Stuart Middle School

Spring Break is almost here! ☀️💐🏖️

Next week, March 16-20, all Martin County School District-operated schools will be closed for Spring Break. In the meantime...let's make the most of every lesson before the break!

Keep learning, keep growing, and finish the week strong! 💪😎

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📸 On any given day, the classroom environment is always in action at SMS! These photos capture students actively engaged in learning across our campus: 🗣 Socratic Seminars in Mrs. Craft’s class 🤝 Building Thinking Classrooms with co-teachers Ms. Lachance & Mrs. He, Mrs. Suggs & Ms. Carlson, and Mrs. Gary & Mrs. Edenfield 📊 Data tracking and goal setting happening in Mrs. Ryan’s classroom From thoughtful discussions to collaborative problem-solving, our students are learning, growing, and leading every day! 🧡💙🐾

We’re excited to share some fantastic news! Two of our students, Ethan Repass and Kai Encomio, recently earned a grant from the National Association for Secondary School Principals (NASSP) through their Student Service Grants program. Even more impressive—this marks the first time a student has ever applied for or received this grant! Their project focuses on helping our local community get better prepared for severe weather. Along the way, they explored practical topics such as building a weather survival kit, predicting weather conditions, and staying connected during emergencies. It’s inspiring to see students take initiative and use their learning to make a real-world impact—rain or shine! ☔️ ☀️

🍓FARM TO SCHOOL WEEK🍓

Fresh, local, and full of flavor! 🍅

This week, our cafeterias are celebrating Farm to School Week with delicious, Florida-grown products—like crisp cucumbers, juicy grape tomatoes, sweet peppers, red bliss potatoes, and refreshing Florida milk.

It’s a great way for students to enjoy nutritious meals while learning what grows in their community! 🥔🥒

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Parents & Families—You’re Invited!
Join us for our upcoming School Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting and be part of the conversation that helps shape our school community!

If you cannot attend in person and would like to attend virtually, please email Monica Pool at poolm@martinschools.org for the virtual link.

We hope to see you there!

🍎ON TIME. ALL IN. UNSTOPPABLE.🍎

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make the biggest difference.

A consistent routine, a little planning ahead, and staying connected with your child’s school can help set the tone for a strong day of learning.

Those small habits add up—together, let's help students show up On Time, go All In, and keep the momentum going all the way to an Unstoppable fourth quarter!

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Good morning Jaguar Families. Check out what's happening on and around our campus this week! 🧡💙🐾

Future Ready Starts Now!

Mrs. Ennis's 7th Grade AVID students are sharpening their career skills by participating in mock interviews designed to prepare them for life beyond the classroom.

Students came prepared with a completed resume and dressed professionally, practicing real-world interview expectations while building confidence, communication skills, and professionalism.

Experiences like these help AVID students become Future Ready—one interview at a time!

🎉🧡💙 Calling all future leaders! 💙🧡🎉 The Stuart Middle School PTSA is now accepting interest for our 2026–2027 Executive Board 🎉 ✨ Open Positions: 🔹 President 🔹 Vice President 🔹 Treasurer 🔹 Secretary Want to make an impact, support our students, and be part of something great? This is your moment! 🙌 📣 Interviews are happening NOW! 📧 Email: ptsa.stuartmiddleschool@gmail.com 🗳️ Nominations from the floor are also welcome at our General Membership Meeting on 4/20! Want to make a difference, meet great people, and have a little fun along the way? This is your chance! 💡✨ Whether you’re full of ideas or just ready to get more involved, we’d LOVE to have you.

🎉 Welcome back, Jaguars! 🐾 We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Spring Break! ☀️🌴 We can’t wait to see all of our amazing students and staff back on campus Monday morning, ready to learn, grow, and finish the year strong! 💪📚 Let’s make it a great week, Jaguars! 💙🐆

🌊🐢GRANDPARENTS & VIP DAY AT THE ESC🐢🌊

Save the date! The community is invited to a Grandparents & VIP (Very Important People) Day Open House at the Environmental Studies Center—the gem of Martin County and a one-of-a-kind learning experience for our students. 💎🐢

📅 March 28
⏰ 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
📍 Environmental Studies Center (2900 NE Indian River Drive, Jensen Beach)

Bring the whole family and enjoy a morning of hands-on exploration, student celebrations, and up-close animal encounters. Guests can also visit booths from student entrepreneurs and local organizations that help support and inspire our learners.

There’s truly something for everyone...you'll find out why the ESC is the place to be!

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🏀ELITE EIGHT: MCSD MARCH MADNESS🏀

Spring Break might be here, but the MCSD March Madness IXL Challenge is still heating up! 🔥 Which schools are making a run for the championship while building their academic skills along the way?

Congratulations to our Elite Eight:
⭐️ Port Salerno Elementary School
⭐️ Palm City Elementary School
⭐️ Stuart Middle School
⭐️ Crystal Lake Elementary School
⭐️ Warfield Elementary School
⭐️ Citrus Grove Elementary School
⭐️ J.D. Parker Elementary School
⭐️ Jensen Beach Elementary School

Even during Spring Break, students can keep the momentum going—every skill mastered helps move your school one step closer to the trophy...and helps drive academic gains! 🏆📚

So, who's heading to the final four?!

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🏀📚 Our 6th Graders are DOMINATING the MCSD IXL March Madness Challenge! 📚🏀 For the past two weeks, our incredible 6th Grade students have stepped up to the challenge and exceeded every expectation! Together they brought an amazing 7,595 Math and ELA skills to proficiency (80% or higher)! 🤯👏 To celebrate their hard work, our 6th graders earned a special reward — FREE outdoor time during lunch AND music playing while they enjoyed it! 🎶☀️ And let’s just say… 💃 We danced 😂 We laughed 😊 We smiled We are so proud of these students for showing what dedication, perseverance, and Jaguar pride looks like! Keep it up, 6th grade — you are setting the bar HIGH! 🐆🔥 #SMSPride #IXLMarchMadness #JaguarStrong #StudentSuccess #HardWorkPaysOff

We are so excited to celebrate the amazing response to our Spring Ahead with a Good Book event!

A huge thank you to the Education Foundation of Martin County for supporting our students through the Book Vending Machine. It was wonderful to see so many students participate by sharing thoughtful reasons about why they wanted a book to read over spring break. Their enthusiasm for reading and excitement about choosing a new book made this event truly special. Thank you for helping us inspire a love of reading and giving our students the opportunity to spring into a great book!

Last week these 8th Grade students completed an incredible 670 IXL skills, and they celebrated their hard work with a fun “Circles” scavenger hunt—calculating the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of their pizza. Math has never been so delicious! 😄 Mrs Rasmussen is so proud of these kiddos and the effort they put in every day. A big thank you to Mrs. Raines for helping make a well-earned pizza reward possible for my Geometry class! 🍕📐

🎷🎶 The SMS Jazz Band Hit the Road! 🎶🎷 Our SMS Jazz Band took a special recruiting trip to visit the JBE Vikings, giving them a taste of what our amazing band program is all about with a lively performance! 🎺🥁🎼 The morning got even more special when JBE’s very own Mr. Scrobinski (and proud SMS alum!) jumped in to join the band for a tune! 🎷👏 It was an incredible morning full of music, smiles, and Jaguar pride. We hope to see some future band members from JBE joining the SMS stage soon! 🎶🐆✨ #SMSJaguars #FutureBandMembers #JazzBand #MusicMatters 🎷

On Sunday, March 1st, our own Mr. Michael Hiatt from Stuart Middle School, hosted their inaugural Martin County SeaPerch Invitational Event ~ SeaPerch is a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), a competition, and a community ~ the program guides students on building an underwater robot while supplying educators with the tools and training to help them through the process. Mr. Hiatt instructs the Exploration of Aerospace, Engineering and Honors Engineering programs, runs the chess club and is a Civil Air Patrol AEM Member, in addition to leading their SeaPerch club. This unique competition, held at the Stuart YMCA pool, showcased three (3) SMS teams and two (2) teams from the Boynton Aerospace Science Academy (charter high school) - who’s students were truly exceptional and we are grateful for their guidance and mentorship provided to our SMS student teams, who are very new to this emerging community. Additionally, we would like to extend a sincere thank‑you to the JBHS AF JROTC for their outstanding assistance in judging both the mission course and the obstacle course. Their support played a major role in making the event a success. We were also joined by two members from the IRSC Advanced Manufacturing / Engineering programs who were offering support and guanidine. The results are being tabulated this week, and the overall winner will be announced soon, followed by special trophies and celebratory pizza! One of our SMS teams is vying for a spot at the National Competition, later this spring, in Maryland. Hat’s off for Mr. Hiatt and the SMS team for their successful inaugural event!

🍎ON TIME. ALL IN. UNSTOPPABLE.🍎

Spring Break is almost here—but the days before and after are full of opportunities! 💪📚 When students show up on time, go All In, and build strong habits, they set themselves up to be truly Unstoppable. Let’s finish the year strong, Martin County School District families, because every day counts!

#ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #UnstoppableSince1925

See you at tonight's HOME Soccer Game! 🧡💙🐾