Reading Scavenger Hunt Middle School Drummer Boy

Thanks HMS PTO for the Crawly Donation.

Cheers to Shahanna Fredrick, PTO President 2019-2020 & Heather Martin, PTO President 2020-2021 for making our main entrance and front desk beam with Topper Pride. We dearest our PTO for making HMS the place to be!!!!!!!

Mary Ruth Wright, Master

Zane Thomas, Banana Principal

A Large Topper Thank you.

Thank you Desiree Abrams from DD's Cupboard for the donation of 250 face shields for Houston School Commune teachers. HMS teachers were over the moon excited to get these comfortable face up shields!!!!!

HMS Teachers Clothing Many Hats

HMS teachers preparing for the return of our students.

Thank yous for Coming out for Curbside Selectionupwards. We can't wait to take you back at school!!!!!

2020-2021 HMS curbside Student schedule pickup

For upcoming 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students

JULY 21, 2020 FROM ten:00 A.M. UNTIL 6:00 P.M. AT HMS

During this time, parents may bulldoze through the car rider line and pick upwardly a form schedule, school reopening procedures, and free masks for HMS studentsthat have completed online registration. If you practice not have access to online registration, yous will be able to complete a grade and then receive your HMS educatee schedule and mask at that fourth dimension.

**All HSD schools will have Curbside Schedule Pickup on this twenty-four hours and time at their respective schools .**

2019-2020

HMS Celebrates Graduation Awareness Month

Houston Heart School would similar to thank all involved in helping us celebrate Graduation Awareness Month this February!

The Career Expo

https://youtu.exist/zGzYBzlVdH8

(If the link will not piece of work, please search "Houston Middle School Career Expo WCBI News" on YouTube to view the news clip.)

Houston Middle School'due south eighth graders researched careers, created displays and dressed the part for the third almanac career expo, with elementary students touring during this three-hr result.

Anthony Bowdry of Toyota spoke to eighth graders.

Coco Chandler of State Farm Insurance spoke to 6th graders.

Guest Speakers:

6th Form – Coco Chandler of State Farm Insurance in Houston encouraged students to piece of work difficult, apply their talents to serve others and find their place to shine, whether that exist in the workforce or higher.

seventh Grade - Gina Black, Tupelo CDF, informed students about the student Tek2Go camps, which are complimentary and available to interested middle schoolhouse students. These hands-on camps are designed to introduce students to the earth of advanced manufacturing and larn skills, such as welding, painting and using dissimilar machines, that are highly valuable in today's workforce and available close to home!

viiithursday Form - Anthony Bowdry, Toyota Training and Development, who grew up in Shannon, Miss., shared his personal story, emphasizing to students the decisions they brand today can positively or negatively bear on their future tomorrow. He also spoke to high schoolhouse CTE students and shared with them how the skills they are learning at CTE are preparing them for some loftier-paying and interesting piece of work opportunities at Toyota and similar industries.

College Tours

8th graders visited Itawamaba Customs College Belden and Fulton campuses. (Sixth and seventh graders toured college campuses (NEMCC/EMCC) earlier this school yr.)

Hallway Bulletin Board Contest

Each hallway busy a bulletin board with the theme "2020 Vision: The Future is Articulate!" The seventh grade hallway won! Smashing job by all!

College Days/College Scavenger Chase

Students and staff participate in College Day each month, earning incentives to promote higher. Students in each class as well participate in a higher scavenger hunt twice a yr. The virtually recent bulletin board showcases the scavenger hunt for Itawamba Community College.

Work Skills/Character Traits Videos

Mrs. Joy Deason, HSD Career Autobus, presented to HMS speech and drama classes the piece of work skills and character traits local employers desire in their employees. In turn, these students wrote, directed, acted, and videoed skits displaying these skills and traits. The videos were shown during technology classes this month.

Morning Announcements

Announcements were also made each forenoon past eighth graders, highlighting the graduation monthly events, statistics about graduation and encouraging students to pursue college and/or career after high school.

