Bellringer Newsletter

Good morning. It is hard to believe that today marks the end of the 1st Academic Quarter of the school year. Families should have received a series of ParentSquare communications from their child's teachers to schedule appointments for Fall Conferences. We also celebrated the end of the quarter with a breakfast for members of our Senior Class. On behalf of Mrs. Russell and myself, I would like to thank everyone who donated breakfast items for our students. As always, continue to check the Important Dates and Reminders section of the Bellringer Newsletter for a schedule of upcoming events. If you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to contact me directly at everner@easthamptonct.org.

• October 31--End of 1st Quarter
• November 8--Election Day-Professional Development Day--No School
• November 8--EHHS PTO Election Day Bake Sale
• November 10--EHHS Veteran's Day Ceremony
• November 11--Veteran's Day---No School
• November 12--DECA Walkathon
• November 16--AMC (American Math Competition)
• November 16 +17--Early Dismissal--Parent Teacher Conferences
• November 17--EHHS Band and Choir Concert--7:30
• November 18---Student Council Blood Drive
• November 21--DECA Bingo Night
• November 22--Senior Dinner--6:00--9:00 (Glastonbury Hills CC)
• November 23--Early Release--EHHS
• November 24--27--Thanksgiving Recess
• December 23--Early Dismissal--EHHS
• December 24--January 2--Winter Recess
• January 12, 13, 17, and 18--EHHS Mid-Year Exams
• January 16--MLK Day---No School
• January 27--Early Release--Professional Development
• February 8--EHHS Band and Choir Concert--6:30
• February 17--No School EHHS--Professional Development
• February 20-21--February Recess--No School EHHS
• March 10--Professional Development--No School EHHS
• March 20--23--Senior Class Trip to Washington D.C.
• March 24--Early Dismissal--Professional Development
• March 29 + 30---EHHS Parent-Teacher Conferences
• April 7--Good Friday--No School---EHHS
• April 10---April 14---April Vacation
• May 29--Memorial Day--No School EHHS
• June 2---EHHS Junior-Senior Prom

Incoming 9th Grade Curriculum Night (for all current 8th grade families) will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.

During student drop-off in the moring and pick-up in the afternoon, please refrain from using the Bus Lane. At these times (7:00--7:25 and 2:00--2:25) cars are not allowed in the Bus Lane as vehicles block the busses and present a safety hazard to students. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in keeping our students safe.

East Hampton High School is now using the calendar in Parent Square! Important dates will be included for easy access.

"Calling all Veterans! We are looking to get in contact with former Bellringers and those in the community that are veterans or actively enlisted in the armed forces. Please complete the form below to assist us in creating an ongoing contact list of Bellringers and East Hampton community members we could honor during Veterans Day. Thank you! Contact Mrs. LaBonte with any questions at slabonte@easthamptonct.org "

https://forms.gle/JaExXdysrMASf5549

The EHHS PTO Election Day Bake Sale is coming!

This much-loved event is a big fundraiser for the PTO with proceeds going to support mini grants and senior scholarships at EHHS. We need your help to ensure its success!

Please consider baking or purchasing goodies and packaging them in ‘grab and go’ units: cookies or brownies (include several in each baggie), individual muffins, slices of quick breads, donuts/donut holes, etc. We suggest no cupcakes or frosted items please as they’re tough to package and sell cleanly. We also encourage donations of entire plates of cookies/brownies, Rice Krispie treats, etc., multipacks of muffins or donuts, whole loaves of quick breads and whole pies or cakes – all have been very popular at past sales!

Please send your donations to the school office with your student on Monday, November 7th marked "PTO Bake Sale" or drop off yourself in the school office. Please make sure that all items are packaged for sale in plastic wrap or baggies, etc. Include a note to let us know what the item is and if it contains nuts of any kind. Gluten free items are appreciated as well.

If you don’t have time to bake but still want to support the PTO, we gratefully welcome monetary donations. Checks made out to EHHS PTO can be brought or mailed to school anytime and a receipt will be mailed to you acknowledging your donation for tax purposes.

If you have any questions or need to drop items off either earlier than the date above or at the bake sale itself (before 9am), or if you’d like to support us by taking a shift at the bake sale (estimated to run from 5:30am setup through 12 noon), please email us at ptoehhs@gmail.com or call/text chairperson Patty Burnham at 860-573-3638.

