Hampden Meadows School

📑🦅🏫 BHS STUDENTS SIGN LETTERS OF INTENT: Our Eagles are soaring! During a special recognition ceremony at Barrington High School last week, more than a dozen student athletes signed their National Letters of Intent or made a commitment to their chosen college or university. Congratulations, Class of 2025! Photos taken by Richard Dionne, Jr. for East Bay Media.

🦅🏆EAGLES ARE UNIFIED VOLLEYBALL CHAMPS: Congratulations to our Barrington High School unified volleyball team who won the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division V State Championship yesterday! Way to go, Eagles! 💪🎉

🥗🌿♻️GOVERNOR MCKEE VISITS HAMPDEN MEADOWS: Last week, Governor Dan McKee and Mrs. McKee visited Hampden Meadows Elementary School as part of their Litter Free Rhode Island initiative. They saw the wonderful things our Green Team and Composting Club are working on to make HMS more sustainable and environmentally friendly like collecting food scraps at lunch, transferring scraps to the compost bin, aerating compost, and picking up litter. Thank you for visiting, Governor McKee! Go, Green Team! 💚

🏅📚💙SOWAMS SCHOOL STAFF ATTEND AWARDS CEREMONY: In September, the U.S. Department of Education recognized Sowams School as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Principal Callahan and Mrs. Squatrito, K-3 math specialist, traveled down to Washington, DC, last week to attend the National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards Ceremony and officially accept the award on behalf of Sowams School. Congratulations, Sowams! Watch the awards ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/live/pElFNTO9xi4?feature=shared&t=50

🔵🦅🥳BHS CLASS OF 1974 CELEBRATES REUNION: The Barrington High School Class of 1974 recently celebrated its 50th reunion at the Bristol Yacht Club with 68 class members in attendance! Some members of the class toured Barrington High School before the reunion and current BHS students sold Eagles gear to alumni during the event. You know what they say: Once an Eagle, always an Eagle! 🦅

🏐🏆🎉BHS GIRLS VOLLEYBALL TEAM WINS CHAMPIONSHIP: Congratulations to the Barrington High School girls volleyball team for winning the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division II State Championship on Saturday! It's another great day to be a Barrington Eagle! 🦅🙌 Photos by Richard Dionne, Jr. for East Bay Media.

🇺🇸🎖️🧑‍✈️BPS CELEBRATES LOCAL VETERANS: Barrington Public Schools is closed today, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. To celebrate and thank local veterans for their service, Hampden Meadows Elementary School students created cards and notes of thanks and delivered them to the Rhode Island Veterans Home.

🐛🍄🌼STUDENTS HELP LAND TRUST CREATE TEACHING GARDEN AT BMS: BPS student members of the Barrington Land Conservation Trust's Student Stewardship Team recently planted 275 native pollinator plants to create a new teaching garden at Barrington Middle School. The pollinator garden will be a place where students can learn about local habitats and the importance of pollinators. Connor, a senior at Barrington High School, adopted the garden as his senior project and spent many hours digging out invasive species and preparing the garden for planting. A generous donation from Stormwater Innovation Center and Prickly Ed's Cactus Patch Native Plant Emporium provided the plants for this garden. Read more about the pollinator garden, the collaborative efforts between BLCT and BPS students here: https://eastbayri.com/.../student-team-creates-teaching... Photos provided by Barrington Land Conservation Trust.

🎸🎶🎤SECOND GRADERS PARTICIPATE IN SONGWRITING WORKSHOP: Award-winning performer Keith Munslow recently visited our Barrington elementary schools thanks to a generous grant from the Barrington Education Foundation! After a fun performance, our second graders at Primrose Hill Elementary School, Sowams School, and Nayatt School participated in a songwriting workshop hosted by Keith Munslow. They even helped him compose a song! 🎼🎹✍️ Thank you, BEF, for providing this opportunity for our students!

🐛🍄🌼STUDENTS HELP LAND TRUST CREATE TEACHING GARDEN AT BMS: BPS student members of the Barrington Land Conservation Trust's Student Stewardship Team recently planted 275 native pollinator plants to create a new teaching garden at Barrington Middle School. The pollinator garden will be a place where students can learn about local habitats and the importance of pollinators. Connor, a senior at Barrington High School, adopted the garden as his senior project and spent many hours digging out invasive species and preparing the garden for planting. A generous donation from Stormwater Innovation Center and Prickly Ed's Cactus Patch Native Plant Emporium helped provided the plants for this garden. Read more about the pollinator garden, the collaborative efforts between BLCT and BPS students here: https://eastbayri.com/.../student-team-creates-teaching... Photos provided by Barrington Land Conservation Trust.

