📚🌈🌞NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING WEEK 2024:
This week, July 15-19, is National Summer Learning Week! Summer learning has many social, emotional, and educational benefits. Here are some resources to keep learning all summer long:
🔵Our Barrington Public Schools Summer Learning site has summer reading and learning activities for all students grouped by grade level, school, and subject: https://www.barringtonschools.org/.../page/summer-learning
🟡The Barrington Public Library's Summer Reading Program invites children and teens to log their reading time and offers weekly raffle prizes for those who read at least 60 minutes per week.
https://www.barringtonlibrary.com/.../summer-reading-program
🔵The National Summer Learning Association 's Discover Summer website has resources, activities, and access to local programs to keep children engaged all summer long: https://discoversummer.inplay.org/
🥇🚣♀️🎉BHS ALUM COMPETES AT FISU WORLD GAMES:
Barrington High School alum, Ava Tine '22, recently competed at the 2024 FISU World University Championship Rowing in the Netherlands! Ava and her teammates on Team USA won first place in the Women's Eight - and took home the only gold medal in rowing for the United States!
Our Barrington Eagles continue to soar and succeed all over the world. 🦅Way to go, Team USA!
Read the full story here: https://eastbayri.com/barrington/stories/barrington-rower-helps-us-team-win-gold-in-the-netherlands,123641?
✈️📊📘BHS STUDENTS ATTEND FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS CONFERENCE :
Last week, members of our Barrington High School Future Business Leaders of America (FLBA) club headed to Florida for the FBLA National Leadership Conference!
Sam and Anaaya competed at the national conference, served as voting delegates, networked with other FBLA participants from Rhode Island and around the country, and attended workshops on career growth, finance, and leadership. The future looks so bright! 💡
🖌🎨BHS STUDENT'S ARTWORK HANGS IN U.S. CAPITOL:
In May, Barrington High School student artist, Vivian, was selected as a winner of the Congressional Art Competition.
Last week, Vivian and her family traveled to Washington, DC, to see her artwork hanging in the U.S. Capitol and meet with Congressman Gabe Amo! Her painting, entitled "Burnout," will be on display through 2025.
Congratulations, Vivian! 🏆🎉
🏐🏅BHS VOLLEYBALL TEAM RECEIVES POST-SEASON AWARDS:
After winning last month's Division II State Championship, the Barrington High School boys volleyball team received a number of post-season awards from the Rhode Island Boys Volleyball Coaches Association!
Coach Lambert was named the Division II Volleyball Coach of the Year and recently graduated seniors Cam, Luke V., Sang Min, James, and Luke A. earned spots on All-Division, All-State, and All-Tournament playoff teams! Cam was named Division II Player of the Year and Luke V. was named All-Tournament playoff MVP.
Congratulations, Eagles! 🎉
⭐️🦅 🔵BPS WELCOMES SUPERINTENDENT WARGO:
Barrington Public Schools is excited to welcome Mr. Robert Wargo as our new Superintendent of Schools this week! Mr. Wargo has decades of experience in educational leadership at the school and district levels, and he is strongly committed to student and educator success.
Please join us in welcoming Superintendent Wargo to Barrington!
💙💛🎓SUPERINTENDENT MESSORE RETIRES AFTER 25 YEARS IN BPS:
Superintendent Mike Messore began his retirement this weekend after more than 25 years of service to our Barrington Public Schools.
Thank you, Mr. Messore, for your leadership and dedication to our students, schools, and Barrington community. Once an Eagle, always an Eagle! 🦅
Read Mr. Messore's end-of-year reflections here: https://www.barringtonschools.org/article/1646622
🎉🥁⭐️BMS CELEBRATES GRADE 8:
#ThrowbackThursday to our recent Grade 8 celebrations at Barrington Middle School!
After the Bridging Ceremony, Dr. Anderson led the eighth grade class in a march around the school - their final walk as as middle schoolers! - with cheers and applause from the whole BMS community. 🦅
🎉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.
