Hi Middle School Families,
Wow, another great week! Step IT Up has been lots of fun with great prizes given to students. We pulled names and were able to give 4 students the Mini Refrigerator that really had money in the refrigerator. Yay!!!!
News from Mrs. Copley and our Cheer Team
Come support the Voyager Middle School Cheerleaders and get discounted tickets to the Duke vs. NC A&T football game!
The girls will be performing during the 2nd quarter of the Duke home game on Saturday, September 17th at 6pm for Cheerleader Day!
If you or your family would like to purchase game tickets for $15 each please see the link below or the attached flyer. We would LOVE to see as many Voyager families there as possible, even some of you Tar Heels!
Thanks to Kathy Robinson and Team!
A huge thank you to Kathy Robinson and the team working with her to provide lunch for our staff. I must say it was absolutely delicious. We appreciate all of you who brought food or sent food. Yummy! I have to say the desserts were also delicious. All of us also want to say Thank You to the many parents who covered classes so teachers could enjoy lunch. It was great having you in the building!!!!!
Join the Voyager Academy PTSO Have you joined the PTSO? We are hoping to have 100 families per grade join PTSO. We are a non-profit and all membership goes to providing support for our staff and students. Please click on the link below to join Voyager’s PTSO.
Please click here if you would like to join the PTS
Dates to Remember
9/13 National Junior Honor Society Induction for select students
9/16 Fall Festival
9/22 Remote Learning Day (asynchronous)
9/23 Parent Teacher Conferences
9/26-9/30 Scholastic Book Fair
2022-2023 VAMS Student Council Campaign and Election
What a fun week it has been as the candidates campaigned this week. You enjoyed the excitement as you came through the carline each morning. Our students were fantastic as they shared their speeches this week over the intercom. They all did a great job!
General Assembly Requirements (will meet once a month).Each homeroom will need to select a homeroom representative from each homeroom in grades 4 th -8th. These representatives will be chosen after executive council elections are complete.
Playground Update - We are so excited that our middle school playgrounds have added additional pieces of equipment. We have added 4 basketball goals with new basketballs, 8 swing seats in addition to the ones we have, 4-Square will be painted on the sidewalk and Hop-Scotch will also be added to the sidewalk. We are now waiting for mulch. Our new equipment is terrific and it is because of you and the donations you made to our Step It Up fundraiser and it’s coming back. Our Step It Up campaign is in process and we hope to get more equipment along with some additional technology.
The 22-23 Voyager Parent Activities calendar lists all programs and activities so all families have access to the events and programs offered on campus. The calendar is posted on the school website.
To subscribe to 22-23 VA Parent Calendar
View 22-23 VA Parent Calendar on Voyager Website under the Calendar tab
Select the plus sign at the bottom right of the calendar to add to your Google calendar
This will open your Google calendar
Select other calendars, add calendar
Select subscribe to calendar
Once subscribed, Voyager events will populate on your Google calendar
Carline— In order for the afternooncarline to run smoothly and safely, we need help from ALL of you.
If you are in line on Ben Franklin prior to 3:15 which we hope you aren’t lining up prior to 3:15, we are asking that you turn on your Blinkers so non Voyager traffic and elementary traffic will know that you are in the middle school car line.
Middle School parents, please do not start the line until 3:15.
There should be NO Voyager parents parking at the businesses on Ben Franklin.
There should be NO Voyager parents nor students walking across the street as there should be no parked cars across the street.
Morning: Morning carline begins at 7:45 and ends at 8:15. If you are coming earlier than 7:45 a bottle neck often happens and we can’t move .
Please do not drop off your ES students nor MS students at the Hock House. It is not safe. Please go through the carline process.
Attendance and Tardies:
Your child/student needs to be in the class by 8:15. If not, the student will be marked tardy. At 8:15 your student/child will need to enter through the front door and will need to get a tardy pass to take to the homeroom teacher. Please note that classroom instruction begins at 8:15 which means entering the classroom late disrupts the class and the teacher.
We are having way too many tardies. Please make sure you know the Tardy Policy. A student is tardy if he or she is not in class by 8:15.
We will begin emailing Tardy Letters and following the process that is stated in the Parent Student Handbook.
SAVE THE DATE: Voyager’s PTSO will be hosting our Fall Festival on Friday, September 16, 2022 from 5:30-8pm. The rain date is Saturday, September 17, 5:30-8pm.
STEP IT UP: Our fundraising program is going so very well. Thank you!! To date, Voyager has made a profit of over $50,000. We have had so much fun with this program. Our Day of Awesomeness will be held on Friday, October 7. This will be a morning filled with fun as ALL students celebrate being a Viking. We will have numerous inflatable activities for the students to enjoy. If you are a parent and you would like to volunteer to help at this event, please click on the link below:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c49afae2fa64-step1
If you have not been able to participate in the fundraiser yet and you would like to, please click on the link below:
https://app.pop4kids.org/voyageracademy27704
What is a Day of Awesomeness? Click on the link below:
https://www.pop4kids.org/video/d-of-a
TITAN SCHOOL STORE
Pay your school fees, manage your students accounts, and apply for free and reduced meals. Use the chart below as a guide for where to pay your fees or deposit money for lunch.
Deposits - The "one time" and "recurring payment" feature is ONLY for lunch accounts.
Assigned Fees- They are automatically assigned to the student it applies to, but you still have to select the item, complete any required fields and then add to your cart. Then you check out to make payment.
Transaction History -You can view payments & transactions.
Meal Application Status -You can check on the status by selecting the meal application in the menu to the left. Meal application status, if processed, is on the home screen.
Support Desk - If you have trouble logging into your account or have questions, call or email the Titan Support team. Support is available from 7 AM to 7 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, to answer your family portal questions at (844) 467 4700, option 2.
Refunds are issued at the school level.
Titan Family Portal Webpage
Bring Your Own Device: For the 2022-2023 school year we asked that 6th, 7th, and 8th graders Bring Their Own Device to School.
BYOD stands for “Bring Your Own Device”. It is a strategy for providing personal computing in business and education where the end user (employee, student), as opposed to the organization, provides, owns, and maintains his/her own device. It is typical in universities and colleges, and is gaining in popularity in K-12 education and businesses.
If you have questions, feel free to contact me. I will respond as soon as possible. Gwen
919-433-301 ext 101