HMS 7th Graders Tour EMCC

For the 2nd year in a row, HMS 7th graders toured Eastward Mississippi Community Higher - Mayhew Campus. They learned virtually EMCC's welding, diesel and automotive, information applied science systems, allied health, and marketing programs. In add-on, they also toured the new EMCC Communiversity, located nearby. At the Communiversity, they toured the Imagination Heart, which features modern, high tech design, and visited several computer-based manufacturing labs.

HMS Celebrates

Red Ribbon Week 2019

Students and staff participate in spirit days, a school-broad associates, hallway decoration contest and an escape room activity to bring awareness to drug prevention!

HMS Choir performs at the Red Ribbon Assembly.

Local Nurse Practitioner Angela Furr and Bridget Logan, LPN, warn students about the dangers of vaping.

Deputy Sheriff Bo Yeatman and K9 Rex demonstrate law enforcement skills.

HMS Speech and Drama perform a skit about proverb no to drugs despite peer force per unit area.

HMS Cheerleaders pump up the audience for the rally!

A group of teachers finish the rally with a silly dance, showing students fun without drugs!!

To a higher place: Congratulations to the eighth class for winning the Red Ribbon Hallway Contest!

Beneath: Students have fun completing an escape room activity based on facts well-nigh Reddish Ribbon Week with HMS Advisor Leigh Ann Mabry!

HMS Science Winners compete at regionals at NEMCC

**6th Grade**

(Front end) Langley Smith (placed 3rd at regionals in Medicine and Wellness), Millie Heeringa, Katelyn Collins; (Back) Jace McAlpin, Steven Cook, Rialey Gage Tucker and Jose Vazquez

**7th Grade**

Kennedy Pearson, Jamal Pulliam, Jon Hodge Murphree and Jayden Lawrence (placed 1st at regionals in Engineering, Computers and Math)

Cyber Crime Investigator speaks to HMS Students

Angela Adams Williams,

Special Investigator with the Mississippi Attorney General's Office and ICAC Commander, speaks to Houston Middle School students virtually cyber crime.

Ms. Williams informed students about the different types of cyber offense and informed students that cyber criminal offense is illegal, considered a felony, and children as immature as 10 can go to jail for committing cyber crime.

HMS Jr Beta competes at land convention

Congrats to:

Breeanah Bong, who placed fourth in 3 Dimensional Design, and Taylor Higginbotham, who placed fifth in science, at the 2019 Mississippi Jr. Beta Convention in Biloxi, Miss. These students are eligible to compete at Nationals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this summer.

Nosotros are and so proud of all of our students who competed! Go Toppers!!

HMS Math Winners

Pictured below are the winners of the 2019 MCTM Mathematics Tournament at Houston Middle School. These students will keep to compete at the district level Fri, March 22, 2019, at Itawamba Customs College.

**7th Course**

1st Place - Drew Blackness

2d Identify - Braxton Porter

3rd Place - John Hodge Murphree

**8th Grade**

1st Place - Tre Hall

2d Place - Jocelynn Burton

3rd Place - Maddox Clouse

Clouse Wins 1st Place at Country Reading Fair

We are so proud of Kimble Clouse, sixth grader at Houston Eye School! She won offset identify at the State Reading Fair in the Private Literary Fiction category. Fashion to go, Kimble!

HMS Students

Place at Regional Reading Off-white

Congratulations to Houston Middle School students Kimble Clouse and Chloe Mitchell for placing at the Regional Reading Fair in Oxford, Miss. Kimble placed beginning in the fiction category for her sectionalisation and will go along to compete in Jackson, Miss., at the State Reading Off-white. Chloe placed third in the not-fiction category for her division. Both girls placed first in their categories at the district level.