Thank you for your support!

AP Registration & Payment:

Students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) courses at East Hampton High School must enroll in the corresponding AP Classroom through the College Board. If students have questions about this they should talk to their teachers. In addition, students must turn in a permission slip and payment by November 1st. Students have been given a permission slip, but it's also included in this newsletter for your convenience. Please see Mrs. Rodowicz in the School Counseling Office if you have questions.

Southern CT State University

Students interested in applying to SCSU can apply for free using the Common Application on November 15th. If students are using Southern's First Year Application they can apply for free between November 15th-30th.

Upcoming College Visits

• Bryant University - Tuesday, November 1st @ 8:31am
• Sacred Heart University - Wednesday, November 2nd @ 8:31am
• University of Connecticut - Wednesday, November 2nd @ 12:27pm
• Western New England University - Thursday, November 3rd @ 12:27pm

Advanced Academic Opportunity!

Juniors and seniors with exceptional academic records are invited to apply for the Wesleyan High School Scholars Program. This is a selective program, but if you are accepted you can take a course for free on the Wesleyan campus! To apply students must complete the following before the November 14, 2022 deadline!

o Complete demanding coursework at their high school.

o Have transportation to and from campus.

o Complete the application, which includes a 250 word essay/statement of interest.

If you are interested, please complete the application below.

Application: https://formfacade.com/public/118012716068786379225/all/form/1FAIpQLSeBuxftTH_SA7l8uaSgtanOvmPS5ftm7YCVe3tgugEmZb4n2A

Boys Varsity Soccer defeated HK 5-1 on the road and Old Saybrook 3-2 at home. Their current season record is 11-1-1. They are scheduled to play at home on Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the Shoreline Conference Semi-Finals against Lyme-Old Lyme.

Boys Junior Varsity Soccer tied The Morgan School 2-2 on the road and defeated Cromwell 5-2 at home. Their final season record is 8-1-1.

Girls Varsity Soccer defeated Windsor Locks on the road 3-2 and was defeated by Portland on the road 0-2 in the Shoreline Conference ¼ Finals. Their current season record is 7-6-2. They are scheduled to play in the CIAC Class M State Tournament on Tuesday November 8th on the road.

Varsity Football was defeated by HK 6-56. Their current season record is 1-6. They are scheduled to play at home vs Cromwell/Portland Co-Op on Friday at 6:30 pm.

Junior Varsity Football was defeated by HK 0-24 . They are scheduled to on the road vs Cromwell/Portland Co-Op on Monday November 7th.

Varsity Volleyball defeated North Branford on the road 3-0, defeated Mercy at home 3-0 and defeated Canton at home 3-0. Their current season record is 16-2. They are scheduled to play at home on Thursday at 5:00 pm in the Shoreline Conference Semi-Finals. Admission will be charged for this match.

Junior Varsity Volleyball was defeated by North Branford on the road 1-2, was defeated by Mercy 1-2 and defeated Canton 2-1. Their final season record is 6-13.

The Boys and Girls Cross Country teams competed in the CIAC Class SS State Championships. The boys team finished in 4th place and the girls team finished in 3rd place. They are scheduled to run in the Freshmen Invitational on Tuesday at John Winthrop Middle School. Three runners will be competing in the CIAC State Open Championships on Friday at Wickham Park.

Winter Sports registration is open ay FamilyID.com.

All athletic schedules and results may be found at CIACSPORTS.com.

Thank you to everyone who donated breakfast items for the Senior Breakfast. Members of the Senior Class had a great time and was able to celebrate the end of the 1st Quarter of the school year.

EHHS Project Graduation need your help!!!!

We are looking for parents to help support our programming.

Next Meeting--November 2--6:30 in the EHHS LMC

ehhsctprojgrad@gmail.com

Please e-mail our group if you ar einterested in the following:

• Secretary – take notes at meetings. Send them out. Attend every meeting
• Treasurer – count. Mange spreadsheet of finances
• Social Media/website - promote group/events on Facebook and website
• Find corporate donations (work) -matching donations (United way)

The East Hampton Arts & Culture Commission is accepting applications from East Hampton High School Juniors and Seniors for $200 grants to support an annual East Hampton High School Capstone Project. The grant will help support two student's proposed Capstone Project, a multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students. Capstone projects may take a wide variety of forms including a long-term investigative project that culminates in a final product, presentation, or performance.

