Bellringer Newsletter

EHHS continues to be a busy place as our End of Year Calendar is full and we are looking forward to concerts, drama productions, athletic contests, awards celebrations, and Graduation on June 18th. This past week, we held our Tri-M Music Honor Society Induction Ceremony and Music Department Cabaret. If you are looking for something fun to do this week, please consider attending the Music Department's Spring Concert outdoors at EHHS. I will continue to update families via Parent Square regarding events and important year end information. Additionally, we will be recognizing our students who have achieved either Honor Roll or High Honor Roll status for all 3 academic quarters this school year during morning X-Block Meetings. Please join me in congratulating all of our students who achieved Honor Roll status this school year.

• Juniors---June 1
• Sophomores--June 3
• Freshman--June 4
• Seniors--June 8

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at everner@easthamptonct.org.

• June 1--Senior Class Capstone Expo (4:00--5:30)
• June 3--High School Music Department-Spring Concert (6:30)
• June 4--Senior Class Picnic (Lake Compounce)
• June 4--Junior Ball (6:30--9:00)
• June 7--Top 10 Scholars Reception (EH Town Hall--5:00)
• June 8--Graduation Rehearsal--11:15
• June 9--Graduation Rehearsal--11:15
• June 10--Final Exams begin (Grades 9--11)
• June 10--Senior Items Return (12:00--2:00)
• June 10--Senior Class Scholarship and Awards Evening (6:30)
• June 11--Cap and Gown Breakfast (10:00)
• June 18--EHHS Graduation (6:00)
• June 19--EHS Graduation (Rain Date)

Girls Tennis- Sophomore Eshani Karkun and freshmen Charlotte Minnick competed in the Shoreline Conference tournament last week.

Boys Tennis- Senior Sam Gibson, Junior Pat Gavrylchuk, Junior Ben Fields and Freshmen Anthony Miro competed in the Shoreline Conference tournament last week. Sam Gibson as selected 1st team All-Conference and Pat Gavrylchuk was selected 2nd team All-Conference.

Varsity Baseball lost to Coginchaug in the Shoreline Conference tournament last week. They will play in the 1st round of CIAC Class S State tournament on Tuesday June 1st at Somers at 3:30 pm.

The Boys and Girls Track teams competed in the Shoreline Conference Championships last week. The girls team finished 2nd and the boys team finished 5th. Senior Danielle Adams won both the 1600 and 3200 meter races, Junior Brylee Montanari won the 100 meter hurdles and Junior Jessica Starr won the 300 meter hurdles. Junior Kaylee Gravel won the 800 meter race, Junior Madison Yorker won the Javelin Throw and Sophomore Jordan Murphy won the high Jump. The 4 x 400 team of Jessica Starr, Kaylee Gravel, Danielle Adams and senior Kyla Norton also won. Senior Alexandre’ McMillian won the 800 meter race and Junior Nick Rivard-Lentz won the pole vault.

The teams will compete in the CIAC Class S State Championship meet on Thursday June 3rd at Willow Brook Park in New Britain.

Fall sports registration will be open soon on FamilyID.com.

You can also follow spring sports results on twitter at BellringerSports @EHBellringers and also at CIACsports.com.

If you are vaccinated please enjoy the new freedom without masks; however, all students and adults - regardless of vaccination status - must wear masks in schools until the end of the school year. Thank you!

The semester 2 Journalism News Crew just completed and published the second Belltown Times Newspaper! After working hard to interview and collect information from the high school and the town, these reporters put pen to paper and told their stories. Hardcopies of the newspaper are available at the high school.

Thank you to all who supported our Food Drive. As you can see from the picture attached, it was a success. The freshman class (and their homeroom teachers) donated the largest number of items.

Over the past month, our Creative Writing class has met with instructor Elizabeth Thomas and writers from the East Hampton Senior Center to write together. Through the sharing of our thoughts, feelings and creative energy on paper and out loud, we have developed wonderful community relationships. The knowledge and appreciation of individual experiences intertwined with the love of language have been truly special. As a culminating event for this school year, the Senior Center is hosting a ‘Writers Read 2’ program. Several of the Seniors we’ve met, along with our very own seniors, shared their poetry this past week via Zoom.

East Hampton High students have returned to Full-In-Person learning. As a result, our teachers will be focusing on larger in-person classes. Therefore, there is no Hybrid option or the ability to GOOGLE MEET into the classroom. There are only 3 specific cases in which students will be allowed to GOOGLE MEET into classes:

1. Students who are quarantining: This will hopefully be a very limited number of students as time goes on.
2. Students who are COVID-19 positive: This should be an even smaller number.
3. Students who are awaiting results from COVID-19 testing:

Teachers will have links posted as soon as possible during the day for students. Please be patient as information is constantly changing and Google Meet Links may not be available right at the beginning of the school day due to communication or teacher absences.