HMS Science Off-white Winners

**Botany:** Millie Heeringa - 1st Identify

**Environmental Science:** Kaleigh Townsend - 2nd Place; Kennedy Pearson - 1st Identify

Engineering, Computers and Math: Jamarion Hamilton - Honorable Mention; Jonathan Childress - 5th Identify; Brayton Gray - 1st Place; QuDarrius Conway - 4th Place; Jayden Lawrence - 2nd Place; Makerra Williams - 3rd Place

Chemistry: Katelyn Collins - 5th Place; Clara Boykin - Honorable Mention; Tracy Neal - 1st Identify (Tie); Rialey Gage Tucker - 2nd Place; Lara Hollingsworth - 4th Place (Not pictured: Aimee Buckley - First Place - Tie)

Medicine and Health: Kimble Clouse - 5th Identify; Alyssa Murphree - 4th Place; Ivette Gonzalez - 3rd Place; Langley Smith - 2d Place; Jon Hodge Murphree - 1st Place; (Not Pictured; Allyssa Little and Cortez Brandon - Honorable Mention)

Physics: Taylor Higginbotham - fifth Place; Steven Cook - 1st Place; Jose Vazquez - 2nd Place; Jamal Pullium - 5th Place; Jace McAlpin - tertiary Place; Joby Rex - 4th Place; Tyler Davis - Honorable Mention

HMS Named National Beta School of Stardom

National Beta is proud to denote Houston Middle School equally a 2018-2019 National School of Stardom. This award is an honour for Beta Capacity striving towards bookish achievement, exemplary character, demonstrated leadership and service to others. With an ongoing quest to instill these qualities in more students, the National Beta School of Distinction Award is designed to accolade those schools that show an increase in membership for the electric current school yr.

"We are so excited to receive this honor once again!" said Mrs. Stacey Chapman, Beta Club sponsor for HMS. "Our membership has increased to 90 members since last year, and we are excited to be a office of this distinguished class of scholars. We await frontward to what the futurity holds for Houston Middle Schoolhouse Beta and hope to encourage other students to strive for excellence."

Award recipients received a National Beta School of Distinction imprint to proudly brandish as a symbol of their accomplishment. In addition, National Beta Schoolhouse of Distinction recipients volition be publicized at the 2019 National Beta Convention in Oklahoma City, OK this June.

"This prestigious honor is a truthful indication of Houston Middle School's dedication to academic excellence, leadership development and delivery to celebrating their student's achievements," said National Beta'due south Chief Executive Officer, Bobby Hart.

Most National Beta: National Beta is the largest independent, non-profit, educational youth organization in America. Since its ancestry in 1934, National Beta has been committed to providing students with a positive experience in a supportive mode in grades 4-12. The organization recognizes outstanding achievement, promotes character and social responsibility, encourages service involvement to schoolhouse and community, and fosters leadership skills.

HMs Celebrates

Red Ribbon Week

Houston Heart School celebrated Red Ribbon Calendar week Oct. 22 - October. 26 with a hall decoration contest between grades and daily spirit themes and ended the week with a big celebration with guest speakers and performances from HMS Chorus, HMS Cheerleaders, HMS Voice communication & Drama and HMS teachers.

Jeremy Voyles from the Sheriff's Department speaks to students nearly the importance of being drug complimentary.

Bo Yatemean brings the K9 Drug Dog for students to see.

Corie Jones from The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi informs students about the marketing tactics tobacco companies use to lure children and young people to buy their mortiferous products.

Customs Leaders Motivate Middle Schoolers!

