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Bellringer Newsletter

May 31, 2022

BellringerNewsletterMay 31, 2022

Principal's Message

Good afternoon. The Bellringer Newsletter is being sent out early this week. I hope everyone has a great long weekend and Memorial Day Holiday. When we return to school next week, June and the end of the school year will be quickly upon us. As always, EHHS is a busy place with year-end activities and celebrations. Please 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.

Important Dates and Reminders

  • May 30--Memorial Day--No School--EHHS
  • May 31--Senior Capstone Expo--4:00--5:30
  • June 1--Music Department Spring Concert--7:00
  • June 4--Senior Prom--Waters Edge--6:00--10:00
  • June 7--Community Band--EHHS
  • June 8--Top 10 Recognition Ceremony--Town Hall--6:00
  • June 9--EHHS Scholarship Evening--6:00
  • June 16--Last Day of School

SAVE THE DATE

Freshman Orientatation for the Class of 2026 will take place at East Hampton High School on August 25, from 1:00--3:00. This event is for student only. More information will be sent out to 9th Grade families over the summer.

Congratulations to our Top 10 Students Congratulations to our Top 10 Students

Advisory Program News

Given the events of the past week in our own school, community, and subsequent events in Uvalde, TX, members of the advisory committee, counseling department, support services, school administration, and other faculty members have been developing a school wide advisory activity for next Thursday, June 2nd.


The intention of this activity is to educate students on proper steps to take to notify school officials, proper authorities, or any adults, should an emergency situation arise. The events of the past week have further demonstarted the need to work with students on what to do in the event of an emergency situation. We will continue to work with students, staff, and the community during the remainder of this school year as well as when we return in the fall.

LMC News

Thank you to all the students who voted for the 2022 Nutmeg, which is Connecticut’s premier book award for children’s and young adult literature. The most popular title here at the high school was When My Heart Joins the Thousand. At the state level, the 2022 winner was Sadie. Copies of both are available in the school library. Also, the 2023 nominees have been announced! Students are welcome to borrow these or any books from the school library over the summer. Click here for more information.

Youth Exchange – An Opportunity of A Lifetime!

Youth exchange can be a life changing experience – both for high school students interested in studying abroad, and for local families who are interested in opening their homes to an inbound exchange student for part of the school year. East Hampton Rotary offers the opportunity to study abroad or to host a student from another country.

Outbound Exchange

East Hampton High School students have the opportunity to study abroad in one of more than 30 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America through our local Rotary club. Because host families are volunteers the cost for Rotary exchange tends to be significantly lower than through private company programs. Rotary offers both a full school year exchange, and a short term, 3 to 4 week exchange over the summer. Students must be age 15 to 18 ½ August first of the exchange year. Interested? For long term exchanges apply in the Fall the year before you want to go abroad. (Fall 2022 for the 2023/2024 year). Short term exchanges have a quicker turnaround so apply by the end of April before the summer you want to go abroad.

Hosting

We are happy to announce that we have a student from Germany joining us for the 2022/2023 school year. She is 15 years old and loves sports (she plays basketball and swims). Rotary recruits three host families for each school year, so that the student has the opportunity to experience several environments during the year. We have a host family for the first three months but are looking for host families for November – March and March – June. Past host families have created lifelong connections with their exchange students. Considering studying abroad? Rotary exchanges are one-to-one exchanges, which means the families of outbound students host for part of the year their student is abroad.

Why should you consider exchange?

In addition to experiencing a new culture and making new international connections, study abroad looks great on a college application.

I’m interested now what?!

Check out the information on hosting or studying abroad at this link https://www.exchangestudent.org/ and send an email to easthamptonctrotary@gmail.com. We’d be happy to answer any questions.

Save the Date Save the Date

EHHS Graduation

Graduation will be held at 6:00 PM.

Special Olympics---Volunteers Needed

On June 11th & 12th, the Connecticut Special Olympics Summer Games are being held on the athletic fields of Southern Connecticut State University. East Hampton students in grades 8-12 are eligible to participate in this special opportunity as volunteers. Our volunteers have a responsibility to show everyone there that we are kind, compassionate, hardworking volunteers. The most important thing to remember is that this is an incredibly special day for the athletes. Many of them have been training all year for these events, and most have family members, coaches, and friends who are there to support them. It is our job to make them feel as important and as proud of their hard work as possible. Volunteers assist with activities that can include:

  • Escorting athletes
  • Presenting awards to athletes
  • Setting up and running field events
  • Keeping score or timing events
  • Announcing events
  • No experience is needed
  • A brief orientation is provided before the events begin

Please check out our highlights for more information as well as how to sign up. Together, we can make a difference!

Athletic Department News

Follow all game results, highlights and athletic content on Twitter and Instagram at:

Twitter- BellringerSports @EHBellringers

Instagram: bellringer.athletics

For all athletic season schedules/results and CIAC tournament information go to ciacsports.com


Varsity Softball lost at H-K 3-13 in the Shoreline Conference ¼ Finals. Their current season record is 8-12. They are scheduled to play on the road in the Class S CIAC State Tournament First Round on Tuesday 5/31.


Varsity Baseball lost at Valley 1-15 in the Shoreline Conference ¼ Finals. Their current record is 8-13. They are scheduled to play on the road in the CIAC Class S State Tournament First Round on Tuesday 5/31.


Junior Varsity Baseball season has concluded. Their final season record in 7-4.


Varsity Golf season has concluded. Their final season record is 0-10.


Girls Tennis season has concluded. Their final season record is 2-14.


Boys Tennis regular season has concluded. Their current season record is 10-4. They are scheduled to play on Friday 5/27 vs Cromwell at Cromwell in the CIAC Class S State Tournament First Round.


Track competed in the Shoreline Conference Championships. The boys finished 6th and the girls finished 2nd. They are scheduled to compete at The CIAC Class S State Championship meet on Tuesday 5/31 in New Britain.

Bellringer Golf and Yoga Outing

We are still in need of particiapants for the Bellringer Open and Outdoor Yoga. Please see the flier below.


More infornation is available at www.EHHSBOOSTERS.com

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School Counseling News

Mrs. Catlin is on Maternity Leave for the remainder of the year - her sub Mr. Shrifrin will be her in her absence.


Counselors will be meeting with students to discuss schedules as needed.


Underclassmen meetings are underway, please have students check thier calendar for thier individual counseling meeting, if they have not yet met.



SENIOR INFO:

All students that have completed the transcript release form and shared it with your conselors in an appropriate time, your materials that you requested - letters of rec, transcript, and Mid-Year grades have all gone to your colleges (as indicated on your transcript release) via Naviance. If you recieve notification that the HS materials have not been sent- please know it takes a couple of weeks for them to match our materials with your application materials.


We genuinely hope that all senior families are starting move along in their FAFSA - at this time all familes are strongly encouraged to create an account - click here for a direct link to the FAFSA site to create and/or log in https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa





Please take a moment to read this important announcement regarding changes to the Counseling Caseloads for 2021-2022 School Year.

Distributions are listed below-

  • Class of 2022 (Seniors) will remain with your counselors for next year- completing your four years with Mrs. Catlin (A-K) or Ms. Malcolm (L-Z).

  • For ALL other students Classes of 2023 and beyond your counselor will stay with you for your entire high school journey.

    • Mrs. Sullivan will have students A-D in grades 9-11

    • Mrs. Catlin will have students E- M in grades 9-11

    • Ms. Malcolm will have students N– Z in grades 9-11

2021-2022--EHHS Yearbook Information

It’s time to pre-order your 2021-2022 East Hampton High School Yearbook! The Yearbook Club has been hard at work making sure this year’s book captures all the wonderful activities and happenings around school that we have missed out on with the past two turbulent years. By purchasing a yearbook, you will also have a way to remember both your friends and teachers without masks!

Parents! We are also beginning our Parent Ad sales which allow you to purchase an ⅛, ¼, ½, or full-page advertisement in the yearbook to dedicate to your student. This is a great way to help support Yearbook Club in funding our professional pictures year after year and keeping our hardcover, full-color yearbook at a reasonable cost. Parent Ads are a great way to memorialize family pictures and notes to your students for years to come as well!

Pre-orders and Parent Ads for the 2021-2022 EHHS Yearbook may only be purchased through
www.balfour.com. Please see the attached resources below to help you go through the steps of placing an order for a yearbook, an advertisement, or both!

Resources:
Yearbook Pre-Order and Parent Ad Steps
AdBuilder Demo Video

Student Attendance and Dismissal Reminders

Recently we have been having some issues with student dismissals from school and in particular, being dismissed due to illness without first going to the nurse. 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 asking for parents’ to help in adhering to are.


  • 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

Project Graduation

Our Next meeting is June 1, 2022 @ 630p in the EHHS library.


website: https://ehhsprojectgraduation.com/ (add this to your starred or favorites)


facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EHHSProjectGraduation/ (like our page)


AMAZON Ordering - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F choose EHHS Project Graduation. An easy way for us to earn money.


1. We are a fundraising group raising funds to provide a drug and alcohol free party for our new graduates every year.


2. We are an all volunteer group.


3. Most of us who have been attending meetings consistently are graduating in the spring, so we need your help to maintain this for classes to come.


Cyndi Buchan

President EHHS Project Graduation

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.

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East Hampton High School

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

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