Kernodle Middle School

Good evening Kernodle Middle School families, this is your proud principal Mrs. Shephard calling with your weekly announcements and reminders:
Congratulations to all of our students for a great school year!

Your Feedback Matters: Continue, Stop, or Change! We invite our school community to share feedback from the 2025-2026 school year to be considered as we plan for 2026-2027. The feedback from last year helped us to create our school-wide calendar which will be released next school year and seeking out sponsors to support our school-wide goals. Thank you for sharing your ideas and concerns with us because we want to make each year better. The survey is open to students, teachers, parents, guardians and community partners. Survey link: http://tiny.cc/KMSCommunityFeedback . Please complete it by June 10, 2026.

Yearbook Update –
Our Kernodle yearbooks have arrived, and they will be distributed during the first week in June. Each grade level will have a yearbook signing event. We have 14 yearbooks left to purchase. You can buy one at the link below.
https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productDetail/1230231/KERNODLE-MIDDLE-SCHOOL/Yearbook/20250710041815900126/CATALOG_SHOP/Yearbook/20250710041815937126 /0

Invitation for Rising 9th Grade Families Attending Western Guilford High School:
Dear Parents/Guardians,Western Guilford Athletics would like to invite families of rising ninth grade students from Western Guilford Middle School and Kernodle Middle School who are interested in participating in athletics at Western Guilford High School.We encourage you to attend our next Athletic Booster Club Meeting:
Tuesday June 9 @6:30 PM
Western Guilford High School Media Center

This meeting will provide a great opportunity for families to connect with our athletic programs, learn more about upcoming opportunities, and become involved in supporting Western Guilford Athletic Booster Club. Coaches will be available to answer questions about information pertaining to their teams.

We look forward to meeting you and welcoming your family to our athletic community.

Coach Jerrod Harris, CAA
Athletic Director
Western Guilford High School

EOG Preliminary Scores Information:
Preliminary scores for the EOGs were sent home last week with your student.
Please note if your student was absent, they may get their scores from their homeroom teacher. However, letters will NOT be mailed home and will not be available from the front office. EOG score information should not be shared over the phone or via email by our teachers.

EOG Individual Student Reports (ISRs):
You will be able to access your child's Individual Student Report (ISRs) showing test results through your Campus Parent account in Infinite Campus by June 12, following the close of the testing window.
• If you do not already have a Campus Parent account, we encourage you to set one up.
• If you need assistance, please contact our school data manager.
• If you are unable to access the scores online, please contact the school to request a printed copy that can either be picked up or mailed to you.

If your student was not proficient and you returned the opt-in letter for retesting reading will retest on Monday, June 8th and math will retest on Tuesday, June 9th. If you have questions, please reach out to homeroom teachers.

End of Year Family and Student Checklist:
From our Media Specialist:

Returning Library Books and Chargers:
We are currently missing 47 library books. Please encourage your student to look for these missing books if they have not yet returned them. Students will be responsible for paying for any lost books.
If students did not return a charger in December, they are responsible for buying a Lenovo replacement on Amazon and bringing it to their homeroom teacher.
If students do not return missing library books and chargers, their report cards will be held until parents or guardians are notified.
Lenovo Charger Replacement Link

Locker Clean-Out:
Please remind your student to collect all valuables from their lockers before the end of the school year.

A Message From Our School Nurse:
If your student has medication at the school, it must be picked up by a parent/guardian by June 11th. Any medication left at the school after this date will be disposed of per GCS guidelines. New Medication Authorization forms for the 2026/27 school year are available in the front office or via the GCS website.

End of Year Activities: Award’s Day and Celebration:
• June 8: 6th Grade Awards and Recognition @ 1:45 pm (Time changed due to testing schedule).

Last Day of School: The last day of school for the 2025-2026 school year is Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Hope everyone enjoys their summer!

A Note from our Athletic Director
• Reminder that any student wishing to do sports at Kernodle Middle or any GCS high school must have an updated physical and completed DragonFly Max account.

Summer Work Hours
Beginning Monday, June 15th all GCS offices, including Kernodle Middle School will start our summer schedule. We will open Monday through Thursday 8am to 5pm and we will be closed on Fridays.

Those are your weekly announcements and reminders. When you come to Kernodle Middle School, we are bold, we are brave and we are brilliant. Thanks for listening, have a great evening.

Rising 6th graders get a jump on tryouts by completing your dragonfly profile and uploads. Physicals can be downloaded on our website. We can’t wait to meet you in August.

8th Grade Parents it's almost that time!

Congratulations to our 8th grade students and families! Job well done!

Our students can do hard things! This email exchange between a parent and a teacher demonstrates the power of communication, collaboration, and community. When we come together to "stretch" our kiddos they can do it. There are several stories like this, this school year where students had the opportunity to believe in themselves. They wanted to give up but with our collective efforts they pushed through.

At KMS we are not perfect but we strive to give every student the opportunity to be bold, brave, and brilliant.

7th Grade Awards and Recognition. What a Day! Congratulations to our students!

It's been busy! But here are a few pictures from today! Our 7th grade celebration day was a blast.