HMS wants to thank Kellie Atkinson,

Cat Gathings and Stacy Parker for speaking to our students before this semester about the importance of graduating loftier school and mail service-secondary education! They all did a cracking task!! #topperstrong

HMS Awards Programs

6th Form Highest Overall GPA - Kennedy Pearson

7th Class Highest Overall GPA - McKenzie Bivens

8th Grade Highest Overall GPA - Sarah Brassfield

HMS Hall of Fame Winners:

Sarah Brassfield, Jessica Torres, Trinity Buggs, Saraya Crawford

7th Grade Worldmen History Accolade - Alise Neal

eighth Grade Worldmen History Award - Ollie Franklin

Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award Centre School Level - Brittany Horn

Jr. Beta 2018 State Competition - 1st Identify for Speech: Trinity Buggs

Hall of Fame Nominees: Christopher Alexander, Ramaiya Armstrong, Karis Autry, Addison Ball, Heather Blakely, Sarah Beth Brassfield, Autumn Britt, Brantley Brown, Kaliya Brownlee, Trinity Buggs, Precious Cooper, Saraya Crawford, Oliver Franklin, Olivia Funderburk, Teylsa Guido, Alyssa Haire, Diamond Hall, Jasmine Fundamental, Maddie King, Alexis Laster, Jaxon Laster, Hayden Mann, Keonte McIntosh, Marilyn Montoya, Makinzi Moore, Gracie Moreno, Sabrina Moreno, Malik Price, Kaliyah Prophette, Yasmin Ruth, Bailey Shaw, Graciela Soto, Jessica Torres, Garret Vance, William Vance, Tayisha Walker, Whitney Walters, Kalena Williams and Khenyia Williams

Duke Academic Awards

6th grade: Nevaeh Brinker, Aimee Buckley, Jeremy Cooper, Ivette Gonzalez, Jonathan Murphree, Kennedy Pearson and Jalen Washington

7th class: McKenzie Bivens, Sommer Fredrick, Andrew Hall, Raven Hall, Larry Mims and Nicolas Moreno

Highest Average Awards

6TH Grade
Islam Al-Omari – Math, Accelerated ELA
Drew Blackness – Compacted Math (Miller)
Katie Cook – ELA (Eldridge)
Ivette Gonzalez – ICT, History
Kennedy Pearson – Science
Makayla Pernell – ELA (Griffin)
Devonte White – Math (Griffin)
Art Honor – Anna Bevill
7th Course
McKenize Bivens – Avant-garde ELA, ICTII, Science, Compacted Math
Kaia Brady – ELA (Chapman)
Chloe Mitchell – Math (Moore)
Zariyia Moore – ELA (Griffin)
Alyse Neal -- History
Fine art Accolade – Haley Moore
8th Class
Sarah Brassfield – Science, Advanced ELA, Compacted Math, ICT
Saraya Crawford – Math
Alexis Ellison – MS Studies (Kirby)
Landry Harrell – Math (Griffin)
Destiny Soden – ELA (Ward)
Jessica Torres – World Geography (Kirby)
Art Award – Dalton Johnson

Citizenship Awards
sixth Form
Corley Carter – Melissa Moore; Stewart
Katie Cook – Eldridge
Madison Crowley -- Higginbotham
Ivette Gonzalez -- Miller
Cecelia Gutierrez -- Alford
Jessenia Gutierrez – Boatman & Gates
Jalashia McCoy -- Cooper
Tyshawn Vance – Griffin
7th Form
Logan Alvarado – JMoore
McKenzie Bivens -- Eldridge
Khloe Chip – Pierce
Raven Hall – Melissa Moore
Kayleigh Heair – Chapman
Jayli McNease – Chocolate-brown
Alyse Neal -- Higginbotham
Hashemite kingdom of jordan Pratt -- Horn
Taylor Pulphus -- Ward
Greta Tate -- Chandler
eighth Grade
Fall Britt – Eldridge
Diamond Hall -- Ward
Jasmine Key – Lancaster
Brianna Laster -- Kirby
Aaliyah Millsap -- MMoore
Amy Murillo -- Brown
Jayla Prophette -- Griffin
Jessica Torres – Borst
William Vance -- Gann
Khenyia Williams – Dendy

