10/12/2026
Celebration: Celebrating National School Lunch Week! Did you know? President John F. Kennedy established this week in 1962 to highlight the importance of healthy school meals and their impact on student well-being and success. The National School Lunch Program helps ensure all students have access to nutritious meals that support learning, promote healthy habits and reduce food insecurity.
A big thank you to our amazing Food Service team for preparing thousands of meals each day for Derby Public Schools—you make a difference every single day!
I also want to celebrate Mrs. Langley and Mrs. Goble. They both ran the Wichita Prairie Fire half marathon on Saturday and both finished. That is over 13 miles. That is the same as running from DNMS and ending up 2 miles past Mulvane!
DNMS hosted the 7th Grade Volleyball A-Team tournament, and your Falcons battled their way to 4th place! Congratulations to our players and coaches on a great effort! Way to represent, Falcons!
Caution:
There have been many class changes from 1st Quarter to 2nd. Please get out your computer and check your schedules.
Remember that Winter Sports start THIS week. Please make sure to have your physical and Bound account completed before Monday or you may not be eligible to try out.
Lunch Menu:
Turkey Deli
Hamburger
Cole Slaw
Potato gems
Diced pears
Uncrustable PB and J, Cheez-Its, and string cheese
Joke of the day - What has more lives than a cat?
A frog because it CROAKS everyday!
Information-
The All For Books toothpick pull has started in the Media Center. Bring $.50 or more and try your luck to win a prize. All money raised goes to buy books for the Media Center. Prizes include small candy, gum, bookmarks, small toys, stickers, twinkies, snacks, books, movie theatre candy, and more. The fundraiser will continue until the end of October in the Media Center.
Starting Monday Oct 12th we will begin 100% attendance of all students riding to/from school via school bus. The preferred and fastest method will be scanning their ID card (secondary students) or QR code (elementary students). Students that do not have a card for scanning will be manually added by the driver and we ask that students who do not have ID for scanning wait to load the bus after students that do have ID’s for scanning.
This will include staff to ride and latchkey students. Secondary staff to ride students will scan with their school ID.
Homework Helpers is available in the morning at the cafetorium Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday BEFORE school, 7:15 am - 8 am. Also available in the afternoons after school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the Media Center from 3:30-4:45 pm.