001Welcome to uh this session of Roaming with Road. I'm at Frankfurt Middle School. We're here in May at the end of the year. I'm going to be meeting with eighth graders and I'm going to be asking them what they are looking forward to the most about going to the high school next year and then what they're going to miss most about Frankfurt Middle School. So enjoy this session. Miss Brenda, principal of Frankfurt Middle School. Mr. Brenda, I'm going to be asking your kids here in a little bit, your eighth graders, about what they're looking forward to about the high school next year and then what they're going to miss about the middle school. What do you think they might say to me today? So, I've actually I've been asking them this during lunch recently. They
002are scared to death right now to go to the the high school because they're afraid about new friends and things like that. It's the normal things. I think I think they'll miss the house system. Okay. So, I'd like to know if I'm right, so you let me know. Okay. All right. I will. Thank you very much. Have a seat right here. You're on roaming with Roa. What's your name? Manuel Madera, but I go by Manny. Manuel. Now, are you of the Madera family that has uh that that plays in the band? And Okay. Brother. Oh, that's your brother. All right. You guys are talented crew. Yeah. What I'd like to ask you today is uh what are you most looking forward to about going to the high school next year? And then what are you
003going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Yeah. I'm looking forward to uh to the new start, to the new chapter in my life, you know. is a big difference going into high school from middle school. And I'm going to miss for sure uh probably the teachers here at middle school. It's they're all nice and it's just a good good Yeah. Good place. These Maderas, it's a sharp family right here. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Hey Preston, what are you looking forward to about the high school next year as an eighth grader? And what are you going to miss about the middle school? One thing I'm looking forward to the high school is meeting new people and having fun. Okay. And what are you going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Um, probably
004the teachers as well. The teachers. Okay. Thank you, Preston. I'm looking forward to learning new instruments in the band class. Ah, with Mr. Hutton. That's right. My family's a big band family. Okay. Well, you're you're going to be impressed. And then what are you going to miss about the middle school? My teachers. Your teachers. All right. Thank you, Liam. What are you looking forward to about the high school? And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Probably sports. Sports at the high school. Okay. All right. What sports do you play? Uh basketball and track. Basketball and track. And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Uh probably my teachers and sports. Teachers and sports. Thank you very much, Liam. Jacob, what are you looking forward to about the high
005school? And what are you going to miss about the middle school? The different things at high school is like new things I can learn. Okay. The things I'm going to miss here is like my teachers. Your teachers. All right. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to the classes and I'm going to miss the teachers. Going to miss the teachers here. Okay. Thank you. Well, what I'm looking forward to in next year in the high school is all the classes and all the new teachers that I'm going to meet. All right. And you know, the layout of the whole school. Okay. All right. And what I'm going to miss here is just this whole building, the memories I made here and the teachers and my friends that I made along well the way as becoming
006a middle schooler. It's been a special place here, but it'll be a special place where you're going. So, all right. Thank you. you. So, I'm definitely looking forward to um new classes. Okay. And uh something I'm going to miss about the middle school is definitely the teachers. Definitely the teachers. Okay. Thank you. I think what I'm really looking forward to is like the new classes and teachers. Okay. What are you going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Probably the teachers as well because they were like pretty good. They were pretty good here, huh? Pretty good or pretty awesome? Pretty awesome. Okay. All right. Thank you. uh meeting the new teachers, like brand new teachers at the high school and then here I'll miss like like the old teachers that are like really nice and stuff.
007Going to miss the really nice ones here. Do you have any in particular that you're thinking of here? Uh Miss Phelps. Miss Phelps. Okay. Thank you very much. Jacob, what are you looking forward to about Frankfurt High School? Uh I get to see people that I know. Get to see people that you know. What are you going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Probably the teachers. The teachers here. Any teachers in particular? Like Mr. Hickey or Mr. Hindle? Mr. Hickey or Mr. Hindle. Okay. Thank you. Hadley. What are you looking forward to about Frankfurt High School next year? Definitely the learning opportunities and being able to branch out. Okay. Um, do you have a particular teacher there that you want to see every day? My mom. Okay. That's what I thought. And what are you
008going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Um, the teachers. The teachers. Do you have any in particular that come to mind? Miss Uitz. Um, Miss Clemenso. Okay. There's classes for nursing and I want to be a nurse. Oh, I love it. The CNA classes. That's right. And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Uh, I have to leave some of my friends behind and I have some amazing teachers that I have to leave behind. And who are those teachers? I've got quite a few. Okay. Got a couple that you can name off. I like the nurse. She's really nice to me. Oh, yeah. Yep. She's a great lady. Uh, Miss H. She was nice to me in seventh grade. Okay. Mr. Hickey and Miss Uitz. Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
009I'm looking forward the building and the new activities. There is new chances. Oh, new chances. Okay. What are you going to miss about Frankfurt Middle School? Probably the teachers. The teachers. Any teachers in particular? Mr. Heindel and Miss Clemens. Okay. All right. What are you looking forward to about the high school next year? Uh the different opportunities for electives. Okay. I love it. And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Um it's really hard because there's a couple of things that would be missed. Okay. But more or less probably maybe the easel scheduling and maybe the way classes were put. Okay. So here at the high school it's kind of different. Okay. All right. Well enjoy your year next year. What are you looking forward to about Frankfurt High School next year?
