ECMS is a learning institution with highly skilled professionals who place our community children as our top priority. Our administration, classroom teachers, and support staff are committed to making sure that each and every student is provided with the best possible education because at ECMS: Every Child Meets Success.
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Notes:
All visitors to ECMS are required to sign in at the front office upon arrival at our school. A visitor’s pass is required at all times.
ECMS's instructional time for this school year starts at 8:30 am. Our absence/tardy times have changed from 11:30 am to 12:00 pm. Students must be in attendance 51% of the instructional day to be counted as present. |
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Parent's Corner
Section
Homework for the students at ECMS will be posted in this section for each team. Click on the link below to get your child's homework assignments.
Here is a site to help students study vocabulary terms
www.spellingcity.com
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Character Words
2009-2010
(Sept)Courage: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)
(Oct.)Respect: condition of being honored; attitude of admiration or esteem; expression of regard; courteous regard for people's feelings.
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. - Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - )
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(Nov.)Self-Discipline: the act of disciplining or power to discipline one's own feelings, desires, etc., esp with the intention of improving oneself.
“Self-discipline is an aspect of individual liberty and the chief factor of
success in life.” -Maria Montessori
(Dec.)Kindness: the quality of being warmhearted, considerate, humane and sympathetic to others.
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
-Blaise Pascal
(Jan)Good Judgement: excellent power to judge well. The ability to make good decisions in the face of pressure.
We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. -Ian Percy
(Feb.)Integrity: moral soundness; inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; unreduced or unbroken completeness.
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
-Confucious
Responsibility:
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Athletic Department
Football
contact Coach M. Manuel
Soccer/ Track
contact Coach K. Parker
Volleyball
contact Coach E. Henry
Golf
contact Athletic Director
M. Manuel
Cheerleading
contact Coach J. Rountree
Softball
contact Coach P. Keziah
Baseball
contact Coach K. Ventura/ Coach Sharon Creef
**Please contact these coaches for more information on athletic teams for the
2009-2010 school year.**
Go Yellow Jackets!!!
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 Student News
Yearbooks are now on sale. Letter's went home with report cards. Students may order online at www.jostens.com, or they may bring in the order form with the money (cash or money order - no checks!).
The cost of a yearbook is $32.00.
They may pay in full, or pay a deposit of $15.00 with the balance due by May 1st!
Order Form
Simply fill out this order form and return it with cash, or money order to Mrs. Culpepper, Team 7-1. You may make a $15.00 deposit due by February 15, 2010, and pay along with the final payment due by May 1, 2010. Reserve your yearbook by February 15th!
OnLine
Beginning Feb. 1, 2010, you may order your yearbook online and pay with a credit card or debit card. Go to www.jostensyearbooks.com, locate Elizabeth City Middle School, and place your order.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Lynn Culpepper at 335-2974, extention 259.
For those interested in playing softball or baseball this year,
a meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 3:45 in the cafeteria.
Conditioning will begin after the meeting, so come prepared to work out.
Also, please make certain that you have your physical.
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February 2, 2010
Wrestling Match @ First Flight (4:30pm)
Basketball game @ Perquimans (4:30 & 5:30)
February 3 , 2010
Prescription for Success
Basketball Tournament/Higher Seeds
Girls@ ECMS (5:00 pm)
Boys@ River Road (5:30 pm)
February 5 , 2010
100th Celebration
Black & Gold Day! Pep Rally
February 6 , 2010
Basketball Tournament/Semifinals
ECMS@ 10:00 - 4:30
February 8 , 2010
2-hour Early Release
Basketball Tournament/Championship
@ ECMS (5:00 & 6:30 pm)
February 10 , 2010
Prescription for Success
February 12 , 2010
Valentine's Day Dance
February 13 , 2010
Wrestling Tournament
Away @ Moyock (TBA)
CheerleadingCompetition
@Manteo Middle School (12pm)
February 15 , 2010
Make-up day for day missed on
February 1, 2010 due to inclement weather
February 19 , 2010
Club Day
February 23 , 2010
Interium Reports sent home
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 Staff Highlights 
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Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Gregory
(Planning "Great" things for ECMS)
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 Spotlight in Black History 
Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro N.C., 1960
Langston Hughes, poet and author, born 1902-1967
Samuel Lowery on February 2, 1880 was the first black lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court
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