Monday, February 3rd: E Day

Tuesday, February 4th: F Day

• Flex Block: Junior Seminars

Thursday, February 6th: A Day

• Flex Block: Junior Seminars
• Flex Block: Sophomore Class Meeting

• Multicultural Night

Friday, February 7, 2025

In support of raising awareness for heart disease, the leading cause of death for women.

National Wear Red Day is a simple way to help spread the message about the importance of heart health and inspire others to take proactive steps toward a healthier lifestyle.

We are pleased to announce that Aritro Chatterjee, viola, and Josh Kim, clarinet have been accepted to and will represent Hopkinton at the Mass Music Educators Association All-State Festival on March 28 and 29.

Also, five students have been selected to participate in the UMass-Amherst 39th annual Honor Band on Saturday, February 15. They are:

• Sanvi Ayachitam, Flute
• Akshaya Kolluri, Clarinet
• Alper Rozy, Baritone Saxophone
• Katy Jackson, Trumpet
• Sadie Wein, Trumpet

Congratulations to these students and to our music program!

Marginal would like to announce the winners of the 2025 Senior-Write-Is contest!

This year's winner, earning a $40 Amazon card is "26" by Megan Cappetta.

Our runner-up, winning a $20 Amazon gift card, is "A Sword in Stone" by Joshua Jones

And in third place was "We Will Remain" by Maddie Schofield

All three pieces will be featured in Volume 10 of Marginal later this year. Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who submitted!

The Hopkinton Visual Arts Department is pleased to announce that our students were recognized with an outstanding 46 state level awards in the 2025 Scholastic Art Awards Competition. Award winning pieces were selected based on 3 criteria: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of personal voice or vision.

In the Massachusetts competition, Hopkinton students earned 11 Gold Keys, 11 Silver Keys, and 24 Honorable Mentions. Gold Key award-winning work will be exhibited at Breed Memorial Hall at the Tufts University Campus. Students should check their email as well as the Scholastic regional page for information regarding show and award ceremony dates and information. Gold Key work is currently being reviewed at the national level by panels of creative professionals. Any Gold key recipients selected at the national level will be contacted by Scholastic directly with more information about national awards and recognition events.

Congratulations to our talented students for their outstanding achievements. Thank you to the exceptional art teachers at the high school and middle school for their continued dedication, guidance and inspiration: Katharine Brummett, Sam Condon, Christine Enos, Colleen Gianino, Kris Kellenberger, Sara Williams and Sterling Worrell. We would also like to thank the HPTO for their generosity and continued support in sponsoring all of the high school and middle school student entry fees.

Click here to see the list of winners. Congratulations to these students!

For more information about the 2025 Scholastic Art Awards visit: http://www.artandwriting.org/.

A slideshow of student work will be shared on the department webpage by the end of February.

Please check out the website below for more information about the Senior Capstone Experience.

The Class of 2026 Cookie Dough Fundraiser is now live! Support the Class of 2026 by purchasing cookie dough using this link or the QR code on the flier. Cookie Dough is provided by Rebecca's Nut Free and will include cookie dough with the option of a decorating kit. Profits support the class fundraising for prom!

The Class of 2026 will be selling Valentine's Day Flowers to raise money for our class!

Send a flower to someone at school for pickup on Feb 14th!

$3 per flower

Purchase flowers through Venmo (@kimberly-cooper-33) or pay in cash to Ms. Roach (in room A300a) or to Ms. Karner (A219a) before February 13th.

After you purchase, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/LMXZg4Y7kB2QQz6i6

Pickup for flowers will be available all day on Friday, February 14th in Ms. Roach's room (A300a).

Available to grades 9-12!

If you have any questions, please email ali@hillers.org

Attention Sophomores:

Hopkinton High School will be offering the PreACT for SOPHOMORES only on Saturday, March 22, 2025. The PreACT is a 10th grade multiple-choice assessment that helps students prepare for the experience of taking the ACT test and provides information regarding their future performance on the exam.

The fee for the PreACT is $45.00, cash or check. Please make checks payable to Hopkinton Student Activities. Registration for the PreACT will be February 24th through March 7th. Registration forms will be sent to sophomores through email or you can stop by the Counseling Office to pick one up. Please see Ms. Kampersal with any questions!

There will be no late registrations accepted.

Click on this link for scholarship application requirements and deadlines.

As a reminder to club and class officers, here's a link to the Google Form to register an event. This should be used for anything outside of a club meeting.

