Welcome to the Carwise Middle School website.

To support Character and a POSITIVE climate at Carwise, we are promoting a monthly character trait. 

The Character Trait for November is :  Citizenship - Being law abiding and involved in service to school, community and country.

Click here for the Commitment to Character Newsletter

Click here for the Commitment to Character Newsletter for October

Click here for the Commitment to Character Newsletter for November

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CMS Newsletter

November / December 2018

Dear Carwise family members,

Thank you for the support you have provided throughout this first semester of the 2018/2019 school year.  I want to individually thank Lathea Bowen, our new PTSA leader, for all the energy, ideas and kindness she has brought to make sure we continually have fun family events and activities for our children.

We just celebrated our 25^th Anniversary on October 19^th.  It was a wonderful event bringing our alumni, original staff members and current CMS family together to honor all the accomplishments at this amazing school.  Thank you to former teachers Carol Kryston, Barbara Nelson, and Cynthia Suhweil for organizing this grand event. 

We are fortunate to have a visitor from our sister city in Nagano, Japan.  The sister city program has been in place in Pinellas for sixty years.  We welcome our guest Takafumi Yamada, who has spent this past week at Carwise Middle. 

We are happy to have introduced three additional clubs this year.  This is in addition to the over 25 clubs and activities we already have in place for our students.  Animal Helping Hands is a club with over fifty members.  Students volunteer at pet shelters, veterinary clinics and work with animals to improve their lives.  Our monster club just hosted our first annual haunted trail.  It was a scary success!  They are working on a number of chilling projects.  Our Origami Club offers a hands on creative experience for our students.  We have over 120 new members between these three clubs.  Our goal is to make sure our students are involved and enjoying social activities beyond the school day. 

Our Future Business Leader students (FBLA) are preparing for a competition at St. Petersburg College.  We are one of only a few middle schools competing.  Over the past three years we have placed in the state and national competitions as well.  Our Carwise Middle School FBLA students are impressive!

Congratulations to our two students who recently won writing awards and have been published.  Angelina Rider was published in Teen Mosaic magazine and Isabelle Cullen had her writing showcased in Teen Ink magazine. 

Thank you to our Builder’s Club and Kiwanis Club for leading a food drive that collected over 2200 food items for needy families. 

We have so many students and staff members to celebrate for all they have accomplished.  I am fortunate to serve this amazing school.  Enjoy the holidays with your loved ones. 

Thank you,

Robert Vicari

Principal

Click here to see the August Welcome back newsletter

Click here to view the Principal's newsletter for September-October

Click here to view the Principal's newsletter for November-December

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We hope you will visit this site often to keep informed about what is going on in our school.

If you are looking for additional information, please do not hesitate to send a message: email the webmaster or call the school (727) 724-1442. 

Attention: 8th Grade Students and Parents

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FOCUS

Parents:  Do you want to keep up with your student's grades? 

Click here to get instructions on FOCUS grading

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Volunteers:

Thank you for volunteering at Carwise Middle School.  We appreciate your support to our students and our community.  Ther is a new website to log in your volunteer hours:https://focus.pcsb.org/volunteer

This will enable you to activate your volunteer status and log volunteer hours. Your username is V.last name and first initial of first name. Password is last name and birth year (19_ _).

Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)

We are now one of a few middle schools in the State of Florida to have a Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter. The students engage in State and National competitions. Every competition has a business focus. Students are provided the opportunity to meet and work with top CEOs and Entrepreneurs from all over the world.  This is Carwise Middle School’s first FBLA group. We are looking forward to competing on a state level in Orlando. 

We are proud of our CMS Sharks!

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NEW STUDENT REGISTRATION

If you have a NEW student who needs to REGISTER for Carwise Middle School, please email Mady Jiron @ Jironm@pcsb.org or call our front office at (727) 724-1442.

Carwise Mission Statement

Our Mission is to ensure opportunities through effective and efficient operations for the success of ALL students in a safe learning environment which promotes highest achievements.

School Goals:
Highest Student Achievement
For all students to be at their appropriately determined grade level in reading, writing, math, and science using best practices including technology.

Highest Student Achievement will be accomplished by implementing an Integrated Management System, developing a High Performing Workforce, building a relationship with Partners, and assuring a Safe Learning Environment.

Safe Learning Environment
To promote student respect of the learning environment and an accident free work environment.

Carwise Middle School Outcomes:
We want our students to become:

• effective communicators
• collaborative workers
• creative thinkers and problem solvers
• self-directed learners
• community contributors
• social interactors
• quality producers