EARLY RELEASE: Friday, May 23rd, will be a half-day for all students. Dismissal will be at 11:05 am. Please plan accordingly.
BAND CONCERT: The Band Concert is coming up on Tuesday, May 20th. Come to the Hunking gym at 6 pm for a great evening of music, including our Hunking Beginning and Advanced Bands, as well as the All-City Middle School Jazz Band!
Notification of upcoming (final) ALICE Drill: Please click the link below to be connected to a letter notifying families of Hunking’s upcoming and final ALICE drill of the school year:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ssi8yA2y6peVxFdKvNgb1ldsSiZuSZ-YyYZof1Y3oA/edit?usp=sharing
MCAS SCHEDULE: MCAS season is upon us. Our grades 3-8 students are participating in the state’s annual MCAS testing. This is still a very important assessment for our students and measures our progress as a school in comparison to other schools in our district and throughout the state of Massachusetts. Students’ participation in this test is of utmost importance.
Please find the link to the MCAS schedule below, where you can find out exactly when
your student(s) are scheduled to test.
Literacy News: The Scholastic Book fair is coming to the Hunking Library June 2- June 6. A class schedule and sign-up form for parents who would like to volunteer will be coming out shortly. If any parents or guardians are interested in volunteering, please be sure to have an updated CORI form on file. Below is the link to our fair, including information to set up an E-wallet for cash free shopping!
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/calebdustinhunkingschool
THEME OF THE MONTH: With a new month beginning, we are going to be embracing a new theme, and the final theme for this school year. Throughout the month of May, we will be embracing the theme of EMPATHY. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person’s perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. It is what it is like to walk in another person’s shoes. You can all demonstrate empathy by actively listening, validating others’ feelings, and using nonverbal cues like eye contact when having conversations with others. Staff will be on the lookout throughout this month for the students who best personify this theme.
MAY BREAKFAST & LUNCH MENUS
(If you have trouble accessing the menus, please go to www.fdmealplanner.com and enter “Hunking” as the school location.)
PTO NEWS:
- Our next PTO Meeting (and last one of the 2024-2025 school year!) is on Thursday, June 5th at 5:30pm in the Hunking library.
- Take advantage of the Hunking Hot Pre-Summer Spirit Wear Sale! Choose from hundreds of designs and garments that are delivered to your home in days! You’ll save 20% off the entire site! Featuring new product lines from Under Armour! Use code: SUMMER Shop at https://1stplace.sale/40727
NEWS FROM GUIDANCE
School Counselor: Terri Carney terri.carney@haverhill-ps.org
Attention Parents of 8th graders!! There are two New CTE programs for the fall!!!!
Haverhill High School is proud to announce the launch of two new Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs for the 2025–2026 school year: the CTE Graphic Design and Visual Communications Program and the CTE Teacher Training Program. These exciting additions reflect the school’s ongoing commitment to providing students with meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities that lead to industry-recognized credentials, livable wage careers, and postsecondary success. We are accepting applications from students currently enrolled in grades 8-11. Apply today
8th Grade Parents and Loop Students: The last day for the Loop Program is Tuesday, June 3rd
Parents of 7th graders (rising 8th graders): Keep an eye out for Loop Information for next school year!! Information will be sent out by the high school soon.
What’s next for 8th grade? Students have applied to various schools and programs. Those going to HHS have selected their electives for next year. Now is just the time to keep working hard and finish strong!!
Work Permits: Find all the information needed to obtain a work permit here:
https://archive.haverhill-ps.org/work-permit-information
EDUCATIONAL HAPPENINGS:
LOOP Program: The last day for this year’s Loop program is Tuesday, June 3rd. All families of students who have participated in the Loop program should be receiving notification.
4th grade: We are so excited to hold our annual Cardboard Carnival this year on June 3rd for parents (stay tuned for the invite) and June 4th for grades K-3. We will certainly need your help in gathering supplies for our engineers. We have made an Amazon wishlist (linked here) and would appreciate any and all donations off our Amazon list.
We are also collecting the following recyclables:
~ BOXES, BOXES, BOXES! (small, medium, large, amazon, etc.)
~ Toilet paper and paper towel rolls
~ Shoeboxers
~ Plastic lettuce/spinach containers
~ Plastic bottles (water, soda, gatorade, powerade, juice, etc.)
~ Plastic yogurt containers (all sizes)
~ Duct tape and packing tape
7th Grade: Our students worked so hard on the Math MCAS this week and we are proud! Next week we will be starting our Volumeville Project where students will design and create a 3D city. Each group will need a posterboard and each class will be voting on the best designs!
8th Grade: Congratulations to all the completed Civics Projects and to our top 5! Thank you to the families who came to view all the projects.