010Sports and stuff cuz they sound really fun. Okay. What sports? Uh color guard like football and all that. I want to watch like the football games. All right. All right. Sounds good. And what are you uh going to miss about the middle school? The teachers. They're really nice. The teachers. Any teachers in particular? Uh Miss Uitz and Mr. Hayes. all the different opportunities and different courses that they offer at the high school. They offer 24 different pathways there you can choose from. That's right. What are you going to miss about the middle school? Uh probably the house system since we just got it as well as a few teachers. Okay. What house system were you in? Uh I'm in protos. Oh, okay. And which teachers in particular? Uh Miss Uitz. Okay. I'm going to miss
011her. Abby, what are you looking forward to about the high school next year? the opportunities that we don't get at like the middle school, like the chances that we don't have here. Okay. And uh what are you going to miss about the middle school? Um the memories along the way. The memories along the way. And I can't believe you're already in high school next year. All right. Congratulations. I'm looking forward to meeting some of the new meeting new people like some of the upper classmen. Okay. And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Um some of my friends that are in like the younger grades and the teachers. Okay. Any teachers in particular? Um, probably like Mr. Henderson and Miss Uitz. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Emma, what are you
012looking forward to about the high school next year? Probably student council. Student council. You're second person that said that, so that must have a reputation. Yeah. And what are you going to miss about the middle school? Um, probably my orchestra teacher, Miss Whitner. Miss Whitner. I'm looking forward to doing more color guard next year. More color guard. What are you going to miss about the middle school? Probably Miss Clement. Okay. Hey, Miss Clement, thank you very much. Hey, this is a special session of Roaming with Road. I'm here with Josh Marshall, Frankfurt Middle School assistant principal. He's going to give us a little tour of the new secured entry and new office area here at Frankfurt Middle School. So, Mr. Marshall, if you could kind of walk us through. Sure. All right. So, this is
013the student entrance that you're just coming through now uh into the main office. We've got our secretaries that'll be set up here. Uh off to the right, you'll see a parent waiting area. So, when parents come through a double set of secured entries, uh they'll come through and be buzzed into the first set of four doors into the vestibule. They'll be buzzed into this single door as well, which brings them into the office. They'll check in with the secretaries, do what they need to. If a student checks in or a parent needs to go into the building, they have to be buzzed into that door that you walked through originally as well. So, we've got, like I said, secretaries here, parent waiting, and then student waiting over here. So, that actually takes us into our
014counselor wing as well. So, our counselors have access to the students there. Uh, nice big window for our secretaries to keep an eye on our kiddos while they're waiting for counselors or administration. All right. So, we're really excited about all the changes that are happening. When will you be moving into this area? This summer, officially moving in. We've already started putting some furniture in some of the classrooms or in some of the offices, but yeah, this summer officially we'll be in here. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. Marshall. We are entering the new auditorium area here at Frankfurt Middle School, and uh I have with me uh Paul Crick from Teon. Paul is our construction manager. And Paul has been doing amazing job in this project and uh so great to have him. So, we're
015going to take a little tour and Paul is going to kind of go over and talk a little bit about uh each area that we go through from the auditorium to uh the classrooms. Paul, what space are we in here right now in this this kind of hallway? So, this is the new entry corridor u from the athletic hallway into the new addition. So, this will be a collection space. Um concession area is behind us and this will be the gathering point waiting on the auditorium activities. Uh what room are we entering into here? So this will be the new band room. Um this room has one large space with offices and ensemble practice rooms as well as three shared single practice rooms with the orchestra room. Okay. So from the main uh entry hallway,
016this is just the student access area to the classrooms um with openings into the auditorium. Okay. All right. Thank you. Hi. How are you? All right. We are entering into what what room are we entering into here? This is the new orchestra room. Okay. All right. Where are they going to store all their instruments? So, the the storage are um cabinet units along the walls and then rolling storage for the large bass and cello instruments. And do they have practice rooms in here too? They do. They also have a single fiveperson ensemble room and then they share a path corridor with the band room and there's single spaces there. Okay. All right. We still have some equipment in this room, but this will soon be which room will this one be? This will be the
017choir room and again it has its own or office for the teacher and then practice rooms for the students as well. It looks amazing in here. Can you just kind of share with the viewers what uh what kind of setup we have here and what this space will be used for and uh up front here? Yeah. So, this space here with the two-tone gray floor, um this is a telescoping seating area, uh roughly um 500 seats. That's a collapsible bleacher system to allow, uh the bleachers to collapse, so have a large functional space for other activities uh the school needs. Up in the front we have fixed seating um 100 fixed seats ADA accessible uh locations uh for wheelchair um necessities and then behind that is the stage area. Okay. All right. Thank you. Well,
018viewers, I hope you enjoyed today's uh roaming with Roa with the kids and what they're going to do next year, looking forward to next year at Frankfurt High School, what they're going to miss about the middle school. Interesting, is it that it's it's always about people and they're going to miss the teachers here more than anything else. It's about our connections that we have uh with each other. So, it was great to hear from the kids. And I thank you Paul Crick from Tecton for giving us a tour of the new auditorium and Mr. Marshall for giving us a quick tour of the front office here at Frankfurt Middle School. Signing out. Roaming with Roa. Thank you.