Saunders Middle School

From Trish Seaman, PTSO President:
🚨 Teacher Appreciation Week 🚨

Spartan Families, next week is Teacher Appreciation Week! The PTSO is hosting the Teacher Breakfast on Monday, May 6th and the Teacher Luncheon on Wednesday, May 8th. Please consider volunteering or donating.

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The Saunders 2023-24 Yearbook is on sale now. https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productBrowse/1119168/Saunders-Middle-School/2024-Yearbook/2023111004162347078/CATALOG_SHOP/

Sharing a couple of upcoming PTSO-sponsored events! Fun Friday, will be held on March 8th. Tickets will be available for purchase starting tomorrow during lunch until Thursday of next week. The second event, Bingo Night, will take place on March 14th at 6 pm. Come join and show your support for the Saunders PTSO!

Checkout our Saunders students racing on the Occoquan!

Way to go Spartans! We had a huge turnout at tonight’s game. Thank you to all the families, friends, and staff for coming out to support tonight’s game. We’d like to give some shoutouts…

Thank you to our step team, cheer team, and dance team for performing at tonight’s game. The energy and performances from all the girls was amazing.

Thank you to our track team for coming and supporting at tonight’s game.

Thank you to all the coaches who came out to support tonights event; Ms. Dixon, Mrs. LeHardy, Ms. Dunfee, Mrs. Fallon, Mr. Hughes, Coach Brenda, and Coach T!

Thank you to Mrs. Rupert, Mr. Kennedy, the pep band, and drum line for bringing the noise tonight!

Thank you to the staff who took time out of their evenings to come out and support the team.

Thank you to all the administrators and security team..Mr. Byrd, Ms. Babauta, Dr. Lewis, Ms. Lanzo, and Mr. Davila.

Thank you to Forest Park, Mr. Bricker (AD), and his team for hosting us tonight.

Thank you to our athletic coordinator, Ms. Lowry, who set up tonights event. She coordinated with Benton and Forest Park to ensure tonight was successful for all parties.

Lastly - a BIG congratulations to our football team and their coaches, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Mongillo, Mr. Holman, and Mr. Ortiz on their undefeated season and central region win!!

GO SPARTANS!

Come support our Spartans next Thursday, Nov 2nd at 6pm at Forest Park!! Don’t forget, it’s a blue out!!

Winter I and Winter II Tryout Information

In Person Concussion Training
– Wednesday, November 8th at 6PM
- Per PWCS, doors close at 5:55 – NO late entries.

Winter I Tryouts - Boys Basketball
– Monday, November 13th – 15th
- Physicals, Concussion Training, and Sports Checklist are due November 9th – No Extensions

Winter II Tryouts - Girls Basketball & Wrestling
– Monday, January 22nd – 24th
- Physicals, Concussion Training, and Sports Checklist are due January 19th – No Extension

Our second annual fall festival was a huge success! We appreciate everyone for coming out and joining us!

We’d like to thank the Spartan community for attending our second annual fall festival! We had a huge turnout tonight and enjoyed seeing all our students and their families.

If you attended tonights event, please send any photos you took to the following staff below so we can share online and publish in our yearbook.

Athletic Director - [email protected]
Parent Liaison - [email protected]

We’d like to give a quick shout-out some staff members who supported this event to make it possible.

The biggest shout out to our C&C Committee for all their hard work and planning. We appreciate you all working to make SDMS a positive, fun, and safe place.

Thank you Ms. Lanzo & Ms. Lowry for their hardwork prepping and setting up this event all afternoon.

Thank you to our wonderful security team, Mr. Davila and Mr. Mike for being so involved, supporting with set-up, and engaging with our community at tonight’s event!

Thank you Mrs. Tollefson and the NJHS crew for supporting with ticket sales, set up, and stations.

Thank you Ms. Lipovsky and the her equestrian club for allowing our school and community to engage and learn more about her pony!

Thank you to our admin team for supporting this event.

Lastly, we’d like to shout out these staff members for hanging around to work and support this event. Thank you to Mr. Marvin, Ms. Gonzalez, Mrs. Abel, Ms. Britt, Mrs. LeHardy, Mrs. Verran, Mrs. McAuley, Ms. Dunfee, Ms. Mercado, Ms. Martin, Ms. Joshua, Mrs. C***s, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Sanchez, Mrs. Sandoval, Ms. Durkac, Mr. Palomo, Ms. Turner, Ms. Windfield, Ms. Humphries, Ms. Herzberg, Mrs. Harkins, Mrs. Lucariello, Ms. Dixon, Ms. Burch, Ms. Tollefson, and our parent volunteer - Mrs. Myles!

This week in athletics!

Congratulations to our SDMS girls track team for their stellar against Parkside. They won 61-49 and showered great performances all around.

We'd like to highlight a few of many great performances:
- 4 X 400 Relay - 1st Place
- 400 Meter - 1st Place - A. Pineda
- Long Jump - 1st Place - L. Daniels
- 100 Meter - 1st Place - L. Daniels
- 4 X 100 Meter Relay
- 55 Meter - L. Wilson
- 55 Meter - S. Williams

Great job Coach Fallon and Coach Hughes!

Join us November 2nd at Forest Park for a BLUE OUT!

Saunders will host Benton for our final game of the year! We hope to see everyone there in a sea of blue.

We will also have a food truck, concessions, and a t-shirt vendor available!