CCIU Design Contest

The Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) is excited to begin seeing the amazing work of our county's students in the 2018 Disability Awareness Month: Shoe Design Contest. This is just a final reminder that entries for the contest are due to Melissa Smith at the Educational Service Center on Boot Road by end-of-day Friday, March 23. Click here for more details.

Run For Our Sons

The Unionville Run for Our Sons 5K and Family Fun Run/Walk comes to Patton Middle School on April 21! Patton has always supported our pals Elliot and Henry, who were diagnosed with Duchene and are the sons of UHS Spanish teacher Mrs Johnson. Click here to register for the Race and join Team Patton Hawks! Register today!

Patton at MathCounts

Patton had a GREAT day at the 6th grade Chester County MathCounts competition on Saturday. Chi Xu won 1st place!! The team of Chi Xu, Sree Yedida, Lilly Zhang, and Emily Wu placed 3rd and the team of Calista Photopoulos, Chloe Photopoulos, Michael Ta, and Mihir Sehgal finished 6th!! A great day was had by all! We are #PattonProud of our students and team advisor (and former Patton Hawk!) Kendall Yarosh!

STEM Competition

Congratulations go out to our 2nd place winners in the STEM Competition, Josh Vallabhaneni, Akash Patel, Aryan Abbaruja and Eric Steuber! #PattonProud!

Heart & Sole at Patton!

The YMCA of Greater Brandywine presents Heart and Sole 2018 at Patton Middle Middle School! Registration is now open to middle school girls and the season begins March 12. Meeting days are Monday and Wednesdays at Patton after school until 4:15. Register today!

Art After School

March’s Art After School with Mrs. Ferron is Let’s go fly a Kite! This month celebrate Japanese Culture in the art room. Classes start March 6! Download a registration form today!

Order a Yearbook Today!

The awesome Patton yearbook is just $25 if you order BEFORE January 31st. It goes up to $40 after the end of the month. So make sure you order your yearbook today!

Unique Summer Camp

Check out this summer camp for students ages 12-14 at Paoli Hospital and Riddle Memorial Hospital. This is the only camp of its kind in our region that provides students with exploratory hands-on learning on a hospital campus. Seating is limited!

Attention Spring Sport Athletes!

Parents and student-athletes are required to register and submit a PIAA Sports Physical Exam Form (CIPPE) prior to participating on a sports team.  All registrations should be submitted electronically through FamilyID.  Please here to get started and to register via FamilyID.

Patton's Got Talent!

It's the "Patton’s Got Talent" Show -- April 13th at 7:00pm. Calling all Talent! Looking for singers, dancers, musicians, actors, comedians, jugglers.... Come out and showcase what you've GOT at the Talent Show! Looking for all variety of acts, so be creative! Sign up for a Preview Day and let’s see your talent Patton Middle School! Preview Dates: 3/21-3/23 at 2:45pm in the Auditorium and the Talent Show is 4/13 at 7pm. Download a participation form for more details.

Course Selection Week!

It's Course Selection Week!! Course registration has opened for current 6th and 7th graders in PowerSchool. 8th graders will begin UHS course registration in PowerSchool on Friday! Find all the information you'll need on the Patton Counseling website.

Patton at Mathcounts

Congratulations to Patton's Mathletes who competed in the Chester County Mathcounts competition on Saturday. In a field of 25 teams, our team of Elias Bomberger, Suhan Neema, Arnab Sircar, and Robert Wang came away finishing in 5th place. Our team of Meera Seghal, Saanvi Garg, Medha Patel, Clifford Han, Ibraheem Qureshi, and Chirag Choudhary also did a great job! A special shout out to 7th grader Elias Bomberger, who out of 202 competitors finished the day moving from 7th place to 2nd place of the competition during the countdown round, where he answered numerous math problems correctly, making him eligible to advance to the state level of Mathcounts!

