Westside Middle School

This is the official Twitter account for Westside Middle School! Follow this account for announcements, celebrations, and to stay in the know regarding all the wonderful things happening at WMS!

Westside Running Club started the season with a neighborhood costume run.  Running Club meets on Tuesday's and Thursday's from 3:30-4:30 in S201.

8th Grade scientists are testing magnetic attraction! They measured the force between magnets at different distances and are using their collected data to connect their findings to the inverse square law.

8B scientists are testing magnetic attraction!They measured the force between magnets at different distances and are using their collected data to connect their findings to the inverse square law.

8C is celebrating Heritage Month by making a community poster. They also have flags up from the different countries.

To celebrate "soaring into a new year", 8B homeroom students participated in a paper airplane championship for our "Fun Friday" activity. Congratulations to our winners, co-pilots Enzo G and Shwe W, from Ms. Butler's homeroom

It was a great day for 8B scientists to go outside to voice-record themselves presenting their most recent slideshow creation! We are thankful for an amazing grounds crew that keeps our scenery looking awesome!

8th Grade scientists are back in the laboratory! These 8B students used the scientific method to complete a science experiment of their choice. In this "choice lab", they created a hypothesis, wrote procedures and executed their experiment to collect data!

8B scientists practiced what they've learned about the scientific method by completing a science experiment. In this "ball bounce lab", they created a hypothesis, wrote procedures and executed their experiment to collect data!

WMS Unified Skilled and Technical Science class spent time today working on their detailing skills.

WMS Student Council used the money they made from the Valentine Sales to buy fabric to make blankets for the Humane Society.

8th grade band put on an amazing performance !

Congrats to our 7th grade band members on a great concert!

Our Jr. Warriors spent the morning getting a "snapshot" of middle school life—complete with building tours, a special greeting from Apollo, and a crash course in all things WMS 101.

On May 5, WMS proudly sent 3 teams to compete in the Battle of the Books at ESU3. We're thrilled that all three Westside teams were competitive and earned awards in at least two categories! Congratulations to all of our readers and competitors for a fantastic day!

WMS took a team of students to compete at the NE Science Olympiad on in Lincoln. Science Olympiad is the premier team STEM competition in the nation! Our amazing team of young scientists took 2nd place overall and many of the students brought home individual medals! Congrats!

Our 8th graders just finished an awesome project on endangered species! They dove into research, got creative, and shared some eye-opening facts to help spread awareness about protecting these animals. Posters were created for over 400 different species!

Congratulations to WMS 8th grade students, Jack R. and Nori F., who were selected to perform in the Nebraska Wind Symphony All-Star Trombone Concert on Sunday, March 1st. Way to make WMS proud Jack and Nori!

8th grade science students are learning about genetics and heredity. They played Jenga to simulate the ups and downs of mutations to learn how some mutations to an organism's DNA can be helpful, harmful or neutral.