Principal's Welcome Message

           Welcome – visitors and members of the CMS Bulldog community – to the 2013-14 school year! We extend a special Bulldog welcome to our sixth grade students and families – the Class of 2020! As lead learner and proud principal of Conyers Middle, I invite you to join our administrators, teachers, and staff to make this an exciting, fulfilling school year.  We look forward to a school year of growth and collaboration. Below, please find relevant information about our school’s vision, mission, and daily work.

 Why are we here?

           Our school’s vision is simply stated but not simply achieved: success for all students! Therefore, administrators, faculty, staff and students will need the cooperation of parents and community partners to make this vision become reality.

We look to our mission to give us a pathway to our vision. Our mission has not changed, but it can be summarized in this way:

Committed to excellence
Motivated to learn
Supportive of all
We are CMS!

This mission will be the driving force for our protocols, processes, and procedures from classroom learning, to extracurricular activities, to our schoolwide behavior management plan, our classroom transitions, and our safety protocols.

What do we do?
            Author Frederick Douglass once wrote, “It is better to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

As a school, we cannot build our young people alone; neither can parents—we must all work together to build our children—academically, socially, and emotionally—on a daily basis.                                                                                      

Academically, we offer a seven-period-day schedule, where students engage in classroom learning within four core subjects, as well as two connections classes, formerly known in elementary school as “specials”.  There is also CORE Extended Learning Time, where students blend reading, writing, and the four content areas on a rotating basis.

           Socially, we emphasize the importance of respect for self and respect for others through our schoolwide behavior management plan. It includes opportunities for positive recognition when students meet expectations, and it also includes appropriate consequences and supports aimed at redirecting inappropriate behaviors.  CMS is committed to maintaining a safe, orderly environment so that all students can learn and teachers can teach. We also multiple opportunities for students to get involved in activities that interest them.

Emotionally, our school counselors and other district support personnel lead guidance lessons, lead small groups, and hold individual counseling sessions for students as needed in order to support students’ development as an adolescent. Building our students in these ways will not only prepare high-achieving, college-ready and career-ready individuals, but it will also support our entire community, state, and world by ensuring that our students possess character, know how to make sound decisions, and demonstrate respect for themselves and respect for others.  Through their classes and extracurricular activities, students get an opportunity to put what they have learned into practice. 

What’s next?

           We invite you to bookmark our home page, connect with us on social media, listen for our school phone calls, communicate with teachers and support your student(s) in their learning this year. With your best, and our best, our students can be their BEST!
 
             As we say to our students every morning, Your DAILY determination determines your destination!

Let’s make this a great year of growth – together.