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25% OF EVENT SALES GET DONATED TO THE CAUSE

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Diversity Club is looking for up to 15 volunteers to help with the set up and take down for Multicultural Night, taking place on Friday, January 7th! Volunteers are needed from 4:30-6:00pm and 8:30-9:00pm. Please fill out this form if you are interested in helping with putting up or taking down decorations.

Hi everyone! We are the HHS American Cancer Society Club!

Come support us and grab a sweet and tasty snack on a cold winter day! We will have homemade tanghulu, cookies, brownies, muffins, caramel apples and more! Grab a friend with you to our table OUTSIDE THE CAFETERIA during lunch block to order on February 14th, Valentines Day! Pick-up will be after school. All funding raised will go to supporting cancer research!

The link for preordering is in this form. Thank you, and we hope to see you there!

We are C.A.R.E, a Community Awareness Campaign that hopes to raise awareness about Anemia. Check out our upcoming events!

February 6 - Presentation at G.E.M.

February 6 - Bake Sale Afterschool

February 11 - Webinar @ 5:00 PM

February 13 - Presentation at H.O.S.A.

February 13 - Bake Sale Afterschool

Click this link to check out our linktree - which includes our website, webinar link and socials

Girls Who Code will be hosting a fundraiser to purchase popcorn to support our club at HHS!

Click this link, Choose your flavor(s), Order your popcorn, Enjoy!

Awareness Saves Live: Anorexia: A Hidden Struggle. We’re high school students involved in HOSA, dedicated to raising awareness about anorexia. To learn more about how to identify anorexia, signs of anorexia, and loved ones who are struggling with it come to out presentation! 13 Main St. Hopkinton, MA February 1st from 2:00pm-3:00pm. A presentation about Anorexia followed with games and prizes! Sign up here.

Please join Diversity club and friends for our annual Multicultural Night on February 7th in the HHS auditorium at 6pm!! Get ready to be captivated by a variety of performances, savor delicious cuisine from around the globe, and discover fascinating insights into diverse cultures! Please fill out this form or scan the QR code if you or your club would like to participate in food, performances, presentations, or activities.

The Spring Athletics Registration for the 2025 Spring Season is now officially open! Registration will be open from Today 1/31 at noon until 3/10 at midnight. Complete Registration includes an updated physical (within 13 months of last physical) uploaded into your FamilyID account. Please use the link below to register!

Spring HS and MS Athletics Registration 2025

High School Sports begin March 17th (Unified Track and Field and Girls Golf may start later on in the week)

Middle School Sports being 4/1

We are excited to offer the following sports:

Baseball: Cuts may be needed

Middle School 8th Grade Only

High School 9th-12th Grades

Softball: Cuts may be needed

Middle School 8th Grade Only

High School 9th-12th Grades

Boys and Girls Lacrosse: Cuts may be needed

High School 9th-12th Grades

Boys and Girls Tennis: Cuts may be needed

High School 9th-12th Grades

Girls Golf: Cuts may be needed

High School 9th-12th Grades

Outdoor Track & Field: No Cuts

Middle School 7th and 8th Grades

High School 9th-12th Grades

Unified Track and Field: No Cuts

High School 9th-12th Grades

Boys Volleyball: Cuts may be needed

High School 9th-12th Grades

Tryout/Practice Schedule will be sent out in the coming weeks. For information specific to each individual sport, please reach out to the coach. Game schedules can be found at ArbiterLive.

For Coaches Information, please see the link below:

Spring Coaches Directory

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

The power of Now! Check out our books on display that inspire, motivate, and empower you to take action and embrace the journey ahead.

Dear Junior & Senior Students and Parents/Guardians:

We are pleased to announce that, once again, Hopkinton High School will be offering language assessments to students to determine eligibility for the Seal of Biliteracy. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in language study, granting students highly deserved recognition for demonstrating proficiency (writing, speaking, and reading comprehension) in at least two languages. Students are eligible to earn the Seal if they are a junior or senior and have been studying a world language since middle school, or if they are a native or heritage speaker of a language other than English. In order to be eligible for the Seal of Biliteracy, students will be tested using DESE-authorized Seal of Biliteracy assessments. There is no cost to juniors or seniors for these optional exams.

All students who demonstrate scores of “intermediate high” or above in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in the language tested and have a Grade 10 MCAS score in English Language Arts of 472 or above, will be eligible for The Seal. Students who score “advanced low” or above in the language tested, and have a score of 501 or above on the Grade 10 English Language Arts MCAS will be eligible for the Seal with Distinction.

