Bus Change Hello Mustang Families, This afternoon bus 69 ran as normal, but after today those students will ride bus 28 in the afternoons to go to the same stop at the Boys and Girls club. If you have any questions please let me know.
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
🐎Mustang Weekly Updates🐎

Welcome families! I will attempt to do an All Call with this same info set for 6:00pm this evening. If it “misbehaves” again, I will have to use the robot voice to complete. Just wanted to give you a heads up that I try to post on ClassTag Sunday afternoon and you will receive the Sunday msg at 6pm with the same details. Have a great evening and know that we look forward to seeing your student tomorrow!

Dr. Christy Ann Bailey, Holmes Principal


8/25/25 Message:

🎉 Welcome to Holmes Middle School! 🎉
We can’t wait to see our Mustangs back on campus Monday! 🐎💙



📅 When: Monday, August 25th
🕒 Time: Carline runs 7:45–8:15am. Students are late after 8:25am.



✨ Tips for a Successful First Week:
✅ Breakfast and lunch are free for all students, every day.
✅ Set your alarm early—give yourself plenty of time!
✅ Lay out clothes and bookbags the night before to avoid rushing.
✅ Review your student’s schedule together so they know what to expect.
✅ Talk about goals & worries—naming concerns can make them smaller.
✅ Encourage independence—practice packing bags and keeping track of homework.
✅ Stay positive—it’s okay to be nervous. Teachers and staff are here to help everyone adjust!



🔔 Important Notes:
🚗 Carline: We have two lines moving in front of Holmes. Please remember—no passing once you’re in line, and we ask that you refrain from phone calls to stay alert as everyone learns our procedures.
🚪 Morning entry: All bus riders and car riders enter through the front doors and go through our metal detector system. Items such as laptops, metal art palettes, makeup tins, or large keychains may set off the alarm. Staff will be on hand to check items and help students get to class quickly.



💙 A Big Thank You!
🙌 To Leaksville United Methodist and our families for donating to our Clothes Closet and Snack Shack—we appreciate you!
📣 To our HMS Cheer Squad for leading the “Stuff the Bus” drive with special cheers and helping gather supplies for RCS students. Way to go, team!



We’re ready for an amazing first week—let’s go Mustangs! 🐎✨
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
🎉 Welcome to Holmes Middle School! 🎉
We can’t wait to see our Mustangs back on campus Monday! 🐎💙

📅 When: Monday, August 25th
🕒 Time: Carline runs 7:45–8:15am. Students are late after 8:25am.

✨ Tips for a Successful First Week:
✅ Breakfast and lunch are free for all students, every day.
✅ Set your alarm early—give yourself plenty of time!
✅ Lay out clothes and bookbags the night before to avoid rushing.
✅ Review your student’s schedule together so they know what to expect.
✅ Talk about goals & worries—naming concerns can make them smaller.
✅ Encourage independence—practice packing bags and keeping track of homework.
✅ Stay positive—it’s okay to be nervous. Teachers and staff are here to help everyone adjust!

🔔 Important Notes:
🚗 Carline: We have two lines moving in front of Holmes. Please remember—no passing once you’re in line, and we ask that you refrain from phone calls to stay alert as everyone learns our procedures.
🚪 Morning entry: All bus riders and car riders enter through the front doors and go through our metal detector system. Items such as laptops, metal art palettes, makeup tins, or large keychains may set off the alarm. Staff will be on hand to check items and help students get to class quickly.

💙 A Big Thank You!
🙌 To Leaksville United Methodist and our families for donating to our Clothes Closet and Snack Shack—we appreciate you!
📣 To our HMS Cheer Squad for leading the “Stuff the Bus” drive with special cheers and helping gather supplies for RCS students. Way to go, team!

We’re ready for an amazing first week—let’s go Mustangs! 🐎✨

📅 August ☀️

25 – First Day of School! 🎒

-Football practice from 3:30-5:30 p.m. *Any 7th and 8th grader, if you are planning playing football this year you need to show up for practice. Football final roster will be finalized on Wednesday.