In order to keep our schools open, we are asking that all families follow the Guidelines set out below. This will assist in keeping everyone healthy and safe as we work to keep school open.

If students are feeling ill, please get them tested and DO NOT SEND them to school until you have received negative test results.

If a family member is ill, please consider having the entire family tested and do not send children to school until you have received negative test results.

Please do not send your children to school if they have been tested for COVID-19 for any reason. Please wait until you have received negative test results before sending your children back to school.

ATTENTION AP Students

Good Afternoon AP Students, Parents and Teachers,

As you may already know there have been a number of changes to this years AP Exams.

At this time, I know that you are all aware of the date, time and format of your scheduled exam. For your convience I have included an updated list at the bottom of this message.

This year we have only a handful of paper and pencil exams- so the majority of our exams AND ALL of our make up exams will be DIGITAL- AP has asked all schools to make sure that everyone of our students are prepared to take the digital exams due to absence or quarantine.

All AP students need to complete the necessary steps that I discussed in detail yesterday during my mandatory AP Meeting. I shared a detailed slide presentation that included screenshots and step by step directions for completing the required 4 STEPS for digital preparedness in order for students to take each exam.

It is critcal that every step be followed along the way- starting with students using thier district issued ChromeBook- Mrs. Kuck attended our meeting yesterday so that she could assess the list of students that are using their own personal devices. The only way to access the Digital Testing App is on a school issued device- Mrs. Kuck will be in touch wiht the students that signed off indicating that they are using personal devies.

All 4 steps must be completed in order to ensure that students will be able to take their Digital Exams.

Teachers have already shared the slides in their Google Classroom and I am going to include them here as well.https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YfkJjllpaHjjXWqTuYbZ-6kKcdEwCxtjyHh8zq-mjI0/edit?usp=sharing

Lastly, it is important that students arrive 45 minutes early for every digital exam- AP is requiring that students are now logged in waiting for the exam to begin 30 minutes early.

• This means that for an exam that had a 12 noon start - previously I had asked that all students be to their exam at 11:30 however with the new expectations set forth by CollegeBoard/AP- students MUST be present in their testing room at 11:15

All arrival times have been adjusted for the digital exams.
Please see the updated schedule below:



June 7 - AP Language - 11:15 AM - Town Hall Training Room

Please reach out to your either your AP teacher or myself- Mrs. Sullivan if you have any questions or concerns specific to your 2021 Digital Preparedness.

Congratulations Seniors- you are almost done!!

There are 2 required surveys that you must complete by June 9th - in order to get your diploma!
1st is a Senior Exit Survey https://forms.gle/Z79DUMtJdNrEoVme8
&
2nd you must complete the Post Secondary Plans Survey in Naviance.
You will see that is was assigned to you - click on the top left "ABOUT ME" and select "SURVEYS"


Thank you in advance for completing these surveys ASAP!

• The time is right for you to submit your community college applications! Please speak to your counselors!

FYI -

Freshmen will have been meeting with Mrs. Sullivan in GSH last week and will wrap up this week - they are using Naviance and completing an interst inventory!

Next week before exams Mrs. Sullivan will be going their tentative 2021-2022 SY schedules.

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

The EHHS School Counselors are excited to announce that beginning this fall 2021, we will be redistributing caseloads. We believe that this shift will allow our counselors to foster stronger relationships with students throughout their 4 years of high school.

Distributions are listed below-

• Our current juniors, Class of 2022 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-L in grades 9-11
• Ms. Malcolm will have students M – Z in grades 9-11

We genuinely feel that this is in the best interest of our students and families moving forward.

For the remainder this year there will be no changes made to our existing caseloads- please continue to reach out to your current counselor:

• Mrs. Sullivan:
• All 9th Grade students

• Mrs. Catlin:
• Grade 12 A-L
• Grades 10 & 11 A-K

• Ms. Malcolm:
• Grades 12 M-Z
• Grades 10 & 11 L-Z

School Counseling Appointments - please continue using Google!

If students would like to request an appointment they can now do so through our links.

The links below are for students to access when their counselor is available. The links will be posted in the class specific google classroom. If students have been filling out the blue form that works too! Students should be signing up during their study hall or x-block!

Mrs. Catlin's Calendar

Grade 12: last names A-L

Grade 11: last names A-K

Grade 10: last names A-K

Ms. Malcolm’s Calendar

Grade 12: last names M-Z

Grade 11: last names L-Z

Grade 10: last names L-Z

Mrs. Sullivan

Freshman Counselor

As always, if students or parents have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to email us anytime!

Nondiscrimination Statement:

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.