MOST IMPROVED

sixth Form
Jimmy Bell – Miller -- Math
Anna Bevill – Alford -- Scientific discipline
Corley Carter – Boatman – ICT
Kyla Clarett – Stewart -- History
Lea Grace Dendy – Higginbotham – Math
Alex Gordillo – Eldridge – Voice communication & Drama
Kylan Marble – Eldridge -- ELA
Hugo Murillo – Cooper – ELA
Sherlin Rodriguez-Diaz -- Gates
7th Grade
Tymekia Clark – Ms. Ward -- ELA
Kemper Cook – Mrs. J Moore – Math
Tristan Griffin – Mrs. Horn -- History
J'Mya Hatchett – Mrs. Pierce – Scientific discipline
Lexi Heair – Brown – Compacted Math
Fantasia Loma – Mrs. Griffin
Hashemite kingdom of jordan Pratt – Mrs. Chapman – ELA, Higginbotham -- Math
Michael Smith – Mrs. Chandler -- ICTII
Most Improved and Difficult Worker – 7th Form Math – Tydouglas Buchanan & Paul Buford – Mrs. J Moore
eighth Grade
Malik Buchanan – Jitney Kirby – 8th Form History
Eli Erickson – Lancaster – 8th Math
Justin Flatt – Gann – ELA
Penelope Harrell – Chocolate-brown – Compacted Math
Kirk Johnson – Mrs. Griffin
Kirklyn Johnson – Ms. Dendy – ICT
Amber Kilgore – Ms. Ward -- ELA
Jenna Walters – Borst – Science

HMS Music Awards
Choir
sixth grade
Choir Leadership Kennedy Pearson
Rising Star Julie Beth Murphree
Citizenship Corley Carter
7th grade
Choir Musicianship Rihanna Criddle
Rise Star Jocelyn Burton
Citizenship Raven Hall
8th
Choir Musicianship Alexis Ellison, Katie Loma, and Bailey Shaw
Choir Leadership Kirk Johnson
Ascent Star J.D. Criddle
Citizenship Aaliyah Millsap
Ring
6th
Most improved beginning performer-Kaileigh Townsend
Starting time Band Managing director's award-Ivette Gonzalez
7th
Most Improved intermediate performer-Larry "Trey" Mims
Intermediate Ring Director's award-Rhianna Criddle
eighth
Most improved advanced performer-Kaliya Brownlee
Advanced band director's award-Maddie King

Scientific discipline Off-white
6th Class: Kennedy Pearson, Makiya Chandler, John Hodge Murphree and Aimee Buckley
seventh Grade: Maddox Clouse, Jaylee Sullivan, Zariya Williams, Latasha Burt, Khloe Flake, Raven Hall, Yessica Zarate, Chloe mitchell, Blakely Andrews and Hydiea Farr
8th Form: Christopher Alexander, Hayden Crump, Will Wright
Special recognition:
Will Wright- 2nd place Chemistry (Advances on to State Science Fair)
Raven Hall & Hydiea Farr - Winners of the American Meteorological Society Award & NOAA'south 2018 Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award
Za'Riyah Williams & Yessica Zarate - Regional Water Prize Award

Science Bowl
Sarah Brassfield, Alexis Ellison, Payten Dotson, Oliver Franklin, and Jessica Torres

Speech and Drama Awards
Best Actor: Ollie Franklin & Richard DeLaCruz
All-time Extra: Sarah Brassfield & Jessica Torres
Stage Coiffure Award: Autumn Britt
Voice communication & Drama Award: Makinzi Moore & Jaxon Laster

HMS Beauty Review

HMS Beauties and Winner:

Miss Jr. Hilltopper 2018 - Kylee Martin

Harley Blakeney

Greta Tate

McKenzie Bivens

Paris Gates

LuLu McNease

Kaylee Miller

HMS Sends 54 Beta Students to Convention

Houston Middle Schoolhouse sent 54 Beta students to Biloxi, Miss., for the 2018 Country Jr. Beta Convention March 28-April one. Students competed in areas of academics, visual arts, talent, technology and highlighting their club. HMS was well represented and plans to continue to compete each year. Trinity Buggs placed 1^st in speech contest and is eligible to attend the National Beta Convention in Savannah, Georgia, in June. The list below includes the students who competed.

