Martin Theatre Presents - Mark your calendars now for November 19 and 20, when the Martin Theatre Dept. will present the one-act "A Thousand Cranes" as this year's fall play. The play tells the story of Sadako, a middle-school- aged girl in Japan , who suffered from the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima . The play, which features a bigger-than- life crane rod puppet made by Mrs. Bennett's sculpture class, live Japanese music, a thousand paper cranes made by students at Martin Middle School , and many cultural details, was chosen to support the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum on Asian history, so we hope you will come out and share the evening with us. Both shows begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Martin Auditorium. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door the night of the show. While the shows are appropriate for middle school and older, please understand that because of the sadness of the true story it tells, it may not be appropriate for all lower grade children.
Congratulations goes out to 11 Chorus students from Martin who have been selected to be in this years North Carolina Middle School Honors Chorus. These students will participate in a clinic at the NC Music Educator's Conference Nov. 7-8 in Winston Salem. Congratulations on an outstanding job to Leah Faircloth, Henry Dean, Melanie Piercy, Matthew Cesari, Michael Frink, Jacob Melvin, Maggie Mehltretter, McKenzie Morrison, Celia Zhou, Evan Diener, and Ben Hartman. Martin had more students selected to be in this choir than any other school from across the state. Great job students!
German teacher, Jo Garrison, German teacher, was named FLANC (Foreign Language Association of North Carolina) Teacher of the Year, 2009-2010. Garrison has been teaching in Wake County for the past 16 years, and is currently teaching at Ligon Middle School and Martin Middle School . She is very involved within the school community as well as at state and county levels. She is a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, American Association of Teachers of German, Parent Teacher Associations, Sister Cities and FLANC.
Garrison is a very active within the classroom and enjoys helping students make connections between their interests and classroom instruction. She also feels that foreign languages are not electives, but are at the core of student's learning
Congratulations to Kris Thomasson, our Student Council Advisor. Ms. Thomasson has been selected as the NC Middle Level Student Council Adviser of the Year!
Congratulations to Anita Hynus , our National Junior Honor Society Advisor. Mrs. Hynus has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Recycling Coordinator Award!
Please see our AG information page, and follow the links.
The Martin Middle School Honors Chorus, an auditioned group of 7th and 8th grade students, recently received the Triangle Youth Chorus Trophy Award of Merit. This is the runner-up award to the Triangle Youth Chorus Trophy Award. A surprise presentation was made during the Honors Chorus class on Wednesday, April 22 from the founder of this award, Carol Robbins, and two committee members. The Honors Chorus received a trophy that will be housed at Martin for a year and were presented Triangle Youth Chorus Award T-Shirts for all Honors Chorus students. The choir will also receive the opportunity to do a Master Class with Dr. Al Sturgis from the NC Master Chorale and will have a professional recording session. The Martin Middle School Honors Chorus is directed by Mrs. Ramona Jenner. More information about the Triangle Youth Chorus Trophy and Triangle Sings is available at www.trianglesings.org.
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Mathcounts is coming! The first Mathcounts practice will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Mathcounts is open to all interested 6th, 7th and 8th grade students during the fall. A full practice schedule will be published soon. Practice will be held from 2:30 - 3:30 in room 1231 with Mrs. Kay. Come for math fun! Contact Mrs. Kay at
lkay@wcpss.net if you have questions.
Be on the look out for information regarding the American Mathematics Competition 8 (AMC 8) which will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
The purpose of the contest is to increase interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving ability though a friendly competition. The questions range in difficulty from easy to very difficult. The subject matter includes (but is not limited to) such topics as: estimation, percent, graph theory, reading and interpreting graphs, spatial visualization, and everyday applications. No problem requires the use of algebra. The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40 minute multiple choice contest with no penalty for guessing. It is a challenging exam that is given nationwide.
Students may see Mrs. Kay in room 1231 to check out study materials. Click
here for some practice questions!
-Lucy Kay, Mathcounts Coach
Our Third place winner is Sarah Wellish, our Second place winner is Allen Lawrence, and our First place winner is Will Paynter! We are proud of all of you! Will's next step is to move on to the testing portion to see if he will represent Martin at the state level. Good luck, Will!
Congratulations to our school-level Sixth Grade Tournament winners! Congratulations to everyone who participated. Our winners are from the Sharks team: Ayla Gizlice, Caleb Horowitz, Will Lake, Amanda Nemecek, Sarah Smoak.
to Emily Muth, in Mrs. Gibson's Eighth Grade science class. Mrs. Gibson submitted Emily's artwork into the People to People International Global Youth Murals project. Emily's work, entitled, Revolution, has been selected as the 2008 Middle School Honorable Mention! For more information, click here!
We would like to thank all the students who took part in this
year’s PTA Reflection Program. We had some excellent pieces entered and were sorry that we could not make them all winners!
The following students were chosen to represent Martin at
the Wake County PTA level of judging:
Sarah Wellish
Andrew Zalesak
Evan Smith
Sarah Gee
Stockton Ray
Ryan Suggs
Sambit Panda
Grayson Troxler
Wake County PTA received over 1000 entries from schools in Wake County. We were very excited to have the following entires place at the Wake County PTA level:
Musical Composition: 3rd place- Andrew Zalesak
Dance Choreography: 1st place- Grayson Troxler
We are excited to announce that Grayson Troxler's Choreography entry has just won NC District 3, and has now been forwarded to the next level-the State competition!
NC PTA District 3 includes these 12 counties: Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Wilson.
Congratulations, Grayson!
Martin PTA Reflection Chair- Carolyn Hoggarth
Martin Theatre represented on state theatre conference website
Check out the home page of the N orth C arolina T heatre C onference at http://www.nctc.org/ – NCTC has chosen four photos from member organizations for their opening page, and a photo from Martin’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of them! When you visit the site, you will see four large colored blocks with the letters NCTC in them -- be sure to click on the small NCTC letters in the small white box in the upper left corner to refresh the pictures. The fourth photo is from our production, and our school name, production, and photographer Robin O’Connor (former Martin mom and volunteer) are identified below the photo. Our school is featured alongside photos from Elon University , Triad Stage, and Playmakers Rep.
Drama Production and Technical Theatre III students earned a Superior Rating at the North Carolina Theatre Conference Regional Middle School Play Festivalfor their production of "Serpent of Stone" .They also won Theatre Arts awards for Excellence in Puppetry, Excellence in Choreography, and Excellence in Directing. In addition, Lauren Bullamore's one-act play was recognized for Excellence in Playwriting!
Please click the button above to access our Everest page!
The Everest Project is the focus of a national publication article! Click here to access the Edutopia article!
Article from MCNC/NCREN here!