-Softball Tryouts begin today from 3:30-5:30 p.m.


26-Tennis/Boys’ Soccer Tryouts begin today from 3:30-5:30 p.m.


28- Band Meeting for instrument rentals: 5:00- 6:30pm (Floating) in the caf


Reminder- Monday is Labor Day, no school for students on September 1st!

📅 September 🍎
1 – Happy Labor Day (No School) 🎉
2 – 🏈📣 Football/Cheerleading Sports Parent Meeting – Cafeteria @ 5:30 p.m.
Parents must attend if their child is participating in sports.
3 – 🥎🎾⚽ Softball/Tennis/Boys’ Soccer Sports Parent Meeting – Cafeteria @ 5:30 p.m.
Parents must attend if their child is participating in sports.
4 – 🏈 Football Home vs. Bonner Middle – 4:00 p.m.
8 – ⚽ Soccer Home vs. Dillard Middle – 4:00 p.m.
  – 🥎🎾 Softball/Tennis Away @ Reidsville Middle – 4:00 p.m.
10 – 🏈 Football Away @ Western Guilford Middle – 4:00 p.m.
  – ⚽ Soccer Home vs. Western Rock Middle – 4:00 p.m.
  – 🥎🎾 Softball/Tennis Home vs. Rock Middle – 4:00 p.m.
11 – 🏐 Future Panther Volleyball Night:
 🎟️ 1 Parent Ticket = 1 Free Kid Ticket (K–8, participating kids only)
 👕 Prowler girls wear Jerseys / others wear MHS colors or team jersey
 🥤 First 30 kids get a Future Panther tumbler!
15 – 🥎🎾 Softball/Tennis Away @ Western Rock Middle – 4:00 p.m.
16 – 📸 Fall Picture Day (Strawbridge flyer coming soon; register/pay online).
17 – ⚽ Soccer Away @ Rock Middle – 4:00 p.m.
18 – 🏈 Football Away @ Western Rock Middle – 4:00 p.m.
19 – 🐾 Future Panther Night @ MHS Football – 7:00 p.m. 🎁 First 100 students get a free t-shirt!
22 – ⚽ Soccer Away @ Reidsville Middle – 4:00 p.m.
  – 🥎🎾 Softball/Tennis Home vs. Reidsville Middle – 4:00 p.m.
24 – 🏈 Football Home vs. Dillard Middle – 4:00 p.m.
25–26 – ✏️ Teacher Workdays (No School)
29 – ⚽🥎🎾 Soccer/Softball/Tennis Away @ Dillard Middle – 4:00 p.m.

✨ ✨ Parent Toolkit Series ✨
District Attorney Katy Gregg will be presenting on important topics impacting today’s students: Sexting, Sextortion, Guns, Gangs, Vaping, & Truancy.

📅 Dates & Locations

October 21 – WRMS


February 10 – RMS


May 12 – Holmes


🕕 Time: 6:00 PM

We encourage all families to attend. These sessions will provide valuable information and resources to help you stay informed and prepared as a parent.
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Want an easy way to communicate with all the teachers and staff @HMS? We use SchoolConnect!
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
HMS 211 N Pierce Street, Eden, NC 27288  336-623-9791
You will automatically begin receiving SchoolConnect message at the email or phone number reported to the school.
Once you receive a message, you can download the app
access messages by email or text
update account settings
Transportation Request

Families, thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through a large number of new transportation requests and changes. Our team is working diligently to process everything as quickly as possible.



Please be aware that updates to bus assignments may take until the end of the upcoming week to be fully completed. We will continue checking daily and will notify everyone as soon as routes and assignments are finalized.



If you have not heard from school a confirmed route, then your students bus is still processing and you will need to plan to bring them to school. We will notify students/parents when we receive confirmed bus updates.



