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Columbia Middle School 345 Plainfield Ave Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Telephone (908) 464-1600 Fax: (908) 464-0017 You Can't Hide That Tiger Pride! |
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Anticipated completion date: July 30, 2010.
Don't Forget Your Summer Reading!!!
Dear Parents,
As I spent the day in the Poconos with our eighth graders on our “famous” annual outing, I had to pause and reflect on my first days here at Columbia Middle School. I was welcomed to your community just weeks before I welcomed this group to the sixth grade. I am proud of them. As adults, we have so many distractions in our lives that it is sometimes difficult to realize that just as we are faced with deadlines, interference, and conflicts in our schedules, so too are our young people. The world is getting smaller for them as well. They need and deserve our support. It was so refreshing to see them in this different light. Without the need for hall passes and permissions, they were given the freedom to be where they wished, walk with whomever made them
comfortable, and cheer and laugh spontaneously as they watched their friends high up on a ropes course, paddle a boat, or jump in the pool. Students encouraged each other to join in to play volleyball. No one cared who was on their team, and no one wanted to keep score. As the saying on the tee-shirt goes, Life Is Good.
With less than two weeks of school left, it seems as though we still have so much to do in so little time. I know I speak for Mrs. Holzmann when I say how much we have appreciated our time with your children this year. We saw plenty of growth and positive change. The anticipation we saw on the students faces in September may now show the anticipation of summer, but they have worked hard, learned much, and a little break (with reading!) is well deserved.
We have so many partners that help us along the way, but I would like to thank our PTO for a terrific year, our Ed. Foundation for their support, and the other formal and not so formal groups and individuals who help to make Columbia Middle School such a wonderful place to work, and for our students to learn.
I sat on a log that day with some students. We were just looking at the lake, taking in the scene, when one young man said, “I’m really going to miss this place.”
Another student said, “The lake?”
“No,” he replied, “Columbia.”
Not one of them had a cell in their hand; no one had earphones in their ears. I just kept quiet and let it sink in. Nothing more had to be said.
Have a wonderful summer.
Frank G. Geiger
Below you will find supply lists for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
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Seventh Grade Supply List.pdf
Eighth Grade Supply List.pdf
Congratulations to Mr. Sullivan
Columbia Middle School Teacher of the Year
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Health News |
August 27, 2010 Locker Day! |
Has your child received the seasonal flu shot? You must notify the school nurse for record keeping purposes. Please visit the H1N1 page to the left for information Important Parent Information has been posted on the CMS Conference Read the letter from Superintendent Judy Rattner here NJ Family Care NJ FamilyCare provides quality free or low-cost health coverage for uninsured children 18 and younger and low-income parents. This program already covers more than a half million New Jersey children. Find out more about it here
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Safety Notice For Drivers
When dropping off and picking up your child, please park & pick up only on Plainfield Avenue.
PLEASE DO NOT pull into the parking lot area because it puts other students at risk.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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