Red Ribbon Week

We hope you have had a wonderful Red Ribbon Week here at HMS! Thank you to the HHS Peer Helpers for speaking with our 6th grade students on Wednesday. Congratulations to our 7th & 8th grade Red Ribbon Week contest winners! Thank you to the Homewood Police Department and the HMS PTO for their contributions to these contests. Remember that’s it’s important to be committed to a tobacco, alcohol, and other drug free lifestyle in order to reach your goals and maximize your unique potential!  

Red Ribbon Week

The Red Ribbon Campaign® is the oldest and largest drug prevention program in the nation, reaching millions of young people during Red Ribbon Week. Use the following link to take a look at the numbers: Red Ribbon Week By the Numbers.

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week is a nationally recognized and celebrated week where we can demonstrate our opposition to drugs. The Red Ribbon Campaign is a national campaign that supports the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention and education programs. Hopefully you have noticed the yard signs throughout the city of Homewood showing the community’s support of this national campaign in addition to what we are doing in the schools.

Red Ribbon Week

The national Red Ribbon Week Celebration brings millions of people together to raise the awareness of the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. This campaign also supports and encourages prevention, early intervention, and treatment services. We hope everyone at HMS will be committed to a tobacco, alcohol, and other drug free lifestyle so we can all maximize our unique potential!

Red Ribbon Week

Homewood Middle School joins over 100,000 schools that will mark this week as Red Ribbon Week. This is a week that honors the memory of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Officer who was killed in the line of duty in Mexico in 1985. Red Ribbon Week began the following year in his hometown in California, organized by family and friends who wore red ribbons in Kiki’s honor. In 1988, Congress proclaimed the last full week in October as National Red Ribbon Week. This year's theme is “Life is Your Journey. Travel Drug Free.”

Thought for the Week

“Anyone can find the dirt in someone. 

Be the one who finds the gold.”

Message from the Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition

Next week is Red Ribbon Week and in preparation for the week, the Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition has provided information regarding raising drug-free children that can be accessed here. Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Baldwin will be providing daily information throughout next week to students through Schoology as well as right here on our blog! 

Message from the Safe and Healthy Homewood Coalition

Please click here for information from the Safe and Healthy Homewood Coalition regarding bullying awareness, information, and what parents can do to help.

Thought for the Week

“Just because your path is different 

doesn’t mean you’re lost.”

Thought for the Week

“Forget the mistake. 

Remember the lesson.”

Message from the Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition

The Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition invites parents to attend their upcoming educational program to get details on the usual suspects (alcohol and marijuana) as well as the “new kids” on the block. See common hiding methods, recognize drug paraphernalia, and learn how to identify signs of use and abuse.

Presented by: Angela Camp, MA
Bradford Health Services

For more information, click here.

Thought for the Week

“Fair isn’t everybody getting the same thing. Fair is everybody getting what they need in order to be successful.”

Thought for the Weekend

“If it is important to you, you will find a way. 

If not, you will find an excuse.”

HMS Homecoming 2018 Dress Up Days

Make sure and show your HMS Patriot Spirit 

next week for Homecoming!

Message from the Safe & Healthy Homewood Coalition

The Strengthening Families Program helps parents and teens build strong relationships by teaching family members to work together and resolve conflicts in a productive way.

The Program is presented by IMPACT Family Counseling, in collaboration with Homewood City Schools, and is available at no cost to parents. For more information, please click here.

Thought for the Week

“The grass is greener where you water it.”

Message from the Safe and Healthy Homewood Coalition

"THERE IS A SILENT EPIDEMIC SWEEPING THROUGH OUR NATION THAT CLAIMS AN AVERAGE OF OVER 100 YOUNG LIVES EACH WEEK. SUICIDE KNOWS NO SOCIAL, RACIAL OR ECONOMIC BARRIERS." -Jason Flatt Foundation

For more information regarding signs and symptoms of depression and suicide as well as information on preventing youth suicide, please click here.

Thought for the Week

“Choose to be kind over being right 

and you’ll be right every time.”

Thought for the Week

"What you get by achieving your goals 

is not as important as what you 

become by achieving your goals.”

Thought for the Week

“It doesn’t matter what others are doing. 

It matters what you are doing.”

Health and Safety Day

Save the Date!

Thought for the Week

"Pull away from what doesn’t push you forward.”

Welcome!

Happy 2018-2019! We are so glad you are at HMS and hope that this year is an amazing and wonderful year for you! We are here to help in any way that we can, so please reach out to us if you need us.


Mrs. Alexander, jalexander@homewood.k12.al.us
Sixth Grade & Seventh Grade (Last Names M-Z) Counselor

Mrs. Baldwin, abaldwin@homewood.k12.al.us

Seventh Grade (Last Names A-L) & Eighth Grade Counselor

Message from the Safe and Healthy Homewood Coalition

The Safe and Healthy Homewood Coalition has compiled information for parents regarding the release of 13 Reasons Why Season 2. Please use the following link to view this information as well as resources: 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Information for Parents.

Thought for the Week

“Education is the most powerful weapon 

which you can use to change the world.”

Thought for the Week

“Don’t give up what you want most 

for what you want now.”

Thought for the Week

“The difference between ordinary and 

extraordinary is that little extra.”

Thought for the Week

“Every day do something that will 

inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”

2018-2019 HMS Peer Helpers

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 HMS Peer Helpers!

8th Grade

Canon Armstead

Maddie Bembry

Chandler Binkley

J. W. Bird

Anna Claire Deerman

Camille Etheridge

Sunny Ferren

Sophia Forrestall

Mary Britt Garlington

Lily Giffin

Caroline Gray

Sam Gray

Suzanne Hardin

Watson Lee

Sophie Lowery

Maddie Massie

Gavin McAbee

Millie Kate McBride

Ruby Raines

Susanna Sheehan

Sam Sutton

MaryCase Tanner

Kaelin Taylor

7th Grade

Eddie Abel

Elliott Allen

Crenshaw Bunn

Suzanna Busbee

Kate Eason

Merritt Hartsell

Madelyn Harwell

Charlie Herring

Becca Cate Hubrich

Fletcher Keith

Mae Lowery

Sarah Lawson Mistrot

Reace Mitchell

Maggie Player

Martha Ponder

Wilson Riley

Margaret Rodgers

Anne Siegel

Maren Smith

Mary Molloy Strickland

Will Terrell

Micaela Vega Vazquez

Jackson Warren

Kayla Warren

Eva White

Susie Whitsett

Thought for the Week

Welcome back! 

We hope everyone had a wonderful break last week! :)

Thought for the Week:

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”

Thought for the Day

“Do something today that your 

future self will thank you for.”

Thought for the Day

“Minds are like parachutes. 

They only function when they’re open.”

Thought for the Day

“Judging a person does not define who THEY are. 

It defines who YOU are.”

Thought for the Day

"Strive for progress not for perfection.”

Thought for the Day

“Prove yourself to yourself, not others.”

Thought for the Day

“Quality means doing it right 

when no one is looking.”

Thought for the Day

“There is no elevator to success. 

You have to take the stairs.”

Thought for the Day

“Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.”

Thought for the Day

“Happiness is not the absence of problems. 

It’s the ability to deal with them.”

Thought for the Day

“Judging a person does not define who

they are. It defines who you are.”

Thought for the Week

“Replacing all of your negative thoughts 

with positive ones is a game changer.”