Front Row – Trinity Buggs, Spoken language

Kennedy Pearson, Math

Aimee Buckley – Social Studies

Katie Colina – Special Talent

Alexis Ellison – Digital Art – Photography

Telysia Guido – Color Photography

Seninah Conway – Tshirt Design

Rhianna Criddle – Imprint

Second Row – Ivette Gonzalez – ELA

Jocelynn Loaeza – Banner; ELA

Alyse Neal – Banner

Karis Autry – Spotlight Your Club

Laura Ann Gann – Imprint

Kalena Williams – ELA

Ramiya Armstrong – Spotlight Your Lodge

Breeanah Bong – Imprint

Third Row – Jalen Washington – Science

Kayleigh Estes – Handmade Jewelry

Carrie Bivens – Advertising Design; Math

Jasmine Key –Tower of Power

Kaliyah Prophette – Wreath

Dorsum Row – Jocelynn Burton – Advertising Design

Sommer Fredrick – Black/White Photography

Bister McIntosh – Social Studies

Khloe Flake – Banner; Scientific discipline

Precious Cooper – Belfry of Ability

Greer Nabors – Quiz Bowl

Khenyia Williams – Essay

Malik Cost – Scientific discipline

Julius Lyons – Tower of Ability

Peyton Dotson – Quiz Basin

William Vance – Quiz Bowl

HMS Students Place at Regional Science Fair

Congratulations to the post-obit HMS students who advanced to the NEMCC Region IV Scientific discipline Fair in Booneville, Miss., on March 23 and March 27.

March 23rd: Kennedy Pearson, Makiya Chandler, John Hodge Murphree and Aimee Buckley

March 27th: Maddox Clouse, Jaylee Sullivan, Zariya Williams, Latasha Burt, Khloe Flake, Will Wright, Hayden Crump, Christopher Alexander, Raven Hall, Yessica Zarate, Chloe mitchell, Blakely Andrews and Hydiea Farr

Special recognition goes to the following students who placed at the regional scientific discipline off-white:

Will Wright- 2nd place Chemistry (Advances on to Land Science Fair)

Raven Hall & Hydiea Farr - Winners of the American Meteorological Guild Award & NOAA'southward 2018 Taking the Pulse of the Planet Accolade

Za'Riyah Williams & Yessica Zarate - Regional Water Prize Honour

HMS students compete in MCTM Math Competition

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Houston Eye School participated in the Mississippi Quango of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) commune math competition at ICC today. Representing HMS were local winners Sarah Brassfield and Alexis Ellison (8th form) and McKenzie Bivens and Maddox Clouse (seventh grade). McKenzie Bivens placed 2nd in the commune contest today and will become on to compete at land on April 7. Tertiary identify local winners Rihanna Criddle and Kaliyah Prophette also attended merely did not compete.

Congratulations toJahiem Brownlee, winner of the National School Breakfast Calendar week $24 Wal-Mart gift card.

Jahiem was eligible for the cartoon, because he ate breakfast every mean solar day this calendar week in the cafeteria at HMS!

Jahiem Brownlee, winner of the National School Breakfast

One Voice

HMS Choir Performs for community

HMS Celebrates "Graduation Sensation Month"

HMS spotlights high school graduation and college/career.

