FRIDAY FOCUS

The Harwich Elementary School Holiday Bazaar will be held Saturday, December 2 from 9am-12pm. High school and middle school student volunteers are needed as face painters, shopping helpers, and gift wrappers.

If you are able to help out, please sign up for a slot at this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0845A9AA22A6FDC52-45799402-hesannual#/.

• Congratulations to the 8 MRHS Music Students who qualified for the highly competitive Southeastern MA District Music Festival!

• Leyla Holmes (soprano)

• Emory Hines (alto)

• Alexis Arruda (alto)
  

• Payton MacRoberts (tenor)
  

• Faye Viprino (bass)
  

• Isaiah Woodland (flute)
  

• Charlotte Skinner (oboe)

• Wellington Holmes (french horn)
  

• Congrats to Gareth Vos on being eligible for the state championship cross-country race. Gareth competed in the MIAA State Championships 5K on Saturday, November 18 in Division 3. He came in 66th place out of 189 runners, with a time of 17:56! Gareth runs for his teammates and his school. He's been an amazing captain with Annalise for the Monomoy Cross Country team. - Mrs. Casey

• I would like to give Ms. Lee a Shark Shout Out. She is always there for our students going above and beyond each and every day!! - Ms. Herbst

The Young "Men's" Club would like to wish everyone a safe and restful vacation! Enjoy photos from their pre-Thanksgiving meal where the young men learned how to carve a turkey!

• Monomoy Interact Club brought 8 large bags of warm clothing donations and toiletry items to the Youth Street Reach event on Friday night. Thank you to all the families and staff who donated! We will be having another drive in January and help to serve breakfast to over 100 homeless clients who attend. So proud of these great kids!
• Pictured left to right: Abby Considine, Dahlia Viprino, Chloe Thompson, Jericho Dujua, Ryan Casey and Mayur Patel

• Check out the heartfelt messages on display on Main Street, compliments of the Monomoy Interact Club! Caroline Vitolo and Lily Gould created this beautiful display with handwritten messages from our group! Happy Thanksgiving from all of our grateful students! - Mrs. Casey

Monomoy Regional High School has released the names of the students who achieved High Honor Roll and Honor Roll status for the first quarter of the 2023-2024 school year.

To view the full list of students, click here!

The Senior Class is fundraising for Monomoy Regional High School. Please consider purchasing evergreen gifts for the holidays to help us reach our fundraising goal!

Simply visit: GiftItForward.com and use our fundraising code: MONOMOMA001 when checking out. We receive $8 for every gift purchased using our code! Only Available until December 2

If you know others shopping for the holidays, please forward this to them too!

Thank you and we hope you have a great holiday season!

- Monomoy Class of 2024

The FAFSA is expected to open at the end of December. Families and students can apply for a FSA ID and should do so soon. Please adhere to all the financial aid deadlines that are listed for each college as each school has specific deadlines and requirements.

Below is a list of steps necessary to complete your 2024-2025 FASFA!

Thank you to all who attended the financial aid night on Wednesday, November 15.

To watch a recording of the presentation, click here

To view the slides from the presentation click here

The Director of Youth and Family Services in Harwich, Ashley Symington is starting a new parenting support group: Parenting BIG Feelings. It will take place at The 204 and is open to all. They will be once a month until May - skipping December and February.

(Flyer for the series is attached at the end of Friday Focus)

The Director of Youth and Family Services in Harwich, Ashley Symington is running a therapeutic group for Harwich Residents (Teers), called “While You are Waiting” to help support young people who are in the process of looking for therapists but have not yet gotten connected. If you’d like more information, Ashley can be reached by email at: ashley.symington@harwich-ma.gov

(Flyer for the group is attached at the end of the Friday Focus).

TWITTER: @MonomoyGuidance

INSTAGRAM: @MonomoyGuidance

Wishing you health and safety,

The MRHS Counseling Team

The Fall Sports Awards Night was on Monday, November 20th in the MRHS auditorium. We celebrated the many successes of our fall sports season.

• Field Hockey was recognized for their amazing run in the Division 4 State Tournament, third consecutive Final Four appearance, and first ever appearance in the State Final!

• Boys Soccer was recognized for their amazing run in the Division 4 State Tournament their first Final Four appearance and first appearance in the State Final in school history!
• Field Hockey was recognized for their Cape and Islands League Atlantic Division Championship!
• Ryan Laramee was awarded the Boys Soccer Cape and Islands League Maritime Division MVP!
• Girls Volleyball was awarded the Cape and Islands League Sportsmanship Award!
• Football was awarded the Cape and Islands League Sportsmanship Award!
• Congratulations to Gareth Vos on representing Monomoy at the All State Cross Country meet!

• Girls Cross Country – Laura Stone, Remi Schreiner
• Boys Cross Country – Gareth Vos, Chatham Gillis, Quinn Muldoon
• Field Hockey – Susannah Brown, Emily Layton, Samantha Clarke, Emery Cappallo
• Girls Soccer – Karlie Montiero, Ciarra Terry, Karah Deveau, Kiki Pigo-Cronin, Fiona Moore
• Boys Soccer – Ryan Laramee, Finn Hyora, Seamus St. Pierre, Noah Metters, Tate
• Laramee, Paul Carlson
• Boys Golf – Jackson Rocco, Casey Huse, Christian Whittle
• Football – Sean Needham, Quinn Connors, Dillon Chapman, Jack McCarty, Jake Giorgio
• Girls Volleyball – Amalia Decastro

• September – Annalise Langelier, Ryan Laramee
• October – Lucy Bates, Paul Carlson

Practices and tryouts begin on Monday, November 27

All players and their parents/caretakers must have attended the 'Meet the Winter Coaches Night' on Monday, November 13th. In order to be eligible to participate on day one of tryouts/practices all student-athletes must:

1. Register on Arbiter Registration formerly Family ID
2. Have an updated physical into the school nurse or our Athletic Trainer Taylor Murray
3. Have an up to date ImPACT Test with Taylor Murray
4. Complete the free online Concussion in Sports course at nfhslearn.com and submit the certificate to Taylor Murray
5. Complete the free online Implicit Bias course at nfhslearn.com and submit the certificate to Taylor Murray
6. Submit the pre-participation head injury form to Taylor Murray

Please click the link to see the MRHS Performing Arts Department Calendar 2023-2024

Deadline: December 11

Click here to access the 2023-2024 School Handbook:

https://mrhs.monomoy.edu/our-school/school-handbook

To report your child's absence, tardy, or upcoming dismissal please use the following link:

https://mrhs.monomoy.edu/attendance

Did you know? Past issues of the Friday Focus can be found on our website:

https://mrhs.monomoy.edu/news/friday-focus

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