Kick Butts Day Contest

The Chester County Tobacco-Free Coalition is pleased to announce the Kick Butts Meme Contest. The contest is open to all Patton students. Students are being asked to take or create a picture and develop an anti-vape meme -- but do not steal a photo from the Internet and make sure to get your final meme approved by a parent or teacher. All entries must be received by email (cctfc@chesco.org) no later than February 23! Kick Butts Day is March 21!

Engineering Your Tomorrow

Engineering Your Tomorrow exposes 6th-8th grade girls to the exciting opportunities of science and engineering. Join us for a day of fun & exploration on February 24 at the Conrad Schools of Science. Registration is required!

Art After School

February is for Lovers....of Sock Monkeys!!! Art After School. Students will use simple patterns designed during the depression era and the Original Red River Cotton socks for this project. Starts February 5, download a form today!

Baby Chick Cam!

The baby chicks in Mrs Brogan's room are arriving!! Want to see how they are doing? Check out our live Brogan's Baby Chick Cam!

Patton Tower Gardens

Mr Hisler and Ms Ballard are happy and proud to announce the installation of the Tower Gardens, the next phase of the FCS Garden Initiative at Patton Middle School. You won't be able to miss them as there is one in each cafeteria and one in the FCS cooking lab. Just watch them grow, as they will be yielding fresh lettuce and herbs within a month. Current FCS students helped to build, check the PH balance and move each of the units in place. Enjoy the sound of gentle rain and the Medusa lighting system which help our gardens to grow aeroponically!

Winter Spirit Week!

NEXT week, February 5-9, is our Winter SPIRIT WEEK!! Get ready for the Spirit Days next week: Monday is PJs Day, Tuesday is Patton Proud Day, Wednesday is Superhero Day, Thursday is Throwback Thursday and Friday is Color wars to kick off the Olympics -- 7th is Red, 8th is White 8th and 6th is Blue!

6th Grade Bingo!

The 6th grade Coin Bingo was a great success! Mrs Steinen took our coins to the bank to be counted and we collected $320! Our money will go to buy gift card for those at the women's shelter. We're so Patton Proud of our 6th grade and grateful for all that Mrs Steinen does for the women's shelter. It's important work!

Looking for Writers!

We are looking for community members to participate in our third-annual Writers Day on Friday, April 20th. Are you willing to lead a small group of students in the kind of writing you do for work or for your own personal enrichment? We would love to have you join us! Sign up here using this Signup Genius link!

Geography Bee Winners!

Congratulations to all the participants of the School National Geographic Bee. After many rounds of questions, the results of the bee are as follows: There was a three way tie for 3rd place with 8th graders Ibraheem Qureshi Robert Wang and 6th grade student Kushal Garg, second place winner was 6th grader Jacob Cassidy, and for the 3rd year in a row, the middle school Geography Bee champion is 8th grader Arnab Sircar. Arnab will now take another competition to advance to the state level. Great job to all!

Essay Contest Winner!

Patton student, Sophie Griswold, is Chester County's 6th grade winner of the Daughter of the American Revolution's Essay Contest. The theme of the contest was World War I: Remembering the War to End All Wars. Sophie will be recognized in an awards ceremony sponsored by the DAR. Congratulations, Sophie. We are Patton Proud!

History & Geography Bee

Any student interested in participating in the History Bee can sign up to participate in the contest in room 218 with Mrs. Schuster. 6th and 7th grade students, as well as 8th graders who do not currently take geography, are invited to tryout for the School Geography Bee. Please see Mrs.Schuster in room 218 for further information.

MLK Day of Service

As part of our Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, we will be collecting items to help residents of the Domestic Violence Center of Chester County and Family Promise of Southern Chester County. You may have noticed that we have Giant Food Store shopping carts located at the main office entrance and the Route 82 entrance. We are asking everyone to please consider donating items listed here. Our hope is to fill these shopping carts with donated items by the end of this week, and then fill them again at the end of next week. Then, on January 15, we are asking for volunteers to join us here at school from 9:00 - 11:00 AM to help sort, box and deliver all of the collected items. Sign up today to volunteer!