Field Trip permission slips were sent home Friday, May 16th for ALL end of the year activities. Please join the parent-led Facebook as they are looking for volunteers to purchase items for DC, Bradford Swim Club and the Dance.
Math i-Ready benchmark will take place on May 21.
ELA Debates will take place in the Library on Tuesday May 20th and Wednesday May 21st! Emails and Remind messages were sent home with specific days for student groups
NEWS FROM OUR NURSES: Spring is here, which brings milder weather but also allergies. The health office does not have allergy medication, so please have your child take allergy medication if needed before coming to school. Please make sure to apply sunscreen, particularly when your child is going on a field trip. It is important to protect a child’s skin from getting sunburned. The health office does not have sunscreen. Also, please send your child in with a water bottle. There are refill stations throughout the school for water.
8th grade students who are attending the Washington DC trip: If your student will need medication during the trip, you will need to send in a doctor’s order and parental consent for the medications. An adult may drop off medications starting the week of 5/19/2025. Please only send in what they will need for the trip. Please return the annual health update and permission form sent home with your child (given only to those who were missing one in their record) as soon as possible so your child will have access to over the counter medications such as Tylenol and Ibuprofen.There is a mandatory meeting on 5/21/25 from 6-7pm and medications should be given to the nurses at that time if you are unable to bring them in earlier in the week.
If your child has a physical, please send a copy to the health office. It is important for the health office to be updated on any changes to your child’s health. If your child will be absent due to a health issue, please call the health office at 978-420-1913 or for any health related issues or questions.
ATHLETIC NEWS:
Haverhill High School Football Informational Meeting (7th & 8th Grade): _Hunking poster
Spring Track: HUGE shoutout to our Track athletes! Thank you for another great week of hard work and team spirit!. For those interested, this weeks workouts will be posted in our remind group this afternoon!
A special congratulations to our 7th and 8th grade athletes for their incredible performance at the district-wide meet yesterday, at HHS! Everyone represented our school with pride, determination, and sportsmanship. I am so proud of each and every one of you!
- Once we received the results of this meet I will be sure to share
I hope to keep up this momentum with our 5th and 6th grade athletes upcoming district wide meet on Tuesday, May 20th @ HHS starting as soon as all schools arrive9 as close to 3:30 as possible).
- Transportation will be provided for all schools
- $3.00 dollar cost for adults at the gate and students are free.
- Rain date for Thursday, May 22nd.
As always, please reach out anytime for anything!
“Run Fast, Turn Left!”
-Coach Law
(jennifer.law@haverhill-ps.org)
CLUB NEWS:
Guitar Ensemble: We will NOT meet Friday (5/16) or Friday (5/23). Our next meeting is THURSDAY (5/29).
GRIT: The LAST in school GRIT meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 19 until 4:30. Following that, we will be going bowling after school on Wednesday, May 28. Students were given a notice to take home about that. Students can walk home from there if they live close or you may pick them up there at 4:30 instead of at the school. In our last GRIT meeting we focused primarily on the skill of communication and challenged them with a trust activity.
Chorus: Congratulations on a wonderful concert Wednesday night! I am so proud of all of you!
The Fisher Cats event has been rescheduled to Sunday May 25th at 1:35pm. If you would like to purchase tickets for this event, please go to https://www.gofevo.com/event/Calebdustin7. If you purchased tickets and can no longer attend, please reach out to Ms. Avalos ASAP for your voucher.
Tri-M: Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday, May 21st. We will meet in the music room from 2:45-3:30pm.
Student Council: Meeting & Agenda Calendar can be found here.
NJHS: Thank you to the applicants for the 2025-2026 NJHS. Decisions have been sent to all applicants. The NJHS calendar can be found here. Save the Date of May 29th for the induction ceremony.
GSA: The calendar for the GSA can be found here.
LEGO Club: The LEGO Club calendar can be found here. There has been a change to the LEGO Club calendar for helpers. The meeting on 5/22 is canceled and will be replaced by a meeting on 5/29.
ODDS & ENDS:
-Please make sure that your student(s) are coming to school daily with a fully charged Chromebook.
HPS has chosen School Device Coverage (SDC) to ensure the Chromebooks that students have been issued. The cost of coverage for the year is $20 and includes accidental damage, loss, fire, and theft. As of right now, families have the option to sign up during the month of September (we will let you know if it extends). After sign-up closes, only new students will be given a special code to sign up at registration. Our website explains SDC and has instructions on how to sign up online:
-Please make sure that you are sending your student(s) with a water bottle. We have a limited supply of cups, and we do not have access to water fountains, only water bottle filling stations.
SCHOOL POLICIES: Please click on the link below to review Hunking policies, including cell phone, dress code, and pick up & drop off procedures:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOOIPyskLX9WyYSuAWqfyQCB0ZJZ8JFsTTgB_sNW8d4/edit?usp=sharing