Barrington High School

🎉HAMPDEN MEADOWS SCHOOL CELEBRATES FIFTH GRADERS: If you've been by Hampden Meadows Elementary School this week, you may have noticed some colorful decorations by the front entry. Each sign celebrates a fifth grader who is completing their elementary education today! 🐯 Congratulations to Grade 5! It has been a great year. Next stop: middle school! 💛💙

🥎⚾️💙BPS SLUGGER FEST SUPPORTS COMMUNITY CAUSE: Our softball fields saw lots of action last Friday afternoon, as principals, teachers, and staff from across the district played in the second annual BPS Slugger Fest tournament! Eight participating teams each created "Welcome Home" kits filled with household necessities to benefit Crossroads Rhode Island. 🧴🧻🧺 In the final game of the tournament, the Barrington High School Anti-heros beat last year's champions, the Barrington Middle School Sore Hammies. The championship trophy will live at BHS until Slugger Fest returns next June. 🏆

👩‍⚖️🏆BHS STUDENTS COMPETE AT NATIONAL HISTORY DAY: It was a busy week for our Barrington High School students and their faculty advisor, Ms. Miller, who traveled to Washington, DC, to present in the National History Day competition! While in DC, they also met up with Barrington High School alum, Rebecca, who showed them what it’s like to work in the office of a Congressional representative!

🧑‍🏫👮BPS THIRD GRADERS TOUR THE TOWN: Students at Sowams School, Nayatt School, and Primrose Hill Elementary School have been learning about local government as part of the Grade 3 Rhode Island State Standards for Social Studies. Recently, they had the opportunity to see local government in action with a field trip around town! Students visited Town Hall to meet with municipal leaders like Chief Bessette, Chief Correia, Superintendent Messore, and Barrington's Town Manager, Mr. Phil Hervey. They also participated in a mock town council meeting and toured Barrington's Public Library, Preservation Society Museum, and Prince's Hill Cemetery. 🚓🚒🚌

🌳☀️BPS KINDERGARTEN ARTWORK ON DISPLAY: Along with their families and their teachers, kindergarten students across our district recently attended a special open house hosted by the Barrington Tree Commission! 🎨 During the open house, kindergarteners' artwork was on display in the Barrington Public Library's Collis Family Gallery. Students participated in conservation-learning activities and even had the change to vote on the types of trees they want to see in Barrington!

🎫💛NAYATT STUDENT WINS FEINSTEIN GOLDEN TICKET: Feinstein Jr. Scholar and Nayatt School student, Crosby, recently won the The Feinstein Foundation Golden Ticket! ✨ Nayatt received a $5,000 grant from the Feinstein Foundation and Crosby chose the RI Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to receive a $500 grant award. Congratulations, Crosby! Thank you to the Feinstein Foundation for such a generous gift.

🎓🎆CONGRATULATIONS BHS CLASS OF 2024: Two hundred and seventy-one of our Eagles have flown the nest! 🦅💙 Yesterday, we celebrated graduation for the Barrington High School Class of 2024 inside the Frank J. Murgo Gymnasium. It was an exciting and emotional day! Congratulations to our newest alumni of Barrington Public Schools! We can't wait to see where you'll land. 🎉 Watch Saturday's Friendship Service here: https://vimeo.com/954952869 Watch Sunday's Commencement Ceremony here: https://vimeo.com/955279869 Photos by Richard Dionne, Jr. for East Bay Media.

🏐🏆BHS BOYS VOLLEYBALL TEAM WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: It’s a great day to be a Barrington Eagle! 🦅 For the first time in school history, the Barrington High School boys volleyball team won the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division II Volleyball State Championship! Congratulations to our student athletes and coaches on this exciting end to the spring volleyball season! 🎉

💙🎓💛BPS SENIOR WALK CELEBRATES CLASS OF 2024: The Senior Walk has become a new favorite graduation tradition for Barrington Public Schools! For the second year, Barrington High School seniors dressed in their graduation caps and gowns and visited Primrose Hill Elementary School, Sowams School, Nayatt School, Hampden Meadows Elementary School, and Barrington Middle School. Seniors received cheers and applause as they the hallways of their former schools. 👏 There were lots of high-fives, hugs, laughs, and tears! It was a fantastic send off for the Class of 2024 as they head into graduation weekend. 🧑‍🎓 This weekend's graduation events include Friendship Service on Saturday, June 8, at 1:00 PM and a commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 9, at 1:00 PM on Victory Field.

