Spirit Sale Orders

Back by popular demand, spirit wear orders are now being accepted through May 1st.  If you did not receive an order form, stop by the office tomorrow to fill one out.  We now have Central Cambria onesies for those of you with infants and toddlers.  You can begin to build the CC pride early!  Proceeds from the sale go to our student activities fund, which pays for field trips, dances, academic competitions, and many other items beneficial to our students.

Yearbook Pre-Orders

Middle School yearbooks may be pre-ordered by students during lunch this week.  The cost to pre-order a yearbook is $15 and must be paid at the time the pre-order is made.  If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Stephan.

Box Tops for Education - Round 3 Results

The third and final round of our Box Tops For Education collection competition came to a close on this past Friday.  It was the closest competition yet, with our top 3 classes separated by less than 200 box tops.  Mrs. Urbassik's first period class emerged victorious.  Overall, students collected over 6,000 box tops in this last round.  These box tops will turn into a pile of new books that will be added to our library and used to enhance our collection.  This will bring added variety and diversity to the books our students can use with our Accelerated Reader program.  Thank you to all of our students, teachers, and parents who have consistently participated in this contest over the past two years.  

PSSA Testing

While we will not know how our students performed on this year's PSSA tests until later in the summer, I can report that testing week was a tremendous success.  Thank you to our parents for getting your kids to school during testing.  We ran at about 98% attendance during testing, which was our highest attendance rate since the first week of school.  Our students worked hard and put a solid effort into completing their tests.  I am eager to see what the results show when we receive our scores back from the state in July.

Testing week began with a PSSA pep rally on March 24th.  Students joined in singing a PSSA song, and also participated in a Jeopardy-style review game.  A student-made video asked students what they would like as a reward if they performed well on the test.  There were many ideas proposed, from painting Mrs. Ball's classroom pink to having an all-night lock-in.  The following day, testing began.  We tested in the mornings on six consecutive school days, culminating with a pajama day on the Friday after testing.  

Eighth-grade students are currently taking the Writing PSSA this Tuesday and Wednesday, and will take the Science PSSA later this month.  Fortunately for 8th grade students, these will be the last PSSA tests that they will take in their school career.  They will have three Keystone exams before they graduate, starting with Algebra in either 8th or 9th grade.  

Again, thank you to our students, teachers, and parents for helping to make our PSSA testing go smoothly.

Report Cards

If all goes according to plan tomorrow, report cards will be coming home with all CCMS students.  We apologize for the delay.  PSSA testing and illness going around the office set us back a couple of days.  Please ask your child for their report card when they come home tomorrow, and be sure to read the newsletter on the back of the report card.  Additionally, there will be a letter regarding our new School Resource Officer attached to report cards.