NEWS OF THE MOMENT!

*HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY SUMMER - Students return to school August 17

*FIFTH GRADE ORIENTATION - August 14, 8:30 - 10:30 AM

The Dogwood Arts Festival held its first ever Chalk Walk on April 18th and 19th. The competition and art exhibit featured over 40 large street paintings ranging in size from 6 feet squares to one 11 foot by 9 foot rectangle. Professional and student artists of all ages and levels worked directly on the assigned sidewalk areas in Krutch Park and Market Square from 8:00 am Saturday through 3:00 PM Sunday, when work was stopped for judging. The “Best in Show” prize of $500 went to Katie Simmons and Calvin Cummings, 11th grade students at Oak Ridge High School, for their pastel drawing titled “Colorful Crab”. Jefferson Middle School 8th grade students Nina Bradley and Skylar Elliott won first place in the middle school division for their “Pink Unicorn” (pictured above). James Pride, a 5th grade student at Jefferson Middle School won second place in the middle school division for his “Fantasy Dinosaur”.

2009 French National Contest

This year 2,900 students in TN. And 101,000 students in the US and abroad took the French National Exam. Of those 23,311 took level 1A and 7,542 took level 01A. JMS had 6 national winners in this contest: James Andress, Samantha Wang and Aaron Chasan in the 8th grade and Sami Moussa, Catherine Dadmun and Gaibo Zhang in the 7th grade. Congratulations to the following students who placed high in the 2009 National French Contest:

8th grade IN LEVEL 1A James Andress -4th place in TN, 5th place in the nation Samantha Wang- 7th in TN, 8th in the nation Aaron Chasan- 9th in TN, 10th in the nation Matt MacDaniel – 12th in TN, 13th in the nation Meg Landon-13th in TN, 14th in the nation Leah Chance-17th in TN, 18th in the nation Kate Hoffman-19th in TN, 20th in the nation

7th grade French Level 01B

Sami Moussa- 1st in TN, 3rd in the nation Catherine Dadmun-5th in TN, 9th in the nation

Level 01A

Gaibo Zhang-2nd in TN, 9th in the nation Ben Mobley- 7th in TN, 17th in the nation Yuri Kato- 9th in TN, 19th in the nation

Nations of the World Celebrated at JMS

Seventh grade students brought the world to Jefferson through the annual International Fair. Students dressed according to the custom of their country, cooked foods native to their countries and shared cultural, historical and current information with all grade levels. Fun with a global flair was had by all!

Wilderness Connections recently completed a trip to the Big South Fork. The adventure-based program incorporates backcountry hiking with lessons on regional history, geography, science, and environmental stewardship. The program is in its fourth year and is open to 7th and 8th grade students from Jefferson.

Jaralam Kirk danced down the aisle to take the stage, performing 3 dance numbers with great electricity. Jaralam closed the show while raising the roof!

Stasya Zinchenko opened up the 3rd annual JMS talent show with a song and dance impersonation of 80s artist Cindy Lauper. Stasiya's performance was spellbinding!

Jefferson’s Technology Student Association team spent four days in heated competition at the Tennessee TSA State Conference in Pigeon Forge. The team of twenty four competed in 25 events against over 25 other middle school teams from across the state and brought home fourteen trophies. Read more...

Thirty Jefferson Middle School eighth grade art students recently visited Biltmore Estate in Asheville North Carolina. The students had a great time learning about the mansion and seeing the many great works of art collected by the Vanderbilt family. The class also enjoyed viewing the gardens during the festival of flowers.