HMS Mission Statement:
Harris Middle School will provide educational challenges and opportunities to enable all students to learn, achieve, and succeed. We are committed to guiding all students in their intellectual, physical, and social growth in a safe and nurturing environment. To that end, we dedicate ourselves to encourage students to become productive citizens in an ever changing society.

New Interactive Lesson Plan Template Printable with additional ideas and help available Here.

Presidential Campaign for Kids, Parents,  and Teachers

Click on the heart for School Nurse News

Visit the Free Rice Site link above and for every word's meaning that you get right they will donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations to help end world hunger. WARNING:  WARNING: After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words. This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance, formulate your ideas better, write better papers, emails and business letters, speak more precisely and  persuasively, comprehend more of what you read, read faster because you comprehend better, get better grades in high school, college and graduate school, score higher on tests like the TCAP, SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT, perform better at job interviews and conferences, be more effective and successful at your job and help end hunger one grain of rice at a time.  It could also become highly addictive! 

Would You Like To Keep An Eye On HMS Sports, Clubs, And Activities?   Then Check Out Our Local Newspaper, The Shelbyville Times-Gazette, At The Link Above.

Department Information 

Proficiency Ranges for TCAP Achievement CRT Scores  |  CRT Reporting Categories and State Performance Indicators Charts  
Language Arts, Math, Reading -Curriculum Record Sheets for Language Arts, Reading, and Math, Science, Social Studies,  Related Arts , Click on link, Teacher Workplace, for New and Helpful Info  

Team Information
Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade, Eighth Grade 

HMS Sports, Clubs and Organizations
Advanced HMS Band, Beginning Band, Parent Advisory PTA, Sports Schedules, Clubs and Organizations

Activities
 Bedford County School Calendars for 2007-2008, 2008-2009,  Weekly Calendar,  Lunch and Breakfast Menus, Phone Tree, May Calendar 

Student Work
Social St. research, Lang. Arts Ads, Mysteries, Sci Fi Stories, County History, HMS History, Artsonia Student Art, English Stars,   Veteran's Day Wreath Winners  

Teacher Pages
  Brock's Backyard | Mr. Shavers | Vocational | Ms. Donegan | Mr. Neal | Mr. Brock's Tone Zone

Neat sites: 

Download free here:  http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Track Hurricanes Here:  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Want to Try Something New?  Try Tennessee ETales

Download PhotoStory 3 here to get started.

Need PhotoStory 3 Help?   Check Out This Tutorials Collection from Betsy Norris

Safe student search engines
Nettrekker, Yahooligans,  Ask Jeeves for students,  Kaboose

This site was updated on May 1, 2008. This site was created by Ms. Betsy Norris and is maintained by Ms. Donna Brock and students. Please feel free to email us. These links will sometimes leave this site. Linked sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for the contents of any of these linked sites or for any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. We are providing these links to you as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement.