Today was our first ever Club Fair at HMS. Students in all lunches learned about every club we have available. What a big hit! Thank you staff and students for organizing a booth!
This past week we celebrated Grandparents' Day, Central School-style by honoring our classroom Foster Grandparents! Thank you to Grammy Deb, Grammy Ann, Grammy Ellen, and Grammy Claudia. You are a special part of our school community and we can not thank you enough for your caring dedication to supporting our students! Thank you!
Today was the 22nd Annual Read with a Hero Day at the Central School. We welcomed 24 heroes from the Hampstead VFW, Hampstead FD, Hampstead PD, Nashua PD, Salem PD, Bedford FD, Methuen PD, US Navy, Merrimack PD, US Dept. of Homeland Security, and the FBI. A huge thank you to all the heroes that visited our school and read to our students!
On Wednesday, the Central School opened its doors to 475 students and 107 staff to start the 2024-2025 school year. Welcome to all our new students and staff and welcome back to all our returning students and staff! Here's to a great school year ahead!
Our Opening Day Ceremony was Olympic themed this year! After departments marched into the arena, and our Board Chair opened the school year, our torch bearing Superintendent lit the cauldron, we had fiercely competitive mini javelin throwing, minion badminton and ping pong competitions and a medal ceremony! A special recognition for our longevity award winners: 10 years (Geoff Dowd, Maggie Garside, Melissa Clay, Dianne Connors & Amanda Starck), 20 years (Julie Nesto & Cressa Bonnell) & 30 years (Shelbie Russell, Julie Pekalsky, and MaryAnn Lazzaro)!! Also a warm welcome to all of our New Hires and amazing Bus Drivers!! Each year it just gets better!!!
Enrollment and Re-Enrollment is available now. You can login to the parent portal to submit forms here. Thank you
https://hampstead.powerschool.com/public/home.html
Enrollment and Re-Enrollment is temporarily unavailable while Powerschool is working on fixing an issue that we brought to their attention. We will send out another notification when the Enrollment and Re-Enrollment forms are available.
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Mrs. Bernard, principal of HMS is a good sport!
HMS picture day notice.
Italian subs for lunch today! FREE for the children of Hampstead! 11:30am pickup behind St Anne's infront of the community garden! It's a beautiful day for a picnic!🧺
The Science of Cooking winners from 7-18: Best Flavor: The Great Mix, Most Creative: The Cookie Sandwich, Best Appearance: Summer Delight, Overall Top Cookie: Cookie Crispies!
Pizza & Pages @ the Hampstead Library - July 22 - 6 pm. Join Mrs. Griffin, discuss books & eat pizza. Open to students entering grades 5 - 8. Registration is required...here: https://hampsteadlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/pizza-and-pages-with-mrs-griffin-2/
An invite for our 6th and 7th graders from Pinkerton Academy. Who doesn't like an ice cream social???
Summer Learning Academy 2024 underway but it's NOT TOO LATE to sign your child up for some enrichment!!!🤩💡🚌 🍎🍕🌐✅
Hampstead School District is proud to be able to offer a variety of unique programs to any resident of Hampstead entering Grades 1-8. All programs below will run Monday - Thursday.
Hours are HMS 8-11am, HCS 8:30-11:30am
Week #2 July 15 -18 - STEMtastic summer now open for 3rd-6th graders!!!
Week #3 July 22 - 25 - Seussical Storytellers has a few spots remaining!
Week #4 July 29- Aug 1 - Financial Literacy & Investing for 6th-8th graders has a few spots remaining!
Please only register for sessions that your child will able to attend so that we can extend these opportunities to as many students as possible. Many of our programs will have waitlists this summer, if you have a change in plans and are unable to attend please notify SLA coordinator Ms. Kaddie Gallant (gallantk@hampsteadschools.net) so that we may release a spot to someone else.
New this year there is a Mobile Food Truck (a collaboration with St. Anne's Kitchen and the Alexander Eastman Foundation) will bring quality, nutritious meals to children for FREE Mon-Fri after our SLA program dismisses! Registration is not required so children simply need to show up (Truck will be located at St. Anne's Parking Lot 11:30-12pm) and request a meal. There is one meal selection per day consisting of a milk, fruit, vegetable, grain and protein. Please let the Food Truck staff know if there is a food allergy. We will post weekly menus in advance in various locations online.
https://sites.google.com/hampsteadschools.net/sla2024/home
Hampstead residents- the food truck is set up and ready to serve!!! Free lunch for all students Monday- Fri 11:30-12pm near the community garden behind St Anne's! Come on down!! 😋😋😋
Thank you @NHLI, Heather Burkett and Allie Kenney for bringing Additive Ongoing Assessment Practices (OGAP) professional learning to Hampstead this week! We were thrilled to be able to host 24 local teachers from several area communities to four days of learning best practices in math teaching this week. 💕🧮➕♾️🟰➖📿 #OGAP
Thanks to a grant from Youthwell NH the faculty + staff of the Hampstead School district were able to participate in a wellness activity to wrap up the school year. We gathered, connected, and personalized mugs under the guidance of art teachers Michael Terrile and Kim Downey.
Have a great summer, be safe, and be kind!
Best of luck to our fourth graders going on to HMS!
We will miss you!
HCS Field Day was a big success this year! Students K-4 had the opportunity to get outside and have fun with classmates while participating in a variety of fun, team building activities. Some Field Day activities included dancing, tug of war, matt ball, water cup races, relay races, and everyone's favorite... ice pops! Students and staff had a great time. It was the perfect way to celebrate the end of the year!
Preschoolers celebrated the end of the year this week with a Preschool Carnival. This fun event featured games, bubble making, face painting, tasty snacks, and other fun activities. A fun time was had by all!
