At Columbia Middle School’s Career Fair in early May, current and future students in CMS’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program learned about a range of careers from nursing, to social work, to law. In the weeks leading up to…
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Nearly 70 Sunnyvale Middle School students performed in the Music in the Parks Festival in early May. All three SMS groups: sixth-grade band, sixth-grade choir, and sixth-grade orchestra students earned first place and were rated “excellent” or “superior” in their…
“Should we have an additional late start day at CMS?” “Should CMS extend lunchtime?” Columbia Middle School’s student newspaper, the Bulldog Beacon, recently covered these weighty topics and more. The Bulldog Beacon online newspaper is produced by the journalism elective…
Columbia Middle School students are learning productive ways to deal with conflict and resolve it peacefully through a class called The Peaceful Bulldogs. Since last year, The Peaceful Bulldogs have been meeting during FLEX time to learn about restorative justice…
On May 4 to May 7, seventh and eighth grade music students from Sunnyvale and Columbia middle schools traveled to Anaheim to participate in the WorldStrides Heritage music festival. Choral, Orchestra, and Band students each performed for an audience and…
Middle School 7th/8th grade boys soccer team earned the title of champions of the Valley Athletic League, the first time in nine years that the team has won the championships. The Bulldogs were undefeated in the playoffs, downing the Hyde…
Nine students from Columbia and Sunnyvale middle schools were selected to perform in the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Bay Section Winter Conference concert on January 7. The CMEA Winter Conference concert featured the honor choir, honor band, and honor…
Oh là là! If you happen to be scrolling through French public television anytime soon, you may be surprised to come across a story featuring one of our very own CMS Bulldogs, Isabel Perez Dueñas. Isabel is a bright, bubbly…
As the culmination of our Motion & Forces Unit, 8th Grade Science classes participated in a Stomp Rocket Launch on November 9th & 10th! First, students built their rockets in class out of paper and tape. Then they launched the…
Congratulations to Lindsay Choi of Columbia Middle School (CMS) for being recognized as this year’s Educator of the Year at recent city and county events! Ms. Choi is a seventh-grade science teacher and eighth-grade AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) advisor…
Columbia student leadership and staff have been coordinating lunchtime activities to foster community. On Friday, November 18th, the staff took on the eighth-graders in a volleyball game for the second time this year. Students are undefeated! “It was a great…
Acknowledge Alliance recognized San Miguel’s Debbie Wiseth with its Teacher of the Year Award and the Front Office Staff of all 10 SSD schools with its School Community Heroes Award at its 15th annual Forget-me-Not Celebration on May 12. Our Forget-Me-Not…
The Sunnyvale School District is so proud to announce our 2021-2022 Employees of the year! Classified Employee of the Year: Sharmila Velmurugan (District Office) Sharmila Velmurugan is the Student Services Technician for the Student Services and Special Education Department. She…
In January, 7th graders planted beans for our Bean Plant Inquiry Lab, in which they designed their own lab to see what variables affect plant growth! Groups tested different variables, such as water source (filtered, tap, bottled), type of light…
We are very excited to share the opening of our Family Resource Center!!! We had our grand opening on Twos-day, 2/2/22! Our first project is hosting the Community Navigator from Sunnyvale Community Services to start working with our parent volunteers….