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Harold Martin School
Address: 271 Main St., Hopkinton, NH 03037 General Phone Number: 603-746-3473 Fax 603-746-6803 Student Absentee Line: 603-746-4030 HMS Events Calendar: Click here. Maple Street School Events Calendar: Click here District Events Calendar: Click here.
STAFF Contact information Email: Each school employee has an email address that follows the formula:

firstinitiallastname@hopkintonschools.org

EXAMPLE:
John Doe's email address would be jdoe@hopkintonschools.org
Phone: Please call our general line at 603-746-3473 and leave a message for the staff member you wish to speak to with the administrative assistant.

Click here to sign up for the Harold Martin School Email List.

Click here to download an Intro to HMS PowerPoint.

What are the ways you can learn about Harold Martin School and the School District?

Sign up for the HMS Email List.

Attend our monthly Coffee with Carozza. The first one will be September 1, next school year. We meet at 8 AM in our library.

Attend our monthly Hopkinton PTA meeting, usually every first Thursday of the month, 6:30 PM in the HMS Preschool Room. However, our first meeting will be September 10, 2009.

Attend our bi-monthly Parent Advisory Council meeting. The dates for this year are: October 20, December 15, February 16, and April 20. We meet from 5:30-6:30 PM in the Maple Street School Library.

If you like to hear about Harold Martin School news in an audio format, check out our Podcast here.

Check your child’s backpack every Friday afternoon for the hard copy version of the Parent Flash.

Head over to Bill’s Principal Blog, called Principal Reflections.

Are you registering your child for the first time? If so, give the office a call at 603-746-3473 or stop in during business hours and request a registration packet.

Directions to HMS:

From the North:
Take Route 89 South to exit 5. At the bottom of the exit ramp, take a right onto Route 202 and 9 East. Go straight until you see the school crossing sign shortly after the Cracker Barrel General Store (approximately 2 miles). At the blinking yellow light, take a right into the Harold Martin School parking lot. The main entrance is on the right side of the building.

From the South:
Take Route 89 North to exit 4. At the bottom of the exit ramp, take a left onto Route 202 and 9 West. Go straight until you see the school crossing sign (approximately 1/2 mile). At the blinking yellow light, take a left into the Harold Martin School parking lot. The main entrance is on the right side of the building.

Click here for the Summer Parent Flash which was also mailed home to all parents.

General reminders:

Pick Up and Drop Off: Children should not arrive before 7:30 AM each day. If parents transport, students may be dropped off at the area indicated in the large parking lot between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. It is imperative that parents follow the traffic patterns established by the school when dropping students off. It is preferred that parents not park their cars and walk their child to the playground as this takes up parking space which is at a premium. Instead, students should walk directly to the playground. If recess is inside, students go directly to the Multi-Purpose Room. Students may not go to the classrooms before 8:00 AM.

Dismissal for morning kindergarten is at 11:20 AM and the afternoon session begins at 11:20 AM. Parents who transport their children to PM kindergarten should bring them to the office and sign in. PM kindergarten students may not arrive before 11:20 AM. School dismissal for all other students is at 2:35 PM. If you are picking your child up after school, please do so by 2:40 in the Preschool Room (former Music Room), where an HMS staff member will sign your child out. Vehicles are not permitted in the bus unloading/loading circle area near the main office before 8:15 AM or after 2:25 PM. Please follow the signs and painted arrows on the pavement.

Preschool parents will drop off and pick up their children at the entrance by the preschool room in the large parking lot. Parents will need to park and head into the building. This year there will be some new spaces to the left of the entrance that should help provide parking.

Lunch Program: Hot lunch is served every day that school is in session. The cost of a hot lunch is $2.25. For convenience, students are encouraged to purchase a weekly ticket. Checks may be made out to "Hopkinton Hot Lunch". Hot lunch menus are sent home with students at the first of each month and posted on this web site.

Breakfast is provided at a cost of $1.00. It is paid on a daily basis. Milk is sold at recess and lunch at a cost of $.40 per carton ($.05 for preschool and kindergarten).

Information on free and reduced lunch is sent home at the beginning of the school year. Forms are available throughout the year in the school office.