We appreciate your support as we work to ensure every student gets safely and smoothly to and from school!
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Lots of things to share today! First up: Stuff the Buss was a great success!
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
staff at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
cheerleaders at stuff the bus
🎉 We are so excited to see you at Open House this week! 🐎💙 📅 When: Wednesday, August 20th 🕒 Time: 3:00 – 7:00 PM ✨ At Open House you can: ✅ Pick up your schedule 📘 ✅ Bring your license to sign up for Infinite Campus Parent Portal 🪪 (for guardians connected to the student’s account) ✅ Purchase PE uniforms 👕 ✅ Pay your technology fee if your student is taking their Chromebook home 💻 ✅ Meet our amazing staff & get your questions answered 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ ✅ Check out the PTSO table to get involved 🤝 ✅ Cool off with Kona Ice for purchase 🍧 ✅ Meet with Health Services to learn about the new middle school health process 🩺 🔔 Important Note: Our metal detector system will be active during Open House — thank you for your patience as we keep safety first! 🛡️
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Want to order PE uniforms? Pay for a fieldtrip? Now you can pay online for that!

Follow this link: https://osp.osmsinc.com/rockinghamnc/

And follow the instructions in the graphic!
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Online payment information.
Steps to sign up for an online payment account
Open House Details, Cell Phone Policy, Food Policy, & New Staff DETAILS!

🐎Mustang Weekly Updates🐎



Message:



🎉 Welcome to Holmes Middle School! 🎉
We are so excited to see you at Open House this week! 🐎💙

📅 When: Wednesday, August 20th
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 7:00 PM

✨ At Open House you can:
✅ Pick up your schedule
✅Bring your license so you can sign up for your Infinite Campus-Parent Portal. This will allow you to access your student account. We can only share the Parent Portal details with a guardian who is connected to a student’s account and has a valid license.

✅ Purchase PE uniforms 👕


✅ Meet our amazing staff & get your questions answered

🔔 Important Notes:

Our metal detector system will be active during Open House — thank you for your patience as we keep safety first! 🛡️


NC Bill 959: Students will be putting cell phones away during the school day 📵. Please see attached letter for details! Thank you for your support for our students to be focused on learning!

If you need to contact your child, please email them or in an emergency call the front office for urgent messages.
Phones are permitted, but must be turned off and stored in a bookbag, not pockets/hoodies/ jackets.
No wireless headphones.
This helps us keep the focus on learning 📚✨. Please review the attached cell phone policy letter.


We are banning energy drinks 🥤🚫 and outside foods 🍔🚫 to promote a healthier environment. Energy drinks are not permitted in any form. Outside food could be packed for lunch if placed in non licensed bag/plastic containers. We can not have cups/bags with restaurant logos. It must be in a plain box. Please see attached letter for details! Thank you for your support for a healthier school!


We can’t wait to welcome you back and kick off an amazing school year! 🙌





This week:

August

20- Open House from 3:00- 7:00pm

21- Free Sports Physicals from 9am- 1pm.Students MUST have a parent with them for the entire physical.

22- Stuff the Bus will be at Walmart picking up school supplies in Eden. Holmes will be working this event from 9am- 11:30am!



Upcoming dates:

📅 August ☀️

25 – First Day of School! 🎒

📅 September 🍎
1 – Happy Labor Day (No School) 🎉

19- Future Panther Night at MHS Football (starts at 7pm, first 100 students receive a free t-shirt)!
25 & 26 – Teacher Workdays (No School) ✏️

📅 October 🎃
30 & 31 – Teacher Workdays (No School) ✏️

📅 November 🍂
10 – Teacher Workday (No School) ✏️
11 – Happy Veteran’s Day (No School) 🇺🇸
26–28 – Happy Thanksgiving (No School) 🦃

📅 December 🎄
19 – Early Release for Students (1:30 PM) ⏳
22–31 – Happy Holiday Break (No School) ❄️

📅 January 🎆
1 – Happy New Year’s Day (No School) 🥳
2 – Teacher Workday (No School) ✏️
5 – First Day Back for Students 📓





Notable:

✨ We are so excited to welcome our NEW staff to Holmes! 🎉 We can’t wait for you to meet them at Open House 🏫💙



