Belle, Beast, Mrs. Potts, Lumière, and a cast of much-loved characters came to life in Sunnyvale Middle School’s recent production of “Beauty and the Beast.” The students began working on the production in late October and performed several shows in…
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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…
Sunnyvale School District is part of an amazing community that has continually supported our district through the successful passing of local bond measures. Currently, we are utilizing funds from the Measure GG Bond to complete an entire campus modernization at…
Three authors visited all 10 Sunnyvale School District Schools for SSD’s first districtwide Author Week held October 3-7. The authors included: Matt de la Peña, the first Hispanic winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal for his picture book Last Stop on…
Cherry Chase Elementary takes pride in promoting leadership skills, community service, volunteerism, and advocacy to our students and former students. One way we accomplish this is by soliciting “Wednesday Helpers”. Wednesday Helpers are middle school students who typically have attended…
The 2022-2023 school year brings a new principal and new assistant principals to SMS, Lakewood, and Ellis! This year we welcome Vince Iwasaki as the new Principal of Sunnyvale Middle School. He joins the District as an…
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…
Congratulations to the SMS 8th grade boys’ basketball team for finishing their season undefeated and claiming the championship over Egan Jr. High. Despite struggles with COVID and a few season ending injuries, the team played for each other and was…
The Public Health Enhancement Project (PHEP), a group of mostly former Sunnyvale Middle School students (Elisa Floyd, Rachel Young, and Karen Zhang) who worked on a COVID awareness video series last year, had submitted their project to compete…
In special recognition of his leadership and of his students fundraising efforts, Sunnyvale Middle School’s Dewey Huang was named the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Hero Squad Volunteer Coordinator Rookie of the Year! Hero Squad is a fundraising campaign that raises…
Article written by Sunnyvale Middle School teacher, Dewey Huang. A group of volunteer students called the Public Health Enhancement Project (PHEP), banded together to create an educational video series composed of six videos that cover concepts from how a virus…
Where there’s a will there’s a way, and between Sunnyvale’s school and city librarians, anything is possible. Having shelter in place due to the pandemic turned everyone’s lives upside and forced many of us to rethink how we go about…
Congratulations to Ainsley and Maggie from Sunnyvale Middle School who won an art contest put on by the new Whole Foods in town and had their design featured on a reusable grocery bag to celebrate the store’s grand opening on…
Breakfast and lunch meal bundles are available for curbside pickup for SSD students at all 10 of our school sites. Free and reduced lunch applications may be filled out online, or picked up at the school sites. Meal service will…
We are working on the reopening plans for the 2020-2021 school year, and as plans develop, we will engage community stakeholders to review and provide feedback. Our Reopening Leadership Team of district administrators will continue to meet weekly. They are…