Special Olympics

This year the NHIAA has partnered with the Special Olympics to create a Unified Basketball league. This coed program joins individuals with special needs with partners in an NHIAA-sponsored basketball league.  Roughly 18 schools in the state, including Hopkinton,  are participating in this first ever year of the program, and it has been a great success for everyone involved.  Last night the Hawks played their final regular season game of the year against Hanover.  We won, and and finished the season with a perfect 4-0 record.  The Hawks now move on to the playoffs.  First up will be a home game this Monday night 2/6 vs Milford at Hopkinton High School at 6:30.  Admission for the event is free and it is a great opportunity to come cheer athletes and partners on from both schools.  Check out the picture of the team on the HMS website.

Special Olympics

The Hopkinton Special Olympics/Unified Basketball Team. Read more in “Latest News”.

Looking for Fun Fair Volunteers

Click to find out more about volunteering for Fun Fair 2012: Volunteers needed for Fun Fair

Keeping Healthy at HMS

Click here for the Keeping Healthy at HMS Flyer

Norovirus Fact Sheet

Click here for the Norovirus Fact Sheet from the DHHS: norovirus

Dressing for the Cold Weather

Please be sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the cold weather. Winter coats, hats, and mittens are a must as well as snow pants and boots when the white stuff arrives. Many students have been wearing only sweatshirts as jackets and these are not appropriate for the amount of time they are outside for recess with the colder temperatures.

Thanks,

Sheila Conley, HMS Nurse

Parking Lot Concerns

A number of parents and teachers have brought to our attention two issues that are concerning. Small children have been seen riding in cars without booster seats in our parking lot. This is the NH law:  Children have to use an approved booster seat until they are six years old or are 55 inches tall. This is from Section 265:107-a of the Motor Vehicles law. And just as concerning, there are some parents who are leaving their children in the car, while it is running, and dropping their preschooler off in the building. As you can imagine, this is illegal and unsafe.

At some point this year, the Hopkinton Police are planning on doing spot checks for these issues at all three schools, not to necessarily arrest anyone, but to bring attention to the issue and pass out a friendly flyer explaining the law.

If you have questions or concerns, please let us know. Thanks.

Web Site Changes

I’ve made some subtle changes to the web site that I want you to be aware of. On the right hand side of the home page at: http://www.hopkintonschools.org/haroldmartinschool/ are “widgets,” small square blocks that contain information or are remote players of information from other sites. As always, I have the Harold Martin School Podcast widget which provides a simple way to play the latest (or older) podcasts. There’s also a new widget with a link to our Picasa photo site with pics of our new HMS Playground construction from a year ago. For me, it’s a reminder of great memories. Also in that column I have a new feature I’m calling the “Harold Martin Minute.” It’s a one minute, weekly podcast that I record on my iPhone and easily upload to the “AudioBoo” website for easy inclusion on our home page. At the moment, the content includes major events of the week but I’m open to suggestions for other content.  I wrote about this on my blog at: http://bit.ly/sJkThW. I also will be more faithful to our Harold Martin Twitter feed @HMartinSchool so I moved a widget for HMS Tweets up the home page a bit. Feel free to follow me personally: @wcarozza if you like to read about the education field.

As I write this, the flakes are falling slowly out my window on Thursday’s snow day. I hope the day was not too much of an inconvenience. All the best for a great family weekend. Go Pats.

Sincerely,

Bill Carozza, Principal

Annual Spaghetti Supper

Another HMS Spaghetti Supper is right around the corner. It has been such a great tradition to get all of the wonderful families together in support of our school.

The date for this year’s event is scheduled for Thursday, February 2. There will be two serving times at 5:45 and then at 6:45. Please fill out the reservation form that will be sent home and return it to your child’s classroom teacher. The form is just to give the staff a rough idea of how many people to expect. Any family that would like to attend will have a spot. Thank you for your continued support and we hope to see you there!

6th grade and 3rd grade Team Up for Math

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