🇺🇸🗳🤍BHS STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN ELECTION DAY: Barrington High School students Vlad and Abigail helped with exit polling at Barrington Middle School today as part of an assignment for their Advanced Placement government class. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Gabe Amo visited BMS and other polling locations across the state to #GetOutTheVote and stopped to talk with our students!

🎾🥈🦅BHS GIRLS TENNIS COMPETES IN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP: Following an impressive 16-0 regular season, our Barrington High School girls tennis team placed second in the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Girls Tennis State Championship on Saturday. Go Eagles! 👏🔵

🕯💀🌹BMS CELEBRATES DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Today is Día de los Muertos! Barrington Middle School celebrated the Day of the Dead with an engaging lesson from our world languages teachers. Students also sampled Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto generously provided by BMS families. Learn more about Día de los Muertos here: https://www.usatoday.com/.../day-of-the-dead.../75790458007/

👻🎃🧪BHS STUDENTS EXPLORE FORENSIC SCIENCE: In the spirit of Halloween, our Barrington High School students got spooky in science class! During a forensic science lesson, they learned about Locard's Exchange Principle, which is the basis for modern forensic science based on the concept that every contact leaves a trace, and had the opportunity to test the principle out for themselves in a classroom whodunit. 🔎

🌳🌕🚀MOON TREE PLANTED AT BMS: This week, Dr. Anderson, Ms. St.Angelo, and a group of students planted an Artemis I Moon Tree at Barrington Middle School! The tree was grown from a seed that orbited the moon during the Artemis I mission in 2022. Ms. St. Angelo, a fifth grade math and science teacher at Hampden Meadows School, participated in a pilot cohort to develop an Integrated STEM certification with the Rhode Island Department of Education and Rhode Island College and her students took part in a year-long, interdisciplinary project that immersed them in the world of engineering through NASA’s Sparking Participation and Real-world eXperiences (SPARX) program. As a part of this work, she applied and was selected for Barrington to receive an Artemis I Moon Tree from NASA! 🛰🌱 #MoonTrees

🧑‍💼💡📰FBLA STUDENTS ATTEND LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: Members of the Barrington High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club recently attended the Rhode Island FBLA State Leadership Conference! Our future business leaders engaged in networking events, attended workshops, and heard from a number of guest speakers at the conference. Way to go, FBLA! 🟡🔵

🚒🚛🚓HMS STUDENTS LEARN FROM FIRST RESPONDERS: Hampden Meadows Elementary School students celebrated National First Responders Day with a visit from special guests: Officer Joel, K9 Levi, and members of the Barrington Police and Fire Departments, the Barrington Department of Public Works, the Rhode Island State Police, and the Newport Harbor Master! 🚔⚓️ During the "Touch a Truck" event, students learned about the role and duties of our first responders and had the opportunity to go inside some first responder vehicles. They even got to meet the youngest member of the BPD, K9 Levi, who is the department's first ever comfort and community engagement dog! 🐕‍🦺

⚖️📜🇺🇸BHS WELCOMES GUEST SPEAKERS FOR CONSTITUTION DAY: Today is Constitution Day in Rhode Island! Some Barrington High School students spent the morning learning about First Amendment law issues relevant to students thanks to guest speakers, Secretary of State Gregg Amore, Judge Susan Pepin Fay, and attorney Zachary Lyons. It was an informative morning in the BHS library!

🦅⭐️🎫BHS EAGLES APPROACH END OF FALL ATHLETICS SEASON: The fall athletics season is winding down and our Barrington High School student athletes are busy! This weekend, the JV girls volleyball team won the JV Division II State Championship, the cheer team placed second in Division II at the Game Day Cheerleading Championship, and the girls and boys cross country teams placed fourth and second, respectively, in their Class Championship meets. 🥳 BHS hosts the girls tennis state semifinals tomorrow as well as the girls and boys soccer playoffs on Victory Field. The field hockey team will play in a semifinals game tomorrow night in Cranston and the varsity girls volleyball team takes on Burrillville in a quarterfinals match in the Murgo Gymnasium on Wednesday night! Good luck, Eagles! 🦅🎾🏐🏑⚽️ Some photos by East Bay Media and Providence Journal.

📚📘💡SCENES FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY: School libraries are places of discovery, knowledge, and personal development. Our librarians foster information literacy, creativity, digital citizenship, and so much more. Each of our school libraries remains busy all day. These recent scenes from the Barrington Middle School library represent the diversity of activities that take place within our libraries! 🔎💻🎥