The Panther Post

Good afternoon,

Thank you to all who came out to support our 8th graders at this year's Capstone Convention. Our students did a fantastic job presenting their projects and thank you to the staff who have helped to support along the way!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. A special thank you to all those who have served and currently serve.

Best,

Christina & Emily

Mon., May 29th: No School - Memorial Day

Tues. May 30th: Empower Field Trip, Bible club, Homework Club, Bike Club

Wed. May 31st: Art club, PTO Meeting

Thur. June 1st: Bike club

Fri. June 2nd: AM Intramurals, AM Student Council, 7th Grade Field Day

Mon. June 5th: 6th Grade Field Day

June 8th: 8th Grade Step Up Ceremony 1:00pm

June 13th: Last Day of School (1/2 Day)

Each month Team Leaders will share an update on current happenings throughout the team. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your child's Team Leader. Contact information is within each newsletter. Team Leaders should be sending April newsletters soon!

Below is access to team's May newsletters. Don't forget to check out Team Amethyst's newsletter. This is our specials and P.E. team.

Enjoy!

Students shared their Profile of a Graduate portfolios during advisory this week.

Today, during our Memorial Day Ceremony, we reflected and paid tribute to our country’s finest and those who have sacrificed so much for each of us.

One of our 4 PBIS pillars at EHMS is pride. Today, I want you all to take a moment to reflect on this word and think about what it means to you. It is with great honor that we are given the opportunity to humbly thank our service members. We have visitors today who have served as active members. They all exemplify the word pride and we should strive to follow their lead by taking pride in what we do every day. Memorial Day is only one day a year, however, by demonstrating pride in your everyday life, we can show appreciation for their commitment and sacrifice.

Thank you to our visitors and State Representative Irene Haines, who spoke with our students today.

Our 6th graders had an afternoon of flight! Visiting different stations through the afternoon, students extended their learning from their experience in Technology Education. Mark DiTommaso of Marlborough, CT and Dean Brown of East Hampton, CT flew their helicopters and landed them on the parking lot of the Middle School. Students had the opportunity to talk to the pilots, see inside the helicopters, and learn the mechanics of how they fly.

Michael Gosselin of Cromwell, CT is a Master RC Airplane Pilot was here. He had some of his planes available for students to view. He demonstrated how the planes fly, did some fancy tricks with them for the students, and some students got a chance to try their hand at RC piloting themselves!

During the school year, every 6th grade student built their own model rocket. Throughout the event, they had a chance to launch their rockets. There will be about 150 model rocket launches in total. Chris Mansfield of East Hampton is a model rocket expert and will be assisting with the launches.

Students also met with several members of the Community who work in the aviation industry. Students learned what it is like to work in the field and how these people learned the skills they needed to work in these careers:

Thomas Barry of East Hampton, CT is an Advanced Military Programs engineer with Pratt and Whitney.

Markus Luukko of Southington, CT is an Assembly Equipment Design Engineer with Pratt and Whitney.

Arianna Strand is a pilot and Certified flight instructor with Learn2FlyCT.

We can't say how proud we are enough of our 8th graders and their capstone projects. Our students have done a tremendous job completing their projects and presenting them at Wednesday night's Capstone Convention. Congratulations!

Below are some of the projects shared and we will continue to share out more over our final Panther Post editions!

Sixth graders have completed their last reading unit of the school year. Their culminating project was a poster featuring the main character of their book and the lesson they learned from the character.

The EHMS Bike Team competed in their final race of the season yesterday at Ledyard Middle School.

The Panthers' Charlotte Daniels and Abby Hambidge dominated as usual and taking first and second place in the girls category. For the boys, it was once again Dolan Krasnitski finishing on the podium in second place and Forrest Bellucci taking 10th place for the boys.

For the individual final standings Charlotte was awarded the champion's jersey and trophy for finishing in first place among all girls for the season! For the final individual boys standings, Dolan also snagged a trophy, finishing second among all boys!

As a team, the Panthers put up a valiant effort to try and prevent Ledyard from repeating as season champs, but came up just short finishing in second in the team standings.

Great job to all the racers who competed this season!

Find out how you can help with this GREAT CAUSE – our kids, our school!

East Hampton Middle School PTO needs Board members and volunteers for the 2023-24 school year

Grab a friend and join us to say hello and learn more:

Wednesday, May 31st between 5:30 and 6:30pm in the EHMS front office

Interested but can't make it? Email us at ptoehms@gmail.com and we will arrange to meet up another time.

With our current Board members moving on to the high school, your help is KEY to ensuring that EHMS PTO can continue to support our school! All the PTO funding ($10,000+ per year) that benefits EHMS will just - POOF! - disappear when nobody is left to lend a hand. We are willing to show you the ropes - you won't be left to figure it all out all alone :-) There are so many things you can help with - even for one event - so that the PTO can continue to support our kids!

