Bellringer Newsletter

Good morning. It's hard to believe that today is the end of the 1st Academic Quarter at EHHS and report cards will be sent out early next week and the busy holiday season is right around the corner. Please continue to check the Important Dates and Reminders section of the Bellringer Newsletter for a schedule of upcoming events. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me directly at everner@easthamptonct.org.

• November 1--End of 1st Quarter
• November 2--No School--Election Day--Professional Development
• November 3--2nd Quarter begins
• November 3--EHHS Project Graduation Meeting--6:30--LMC
• November 5---Fall Dance--6:00--8:00
• November 10--EHHS Veteran's Day Celebration
• November 11--Veteran's Day--NO SCHOOL
• November 17--PTO-PPAG Meeting--5:30
• November 24--Early Release--EHHS
• November 25--28--Thanksgiving Recess
• December 2--Winter Sports Begin
• December 3--5--EHHS Drama Production--A Christmas Carol
• December 23--Early Dismissal
• December 24---January 2--Winter Recess
• January 3--Classes Resume
• January 17--No School--Martin Luther King Day
• January 13, 14, 18, and 19--Mid-Year Exams

Last week’s recap:

Girls Soccer season has concluded.

Boys Varsity Soccer defeated Lyman Memorial 4-0 at home and Canton 2-0 on the road. They were defeated by The Morgan School in the Shoreline Conference ¼ finals 2-3. Their season record is 7-6-2. They play next in the CIAC Class S State Tournament TBA.

Boys Junior Varsity Soccer was defeated by Canton on the road 1-5. Their final record is 6-2-1.

The Varsity Football Co-Op was defeated by Rockville 6-42. Their season record remains at 5-2. They are scheduled to play at Cromwell/Portland on Saturday 11/13.

Junior Varsity Football tied Rockville 20-20. They play next Cromwell/Portland on Monday November 15th.

Junior Varsity Volleyball was defeated by Lyman Memorial on the road 0-2. Their final season record is 10-8.

Varsity Volleyball was defeated by Lyman Memorial 1-3 on the road. Their final regular season record is 12-5. They are scheduled to play this week on Wednesday at home in the Shoreline Conference Semi-Finals against the winner of Lyme-Old Lyme vs Hale-Ray.

Cross Country results from last week:

Shoreline Conference Championship Meet:

The team did not race last week.

The team is scheduled to run on Saturday in the CIAC State Championships on Monday 11/1 at Wickham Park.

Winter Sports online registration is open on FamilyID.com

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

All home volleyball matches can also be viewed on the NFHS network with a subscription.

The Cheerleading Team will be selling Holiday Wreath's. Please click on the link below for more information.

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Thank you for your support of the EHHS Cheerleaders.

The EHHS Art Studios are busy this year and it’s good to be back in-person in these creative spaces! Digital students have been busy taking portraits and panoramic photos, studying video techniques, and using the elements of design in Illustrator and Photoshop. Drawing students are exploring gesture and contour drawing and the use of the left and right side of the brain in creating art. Design students have just finished studying color theory and created paper molas inspired by the art of the Kuna people of the San Blas Islands in Panama. AP and Advanced Art students have begun their Sustained Investigations for the year which will be submitted to the College Board later in May.

Several EHHS students have artwork including the paper molas, landscape photography, and digital designs displayed at the Town Hall outside of the Board of Ed offices. The artwork will be on display during the month of November and is open to the public for viewing. The Town Hall is located at 1 Community Drive in East Hampton and is open to the public.

Congratulations to the following EHHS artists:

Caitlyn Boyd

Kevin Collins

Sean Dickerman

Evan Giovanelli

Aiden Gourlie

Coleman Sharpe

Carter Scovill

Ally Hebb

Jackie Laboy

Noelle Lavender

Anthony Miro

Cheyane Nichols

Liam Owen

Raleigh Paulauskas

Madison Reola

Kiersten Rolland

Valerie Rolland

Sierra Selger

RJ Stanford

Chelsea Woods

We are in week #7 of Individual Senior Meetings - students should check their Google Calendar.

We genuinely hope that all senior families are starting move alone 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

College visits are back and in person!!!

All visitors are required to show proof of their vaccine and/or a negative covid test from the past 7 days.

Sign Ups are in Naviance - Please remember that you are responsible for all work that you may miss in ALL classes.

The morning of your visit please come pick your pass in the school counseling office.

See below for the visits scheduled for the next two weeks:

Binghamton University Mon November 1, 2021 @10:43 AM

University of Bridgeport Mon November 1, 2021 @12:47 PM

SUNY College at Plattsburgh Wed November 3, 2021 @10:07 AM

Saint Anselm College Thu November 4, 2021 @8:31 AM

Nichols College Fri November 5, 2021 @8:30 AM

Le Moyne College Mon November 8, 2021 @7:45 AM

Franklin Pierce University Mon November 8, 2021 @12:47 PM

Muhlenberg College Tue November 9, 2021 @8:31 AM

Marist College Wed November 10, 2021 @8:31 AM

Shenandoah University Fri November 12, 2021 @10:07 AM

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

This much-loved annual event is a big fundraiser for the PTO with proceeds going to support mini grants, events, 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 welcome entire plates of cookies/brownies, 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 1st 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.

We are thrilled to welcome the EHHS French Club to join us at our bake sale this year! Club volunteers will be on site selling très délicieux snacks and sweets such as Madeleine cookies, croissants, eclairs, crepes and more, transporting you to France through food. C’est magnifique!

If you don’t have time to bake but 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 7am), 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!

The East Hampton Arts & Culture Commission is accepting applications from East Hampton High School Juniors and Seniors for a $250 grant to support an annual East Hampton High School Capstone Project.

The grant will help support one 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.

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

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

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

Policy adopted: March 15, 2016

From the Superintendent:

We are asking parents to contact the school Principal every time there is a positive case of COVID-19. This is not meant to bypass the Chatham Health Department, but hearing directly from parents as to the timing of symptoms and date of testing determines the nature of contact tracing.

Also, please monitor symptoms of COVID-19. As the weather changes, please do not assume that symptoms are due to allergies or a cold. Please keep children home and get them tested in order to prevent the education of other students from being impacted by cautionary quarantining.

Keeping students home if not feeling well is essential given the spread of the delta variant in students. School contact tracing is not necessary if the positive case has been out of school 48 hours prior to symptoms or prior to testing if asymptomatic. For example, if a student has symptoms on a Monday and does not come to school and gets test results on Tuesday, no school contact tracing is necessary as the student did not have contact within a 48-hour window prior to the onset of symptoms. (Keep in mind, there could be contact tracing necessary for other town or family social activities.)

Testing

When students are tested for COVID, we prefer PCR or Rapid Molecular Tests. Schools can not accept at home test result to allow a student to return to school.

Masks are required (per the Governor's Executive Order) to be worn at all times at EHHS unless students are actively eating and drinking, outside on a mask break, or have been given specific permission by a staff member to remove their masks.

Please make sure that you check your child’s masks to make sure that they are cleaned regularly and are appropriate for use in schools. The school is glad to supply student masks in regular and child size for those who need a mask for a day. Please note that neck gaiters are allowed as a mask, but if they are thin, they should be doubled up. Bandanas are not allowed as a mask.

As a reminder, our daily focus at EHHS is on teaching and learning as well as the safety and well being of all members of the EHHS Community. If students are not wearing masks appropriately, our staff will work to correct and enforce student mask wearing. Should there be continued issues regarding mask wearing and non-compliance to teacher directions, students may be referred to the office for potential disciplinary action up to and including suspension.

Our Next meeting is Wednesday, November 3 @ 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)

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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

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.