School facade

Grade-Broad Assemblies

Lee Womack (Game Warden) - 6th Grade

Lee Womack (Game Warden) - 6th Grade

Lajaysha Echoles Gaston (Nurse Practitioner) - 7th Grade

Lajaysha Echoles Gaston (Nurse Practitioner) - seventh Grade

Tony Cook (HSD Superintendent) - 8th Grade

Tony Cook (HSD Superintendent) - 8th Course

HMS Career Expo

HMS Career Expo Personal Trainer — Personal Trainer

HMS Career Expo Animal Trapper — Creature Trapper

HMS Career Expo Meteorologist — Meteorologist

HMS Career Expo Social Worker — Social Worker

HMS Career Expo Robotics Engineer — Robotics Engineer

HMS Career Expo Travel Agent — Travel Agent

HMS Career Expo Interior Designer — Interior Designer

HMS Career Expo Baseball Player — Baseball game Actor

HMS Career Expo Real Estate Agent — Real Estate Amanuensis

HMS Career Expo Screen Writer — Screen Author

HMS Career Expo Photographer — Photographer

HMS Career Expo Architectural Drafter — Architectural Drafter

HMS Career Expo Demolition Engineer — Demolition Engineer

HMS Career Expo Electrician — Electrician

HMS Career Expo Veterinarian — Veterinarian

HMS Career Expo Truck Driver — Truck Driver

HMS Career Expo Bike Designer — Bike Designer

HMS Career Expo Medical Physics — Medical Physics

HMS Career Expo Marine Biologist — Marine Biologist

HMS Career Expo Mechanical Engineering Technician — Mechanical Applied science Technician

HMS Career Expo Athletic Shoe Designer — Athletic Shoe Designer

HMS Career Expo Forensic Artist — Forensic Artist

HMS Career Expo Informatics Nurse Specialist — Informatics Nurse Specialist

HMS Career Expo Marriage & Family Therapist — Marriage & Family unit Therapist

HMS Career Expo Neurosurgeon — Neurosurgeon

HMS Career Expo Nurse Practitioner — Nurse Practitioner

HMS Career Expo Childcare Aide — Childcare Aide

HMS Occupation Day

Students in grades 6th - 8th grade dressed up for their future career

Students in grades 6th - 8th grade dressed upwards for their future career and answered questions virtually the task duties, salary range, and education/training needed for their career.

Hall Decoration Contest

Higher Scavenger Hunt

College Scavenger Hunt Info Board

Each month our students in ICT do a college scavenger hunt to learn information, such as tuition and scholarships, almost unlike customs colleges and universities. Teacher University then displays this information on a message lath in our commons area.

College Wall

Our teachers attended higher, and our students can, too! Follow the route to success!

Itawamba Community College Tour

Our 8th graders visited ICC Tupelo and Fulton campuses Friday, Feb. 16. Students split into groups and visited either wellness sciences programs or transportation programs at the Tupelo campus. All students participated in a campus tour at Fulton.

HMS 8th Graders compete

in Science Bowl

From L - R: Alexis Ellison, Jessica Torres, Sarah Brassfield, Ollie Franklin, and Payton Dotson

From L - R: Alexis Ellison, Jessica Torres, Sarah Brassfield, Ollie Franklin, and Payton Dotson competed in the Mississippi Regional Center School Science Bowl on February. iii, 2018, at Mississippi Academy for Women in Columbus, Miss. (Not pictured: Motorcoach Kay Borst)

Scientific discipline Fair Winners

Behavior Science Partition: 1st place- Hayden Crump

Phytology Division: 1st identify- ZaRiya Williams & Yessica Zarate; 2d place- Raven Hall & Hydia Farr

Chemical science/ Medicine & Health Division: 1st place- Maddox Clouse; 2nd place-Kennedy Pearson; tertiary identify-Chloe Mitchel & Latasha Burt; 4th identify- Jaylee Sullivan; 5th-Tre Gillespie & Dylan Hughes; Honorable Mention-Alyssa Murphree; Honorable Mention- Jamalik Wofford

Physics/Applied science Partition: 1st place- Jon Hodge Murphree; second place- Qudarius Conway; 3rd place-Christopher Alexander; 4th identify- Aimee Buckley; 5th place-Volition Wright; Honorable Mention- Blakely Andrews & Khloe Scrap; Honorable Mention-Makiya Chandler

HMS Schoolhouse choir performs

Allow There Be Peace on Earth and Let Information technology Begin With Me

HMS School choir Songs included: "Let In that location Be Peace on Globe," "The Little Drummer Boy" (featuring drums by HHS student Jamorris Morgan, and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (featuring rhythm by Khloe Fleck and Malik Wofford).

