Strive for 45: Become a daily reader.

All students and future students should be reading on their own each day for 45 minutes. The brain is a muscle-it needs to work-out to grow, improve, and stay healthy.

Research out of Harvard University suggests that students who read, on average, for 45 minutes every day score in the 90th percentile on standardized tests.

Remember: Practice isn't something you do once you are good at something. Practice is what you do to get good at something! Practice your reading today and every day!

Please visit the after school program page to take a survey about this years program. This survey is for students, parents, teachers and after school staff.

IB Connections Summer Camp

Attention all rising 8th graders! This book and assignment is required for all rising 8th graders, due in English the first day of school and will be used as a test grade. You can contact Ms. Delphin if you have any questions.

FCPS Summer 2009 Suggested Summer Reading for Rising High School Students

MTMS 2009-2010 Bell Schedule

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MTMS won the Best of the Web for web site excellence for the 2008-2009 school year.

Please see the MTMS Parents Page to receive more information about FCPS Family Life Education Instructional Program for 2009-2010 and the opt out form.

EVERY CHILD in Mark Twain MS was expected to sign a “Yearbook Pledge” indicating that he/she will not write inappropriate comments in the yearbooks of others. Restitution charges will be expected for any child who violates a peer’s yearbook with inappropriate comments. The pledge is as follows:

I pledge to
1) Treat my yearbook and other yearbooks with respect.
2) Not take anyone else’s yearbook.
3) Make sure that I know who is signing my yearbook and not just let my yearbook be passed around.
4) Not write inappropriate messages in anyone’s yearbook.  I will not use inappropriate language (swearing, sexual content, violent content, hurtful content, etc.).
5)Make sure that everything I write is appropriate for any school staff member or any of my family members to read.

Adjustments to 2009-10 Bell Schedules: "As part of its adoption of the FY 2010 final budget, the Fairfax County School Board will adjust some school start times to gain $4.6 million in efficiencies in the transportation system.  These adjustments are separate and apart from the proposal to change school start times that the Fairfax County School Board considered and voted to reject in March 2009. The adjustments focus on achieving efficiencies within the current bell structure, which the Fairfax County School Board voted to retain. The following bell schedule changes will be implemented in the 2009-10 school year." 

MTMS won the WebStar Award for outstanding school web sites for January - March 2009.

June Energy Zone Newsletter

Fundraising: Help our school earn money towards technology, events and activities.