Announcements and Upcoming Events

First Quarter Report Cards

First Quarter Report Cards will be placed in the mail early next week. Please be on the lookout for these. We are proud of all of our scholars for their hard work over the course of the 1st quarter of school. We encourage you to discuss the positives from the first 9 weeks and what skills they can continue to build upon in quarter 2. If your child did not experience as much success as they would like, ask them to consider if they took advantage of Monday and afterschool office hour opportunities? Taking this simple step will help students clear up confusion before it negatively affects their grades. Best of luck to our Tigers as we start quarter 2.


PTA Updates

Thank you to everyone that supported the Twain PTA on Thursday night by going to Panera-Kingstowne for the Eat Out-Spirit Night. We are looking forward to seeing how much money we raised. We are currently working out the details of our December event that involves Krispy Kreme. Stand by for more details!

Spirit Wear now has sweatpants for our quickly approaching winter. Until Sunday, Nov 15 when you spend $35 or more, you'll receive $5 off with the code: FIVEOFF35  and support the Twain PTA. Go to https://1stplacespiritwear.com/schools/VA/Alexandria/Mark+Twain+Middle+School  

"I am Thankful for..." is the current PTA spirit project available in Schoology under All Student Courses. In this crazy year, we'd love to hear what you are thankful for this year and let us know if you are comfortable sharing your submission. Please submit entries by Monday, Nov 16. 

The next PTA meeting will be Tuesday, Nov 17 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to Twain families. Please do not share this link with anyone.


Digital Resources – Consent Required

At Twain Middle School, our teachers will use a variety of digital resources to support student learning and promote communication and collaboration with students and families. Some of the digital resources your child may use this year will require your consent before they can be used. You can find Twain’s list of the resources that require parental consent here: https://twainms.fcps.edu/adopteddigitalresources

Included on this page is also a link to a form where the enrolling parent or guardian will need to indicate whether or not their student is allowed to use the list of digital resources this year. This page also provides more information about how FCPS carefully reviews digital resources for approval and why we must request your consent before using certain tools. We encourage you to complete the parental consent for digital resources form as soon as possible, as your child will not be able to use the digital resources until we have received your permission. Please reach out to your child’s administrator if you have questions or concerns about the digital resources we’ve chosen to use this year.