Hero Happenings!

Hellstern Middle School Newsletter, Springdale, AR

August 11, 2023

What you need to know for the first day of school.....

We are so excited for our Heroes to join us tomorrow! Teachers have been busy busy busy preparing for the best start ever to the new school year. Students will report to advisory, on Monday, where they will be all day. They will have plenty of time to practice opening lockers, familiarize themselves with the building, and practice schedules.

Tomorrow morning we will have a table set up out front to help with any parent questions or enrollment questions. We will also have people just inside the front entrance to lead students to advisory classes. If your child does not know exactly where to go - don't worry!

Car-Rider/Arrival/Dismissal

Thank you in advance for your patience as new families learn our systems. The first day of school arrival and dismissal is always a little hectic. Those times will improve quickly over the first few weeks. Please know that we do not arbitrarily make rules for our arrival and dismissal. We have close to 900 students at Hellstern and procedures/rules are for the safety of ALL students. Our goal is to get all students off campus within 15 minutes of the 3:30pm dismissal time.

Pictured below is the map showing how our traffic should work. PLEASE be patient the first day of school and be patient the first week. We will get into a good flow and traffic will run smoothly...but it takes a few days.

Things to remember:

We open our doors at 7:45am. We do not have staff to supervise students before 7:45am.
Never pull into the front of the building unless you are parking and coming inside. The front area is for loading and unloading busses - there should be NO car traffic.
Students that walk East toward HBHS or North across Har-Ber Ave. will be escorted by a crossing guard using the sidewalks. Students are not allowed to cross through parking lots and grass lots all over our campus.
Students that walk West, toward Tuscany, will be escorted across the 6th grade car-rider line to enter the gate at the Tuscany perimeter.
Please use the car-rider lines. We do not allow parents to park and walk up to get their child.

Chromebook form - click here

Print this PDF and bring either on Locker Day or the first day of school! If you cannot, no problem! We will send a copy home on the first day of school.

Click here to access the poster with live links

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School Store - Football Fundraiser

Click on this document to see the Hellstern items available for purchase. This is a fundraiser for our football program.

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From PTO

PTO will be doing a fundraiser in weeks to come. They are having their first meeting of the year on September 5th at 8:30am.

Our PTO sold out of most sizes of shirts at our Locker Day event. They will do another order - info for that is coming soon!

Join the PTO Facebook page to get updates from PTO.

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New Bus System

If your student is riding the bus this year, please read this article about our new bus system. You will be receiving an email soon to sign up for the parent portal. We are very excited about this new tool!

School Supply Lists

Each team will be responsible for creating a school supply list. We will hand them out on Locker Day, which is August 6th (1-3pm). Students will be getting their teams and advisor names on that day. Here are the supply lists for teams.

All other supplies needed will be on team lists. 7th grade students may have supplies needed for elective classes.