Bellringer Newsletter

Good morning. May is upon us which means that EHHS will be an incredibly busy place as we recognize the many amazing accomplishments of our students culminating with Graduation on June 17th. 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 do not hesitate to contact me directly at everner@easthamptonct.org.

Congratulations to Victoria Schiavoni, the Valedictorian of the Class of 2022 and Benjamin Nafis, the Salutatorian of the Class of 2022.

• May 17-- 11:30 - Make Up AP Psych - EHHS School Counseling Conf. Room
• May 17--East Hampton Prevention Partnership-Stephen Hill--Student Assembly--8:00AM
  
• May 17--East Hampton Prevention Partnership--Stephen Hill--7:00
• May 18-- 735 AM - Make Up AP Stats & US History - EHHS School Couns. Conf. Room
• May 18--1145 - Make Up AP Lit - EHHS School Counseling Conf. Room
• May 19--NHS Talent Show--6:30
• May 20-- 735 AM- Make Up AP Calc - EHHS School Counseling Conf. Room
• May 20-- 1145 - Make Up AP Gov - EHHS School Counseling Conf. Room
• May 26--EHHS Academic Awards Ceremony--6:30
  
• May 27--Senior Class Trip--Lake Compounce
• 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

Please take a few minutes to complete the 2021-22 Parent Feedback Survey:

https://forms.gle/sNkzRNqL8EBHhLT47

Thank you!!

Shea Thibodeau’s charcoal drawing and Emily Vick’s digital design were chosen by the East Hampton Arts and Cultural Commission as Best in Show. They will be recognized for their talents on Thursday by the Arts and Cultural Commission at 5:30 at Sears Park.

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.

Graduation will be held at 6:00 PM.

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!

Varsity Softball lost to Coginchaug at home 0-14, lost at H-K 5-6, defeated Wilcox Tech at home 15-2, defeated Hale-Ray on the road 16-3 and lost at Valley 1-6. Their current season record is 6-10. They are scheduled to play at home vs Old Saybrook on Senior day on Monday, at home on Friday against Coventry and at East Granby on Saturday to close out the regular season.

Varsity Baseball lost at home this week to North Branford 0-3, HK 3-6, Valley 0-5 and Rockville 4-5. Their current record is 7-9. They are scheduled to play at Valley on Monday, vs Portland on Tuesday at Dunkin Donuts Park in Hartford 6:30 pm, at Canton on Wednesday and at Coventry on Friday to close out the regular season.

Junior Varsity Baseball lost at North Branford 5-7 and lost at 4-5. Their current season record in 5-4. They are scheduled to play at Canton on Wednesday and home vs Coventry on Friday.

Varsity Golf was defeated by Hale-Ray and H-K and Coginchaug. Their current season record is 0-7. They are scheduled to play at Portland on Monday, home vs Lyme-Old Lyme on Thursday and at home vs Old Saybrook on Friday in their final match of the season.

Girls Tennis defeated H-K 5-2 and lost to Wilcox Tech 3-4. Their current season record is 2-12. They are scheduled to play at Wilcox Tech on Monday, at Valley on Tuesday and at North Branford in their final regular season match on Thursday.

Boys Tennis defeated H-K 6-1, wes defeated by Valley 0-7 and defeated Wilcox Tech 6-1 . Their current season record is 8-4. They are scheduled to play Cromwell at Portland on Thursday in their final regular season match.

Track competed in the Running Rams Invitational on Friday. They are scheduled to compete at The Shoreline Novice Meet on Thursday.

Fall sports registration will open on FamilyID.com later in the spring. An announcement will be sent out when it opens.

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

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

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

FRESHMEN INFO:

Counselors began visiting your Guided Study Halls last week and will finish this week doing an interst inventory in Naviance.

JUNIOR INFO:

Juniors should check their calandars for individual meetings, including follow up meetings.

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

ATTENTION ALL Seniors - Important Scholarship Info:

Mrs. Wyzykowski sent this to all seniors and their parents last week:

Dear Seniors and Parents:

Naviance is the best place to start looking for scholarships:

1. Log in to Naviance,

2. Go to the college tab on the very top center of page

3. Select scholarship and money

4. Select scholarship search for our local and regional scholarship list.

5. Click on See More Details button for more info about each scholarship

6. Read description carefully to see if you qualify

7. Click on Download Application Button or Apply Online Button, whichever is available for that particular scholarship.

8. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR EACH SCHOLARSHIP

Some scholarships will want you to apply online and submit online others will need you to download the application and email it to them directly and others will require you to email them to me. Please read the directions and descriptions carefully!

If you need to upload a transcript, send me an email request or come see me.

Let me know if you have any issues.

You can also search Nationally; Instead of selecting the Scholarship Search in step 4 Click National Scholarship Search.

Check Naviance everyday as I am uploading new scholarships as they come in!

Good Luck!

Mrs. Wyzykowski

Guidance Administrative Assistant

Should you have any questions please reach out to Mrs. Wyzykowski

lwyzykowski@easthamptonct.org

(P)860-365-4031

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

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

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

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