Center School Chronicle

🎉 Big News! Center & Memorial Schools are receiving national banner recognition for its efforts to provide inclusive sports and activities for students with and without intellectual disabilities. We are receiving this distinguished status as a result of meeting 10 national standards of excellence in the areas of inclusion, advocacy, and respect. These standards were developed by a national panel of leaders from Special Olympics and the education community.

The primary activities within these standards include Special Olympics Unified Sports® where students with and without disabilities train and compete as teammates, inclusive youth leadership, and whole school engagement. National banner schools should also demonstrate they are self-sustainable or have a plan in place to sustain these activities into the future.

Congratulations to Coach Sue Freeman and all of our athletes. As soon as the banner arrives, we plan to celebrate all involved at our next assembly!

Hats off to our readers and mathematicians who continued their work through the summer! We took time to recognize and celebrate our students on a beautiful fall afternoon.

Hats off to all of our very deserving Student Council President candidates. Listening to the speeches Thursday morning, Mrs. Langdon, Mr. Moore, and I were impressed with the quality and maturity of each candidate as they all would make outstanding Presidents!

The Center School Student Council will be actively involved in various projects throughout the year. They will have the opportunity to

• Organize school events and activities.
• Suggest and implement improvements to our school.
• Collaborate on community service projects.
• Serve as role models for their peers.

The Student Council provides a wonderful platform for our 4th and 5th graders to take on leadership roles, voice their ideas, and contribute to improving our school environment. We are looking forward to witnessing the positive changes and initiatives that our 4th and 5th Grade Student Council will bring to our building!

Fourth-grade band students are off to an amazing start! In their first lessons this week they learned how to put their instruments together, make a sound, and even play Hot Cross Buns! Please encourage every silly squeak and squawk at home; learning an instrument takes time and hard work! I can't wait to see their musical growth throughout the year

-Emma Gould

Girls Who Code is off and running. A big thank you to our parent volunteers Alexis Vargas-Martinez and Sarah Rembish for keeping this program running at Center School! We look forward to our Middle School volunteers mentoring and supporting our Center School coders.

Click the button below for information regarding our Physical Education, Music, Art, and Library Media classes!

If a student has four unexcused absences in one month or 10 unexcused absences in a year they are classified as truant. If a child misses 18 or more days in a school year – excused or unexcused absences – the student is classified as chronically absent.

Access to the East Hampton attendance policy is available HERE

Email process for reporting an absence:

To increase the ease of reporting an absence and documenting parent approval of the absence for a student’s first 9 absences, the East Hampton Public Schools has created email addresses that parents can use to contact their student’s school and report an absence. Effectively immediately, the following email addresses can be used by parents to report and document their approval of an absence:

• Memorial_Attendance@easthamptonct.org
• Center_Attendance@easthamptonct.org
• EHMS_Attendance@easthamptonct.org
• EHHS_Attendance@easthamptonct.org

If you have successfully emailed the school, you will receive an autoreply that notifies you that the absence communication has been received and recorded. This process is effective for your student’s first 9 absences. After your student has more than 9 absences, additional documentation or communication will be required to excuse the absence. Please use the email to continue to notify the school that your child will not attend. You may call your child’s school at any time to report an absence, as well.

We are proud to support the East Hampton Walk of Hope on Thursday, October 10th. Representatives from the Interact Club will be at our Open House with a Luminaria Creation Station to support the cause.

Community members can donate and create a luminaria for $5 or make a donation of any amount at: https://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/TR?fr_id=1200&pg=team&team_id=29597

Email: csullivan@easthamptonct.org
Website: https://www.easthamptonps.org/o/center-school
Location: 7 Summit Street, East Hampton, CT, USA
Phone: (860) 365-4050

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October 4 Center School Jog A Thon

October 7 Mrs. Nichols Book Buddies with EHNS

October 11 No School for Students - Professional Development

October 14 No School Columbus Day

October 18 Picture Retake Day

October 18 Rob Surette Assembly 1:30

October 21 PTO Meeting 5:30 Center School

October 29 Grade 4 to Mystic Seaport Museum

School Meals are a great value to our students! Prepayment is expected for all cafeteria purchases. Families eligible for free and reduced meals may qualify by completing an application online on [easthampton.familyportal.cloud]Easthampton.familyportal.cloud or by paper application here: Application for Free and Reduced School Meals(also available in the school’s Main Office). Families with children enrolled in HUSKY or Temporary Family Assistance programs will have their status transmitted directly by the State of Connecticut to the District.

To deposit funds on your child’s account, please visit [easthampton.familyportal.cloud]Easthampton.familyportal.cloud . Our Cafeterias also accept checks made payable to “East Hampton Cafeteria Fund”.

In September, students can enjoy fresh apples from Beckett Farms of South Glastonbury and carrots from Cold Spring Farm of Colchester. Keep an eye out for upcoming celebrations!

If you have questions, please contact Director of Nutrition Services, Kate Caselli at kcaselli@easthamptonct.org or 860.316.7324.

For all school menus, click the link below to view our nutritional services page:

https://www.easthamptonps.org/page/nutritional-services-and-school-lunch

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