In order to accommodate the large number of students testing, testing dates will be separated by language. Students testing in Spanish will be taking the exams for the Seal of Biliteracy in school on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, and Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Students testing in French, Chinese and all other languages, will be taking the exams for Seal of Biliteracy in school on Thursday, March 20, 2025 and Friday, March 21, 2025. A make-up date for all languages is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Students will test in the morning on these days and return to class once they have completed the specific components given on those days. Seniors who took a Seal of Biliteracy exam last year, wanting to retake certain components of the exam, can do that as well on the dates specific to the language in which they are testing.

Students interested in taking an exam for the Seal of Biliteracy should plan to attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, during FLEX block in the auditorium. During this meeting, students will receive additional information about these exams and have the opportunity to sign up for the actual exam. If you are interested in taking an entire exam or at least one component for the Seal of Biliteracy, please use this link to express your interest in taking the exam and to sign up to attend the informational meeting. Note that this link does not sign a student up for any exam.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Evan Bishop, Principal

Ashley Bell, District World Language Subject Matter Leader (abell@hopkinton.k12.ma.us)

Jennifer Cuker, Director of English Language Acquisition, Equity & Access (jcuker@hopkinton.k12.ma.us)

Wipe Out Stigma is a statewide youth advocacy group that was created to empower students in promoting mental health. We meet online weekly to engage in legislative advocacy regarding youth mental health. WOS has helped students from around the state meet with state and federal legislators, as well as testify at the State House. Use this link to sign-up.

Mrs. Shelly Moran, Director of Elementary Math, is looking for volunteers to lead kindergarten and first grade students and their families in playing games related to learning addition and subtraction math facts up to 10. You do not need to be a math scholar to do this kind of math. The plan is for this event to be fun and educating, all at the same time.

About the event:

- Marathon Math Night is scheduled to be Wednesday, February 12th from 6 - 8pm.

- There's a mandatory informational session after school in the HS library at 2:30 on Monday, February 10th.

- At that time, you will learn how to play the game you will be assigned.

- During the night, you will lead the game and engage with students and the families.

- These hours can be used as volunteer hours for your various organizations.

- Want more information or have questions? Reach out to me, Mrs. Moran at smoran@hopkinton.12.ma.us.

Please complete this Google Form to volunteer.

The Massachusetts Port Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration are hosting an Aviation and Maritime STEM Expo at Logan Airport on Thursday, May 29, 2024, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

This Expo is open to 8th grade and high school students. Please click this link to RSVP by Friday, February 16.

If you have any questions, please contact STEMEXPO@massport.com.

Project Just Because Student Board Member Application:

Looking for something fun to do for service hours?

Responsibilities:

Managing fundraisers to raise money in your community.

4 hour monthly commitment volunteering at the PJB building, or an alternative assignment given by the Officers.

Leading another team of student volunteers for our Spring and Fall cleanings.

Due by February 22

Application here

Resources: studentboardpresidents@projectjustbecause.org

Resources: https://www.projectjustbecause.org/

BULLYING We welcome both parents and professionals to join us for this extremely important discussion. This virtual workshop addresses: What Parents Need to Know? What are some strategies and tools for dealing with bullying? How to address bullying in the IEP?

February 11, 2025 7:00-9:00 Virtual via Zoom

Register here

HopSwap is coming up and our HPTO event chairs are looking for volunteers. They are forever grateful for the help they have received in past years from HHS students and are hopeful for a strong showing again this year. Volunteers are needed on March 14th between 3-8pm. Students can sign up for the time frame that works best for them. They will be moving and sorting donations. Pizza will be provided.

Link to sign up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQNYxnpo97K2Cfkw33CtqyfTKcP3Jyjh99lfF3Zbn80/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Parks and Rec needs a few good volunteers! We are running several one-day fun trips over February Vacation and are in need of more chaperones.

This is a great way to complete service hours and go on a fun trip or two over winter break.

Trip dates: Feburary 18-21. Details for each trip can be found under Programs>February Break Fun on our website: www.hopkintonrec.org

Are you interested in the science of life and animals??? Calling all students grades 3-6: Join the Young Scientists’ Association (YSA) Biology Workshop for an interactive and engaging science event filled with interactive science events and hands-on learning experiences. Join us in the Hopkinton Public Library in the Children's Programming Room on February 1st from 2-4. We hope to see you there!