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After-School
Jazz Ensemble
Jazz
Ensemble will meet Thursday evenings from 7:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Ensemble is open to those
students enrolled in band or chorus for the current
school year.
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Cooking Club
Cooking
Club meets every Wednesday after school from 2:15-3:10
p.m. in room 311. Students are required to sign up
before every meeting to guarantee a spot at the meeting
due to the high demand of participation. Cooking Club is
great for students who are interested in expanding their
cooking skills and learning more about the world of
food.
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Drama Club
The PJMS
Drama Club is open to any
student. If you want to act on stage, or if you are
interested in the technical or backstage aspects of a
drama production, consider joining the Drama Club. You
will make new friends, gain self-confidence and learn
about the joys of theater! No previous acting or theater
experience is necessary to join. The club will plan one
or two performances per year. Drama Club meetings are
every other Wednesday (1st and 3rd of the month). The
meetings are never more than 30 minutes. Once a show is
in progress rehearsal will be posted weekly outside of
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Math Team
Our Math
Team competes with other local schools at solving
various Math Problems.
We meet every Wednesday, October – December.
Students in grades 7, 8, and 9 are all welcome.
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Newspaper
The Middle
School newspaper is published once a month by a staff of
student reporters who write articles about school
dances, sports and other activities. The newspaper staff
meets in Room 204 every Thursday after school.
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Odyssey of the
Mind
This
Mind-Challenging competition involves teamwork and
original thinking. Last year’s team went to the state
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Peer Mediation
Peer
Mediation is a group of students who are trained to act
as mediators to resolve student disputes. Mediations
take place at the Middle School throughout the school
year. During the mediation sessions, two mediators are
always present along with an advisor.
The mediator's job is to cover ground rules and ask
questions in order to get the disputants to discuss
their conflict. They ask as many open ended questions as
needed to get the most information out of the
disputants. The mediators never suggest a resolution;
they are acting as counselors and paraphrasing to help
the disputants come up with the resolution. At the end
of each session, the resolutions are written down on a
contract and each disputant must agree to the
resolutions and sign the contract. The goal is to help
the students resolve conflicts without having to involve
the principal.
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Student Council
The Middle
School Student Council consists of officers elected by
the student body. The officers are assisted by homeroom
representatives who help out during big projects. Every
year, Student Council organizes and runs the following
activities/community service projects:
•
MS Dances
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Thanksgiving Food Drive for local families
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Can Tab Collection for Shriner's Hospital in Boston and
the Ronald McDonald House
(collected daily during school lunch periods)
• Penny
Wars to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Spirit
Week
• Red
Ribbon Week
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Yearbook
Beginning
in November, the yearbook staff meets every Wednesday. The staff is responsible for taking candid
photographs of school activities and creating the page
layouts for the yearbook.
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