Upcoming Key Dates
Friday, June 3rd: SCA Movie Night
Wednesday, June 8th: 7th & 8th Grade Field Trips
Thursday, June 9th: Cooper Field Day (Morning) and 8th End of Year Party (Afternoon)
Friday, June 10th: Last Day of School - 2hr early dismissal
Field Day Volunteers Needed!
This large scale event requires many volunteers from the Cooper Community in order for everyone to have a safe and fun experience.
When is Field Day: Thursday, June 9th
How long: We need people who are available from 7:30am - 11:15am
What will I do: Volunteers will run a variety of actives. Detailed descriptions and instructions will be provided.
How many volunteers are needed: We need roughly 20 people to help make this event successful for our students. No experience necessary, just a willingness to help!
How to sign up: Field Day 2022 Volunteers
Questions? Please email Kristin Sandridge at kmsandridge@fcps.edu
8th Grade End of Year Party - Volunteers & Donations Needed
Let’s send our 8th graders off to high school in-style, the End of Year Party, hosted by the PTO, is on Wednesday, June 9th. Our celebration will include a DJ, a raffle for prizes, lunch with a sweet treat, and a surprise commemorative gift!
We are in need of volunteers and donations of water bottles. Please consider signing up at the appropriate link(s) below.
WHO: Cooper Middle School 8th Graders
WHEN: Thursday, June 9, 2022 (after Field Day events) (rain or shine)
WHERE: Cooper Middle School track & field behind the school
TICKETS: Please purchase your $30 ticket HERE by May 31st
8th Grade Celebration Volunteers
Water Bottle Donations
Family Movie Night – New Date: June 3rd!
Due to the inclement weather, the Movie Night originally planned for May 13th has been rescheduled for Friday, June 3rd. If you have purchased tickets and are unable to attend on the new date, please contact Aubrey Midgley (ahopkinsmidg@fcps.edu).
If you haven't purchased tickets and are interested in attending on June 3rd, you may purchase tickets HERE.
COOPER SCA - MOVIE NIGHT
Who: Cooper MS Students & Families
What: Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse (PG)
When: Friday, May 13th
Where: Cooper's "Backyard" (the field behind the school)
Cost: $10 for family tickets to include ALL of your family members (note: service charge will be added in your Cart)
There are individual tickets available for $5, but please note that an individual student attending the event must be chaperoned by a parent in another family. Every student must be accompanied by an adult.
This is NOT a drop-off event. All students must be accompanied by an adult!
**Optional Domino's Pizzas available for advance purchase on-line. Other food and drinks will be available for CASH purchase at the event.
BUY TICKETS HERE FOR MOVIE NIGHT
Lunch - Renovation Menu
The Cooper kitchen will be renovated this summer, in order to complete the work in time for the new school year, the kitchen will close on Wednesday, May 25th and we will be serving cold meals.
The last day for hot meals was Tuesday, May 24th.
Because lunches will be ordered from a central kitchen, it is helpful to know how many meals to plan for.
Please complete this one question form based on how your student will have lunch for a majority of the remainder of the school year (51% of their remaining lunches at Cooper).
The chart below is the menu. All four options will be available each day. Students' lunch location will not change, only the kitchen will be closed for food prep.
High School Credit Courses
High school credit-bearing courses will be reflected on the middle and high school transcripts. In accordance with Virginia state regulations, FCPS Regulation 2408 permits parents of students who take a high school credit-bearing course in middle school to request that the grade be omitted from the student's high school transcript and the student not earn high school credit for the course. Parents must make this request no later than the end of the first nine weeks of the school year following completion of the course. The request to expunge as well as guidelines and the procedures for expunging grades for high school courses taken in middle school can be found at the following link: https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/is104.pdf Contact your student’s counselor with any questions.
School Counseling Team
Dana Scabis, Director of Student Services
Annie Eisman, Registrar/Student Services Assistant
Laura Wiley, 7th Grade Counselor (A-K)
Jill Donnelly, 7th Grade Counselor (L-Z)
Keyosha Lewis, 8th Grade Counselor (A-K)
Michele Saint Germain, 8th Grade Counselor (L-Z)
Summer Courses Online
FCPS Online Campus Summer Courses are open for registration and available to eligible middle school students who meet prerequisites and technical requirements. Students may take one online course for the first time or repeat credit. Middle school students may not take a mathematics or world language course during the summer as their first-high school level mathematics or world language course. Courses are rigorous; therefore, students should consult their counselor prior to registering. Program information is available at Summer Learning.
Cooper Celebrations
We continue to celebrate our Cooper students. Please feel free to submit your celebration HERE.
Science Olympiad:
Congratulations to Cooper’s Science Olympiad team. They finished an impressive 13th in the country at the National Science Olympiad competition on May 14th. We are so proud of all of our team!! The following students placed in the top 10 nationally in their events:
- 9th Place:
- Tayne Han and Brendan Li in Ornithology
- Nathan Liang and Risha Potluri in Green Generation
- 8th Place:
- Mia Tripathi, Ella Zhang and Tara Bansal in Experimental Design
- Nathan Liang and Nishka Shah in Food Science
- 5th Place Medal:
- Sohil Kadam and Justin Kim in Crime Busters
- 4th Place Medal:
- Jack Gao and Sidh Jaddu in Digital Structures
- Tayne Han and Brendan Li in Rocks and Minerals
- Matthew Kim and Ellie Wen in Write It/CAD It
- 3rd Place Medal:
- Tara Bansal and Iris Liu in Ping Pong Parachute
- 2nd Place Medal:
- Daniella Wu and Eshaan Sombhatta in Disease Detectives
What an impressive showing for an impressive group of students!! Congrats again!!
Debate Team:
We are so proud of these 8th graders today at our last Debate tournament this year!
Individual speaker awards:
- Risha Potluri – 14th place
- Caitlin Hayes – 12th place
Team awards:
- Armaan Sethi & Reema Patel – 10th place
- Caitlin Hayes & Risha Potluri – 4th place
Model UN:
Thanks and congratulations to all Model UN team members for their commitment and participation in several competitive conferences this year, both in-person and virtual! Our team grew close in weekly meetings and weekend conferences - especially during our overnight trip to William and Mary to participate in the annual WMIDMUN conference. Members showed consistent growth in their confidence and ability to discuss and debate significant global issues. This was our most consistent, committed group we’ve had, and we’re looking forward to the leadership our rising 8th graders will provide to our new members next year!
WordMasters Challenge:
Cooper Middle School Eighth Graders recently earned Highest Honors in the 2020-2022 WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually. The eighth grade team scored an impressive 181 points out of a possible 200 in the last of three meets this year, placing tenth in the nation.
The eighth graders also placed ninth nationally in the overall competition with a cumulative score of 536 points out of a possible 600.
Competing in the very difficult Gold Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, students at Cooper Middle School who achieved outstanding results in the last meet of the year include eighth graders Caroline Mayer, Samuel Mishulovich, Mia Tripathi and Meredith Yu.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
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Staff Recognition
The FCPS CARES Program is an opportunity for parents, staff, and community members to recognize FCPS employees for going above and beyond to help others and show they care. We invite you to submit your story below, so we can all acknowledge the good work of FCPS employees.
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