We are looking forward to welcoming all our students, new and returning, to QMS on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new middle school start time is 8:34 a.m. (not 8:36 a.m.)<\/strong>, while the first bell will remain at 8:31 a.m. Students who arrive early to school may wait outside, or they may come into the building through the side entrance only (by the MPR\/Gym) and gather in the hallway until the bell rings. The warning bell will ring at 8:31 a.m. and classes will begin at 8:34 a.m<\/strong>., with the school day ending at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, September 8, Grade 5-7 students will be at school from 8:34-9:34 a.m., while Grade 8 students will be dismissed at 11:55 a.m. When the bell rings at 8:34 a.m., all Grade 5 students will go directly to the Gym, all Grade 8 students will gather on the soccer field, Grade 6 & 7 students will go to their last year’s classrooms, and any new Grade 6 & 7 students will go to the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Below is the schedule for Tuesday, September 8 (8:34 a.m.): All Grade 5 students from QE (registered) will meet in the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When Grade 5 to 7 students are dismissed (at 9:34 a.m.), they are asked to go home, as there are still grade 8 classes in session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, September 9 all students will be attending for the full day. Please make sure that your child brings their snacks, lunch, water bottle and school supplies with them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, Grade 8 students will go directly to their new classrooms, while all Grade 6 and 7 students will again meet with their last year\u2019s teachers, and all Grade 5 students will meet in the gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are looking forward to welcoming all our students, new and returning, to QMS on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. The new middle school start time is 8:34 a.m. (not 8:36 a.m.), while the first bell will remain at 8:31 a.m. Students who arrive early to school may wait outside, or they may come into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-page-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/images.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Mike Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/author\/mvlee\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/qms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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