🏐🎖BHS BOYS VOLLEYBALL TEAM PREPARES FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: It's a big night for the Barrington High School boys volleyball team! 🦅 After winning a semifinal game against East Providence on Wednesday, the Eagles will play Cranston West in the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division II Boys Volleyball State Championship tonight. Go, Eagles! 🎉 Photos by Julie Furtado for East Bay Media.

📚🐮BMS READ-A-THON RAISES FUNDS FOR NONPROFIT: Barrington Middle School students helped raise more than $11,000 for Heifer International, a nonprofit working to end global hunger and poverty, by participating in the Read to Feed read-a-thon! For three months, students read as many books as they could and collected pledges based on the number of books they read or the amount of time they spent reading. Grade 8 ELA teachers also incorporated the read-a-thon into their classes as a deeper learning project where students learned about the fundraising process, how non-profit organizations operate, and the importance of global citizenship. At the end of the read-a-thon, students voted on the top five gifts from a list that included a flock of chickens, a water buffalo, a pair of cattle, a honeybee farm, a community solar kit and more, to donate to Heifer International. Way to go, BMS!

🍉🍔🎓CLASS OF 2024 SENIOR PICNIC: Barrington High School seniors had fun on their last day of school with a familiar BHS tradition: Senior Picnic! Congratulations to the Barrington High School Class of 2024! The graduation ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, June 9, at 1:00 PM on Victory Field.

💡🏛HMS STUDENT COUNCIL VISITS THE STATE HOUSE: Rhode Island State Representative Jason Knight - State Representative, District 67, Warren and Barrington hosted members of the Hampden Meadows Elementary School Student Council at the State House yesterday! Students received a tour of the building and participated in a mock legislative session where they debated bills like political leaders and learned about how laws are made. Thank you, Rep. Knight, for welcoming our students!

🌅⛵️SENIOR YEAR FOR CLASS OF 2024 COMES FULL CIRCLE: How it started 🤝 how it's going! The Barrington High School Class of 2024 began their senior year with sunrise at Victory Field and, yesterday, ended their senior year with sunset at Barrington Beach! The countdown to graduation is on and we can't wait to celebrate our seniors over the next few days! 🎓

🐋🌎DEEPER LEARNING ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY: Did you know June 5 is World Environment Day, which encourages awareness and action for environmental protection? Barrington High School students in Ms. O'Donnell's AP environmental science class have been learning about the effects of climate change and environmental pollution. Last week, thanks to a NASA Rhode Island Space Grant award, they had the opportunity to visit the Blackstone River in Lincoln to engage in deeper learning about environmental protections in Rhode Island! 🌊 Students helped the Blackstone River Watershed Council/Friends of the Blackstone plant willow trees along the banks of the river as bioremediation to fight toxic soil pollution. They also used dip nets to find macroinvertebrates, which are biological indicators that can help determine water quality.

⚖️🌸BMS GRADE 8 VISITS WASHINGTON, D.C.: We see some familiar faces on the steps of the U.S. Capitol! Barrington Middle School eighth graders recently returned from their class trip to Washington, D.C. They explored museums and other landmark locations in the nation's capital and learned about how the United States and its government operate.

🤖⭐️R2-D2 RETURNS TO SOWAMS SCHOOL FOR SECOND YEAR: Third graders at Sowams School recently got into the Star Wars spirit with a visit from R2-D2! The life-sized Droid was built and programmed by Joe Francazio. Joe shared with third grade students his process for designing, engineering, and building R2-D2 and students learned about real-world applications for math and coding. Thank you, Joe, for bringing a galaxy far, far away to our Barrington classrooms! This visit was made possible thanks to the Sowams School PTO.

🎉🏅HAMPDEN MEADOWS CELEBRATES LIGHTHOUSE AWARD: There was much to celebrate when Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence recognized Hampden Meadows Elementary School as a Lighthouse School earlier this month! Even Paws joined in on the blue ribbon celebration! 🐯💙

🧪🧫BHS STUDENTS HEAD TO NATIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD: Members of Barrington High School's Science Olympiad team recently competed at the Science Olympiad National Tournament at Michigan State University! Way to go, BHS scientists! 🦠

🤝💙💛 BMS BEST BUDDIES UNITY WALK: For the second year, the entire Barrington Middle School community participated in the now-annual Best Buddies Unity Walk! The Unity Walk began last year as a celebration of inclusion inspired by the Best Buddies Friendship Walk held at Providence College. Photos by Richard Dionne, Jr. for East Bay Media.