Telstar Middle School

Mt. Abram and the Bethel Food Pantry are looking for helpers for Turkey Tuesday!

Our teachers at Telstar Middle School are not only committed to their students' academic growth, but also investing in their mental health as well. We are proud to share that 89% of our faculty have become certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid. Many thanks to NAMI Maine and Kristen Powell for providing the in-depth and enriching professional development opportunity. To learn more about NAMI Maine or Youth Mental Health please visit: https://namimaine.org/youth-ed-resources/

November 7, 2024 Telstar Middle School is actively looking for a JV Girls Basketball Coach and Telstar High School is in need of an Alpine Coach. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact Gail Wight at 824-2136 x 1304 or email at wightg@sad44.org Thank you!

There's another FREE CONCERT opportunity at The Gem this Sunday. Sunny War, a singer-songwriter and impressive guitar player, will perform at 7:00 pm on the 10th. All SAD44 students can attend this concert for free. Sunny was featured on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert in 2019. This performance personifies Sunny's gentle yet powerful voice and impressive guitar skills. Check it out below. Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxIBgJTOVI Willie Nelson covered one of her songs on his latest album, released last week. Click the link below to hear his cover. "If It Wasn't Broken" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjeBp8j4Hg Many thanks to BAAM for giving our students an opportunity to see this show!

After School Activities at TMS! Encourage your kids to get involved and try something new!

This bond is to help our students and programs at Region 9. Your support is appreciated when you go to the polls on November 5th.

We are looking for the following winter coaches for the 2024-2025 season: HS Alpine Race Team MS Girls Head Basketball MS Girls Assistant Basketball For more information, please contact Gail Wight at wightg@sad44.org or 824-2136 x1304 Thank you!!

This event takes place TOMORROW (Thursday) @ The Gem and is FREE to all TMS students. We hosted this artist last year at our school and students enjoyed the performance.

Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held Tuesday, October 29 from 3-6pm and again on Thursday, November 7 from 3-6:30pm. Please call our office to schedule an appointment (824-2136 x1350).

Please consider joining our team! We have a great insurance and benefits package, good hours and great people/students to work with!

Get your Rebel Gear here! https://telstarfundraiser24.itemorder.com/shop/sale/ CODE is: ZAQPG Store will be open until midnight next Sunday. Orders will arrive at the TMS office, and we will distribute to students unless otherwise notified. Please email msoffice@sad44.org if you would like your order held for parent pick-up.

This evening at 5pm we will be conducting a test of the emergency alert system for MSAD44. We are rebuilding the data base from scratch to hopefully get all of the kinks worked out. Your students were given a paper form we ask you to fill out and return tomorrow please to help us identify who this is and is not working for. We are also posting the same information and a picture of the form to our websites and Facebook pages to try and make sure we are getting the word out to all families and to see if the system is working properly. If you do not receive a call, text, and email this evening, and you believe you should, please contact your school office in the morning. Thank you for your patience through this process. Mark

Good morning, I wanted to give you an update, following the cancellation of school this morning, Monday, September 9, 2024 in all MSAD#44 schools. We have been working with the OCSO all morning following up on a report that came in overnight from a student/parent who saw a post on Snapchat. We were not able prior to school opening to talk to all parties involved and come to a conclusion about the credibility of the threat made so I made the decision to close schools while we continued to investigate. The reason the elementary schools were also canceled is similar to last week, if we do not have 50% district attendance, the day would not count, and without the middle and high school in session, we fall below that mark. Unfortunately we have been in the process of changing over our Student Information Systems from Infinite Campus (IC) to the new system PowerSchool.  There have been some big glitches with that transfer and unfortunately our Instant Alert system is not working properly which is making it difficult to consistently get the word out to all staff and families.  We are working on this as I type and apologize for that communication break down. We have made the decision along with the OCSO now that the threat is not seen as credible to allow for the Telstar High School home soccer games to still take place today as well as other HS practices.  There will be no MS sports tonight .  The biggest take away we can ask is that if you or your student hear information about this or any situation that poses a safety risk that they tell an adult, teacher, coach in the moment and no continue to talk about rumors, post things to social media, etc. so we can investigate quickly and thoroughly to help avoid situations like this morning. Helping to have that conversation at home would be appreciated greatly. Starting tomorrow OCSO will have deputy presence on the Telstar campus for the remainder of the week while students are present.  School will resume for everyone tomorrow morning, Tuesday, September 10, 2024.  This does count as our first snow day cancellation of the 2024-2025 school year. This incident has nothing to do with our issues last week with the fire alarm system at Telstar. That was successfully fixed and inspected on Saturday. Thank you, Mark

Unfortunately, MSAD#44 schools will not be able to open today, Monday, September 9, 2024. Sorry for the late notice. We had a credible threat come in towards the Telstar complex that we are working on with OCSO. My apologies. and yes, this will have to count as our first snow day for 2024-2025.

NorthStar activities are starting up at TMS! Please consider joining one or all of these fun opportunities. Please note: Board Game Club is for 6-12 graders, Garden Club is for 7-12 graders and Art Club is for 8-12 graders.

Please join us for our first PTA meeting of the year Tuesday, Sept. 3 @6:30pm in-person in the Telstar Library or remotely: https://meet.google.com/gtk-qrmu-kno

We're looking forward to welcoming our newest Rebels to the halls of Telstar on Monday!

Looking for some folks who want to join our team!

Please do not forget to vote on election day, Tuesday, June 11, 2024!

Please help us spread the word, MSAD#44 is a great place to work!