Bellringer Newsletter

Good morning. It is hard to believe that we are closing in on the end of the 2020-21 school year. We are at the mid-point of the 4th and Final Academic Quarter and there are 27 days of school left for our students. Please take advantage of the remaining few weeks and ensure that your child is on track to be successful for the remainder of the year. Our event calendar is full and we are looking forward to concerts, drama productions, athletic contests, awards celebrations, and Graduation on June 18th. I will continue to update families via Parent Square regarding events and important year end information. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at everner@easthamptonct.org.

Congratulation to our EHHS Valedictorian--Alex Nikolov and Salutatorian--Danielle Adams

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.

The EHHS Business Club is running a food drive from Wednesday, May 19th to Tuesday, May 25th to benefit the East Hampton Volunteer Food & Fuel Bank. Before school on these days, we will be collecting a range of items, from pantry staples to toiletries.

The East Hampton Volunteer Food & Fuel Bank depends solely on volunteers and donations. Its purpose is to provide a safety net for all in the community who may have need. We appreciate any help you may be able to provide to assist us in supporting our community.

• May 15--Senior Prom--St. Clements Castle (5:30-9:30)
• May 16 and 17--High School Drama Production--Romeo and Juliet (5:00)
• May 19--NHS Induction Ceremony (7:00)
• May 20--EHHS Junior Honors Awards Ceremony (6:30)
• May 25--NGSS Testing (11th Grade students)
• May 25--Tri-M Music Honor Society Induction Ceremony
• May 27--Music Department Cabaret Evening
• May 27--Early Dismissal--12:10--EHHS
• May 31--Memorial Day--No School
• 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)
• June 10--Senior Class Scholarship and Awards Evening (6:30)
• June 18--EHHS Graduation (6:00)
• June 19--EHS Graduation (Rain Date) (10:00)

Your East Hampton Public Schools are offering the first School System Wide Book Fair May 3 - May 16!

Our Book Fair is online and helps our students discover new books, favorite characters, and more. Every purchase earns our school rewards for resources. Plus, shipping is free on book-only purchases over $25.

Check out the interactive 360 degree fair and the catalog of thousands of great books. All of this in time to find great books for Summer Reading!

EHPS Book Fair link: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=ehpsbookfair

Your School Librarians,

Mrs. Flannery, Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. Hill, Ms. Fielding, and Mrs. Tietjen

Varsity Baseball defeated Lyme-Old Lyme and lost to Morgan and Cromwell last week. Their season record is no 6-6. They are scheduled this week to play home vs North Branford on Monday, at Valley Regional on Wednesday and at HK on Friday.

Junior Varsity Baseball defeated Morgan and lost to Cromwell last week. Their current season record is 4-3. They are scheduled this week to play at North Branford on Tuesday, home vs Valley on Thursday and home vs HK on Saturday.

Varsity Softball lost to Lyme-Old Lyme and Cromwell last week. Their season record is now 3-9. This week they are scheduled to play Monday at North Branford, Tuesday home vs Morgan, Wednesday home vs Valley and Friday home vs HK.

Junior Varsity Softball lost to Lyme-Old Lyme last week. Their season record is now 1-1. This week they are scheduled to play home vs Morgan on Thursday and a home doubleheader vs Coginchaug on Saturday.

Boys Tennis defeated Old Saybrook and Morgan and lost to Valley last week. Their season record is now 5-5. This week they are scheduled to play at H-K on Monday, at Cromwell on Thursday and at Westbrook on Friday.

Girls Tennis lost to Morgan last week. Their season record is now 0-8. This week they are scheduled to play at HK on Monday, at Cromwell on Wednesday and at Westbrook on Friday.

Boys Track defeated Morgan last week. They are scheduled to compete at H-K this Tuesday.

Girls Track defeated Morgan last week. They are scheduled to compete at H-K this Tuesday.

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

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.

School breakfast and lunch continue to be free of charge for ALL students for the remainder of the school year! No signup is necessary. If you have any questions please contact Jen Bove at jbove@easthamptonct.org

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:

May 6 - AP US History - 7:30 AM - Town Hall Training Room

May 12 - AP Music Theory - 11:30 AM - Town Hall Training Room
May 13 - AP Art & Design - 10- 12 - Town Hall Training Room

May 18 - AP Literature - 11:15 AM - Town Hall Training Room
May 20 - AP Governemt - 11:15 AM - Town Hall Training Room
May 20 - AP Psychology - 3:15 PM - HS T-BELL

May 24 - AP Calc AB - 7:30 AM - Town Hall Training Room
May 25 - AP Statistics - 11:30 AM - Town Hall Training Room
May 26 - AP Comp Sci - 3:15 PM - HS T-BELL
May 27 - AP Biology - 11:15 AM - Town Hall Training Room

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.

FYI -

Sophomore meetings have been scheduled - students should check your emails!

Freshmen will be meeting with Mrs. Sullivan in GSH later this month to complete an interst inventory!

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!

ATTN ALL Juniors:

Counselors will be wrapping up all junior meetings this week. Should studens like to request an additional appointment please remember to use your counselor's google calendar.

ATTN ALL College Bound Seniors:

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

• Any senior who plans to apply to a four year school but has NOT yet completed their application or submitted a transcript request, you should set up an appointment with Mrs. Catlin (Mon-Wed) or Ms. Malcolm. Email your counselor or request in their Google calendar link on the school website and GCR, or stop by in person to set it up. Don't wait!
  

ATTENTION ALL students in need of completing the FAFSA :

The Financial Aid Office at Manchester Community College has been hosting virtual FAFSA sessions since December. Students that still need to complete the FAFSA for the 2021-2022 school year please go to Manchester's website and register for an upcoming session. Manchester is offering one on one assistance in completing the FAFSA along with a FAFSA overview workshop. If you or your students have any questions please refer them to us. We are working remotely but are here to assist everyone!

Here is the link for the upcoming sessions:

Manchester Community College (manchestercc.edu)

ATTENTION ALL Seniors - Important Scholarship Info:

Mrs. Wyzykowski sent this to all seniors and thier 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 top right
3. Select scholarship and money
4. Select scholarship list
5. Change tab to Local and Regional
6. Click on scholarship name
7. Read description to see if you qualify
8. Click on link to get more information or to go to their website to apply, if available OR
9. Click on the application download, if available

Some scholarships will want you to apply online and submit online others will need you to download the application and 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 list in step 4 Click National Scholarship Search.

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

Good Luck!

Mrs. Wyzykowski

Please see the attachments below for our most recent scholarship info. There are slides on how to find scholarship information in Naviance, and info on current scholarships available at this time.

Should you have any questions please email Mrs. Wyzykowski @ lwyzykowski@easthamptonct.org

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.