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• Welcome to the ‘Principals’ Blog!’
  We have developed The North Smithfield Middle School 'Principals’ Blog' to provide our school community with another vehicle to help keep all stakeholders informed about upcoming activities and other newsletter-type items. We hope you find this valuable.
  
• Mr. John Lahar, Principal
  
  
• Mrs. Clare Arnold, Assistant Principal
  
  
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• Student Achievement
  
  Goal: Improve Student Achievement in the area of Written Language
  
  Parents may have noticed an increase in student writing assignments this school year, as well as, improvement in the quality of writing that students are producing in all classes.
  
  We are currently in the thick of an initiative to improve the quality and output of student writing focusing on constructed responses (a healthy and detailed paragraph) which typically requires students to use higher-order thinking skills; evaluation, analysis, summarization, as well as, extended responses (likely, a five-paragraph essay) focusing on organization, varied sentences, strong vocabulary, specific details and use of transition words.
  
  The North Smithfield Middle School faculty has taken the proverbial "bull by the horns" embedding common strategies across all content areas. We encourage parents to talk with their children about writing and share in the outstanding student products!
  
  UPDATE:
  We are delighted to report that 89% of North Smithfield Middle School's students achieved proficiency in Reading! (writing scores were not released this year)
  
  These test scores represent a significant increase in student achievement over last year’s scores. As a school we attained a 23% increase in the number of students that are proficient in Reading and we now rank 4th in the state in Reading proficiency among all middle schools.
  
  We reflect on our recent improvements not as the end of an effort, but rather one milestone along a path, thrilled we have made an excellent beginning!!
• North Smithfield Middle School Activities
  
  Mock Trail
  Science Olympiad
  Journalism / Newspaper
  SADD
  Student Council
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  Band
  Chorus
  National Junior Honor Society
  Math Counts
  Yearbook Club
  Drama Club
  Chess Club
  Volleyball Skills Clinic
  Gardening Club
  Games Club
  Walking Club
  Knitting Club
  Book Club
  
  
• Did you know?
  Did you Know? …As early as 1810, the people of Union Village, from the proceeds of a lottery, built a school-house, and called it the Smithfield Academy. This school soon acquired an excellent reputation as an institution for learning. Some 200 hundred years later the North Smithfield Community continues to show their dedication and commitment to education and built a truly amazing Middle School facility.
• Food for Thought…
  “A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?"
  -Peter Senge
  
• Contact Information
  
  North Smithfield Middle School
  1850 Providence Pike
  North Smithfield, RI 02896
  Phone: 401-597-6100
  Fax: 401-597-6121
  
  

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