West Middle School

GAME DAY! Good luck Pioneers! Today is the last day of the boys basketball season. Coaches and players, thank you for your hard work and dedication. Way to show The West Way! Remember to bring those gently worn, used, and new shoes to donate! #BoysBasketball #AllIn #TheWestWay

It's been a great week of singing, strings, & instruments! Our holiday concert series continues next week on Monday & Wednesday. Here are pictures from Tuesday's pair of concerts. Great job to our Pioneers & music directors for a wonderful week! #HolidayConcertSeries #AllIn #TheWestWay

GIRLS BASKETBALL TRYOUTS BEGIN MONDAY! Tryouts are December 18th, 19th, and 20th. For more information, click the link below. https://www.portageps.org/o/wms/page/student-athletics #GirlsBasketball #AllIn #TheWestWay

GAME DAY! Good luck Pioneers! Remember to bring your gently used and/or new shoes to donate! #BoysBasketball #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Our 6th grade choir kicked off our holiday concert series tonight. They did an amazing job! Kudos to Mrs. Sturdy and these Pioneers for a job well done! Our 6th & 7th grade orchestras, 7th grade band, and jazz band are up next tomorrow! #HolidayConcertSeries #AllIn #TheWestWay

Tomorrow is... SHOES-DAY! We're still looking to see which grade can donate the most shoes on "Shoes-Day" Tuesday. The winning grade will receive an event at the end of the fundraiser! #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #ShoesDay #Tuesday #AllIn #TheWestWay

WINSTON'S SHOE FUNDRAISER WEEK 5 We've collected over 1,000 pairs of shoes! We are 1/3 away from our goal of 3,000 pairs of shoes. Our students, families, and community are AMAZING! Let's keep those shoes coming and spread the word! **Going to a WMS music concert this week? We will have donation boxes there! Bring your gently used and/or new shoes! **Can't make it to West? Check out our additional drop off locations around Portage! #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Yesterday, we held several Woohoo ticket raffles for our Pioneers. In addition to School Store being open, our PTSO graciously sponsored a student raffle for all 3 lunches. Airway Fun Center, Celebration Cinema, and Peace, Love & Little Donuts sponsored our end of day student raffles. Our Pioneers earn Woohoo tickets by exhibiting The West Way throughout the day. That means they are 1) Taking care of themselves, 2) Taking of each other, and 3) Taking care of this place. If you would like to donate prizes for our West Way Woohoo ticket raffles, please contact Mr. Bailey at sbailey@portageps.org. #AllIn #TheWestWay

Thank you to our Main Office Student Career Explorers for your assistance in counting and bagging our shoe donations in addition to your other daily duties. You are appreciated! Also thank you to Woodland Elementary for having our first full box of our 8 donation locations! Can't wait to share our updated total and new goal next week! Have a great weekend Pioneers! #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

On Wednesday, December 6th, our swimming & diving Pioneers had meets w/ their Mustang and Huskie teammates. Check out the results. Congratulations to all of the swimmers and divers! Several of them made MISCA cuts which is their State meet times! Way to go! #AllIn #TheWestWay

GAME DAY! Good luck Pioneers! Don't forget to bring your shoes to donate to the game! #BoysBasketball #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Our Holiday Concert Series begins this Monday! Be sure to come see our band, choir, and orchestra students put on a display of their work over the year so far and music for the holiday season. Also, there will be shoe donation boxes at each performance, so bring sure to clean those closets out and bring your gently used or new shoes to donate! #HolidayConcertSeries #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Today we wore BLUE in observance of Diabetes Awareness. Tomorrow we wear PURPLE to bring awareness to Epilepsy! Learn more about these conditions on the attached flyer. Let's go Pioneers! #DiabetesAwareness #EpilepsyAwareness #AllIn #TheWestWay

Here's the status of pairs of shoes collected on "Shoes-Day" Tuesdays so far! I wonder which grade will win! We'll see when the fundraiser ends January 12th. Remember, you can donate shoes M-F from 8am-6pm at West or at any of our other 8 donation locations. And here's a few current pictures of our boy Winston taking a break from his comfort dog training! Can't wait until he joins us! #ShoesDayTuesday #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Members of the WMS 7th/8th grade bands and the 8th grade orchestra performed at Barnes & Noble on Friday, December 1st. Many students performed in a small ensemble. The William Short Jazz/Rock Ensemble also performed. The store was packed and the students provided lots of holiday cheer! Great job Pioneers! #Band #Orchestra #BarnesAndNoble #AllIn #TheWestWay

Congratulations to this former Pioneer! Keep up the great work Keegan aka KBeaZy! #AllIn #TheWestWay https://wkfr.com/portage-northern-graduate-forbes-list/?fbclid=IwAR3nIMp-KtsvuWjF6ELAB7bv47Ny9PeMmNz1sRtQh2g2SHolbeh_f1RYwhE

Last Friday, December 1st, Mr. Chappa and Mrs. Howe took a group of 8th grade Pioneers to the Western Michigan University Innovation Expo. These scholars presented their products, models, and prototypes to a panel of judges and the community along with other K-12 and WMU students. Ryan C. and Adrian D. won 3rd place at the event! Taimur A. and Gurvir S. earned the popular vote! Congratulations Pioneers on a job well done! #WesternMichiganUniversity #InnovationExpo #AllIn #TheWestWay

Our Portage Central and Portage Northern high school students are partnering this week to collect diapers for those in need. Donations can be dropped off this week at either high school or at the rivalry basketball games Thursday and Friday. Great job, Mustangs and Huskies!

WINSTON'S SHOE FUNDRAISER WEEK 4 With over 625 pairs of shoes collected so far, we're almost 25% of the way to our goal of 3,000 pairs of shoes! Keep the shoes coming and spread the word! **Can't make it to West? Check out our additional drop off locations around Portage!** #WinstonsShoeFundraiser #AllIn #TheWestWay

Tournament Day! Good luck to our Pioneer archers! #Archery #AllIn #TheWestWay