Applicants for the EHACC Capstone Grant will be invited to present his/her Capstone Project idea to commission members during an agreed upon commission meeting. Deadline to apply is Feb. 1.

Applications are available at www.artsforeasthamptonct.org and can be submitted to arts@easthamtponct.org or can be mailed/dropped off at the town manager's office at the East Hampton Town Hall, 1 Community Drive, East Hampton, CT 06424.

Please review the EHHS Attendance Policy and Student Handbook as they contain important information.

Per the East Hampton Board of Education’s Attendance Policy and Connecticut statute, parents and guardians may only approve the first 9 absences of the school year with a parent note. Absences 10 and above can only be excused with further documentation and under specific circumstances.

In addition, if a student has four unexcused absences in one month or 10 unexcused absences in a year they are classified as truant. If a child misses 18 or more days in a school year – excused or unexcused absences – the student is classified as chronically absent.

Access to the East Hampton attendance policy is available HERE

It is also necessary for a student to be present at least half of the school day for the student to be recorded as present. When a student arrives after the mid-day point or leaves before it, the day cannot be counted for that student. Building principals will share the specific times in their communications with families.

A student is considered to be “in attendance” if present at his/her assigned school, or an activity.

sponsored by the school (e.g., field trip), for at least half of the regular school day.

At East Hampton High School, half of the regular school day arrives at 10:55 a.m. This means that if a student arrives after 10:55, even with a note, the student will be marked Tardy Absent. If a student dismisses prior to 10:55 and does not return to school, the student will be marked Early Dismissal Absent. Please contact the school with any questions regarding our attendance policies.

To increase the ease of reporting an absence and documenting parent approval of the absence for a student’s first 9 absences, the East Hampton Public Schools has created email addresses that parents can use to contact their student’s school and report an absence. Effectively immediately, the following email addresses can be used by parents to report and document their approval of an absence:

EHHS_Attendance@easthamptonct.org

If you have successfully emailed the school, you will receive an autoreply that notifies you that the absence communication has been received and recorded. This process is effective for your student’s first 9 absences. After your student has more than 9 absences, additional documentation or communication will be required to excuse the absence. Please use the email to continue to notify the school that your child will not attend. You may call your child’s school at any time to report an absence, as well.

Students, parents, and community members will have access to an anonymous tip line on the front page of the school district website to report self-concerns, mental health concerns of a friend, or concerns of violence. Please view the front page of the website at https://www.easthamptonps.org

We are excited to launch our new Bellringer Sideline Store! The store is available 24/7 and ships directly to you!!!

Please see the link below to grab your Bellringer gear

https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/connecticut/easthampton/east-hampton-high-school

Students who are being dismissed due to illness, MUST FIRST see the School Nurse. Additionally, we ask that parents familiarize themselves with our attendance policy which is in the EHHS Student Handbook. Some of the main policies/procedures that we are mut be followed are listed below:

• EARLY DISMISSALS: A written request (no phone calls) from a parent or guardian must be presented to the main office before school begins so student may obtain an early dismissal slip. Students will wait in the main office for their parent/guardian to call the office and we will send your child out to meet you after they sign-out.
• NURSE DISMISSALS: In case of illness during school, dismissal will be arranged through the school nurse, or in her absence, through the office. Students feeling ill should report directly to the nurse's office. Students should not be texting or calling home when not feeling well.

Please note that having a parent’s written request before the start of the day allows the students name to appear on the Daily Attendance sheet so their teachers will be aware that they may not be in class on that day. This also eliminates the office staff from calling in and disrupting a classroom to dismiss the student. We do realize that there may be occasions when you may need to unexpectedly pick your child up early. In those cases we will call the student down when the parent/guardian arrives to the school.

Students that are dismissed from school will not be allowed to return without appropriate documentation from their visit/provider. In the event that doucmentation is not available, a parent will be required to sign their student into the main office upon return.

