WELCOME Prospective Seventh Grade

Students

To The Garfield Community Magnet Middle School

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

Some Facts about The Garfield Middle School

• In January we became our own Middle School.• Our classrooms are located on the 3rd and 4th

floors.• There are 3 ~ 7th Grade Clusters, 3 ~ 8th Grade

Clusters, 1 Grade 7 and 8 Combined Cluster and 1~ 6th 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!

CLUSTER NAMES

• 7 BLUE • 7 GRAY• 7 MINT• 8 BLUE• 8 GRAY• 8 TN• SILVER (combined Grades 7 and 8)

CORE CLASSES

EVERY ONE TAKES:English Language Arts

Pre-AlgebraScience

Social Science

ENCORES

• Health~ • Music~ • Art~ • Physical

Education~• Advisory~

Other ClassesAll Grade 7 students take Literacy classes

All Grade 8 Students take Discrete Math classes

(the work is actually harder in Discrete )

All Students have TECHNOLOGY

CLASSES

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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