Heritage Herald

We're nearing the end of a very eventful school year. Please encourage your children to FINISH STRONG! This has been a challenging year for all of our Middle School students and we're proud of them for persevering. We also appreciate our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, baby-sitters and siblings for pitching in to make this year successful. Teamwork definitely makes the dream work.

Please make sure you read all of the information in this newsletter, and as always, call the HMS main office if you have any questions (708-458-7590).

~Mrs. Malone

5/15 ~ Día Del Niño Celebration 1:00PM-2:30PM (Parking Lot)

5/18 ~ 8th Grade Diplomas will be mailed home

5/19 ~ Class of 2021 8th Grade Graduation

5/21 ~ 6th Grade Virtual Step Up Day (via Zoom)

Heritage Middle School 8th Grade Graduation

Date/Time: May 19, 2021 at 7:00pm

Venue: SeatGeek Stadium - 7000 S. Harlem Avenue, Bridgeview, IL 60455

Important Information:

• Car Pooling is strongly encouraged.
• Only ticket holders will be allowed into the parking area.
• Non-ticket holders WILL NOT be allowed to remain in the parking lot.
• Students will enter and exit through Gate F.
• Graduates should arrive in their caps and gowns at SeatGeek Stadium by 6:00pm.
• Guests will be seated in groups of four with four empty seats between each group.
• Our graduates will walk across the grass to receive their diplomas. For this reason, flat shoes must be worn. Students should not wear heels or spikes/cleats to the graduation ceremony.
• Graduates and Guests will be dismissed to the east parking lot immediately following the ceremony. Due to COVID guidelines, all participants must leave the parking lot as quickly as possible.
• Balloons and noise makers/horns are not allowed in the ceremony.

Rain Delay

In the event of excessive rain, we will postpone our graduation ceremony. Please check your text messages/email as we will communicate with parents and students if it becomes necessary to postpone the ceremony.

• We have brought back our Pathways program for this summer. This is our English Bridge and Algebra Bridge. These two classes are good for any students who may not have passed ELA or math during this past year or any students needing more work in either or both of these areas. Pathways classes are open only to incoming 9th graders.

• We also are offering our Human Geography class again. This is a full credit and the course runs the entire curriculum. This has been a really good class in the past for students in music or other electives who cannot fit in their 9th grade social studies class and the elective in their schedule. This class will have about 5 hours of learning each day with 3 of those hours happening each day in the building and 2 of the hours happening online.

• We also are offering our digital photography basic class. Students have enjoyed this class in the past. Both the photography and human geography classes are open to all students, including incoming 9th graders.

• We have a variety of ELL and Special Ed courses, but typically we don't advertise those classes and instead let the directors of those two programs work with families to get students into the right classes.

• Our plan is to run summer school in the building. We will run 3 school bus routes twice a day to accommodate the two periods of summer school.

Argo High School will mail home additional information.

Boys Volleyball finished their season Thursday against Unity

Final records

JV 1-9

Varsity 4-6

Girls Soccer finished their season on Tuesday against Unity

Final records

Varsity record 3-7

JV record 0-10

Argo High School Camps have been posted online

https://argo.8to18.com/dashboard/catalog

Heritage Middle School camps have been posted online

https://heritagems.8to18.com/dashboard/catalog

Congratulations on great seasons this school year and good luck to our graduating 8th grade athletes! Thank you to Coach Gentile, Coach Chavez, Coach Guenther and Coach Mischler for all the wonderful work you did this year with our student athletes.

~Mr. Forman