Middle Years Program: 6th - 8th Grades
An International Baccalaureate Candidacy School
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme® (MYP)
Building a solid academic foundation, the MYP develops students’ confidence in managing their own learning and making connections between their learning in the classroom and the real world.
Our Nesbit Middle School staff has undertaken the comprehensive training and planning process to bring the IB MYP program to our school. Nesbit has earned IB candidacy and Is launching our IB MYP for the 2023-2024 school year.
6th - 8th Grade Team
6th Core
7th Core
8th Core
Electives
Spanish
Film Study
Advisory (6th)
Leadership
TechnoLOGIC
STEM Investigations
Fine Arts
Electives at Nesbit are an opportunity to enrich and enhance the student experience. Electives are a unique opportunity for teachers to select and design a course that they are passionate about! Electives are offered to students in a wheel format. The elective wheel, coupled with electives delivered from the passions of our teachers, provides a unique experience for students. Students are not asked to make elective choices from a menu, rather, they are provided enriching elective rotations.
Design features within our elective program:
All 6th grade students will participate in an executive functioning elective called: Advisory. This elective will take place in Trimester 1. During this course, students will develop organizational, communicative, and technological skills; and familiarize themselves with middle school tools and strategies.
After-School Sports
Nesbit School participates in Art Davis Activity League for sports. Carpools of families participating will be encouraged. Contact twhitebread@brssd.org for more information.
Fall Sports
Flag Football
Girls Volleyball
Cross Country
Winter Sports:
Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball
Spring Sports
Basketball Clinic
Track and Field (with Ralston)
Service Projects
All 8th grade students will be asked to complete a service project consisting of 15 hours of work designed to improve the community or world with which we live in. By the end of the project, students will be able to say with confidence, "I make a difference!" because they will have found a way to serve our community or world in a positive way.
Chromebooks
Nesbit Middle School Students will be issued a Chromebook for use both at school and at home. Once assigned to a child, the Chromebook will become the responsibility of that child through 8th grade. Children will take their Chromebooks home daily and are expected to bring their Chromebook to school every day fully charged and ready for use. Children are expected to use the Chromebook in accordance with BRSSD's Technology Use Agreement as well as Nesbit's Technology Use Agreement. Broken and lost Chromebooks will not be replaced. Therefore, children are highly encouraged to take the utmost of care with these Chromebooks. Should a Chromebook become unusable, the responsible child will no longer have access to a Chromebook at home. However, they will still have access to a Chromebook while at school. Upon graduation from 8th grade, the Chromebook will be returned to Nesbit School.
7th Grade Immunization Requirements
All 7th graders are required to have the following vaccines prior to the start of the first day of school:
Required: 1 dose of Tdap
Required: 2 doses of measles-containing vaccine
Encouraged: Meningococcal and HPV