1. Dropping off on items--the table to drop off items for students has been moved inside the first set of doors. Parents will be able to drop items of for students, but will no longer be admitted to the main lobby.
2. Appointments--for security reasons, parents and visitors who are requesting to meet with a teacher or administration should call in advance to ensure that the requested party is available to meet rather than show up unannounced.
3. Effective immediately, there is an anonymous tip line to enhance a safe environment in our schools. Students, parents, and community members have access to the front page of the website to report self-concerns, mental health concerns of a friend, or concerns of violence. https://www.easthamptonps.org/

The East Hampton Board of Education is committed to a safe and secure learning environment that honors and celebrates the diversity of our students, our community, and our nation. The Board of Education in partnership with the school community will not tolerate any threat of violence in the schools or any hate speech that targets any race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Each student is held to the highest standards of responsible decision making within a culture that is expected to foster compassion, caring, and empathy.

As a reminder to members of our school community, Board Policy #5145.122 allows the schools to work with the East Hampton Police Department to protect the health and safety of students and staff by conducting sweeps of school property by trained sniffing dogs. Please review the policy and procedures below. Our goal is to ensure that the East Hampton Schools are free of illegal substances. Annually, we provide notice of this policy to our school community. Should a sweep be conducted, parents and the Board of Education will be notified upon completion.

Use of Dogs to Sweep School Property

The Board permits the administration to invite law enforcement agencies to sweep school property with dogs trained for the purpose of detecting the presence of illegal substances, when necessary to protect the health and safety of students, employees or property or to detect the presence of illegal substances or contraband, including alcohol and/or drugs. The use of trained canine sniffing dogs and their associated law enforcement personnel is for the purpose of “alerting” on property only, and is subject to the following:

1. Parents and students shall be notified of this policy through its inclusion in the student/ parent handbook and the Superintendent and Principal or their designees, shall explain the policies and procedures followed in sweeps and searches to students and staff on an annual basis. Once notification has been given to parents and students through the handbook and assembly respectively, the school district will have met its obligation to advertise the sweep and search policy and associated procedure. Additional notices need not be given and actual times or dates of planned sweeps need not be released in advance.

2. The Superintendent or designee shall authorize the sweep. Immediately prior to the sweep, an announcement will be made for students and staff to ‘stay put’ in their classrooms while the sweep is taking place. Representatives from school administration shall accompany dogs and handlers while on school premises.

3. The Board shall be informed by the Superintendent of Schools that a sweep has taken place.

4. Parents shall be informed through the school’s mass communication system by the Superintendent of Schools that a sweep has taken place.

5. All school property which students have access to during the day, such as lockers, classrooms, parking areas and storage areas may be swept.

6. Individuals shall not be subjected to a search by dogs.

a. Dogs shall not be used in rooms occupied by persons except for demonstration purposes. The handler and representative from school administration will always be present with the dogs

b. When used for demonstration purposes, the dog may not sniff any student and/or staff.

7. Only the dog’s official handler will determine what constitutes an alert by the dog. If the dog alerts on a particular item or place, that locker or vehicle will be identified for later search. Upon completion of the sweep, the school administration will then search the identified property in the presence of a witness.

8. Searches that disclose evidence of misconduct shall result in disciplinary consequences in accordance with Board policy and may also result in referral to law enforcement agencies.

Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes

Policy adopted: March 15, 2016

10-221 Boards of education to prescribe rules.

New Jersey v T.L.O., 53 U.S.L.W. 4083 (1985)

54-33n Search of school lockers and property

The school community of East Hampton is committed to the mission of honoring and celebrating the diversity of our students, our community, and our nation. We strive to guide our students to conscious, deliberate, individual and collective actions that cultivate the respect of all races, religions, and social backgrounds. Our school community endeavors to produce graduates who are equipped with a greater understanding of the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The East Hampton Board of Education, in compliance with federal and state law, affirms its policy of equal educational opportunity for all students and equal employment opportunity for all persons. It is the policy of the District to promote nondiscrimination and an environment free of harassment regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, ancestry, disability (including but not limited to, intellectual disability, past or present history of mental disorder, physical disability, or learning disability), genetic information, marital status, or age or because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, or age of any persons with whom the individual associates. The District shall provide to all students without discrimination, course offerings, counseling, assistance, employment, athletics, and extracurricular activities. The District shall provide equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The District shall make reasonable accommodations for identified physical and mental impairments that constitute disabilities, consistent with federal and state statutes and regulations.

Email: everner@easthamptonct.org
Website: www.easthamptonps.org
Location: 15 North Maple Street, East Hampton, CT, USA
Phone: 860-365-4030
Twitter: @EH_CTPrincipal