Jr. Beta Club Consecration

Houston Heart School inducts 92 students into the Jr. Beta Social club.

Jr. Beta Club Induction

Jr. Beta Club Induction `

Jr. Beta Club Induction

HMS Science Teachers meet Apollo 13 Astronaut

HMS science teachers Kountess Pierce, Amy Alford and Kay Borst pose with Fred Wallace Haise, Jr

HMS science teachers Kountess Pierce, Amy Alford and Kay Borst pose with Fred Wallace Haise, Jr., American former NASA astronaut, fighter pilot with the U.Due south. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force and test airplane pilot. The teachers met with Haise at the Mississippi Science Teacher's Association conference in Biloxi, Miss., in tardily Oct. Haise is one of 24 people to have flown to the moon, having flown as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo thirteen. He went on to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977. He retired from NASA in 1979.

HMS Reading Fair

Overall 1st Place Winners

1st Place Individual Fiction Category - Taylor Pulphus

1st Place Group Fiction Category - Payten Dotson & Malik Price — 1st Identify Grouping Fiction Category - Payten Dotson & Malik Price

HMS Receives

Dollar General Grant

HMS Receives Dollar General Grant The Houston Middle School library was the recipient of a $two,000 dollar Youth Literacy Grant awarded by The Dollar Full general Foundation. The funds will exist used to strengthen the literacy efforts at HMS. Presenting the check for Dollar General: Mr. JC Kendrick (District Manager, Region 41) and Mrs. Tara Evans (local Store Managing director). Danna Harrell is pictured receiving the cheque for the HMS Library.

HMS/PACE Awards Ceremony

Students in grades seventh - 9th grades earn incentives for high and improved exam scores from land tests taken last spring at HMS.

Incentives were funded by PACE (Partners in Achieving Community Excellence).

9th Grade $100 Earners

9th Form $100 Earners

Front Row (50-R): Allison Blansett, Michael Ann Chandler, Cade Ellison, Brianna Hughes, Jaden Johns, Paige Kilgore and Jacob Mchann. Back Row (L-R): Abbigale Blansett, Justin Morgan, Zalexus Atkinson, Cali Barnett, Kaitlynn Murphree, Cote Pena, Grace Tate, Morgan Young, Jaiden Linley and Keyae Morgan.

8th Grade $100 Earners

8th Class $100 Earners

Front Row (L-R): Gibson Caulder, Ollie Franklin, Makinzi Moore, Jessica Torres, Heather Blakely, Olivia Funderburk, Alexis Ellison and Maddie King. Dorsum Row (50-R): Payten Dotson, Haylie Pettit, Precious Cooper, Sarah Brassfield, Brantley Brown, William Vance, Kalena Williams, Kheniya Williams and Whitney Walters.

7th Grade $100 Earners

Kahner Moreno, Trey Mims, Andrew Hall, Maddox Clouse and McKenzie Bivens

Students won a variety of incentives:

1) Students who scored a 96 or college on the ELA or math state tests received $100.

ii Students who scored a proficiency level of 5 on either test received a trip to the movies during the schoolhouse mean solar day, popcorn at the picture show and lunch at Pizza Hut.

3) Students who scored a proficiency level of iv on both the ELA and math tests received a pizza party and a 50 minute suspension.

4) Students who scored a proficiency level of three and/or 4 on both the ELA and math tests received an ice cream party and a 50 minute intermission.

5) Students who showed growth from the previous school twelvemonth received a snowfall cone political party and 50 minute break.

half dozen) The tiptop three scorers on the 8th grade science test and the Algebra 1 State exam earned $25 souvenir cards.

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