Mr. Michael Hodges- Assistant Principal

Ms. Aviana Lindsey- UNCG Assistant Principal Intern

Mrs. Jessica Brown- 8th Math

Mrs. Claire Edwards- 8th ELA

Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot- 8th ELA

Ms. Ashlie Julian- 7th Science/Math

Dr. Merced Romero- 6th Math

Ms. Elizabeth Johnson- Media

Mrs. Meredith Johnston- 6th Grade EC

Mrs. Stephanie Bryant Computers

Ms. Peyton Scroggins- new to PE

Mr. Dillon Jones- Student Teacher 8th SS & ISS Teacher

Welcome BACK to SRO Jay Parker
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
RCS Phone Policy 2025-26 school year page 1
RCS Phone Policy 2025-26 Page 2
BTS List
How to add money to your child's cafeteria account
No Energy Drinks & Outside Food Policy
Future Panther Night
Tennis anyone?
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
tournament to benefit McMichael’s tennis team
Want to help us out? Please donate!
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
donate new or gently used items to our clothes closet
donate food or money for our snack shack
🍎🥪 Hey Holmes Families! Please check out this new system for adding funds to your student’s lunch account! 💻💳 Breakfast and lunch are free 🍽️, but if you want to add extras or snacks, this is the easiest way to do it! 😊 https://k12paymentcenter.com/ Thank you for your support! 🙌
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Are you looking forward to this as much as we are? Come out and meet your teachers and walk your schedule. New Mustangs are especially welcome!!! Open House is August 20th from 3 - 7 pm.
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
HMS Open House, August 20, 3 - 7pm
Friendly Reminder: Bus Request Form
Hello families! 🌟
If your student will need bus transportation for the upcoming school year, please be sure to complete the Bus Request Form by August 8th. This helps us ensure safe and timely routes for all students.

Thank you for helping us prepare for a great year ahead! 🚌💛 The below link works for ALL RCS schools!

https://rockapex.maxapex.net/apex/r/rcstech/rcs_sum_trans/1?session=6797249554011
4 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Do you have a child that is age 3 or 4? Rockingham County Schools is offering free developmental screenings.
August 5th at Huntsville Elementary
August 6th at Douglas Elementary
August 7th at Monroeton Elementary
Each location will be open from 8am until 4pm. Please call 336-627-2705 to make an appointment, or walk-in between the hours of 9am until 2:30pm.
5 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Free Developmental Screenings Spanish
Free Developmental Screenings  English
Summer isn't over, but don't forget about back to school shopping!
5 months ago, Holmes Middle School
back to school
school shopping list
Are you ready to saddle up and join the Mustangs?? Contact Dr. Bailey at 336-623-9791.
6 months ago, Holmes Middle School
HMS looking for and 8th grade ELA and 7th grade math/science teacher
Welcome Mr. Hodges to Holmes! My name is Mike Hodges, this coming school year will be my 18th year in education. I graduated from Averett University in 2007 and began teaching elementary PE in Danville VA in 2008. After three years there, I moved to Morehead and was a teacher there for 12 years while coaching football, track, and golf. I graduated from UNCW in 2023 with my Masters in Administration and have spent the past two years serving as the Assistant Principal at Williamsburg Elementary. I'm grateful for the opportunity to join the Holmes team and as a citizen of Eden I'm excited to get back to serving my home community. I look forward to meeting you all and working alongside you.
6 months ago, Holmes Middle School
Mr Hodges and family
Are you a mathematical teaching wizard? Come join us at HMS!!
6 months ago, Holmes Middle School
hiring middle school math teacher
Retesting Thursday and Friday Hello Parents! If your child attended remediation Monday-Wednesday, your child is eligible for retesting beginning tomorrow. Doors will open for students at 7:45 to get breakfast and we will begin testing as close to 8:45 as possible. Once we have completed testing, your child will have the option to call for a ride to come pick them up. If your child needs to take both tests, we will see your child again on Friday. Students that only have one test to complete will not need to return on Friday.
6 months ago, Holmes Middle School