Volunteers are needed for the following planning committees. If nobody steps forward, the events won't take place and fundraising is at risk for next school year:

• Pantherfest (three or four coordinators needed)
• Spirit Wear (one coordinator)
• Teacher / Staff Appreciation (two coordinators)
• Teacher Conference Dinners (two coordinators)
• Munson's Fundraising (one coordinator)
• Panther Prowl (two coordinators)
• Yard Goats (one coordinator)

We look forward to welcoming you to EHMS PTO, whether as a Board member or volunteer. Thank you!

EHMS PTO SPIRIT WEAR SALE

***25% OFF EVERYTHING – NO CODE NEEDED***
THROUGH MONDAY, JUNE 5th

ALL ITEMS MADE TO ORDER AND SHIPPED DIRECTLY TO YOU

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THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IS ALMOST HERE
BUT THERE'S ONE MORE CHANCE TO GET YOUR
EAST HAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL SPIRIT WEAR BEFORE SUMMER STARTS!

Check out our online shop for tons of logo options and garment styles

Store link: https://1stplace.sale/17567

East Hampton Middle School PTO will earn a percentage of every sale to help support our school’s needs.

What better way to promote Panther Pride and school spirit while raising funds for EHMS?

If you have any questions, please contact the PTO at ptoehms@gmail.com

Thank you for your support and happy shopping!

East Hampton Middle School

YEARBOOKS ON SALE NOW!

Cost of Yearbook: $30

Cash or checks are accepted

Please make checks payable to: EHMS

Paper forms are available in the main office or send an email with your student's name and Homeroom to cbuchan@easthamptonct.org

NOTE: Students will receive their yearbooks on the last day of school.

There will be NO yearbook sales on the last day of school.

The Nutmeg Game Show is coming! From now until the end of May, we will be running a fun reading initiative that will culminate with grade-level “Nutmeg Game Show” assemblies on June 6!

What Students Will Do:

• Read as many of the 3 Nutmeg titles selected for their grade level as they can. All books can be checked out in the LMC.
• Submit questions about the book(s) via Google Form linked on the library website here (These questions maybe used during the game show!)
• Form teams of 3-4 students to participate in a preliminary round within their ELA classroom in mid-May
• Winning teams from each ELA class will go on to complete at grade-level assemblies the end of May/June
• The winning team from each grade level will get to pick 1 friend to join them to watch a movie in the LMC during the last week of June…movie snacks will be provided!

With the start of spring comes planning for all our end of the year events. We have been honored with the opportunity to see your child grow over the last three years. Each student has become an integral part of our Panther community and has evolved into an individual with interests, passions, and goals. We look forward to partnering with you as we open the doors to your child’s high school experience and all the opportunities that await while celebrating and closing the door to all they have accomplished over the last three years at EHMS.

We are planning a culminating event for our 8th graders. On Thursday June 8th at 1:00, we will hold our 2nd annual 8th grade Step-Up ceremony in our gymnasium. We will continue to celebrate our students that evening (June 8th) with our 8th Grade Formal that will be held at EHMS from 7pm to 9pm. We encourage all families to come for pictures starting at 6:30pm. The next day, our students will be attending their 8th grade High Meadow class field trip on Friday June 9th. More specifics to these events will be communicated out, but we wanted to provide you the dates to save in your calendars! If there are any questions, please feel free to reach out to administration or our 8th grade co-advisors; Mrs. Donovan and Mrs. Mercaldi.

A reminder that the following email addresses can be used by parents to report and document their approval of an absence:

Memorial_Attendance@easthamptonct.org

Center_Attendance@easthamptonct.org

EHMS_Attendance@easthamptonct.org

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 child for the first 9 absences. After your student has more than 9 absences, additional documentation or communication is required to excuse the absence. However, please continue to use the email designated for your child's school to continue to notify the school that your child will be absent. You may call your child’s school at any time to report an absence but please make sure to follow up a phone call with a note or email to the attendance email.

Also, just a friendly reminder to have your child bring lip balm with them to school, if needed. This year has been tough for those lips!

Nutrition is so important for growth and development. Please be sure that your student is bringing enough snacks for themselves and remind them to eat breakfast and lunch. As a reminder, the school offers breakfast and lunch, free of charge for all families.

Is anyone else having Spring Fever?! If we aren’t going to be getting snow, then bring on Spring!

If at any point you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me at khafele@easthamptonct.org or call the school office at 860-365-4060.

Thank you!

Mrs. Hafele

If your child is having any Chromebook or technology issues please click on the link below to do some troubleshooting: EHMS TroubleShooting Tips

If the troubleshooting doesn't work click on the link below to submit an IT work ticket:

Chromebook Trouble Ticket

Please encourage your child to take pride and care in their device. Below is a video to review the proper care of Chromebooks with your child.

Board of Education Statement on School Safety:

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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement of the East Hampton Public Schools:

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.

Nondiscrimination Statement of the East Hampton Public Schools:

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: camaral@easthamptonct.org
Website: https://www.easthamptonps.org/o/ehms
Location: 19 Childs Road, East Hampton, CT, USA
Phone: (860) 365 4060