1. WELCOME Prospective Seventh Grade Students To The Garfield Community Magnet Middle School

2. Administration Mrs. Massa ~ Principal of Grades 6-8 Mr. Moccia~ Middle School Assistant Principal Mr. Oldoni~ Middle School Assistant Principal Mr. Cammarata ~ Principal of Pre-K – 6 Ms. Autori ~ Elementary Assistant Principal

3. Some Facts about The Garfield Middle School In January we became our own Middle School. Our classrooms are located on the 3 rd and 4 th floors. There are 3 ~ 7 th Grade Clusters, 3 ~ 8 th Grade Clusters, 1 Grade 7 and 8 Combined Cluster and 1~ 6 th Grade Cluster. We have 2 cafeterias. We have an Olympic size swimming pool that the students use as part of their Physical Education Curriculum. Our Middle School has approximately 600 students. We celebrate the “Positive”. Our motto is …DO THE RIGHT THING!

4. CLUSTER NAMES 7 BLUE 7 GRAY 7 MINT 8 BLUE 8 GRAY 8 TN SILVER (combined Grades 7 and 8)

5. CORE CLASSES EVERY ONE TAKES: English Language Arts Pre-Algebra Science Social Science

6. ENCORES Health~ Music~ Art~ Physical Education~ Advisory~

7. Other Classes All Grade 7 students take Literacy classes

8. All Grade 8 Students take Discrete Math classes (the work is actually harder in Discrete )

9. All Students have TECHNOLOGY CLASSES

10. Some of our Extra Curricular Activities are: Aspirers PALS Tech Club Drama Club Hand Bell Talent Show Newspaper Club Community Service Projects

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