October 25 Announcements

The annual canned food drive continues through October 29th. Please be generous and bring as many nonperishable food items as possible. We usually collect over 2,000 items to donate to Manna Ministries and Oak Mountain Missions. The items that you donate will benefit families who are in need in our community. Each grade level advisory class will compete to collect the most items for their grade level and the winner will win a pizza party. Please leave prepackaged items together. OM Missions is in great need of peanut butter and jelly, because they include these items in each bag that is given to a family. 

Information for tonight’s Fall Gala 

* Students may be dropped off at the front of the school at 6:45 P.M. 

* Gala admission tickets, Haunted House armbands and Fun tickets will be available for purchase during lunch today in the cafeteria. In order to come thru the Haunted House, you must attend the     Gala.   Gala Admission is $8 at lunch; $10 at the door; Haunted House – $5 per walk thru; Fun Tickets – $1 each and these can be used for food and games.  Large slice of Pizza – 3 fun tickets, Crazy Bread – 3 fun tickets, Concession drinks -2 fun tickets per drink, Krispy Kreme doughnuts  -1 fun ticket per doughnut, concessions – chips, and candy -1 fun ticket per item.  

*  Attire is school dress. Students must be appropriately attired for admission.

*  Pick up –  Please take note and see the attachment for reference and to share with friends.  Parents will be required to park and pick up your student(s). Please remember to plan accordingly and park nearest your student’s departure point while exercising caution and patience in the parking lots.  Carpooling is encouraged!  

Pick up times/location:

* 6th grade – 9 p.m. at the front entrance of the building only.

*  7th grade – 9:30 p.m. at door #3 (B-west hall) – west side of building

*  8th grade – 10 p.m. – door #7 – Gym entrance

SGA will sell “Boo Pops” during lunch next week for $1 each.  Plan to send some spookiness to your friends!

Love reading, art, movie-making, and/or code-breaking? Join the OMMS Book Olympiad team with Mrs. Hutchings. All interested 6th, 7th, and 8th graders are welcome to join. Sign up by Halloween using this Google Form: https://forms.gle/rtGAfB6FgVvJGizA6. Go to the Book Olympiad blog, stop by room C4, or email at shutchings@shelbyed.org with questions.

All Front Office lost and found items not claimed by Friday, November 1st will be donated to a local charity.  Students if you are missing an item, please make sure to check all lost and found locations.

Phase 1 students who have an advisory pass from yesterday or today should report to A-19 as soon as they check in with their advisory teacher to help with can pick up. 

Ms. Turpen’s 2nd period needs to check her homework blog!

JUNA will meet Monday after school until 4:30pm.

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!

Good luck to our JV majorettes in their first competition of the season tomorrow @ OMMS 


ALSDE has designated October as Dyslexia Awareness Month.  In response, Shelby County Schools is responding with an emphasis and focus on Dyslexia by providing information to administrators via email and having a Wear Red Day in observance.  There are approximately 20,000 students in Shelby County Schools.  Research shows that dyslexia affects 1 in 5 students.  That means as many as 4,000 students district wide would benefit from a dyslexia specific intervention.  We have made great strides as a state in supporting students with characteristics of dyslexia.  Shelby County currently offers Mindplay and SPIRE for students who have been identified with these characteristics.  I would encourage you to explore our Dyslexia Resources page on the District website.  Its an excellent resource for both teachers and parents.  https://www.shelbyed.k12.al.us/dyslexia.html  Wear Red for Dyslexia Day will be Tuesday, October 29th.  #ShelbyCo1in5

EAGLE SPORTS NEWS

Wrestlers should remind their parents to use the following link to order their spirit packs: https://forms.gle/giaPx1Mmoa2aWGUc6.

Baseball players need to check the blog for weather updates for this weekend’s tryouts.  Parents have also been added to GroupMe for updates.

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)

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 Boys Rec Basketball League registration for the boys 2nd – 6th grade rec basketball league is now open through our web site https://www.omboysrecbasketball.com/   Registration cost is $130.00.  Practices will start November 3rd with the first game on Saturday, December 7th.  All games will be played at OMMS.  Please email any questions to omboysrecbasketball@gmail.com 

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