Fall Social Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are needed for FUN and supervision at our upcoming Murphy Middle School Fall social. It's going to be a great night and we need your help to make it a smooth and safe event for our students.  

The ONLY adults allowed in the building during the social will be those who have cleared background checks AND who have signed up to volunteer.  

 ***PISD Volunteer applications must be completed and cleared by Tuesday, October 2nd in order to volunteer at the Social***

Volunteer signup: https://mmspta.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/27034

FEDERAL MEAL PROGRAM, September 25th

If your child/children received free or reduced-price meal benefits for the

2017-2018 school year and you have not filled out a Federal meal application for the current

school year, your child/children will go to full-paid status on September 25, 2018.

If you feel that your household may qualify for Federal meal benefits,

please go to https://fans.pisd.edu/fma to fill out a Federal meal application for the

2018-2019 school year.

PINK OUT VOLLEYBALL GAMES, SEPTEMBER 27TH and OCTOBER 3RD

Newspapers needed, September 30th

MMS Environmental Club needs you to continue dropping off newspapers in the front office or room E113 until the end of September. Our goal is to kill weeds organically around our school garden.

Pink Out Football Games, October 1st & 2nd

Come watch our 7th and 8th graders take on Carpenter at Kimbrough Stadium on October 1st and 2nd, as they show their support of finding a cure and bringing awareness to breast cancer. Games are at 5:30 and 7:00 each day. Don't forget the Tailgate Party on Tuesday, October 2nd. 

Murphy Tailgate Party, October 2nd

Middle School Volleyball Night at PESH, October 2nd

Fall Social, October 5th

• Pre-sale tickets will be sold in the rotunda during all three lunches on October 1st-5th.
• The pre-sale price is $8 or $7 for student PTA members (we will have a list of members).
• We accept cash or checks made payable to MMS PTA. 
• Students may also purchase food punch cards for $5 or $10.
• All food items are $1 at the social.

Eighth Grade Career Day, October 12th

We’re going places!

Come help our Mavericks find the trail to fulfilling their dreams! Murphy Middle School is looking for “wranglers” with exciting careers to share their trail blazing journey to success.

Murphy Middle School Annual Sixth - Eighth Grade Career Day

Friday, October 12, 2018
8:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
MMS Counseling Department is seeking guest speakers for our Career Day.

Presentations should last 45 minutes. While at Murphy, we hope you will join us for a continental breakfast and catered luncheon to show our appreciation.

Please complete the form and return it to Sylvia Lansing in the Counseling Office. Or e-mail it to sylvia.lansing@pisd.edu.
Thank You for being a part of this Murphy Tradition!

Parent Workshop, October 18th

School Picture Re-Takes, October 24th

If your child was absent on September 11th and missed school picture day, do not worry. Wednesday, October 24th is picture re-take day.

Reflections, due November 9th

Reflections is a National PTA sponsored arts recognition program that encourages artistic expression. The Reflections theme for 2018 – 2019 is “Heroes Around Me”. Use your imagination to create a film, song, artwork, photograph, poem, short story or dance routine. You may enter as many times as you like in as many categories. Each entry must be accompanied by an official entry form. Be sure to reflect the theme in your work. 

Murphy Middle School won the award for the most student participation in Reflections among all the middle schools in Plano ISD, for the last two years! We had 12 Council Award winners last year!! So lets keep the tradition going!

All entries will be due Friday, November 9, 2018.

Entries can be turned in to the front office starting in mid October. There is no limit to the number of entries a student can turn in, but each entry must be accompanied by an entry form.

Learn more.

SPRING PACE TESTING by January 16th

Is your student interested in participating in PACE next year? Testing for consideration to be admitted into the Plano Academic and Creative Education (PACE) program for next school year will take place next spring. Referral packets can be submitted online or on paper by Friday, Jan. 16 to Ms. McAnderson in E105. If you have any questions about the process please contact her at melissa.mcanderson@pisd.edu. The online version will automatically send an email to Ms. McAnderson when completed.

Secondary PACE Referral Online Link.

Glo Run, February 23rd

JOIN OUR COMM-YOU-NITY!

MMS PTA runs many projects throughout the year to benefit our school and the education of our children. From fundraisers to orientations, it all happens through the PTA! Get involved and join our PTA today. We work really hard to benefit all the students, teachers and parents at MMS and your PTA membership helps make many of our activities and events possible.

Learn more about our PTA. To join, please log-in or register. Then, parents, students and facility can join using this form.

MMS ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB

Congratulations to the MMS Environmental Club! It recently won the Outstanding Existing Environmental Awareness Group from the City of Plano’s Environmental Star of Excellence ceremony on September 19th. The club assisted Camden Henson in creating a butterfly garden in front of the cafeteria and registered it as a Monarch Waystation. A dedication ceremony was held to honor Lori Crawford, a MMS math teacher, who lost her battle with breast cancer. 

ORGANIZATION CORNER

Organization Corner is a place for Murphy Middle School students to come to get organized. It is available Wednesday mornings 7:50-8:20 in Mrs. Good's room, E109. AVID students will be available to help.

MMS ART CLUB

Art club is in need of your help. We are learning about rococo art, and are creating powdered wigs. We are reaching out for donations of cotton balls and toilet paper rolls, only the cardboard roll not with all the paper, for our project. You can drop donations off at Mr. Adams’ art room B118 anytime during the school day. We thank you for your patronage, as we look to realize our inner Marie Antoinettes.

MMS CHESS CLUB

MMS Student Council

Star Wars Club

The Card Game Club

Book Club

Math Counts Club

PLANO ISD APP

Do you have the Plano ISD App on your phone or device?

The Plano ISD App is a great way to see information about the Plano calendar, news and alerts, the anonymous tip line, and much more. It is available for iOS or Android. Search for Plano ISD in your App Store.