theatre's Production of Disney's Descendants - The Musical, runs November 11th at 7:00 and November 12th at 7:00.

Shepherd Middle School Theatre's Production of Disney's Descendants - The Musical, runs November 11th at 7:00 and November 12th at 7:00.

Shepherd Middle School Theatre's Production of Disney's Descendants - The Musical, runs November 11th at 7:00 and November 12th at 7:00.

Shepherd Middle School Theatre's Production of Disney's Descendants - The Musical, runs November 11th at 7:00 and November 12th at 7:00.