Soccer practice is canceled for Thursday due to weather.
All afternoon activities and practices are canceled for this afternoon due to impending severe weather. Our area is expected to have large hail, strong winds and power outages.
CMS Volleyball will have practice Tuesday from 3-5pm
Soccer will have practice Tuesday from 3:30-5:30pm.
CMS 8th grade band students!
There are now opportunities for Avery County 8th grade band members to participate in the 2023 Viking Band marching show! Starting next Tuesday, August 1, we invite all interested 8th graders to the High School Band Hall from 11 am to 1:45 pm. Please contact Mr. Hodges or Ms Corbliss for details at jeffhodges@averyschools.net
CMS students and families (especially rising 6th graders and any other students who are new to CMS):
On our first day of school, Monday Aug 14, students will come in the bus entrance and report to either the gym or cafeteria, depending on if they want to eat breakfast or not. We will have CMS staff there to welcome everyone and get all students with their TAG teacher to start the day. Schedules will be distributed by TAG teachers and our new students will be reminded about the location of classes if needed.
We're excited about this upcoming year! It's going to be a great one!
Please feel free to call the school at (828) 733-2932 if you have any questions.
See you soon! Dr J
Cranberry Middle will have our initial PTO meeting next Tuesday Aug 1 at 5:30pm here at the school. Please enter on the Freedom Trail side and we’ll meet upstairs in the library. Anyone interested is more than welcome! Thank you for supporting our CMS students!
Any girl interested in volleyball this year please plan to attend to camp. If you have any issues or questions please contact coach Morris.
Here are supply lists for CMS 2023-24. Please contact the school at 733-2932 if you have any questions. We're looking forward to a great year at CMS! Thank you!
Attention CMS families!
We look forward to seeing all of our CMS families on Tuesday Aug 15 for our Welcome Back Open House! Free food and LOTS of good information will be shared. Please make plans to attend on Aug 15 from 5-7pm. Thank you!
Boy's Soccer season begins in a couple of weeks! Please note: all workouts, practices and home matches will be at Avery Middle at the field behind the school. Workouts: August 1st-4th from 3:30- 5:30pm Tryouts August 7th-11th from 3:30- 5:30pm Any questions? Contact coach Larry at (828) 260-4568
The proceeds from this yard sale goes to help all Avery County Schools. Be there Aug 5 at Banner Elk Elementary! Thank you for supporting this in any way possible!
Let us know if you're interested in CMS PTO and we'll schedule an initial meeting. Thank you!
We are so proud of these students who traveled to Atlanta this past week to compete in the SkillsUSA national competition. They represented our school and community well.
A special congratulations to Lucas Hudson, the National Champion for extemporaneous speaking.
Thank you for making us proud!
We hope our CMS students have a wonderful and safe summer! We encourage you to enjoy the time away from school but also get in some reading each day. We look forward to seeing you back here in August!
Volleyball workouts start this week. Mon- Thur 3:00 to 4:30. This is for any rising 6th, 7th or 8th graders interested in playing in the fall. Bring water bottles, tennis shoes and knee pads.
Field day tomorrow don't forget:
-towel and change of clothes for water slide
-sunscreen
-water bottle
- hat
Weekly Update
Cranberry Middle and all Avery County schools will be closed on Monday, May 29, in observation of Memorial Day. We remember and honor those who gave the full measure of their lives in military service to our country.
Tuesday we start our EOGs here at CMS. Our schedule is Reading EOGs Tuesday, Math EOGs Wednesday and 8th graders will have their Science EOG on Thursday. We encourage our students to get a good night's rest this week, be on time, and come to school ready to do their best on the test!
Weekly Update
