October 17 Announcements

OMMS Parenting Day 2019 will be on Friday October 18th. Parents are invited to come to any or all activities. 10 – 11:15AM OMMS Media Center –  Muffins and Coffee with Compact 2020 Officers  Officers from Compact 2020  will present  on Vaping and Social Media. After this parents are invited to drop in on their student’s 4th and/or 5th period class. Parents are then invited to stay for lunch with their child. 

Our annual OMMS Canned Food Drive, sponsored by Phase I is coming up. We will collect from advisories from Tuesday, Oct. 22-29th. The grade level that collects the most items will win a pizza party. We will collect nonperishable items that have not expired. We donate the items to Manna Ministries and Oak Mountain Missions to benefit people who are in need in our area.

Start making plans now to attend the Fall Gala/Haunted House that will be held on Friday, October 25th beginning at 7pm!  More details will follow! 

All students, including those that are reporting for detention on Tuesday mornings or makeup detention on Wednesday mornings, MAY NOT get out of cars until 7am or until a teacher reports to car rider line for morning car duty.

New student tailgate will be tomorrow at 2:30 in the cafeteria.  Students received invitations yesterday to be used as their pass to this event.

Please remember students are not allowed to ride home with friends on the bus unless it is an emergency purpose (no social occasions).  Changes in bus transportation should be submitted, in advance, by a signed parent note for approval by an Administrator.

Debate team will meet today in room B-14.

Fall Gala/Haunted House will be on Friday, October 25th!  Please sign up to volunteer and help with this fun event!  Fall Gala & Haunted House – 2019 OMMS

OMMS PTO is looking for businesses to sponsor our school!  For $250, your company logo will be featured on the OMMS Life Facebook page (which has over 900 followers!) all year long and your company information will be distributed in a school-wide list serve email.  Our partnership allows for extremely targeted advertising to almost 1,100 students and their families!  Please turn in the attached form and your donation to the front office to show your support of OMMS students and teachers!

EAGLE SPORTS NEWS

Good luck to our football teams tonight at home vs. Irondale.

Spirit wear store – SOAR design is now available!   https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/alabama/birmingham/oak-mountain-middle-school

In order for a student-athlete to go through evaluations, try-outs, or begin practice with any sports team, the student-athlete must be 100% complete on DragonFly Max (instructions attached)

OMMS softball tryouts for the 2019-2020 team will be held October 23rd and 24th from 3-5:30. Students who are interested must sign up with Coach Brown (Room C-10) in order to participate in tryouts. Students must have updated physical and all required information submitted on Dragonfly. If you have any questions contact Coach Brown (hbrown@shelbyed.org).

Tennis tryouts will be held at Inverness Racquet Club on Monday October 21st for boys and Tuesday October 22nd for girls.  In order to participate you need to sign up with this Google form https://forms.gle/v3pwkdJQYomA4fm18  and complete all of your eligibility paperwork on dragonflymax.com.  Only those who have completed 100% of their eligibility paperwork will be able to tryout.  If you have any questions you can stop by Mr. Richardson’s room D-8.

Oak Mountain Girls Basketball League is now open.  Registration for girls in the 2nd-6th grades is now open through our web site www.omgb.org or by paper copy.  Please email Coach Noel if you need a form or have any questions at jnoel@shelbyed.org  Early registration cost:  $100; after October 30th cost is $125.  Evaluation/Placement Date: October 30, 2019 at OMMS 7:00-8:00pm 2nd-4th graders; 8:00-9:00pm 5th-6th graders.   Practices will begin November 5th, mainly held on Tuesdays.  Our first game will be Saturday, December 7th. 

Oak Mountain Middle School baseball tryouts for the 2019-2020 team will be held October 18th, 20th, 26th and 27th. Students who are interested must sign up with Coach Renfro (Room A-18) in order to participate in tryouts. Students must have updated physical and all required information submitted on Dragonfly. If you have any questions contact Coach Renfro (j2renfro@shelbyed.org). Tryout Schedule: Friday, October 18th (3:45-6:00) and Sunday, October 20th (1:30-4:30). A preliminary cut will be made after the first 2 tryout dates. The final round of tryouts will be Saturday, October 26th (9:00-12:00) and Sunday, October 27th (1:30-4:30).  All tryouts will be held at Oak Mountain High School.

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