Farquhar Middle School PTA

There will be a fundraiser event at Mamma Lucia’s in Olney for Autism Speaks on Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 10PM – all eat-in and carry-out orders count toward the fundraiser. For more info, please contact Amy Wert at amwert@msn.com or visit http://www.autismspeaks.org.

Parents of teens! Is your daughter’s eating out of control? Is she gaining too much weight? Consider participating in a study at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science (USUHS)/National Institutes of Health (NIH). WHAT: To test how effective group therapy is in the prevention of excess weight gain. WHO: Girls aged 12-17 years [...]

The Montgomery County Board of Elections is seeking students, grades 6 to 12, to serve as Election Day student aides during the 2008 Presidential General Election. Students must attend mandatory training to serve on Election Day and receive Student Service Learning (SSL) credits. Students will be placed according to home addresses into neighboring precincts. This [...]

While your kids are enjoying the dance in the gym, please join us in the Media Center from 7PM to 9PM for the Parent Program sponsored by the PTA. We are fortunate to have Kim Wells, LCSW-C and Andrea Lopes, LCSW-C of the Olney Psychiatric and Counseling Center present information and ideas on “How To [...]

Attention FMS Parents! FMS counselors will have a variety of counseling groups for students this year beginning early October!  These specific topic groups will be held once a week, for 45 min and run for 7 weeks.  Groups will meet on a rotating schedule so each class is only missed once.  Students can be referred [...]

Attention Parents: The FMS Counseling Department has planned an informative evening to help parents navigate the challenges that can arise in middle school.  Please join us on Thursday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Farquhar’s Library Media Center. Hear a panel of experts discuss strategies to help children ages 10-14 with the issues surrounding stress, [...]

From the MCPS website: The Division of Food and Nutrition Services is excited to announce mylunchmoney.com, a new online service offered which allows parents to make prepayments to their child’s cafeteria account with a credit card or debit card via the Internet. Once the mylunchmoney.com account is established, parents can check account balances, view the [...]

Boys/girls softball and cross country tryouts are beginning this week.  All forms (updated physical, parental permission) must be returned to Coach Ingram (Boys Softball), Coach Bready (Girls Softball), or Coach Geddes (Cross Country) before students can participate. All teams are still open for tryouts and looking for more players. Tryouts will take place Wednesday, 9/10, [...]

“Why Don’t My Kids Listen To Me?” An Intro to PEP Are you tired of saying the same things over and over to your children and not getting results? Do you find yourself giving in to the kids’ demands too easily and/or yelling a lot? Learn how to gain more cooperation from your children without [...]