May 22, 2025
from Paul Errickson, Middle School director
Mark Your Calendars
- Friday, May 23: MS G7 Washington, D.C. Trip
- Monday, May 26: No Classes, Memorial Day
- Wednesday, May 28: MS Field Day, 12:30-3 PM, Varsity Field
- Thursday, May 29: MS Field Day (Rain Day), 12:30-3 PM, Varsity Field
- Thursday, May 29: MS G5 Science Fair, 2:30-3 PM, MS Hallways and Room 128
- Friday, May 30: MS G5/6 Canoe Trip, Off Campus
- Friday, May 30: MS G7/8 Music Trip, Valleyfair
- Tuesday, June 3: End of Quarter 4
- Tuesday, June 3: MS G4 and 8 Moving Up Ceremony, 1:30-3 PM, Nicholson Center
- Tuesday, June 3: G8 Lock-In, 6 PM
- Wednesday, June 4: Last Day of School/Early Release, 10:30 AM
- Wednesday, June 4: Yearbook Assembly, 8:15-9:45 AM, Nicholson Center
It is hard to believe that this is my last Panther Post of the school year. Are we really wrapping this school year up in the next two weeks? This year has been filled with so much joy; it is hard to capture it all in one post. One of the things I am most proud of is the fact that every Middle School student was able to “Dream Big” or “Do Right” this year through our Dream Big, Do Right Advisory Challenge.
This year, we made sure to meet, as a Middle School, once or twice a month in our Middle School Meetings. This time was meant to bring us together as a community, reflect on the year, and have students make announcements and share their work—from poetry to prose, Spanish skits and music performances, we had play previews and i-Term highlights shared. One constant throughout our Middle School meetings was the Dream Big, Do Right Advisory Challenge. At each meeting, a new advisory was chosen to do something for our MPA or the broader Twin Cities community, either by dreaming big or doing right.
Our Middle Schoolers did an amazing job with this challenge. We had advisories dreaming big by raising funds for a new tree in our Middle School garden, smattering our hallways and lockers with words of affirmation, and doing right by reading to our second graders and creating videos to share what to wear during recess in the winter. In the Middle School this year, every student can say that they did something special for someone else. They worked to make others feel included, and they went out of their way to help out in their teachers’ classrooms. One of our advisories even made slime for our kindergartners to sell in their Baa Baa Boutique.
Over our final two weeks, we still have a lot to look forward to. Next week, we will have our Middle School Field Day on Wednesday afternoon (rain day is Thursday) and our Adventure Days—fifth and sixth grades canoe trip and seventh and eighth grade Valley Fair performance on Friday. The following week brings our final few days of school, with our Middle School Moving Up Ceremony on Tuesday, June 3 at 1:30 PM and our Yearbook Assembly in the morning of a half day on Wednesday, June 4. After our time with students wraps up, we will gather final transcripts and MAP scores and mail them off to you around the middle of June.
