Posted September 27, 2024
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We are moving on to our 2nd Fall season of the year. Boys and girls flag football will be available for the students to play for this season. If your student is interested in playing they must register on Arbiter Sports, and submit their physical before they can try out. We do not have tryout dates scheduled yet, those dates will be coming soon. Students must register by October 4th!!!!
Step 1: Create an account and register your student for the selected sport on Arbiter Sports Website: 2024-2025 Late Fall- Middle School Athletic Registration | ArbiterSports
Step 2: Upload Students Medical Sports Physical Examination Arbiter Sports Website. If your student needs a physical exam, this website will allow you to schedule an appointment for free: Denver Health School Based Health Canters Locations | Denver Health
Step 3: Pay for the sport on the Arbiter Sports website.
Price: 35 dollars or 25 dollars if you qualify for free or reduced lunch
If your student does not make the team, you will have your money refunded.
This document is a guide of how to register if you need help!
Arbiter Sports Registration Guide for Parents – Google Docs
Students must be registered by October 4th if they want to try out for the team.
GO HUSKIES!!!
Thank you to all the 8th grade families that came out to High School Night at Hamilton last night. We had a really nice turnout. We had 5 area High Schools in attendance to answer your questions and help make an informed decision before choice enrollment opens up. Thank you to Thomas Jefferson High School, George Washington High School, Denver Center for 21st Century Learners, Denver East High School and DSST: Cedar High School. Your attendance at our event was instrumental in ensuring families were aware of their options going forward. Families, if you were able to fill out our BESS survey we very much appreciate it. If you did not fill out the survey, see below for more information and a link to the survey.
Parents, guardians, and caregivers: please fill out this 5 minute form to help provide valuable insight on how we can better support students at HMS.
As part of our effort to support the Whole Child, our school will be implementing a universal social and emotional screening for students.
Universal social and emotional screening can provide a fair and impartial way of looking at how students are progressing in their social and emotional development. Screenings can also help identify areas where school personnel can improve or adjust our supports.
To complete the parent portion of the screener, please take the form linked here.
Universal social and emotional screening is NOT an assessment or an evaluation. Instead, screenings are a useful tool to help identify students who may need extra social or emotional support. Additionally, universal screening allows HMS to adapt school-wide and/or grade-level or classroom programming to meet the needs of the student body.
Denver Public Schools currently uses a social and emotional screening questionnaire called the Behavior and Emotional Screening System (BESS). The online tool takes approximately ten minutes to complete and consists of 28 questions for the student to answer.
CLICK HERE FOR THE BESS SURVEY LINK
If you have not filled out the YouBenefit form yet for this school year, please consider doing so. More than half of our families have already submitted it. The school receives funding based upon our participation rate and we would greatly appreciate it if every family could complete it. As well, My Spark awards eligible families up to $1000 for students to spend on extracurricular activities in January, based upon the YouBenefit submissions.
Click here to fill out the YouBenefit application
The October Menu’s will be available on Tuesday, October 1st. Stay Tuned.
Breakfast Menu Link for the Month of September
Lunch Menu Link for the Month of September
Hello Husky Families! Thank you for attending our Fall Festival! We hope you enjoyed the event. A huge thank you to all of our volunteers for making this event possible!
Upcoming events and information:
If you haven’t purchased Hamilton Spirit Wear from the new school spirit wear store, now is the time to act! There are just 3 days remaining on the 30% off sale. Don’t delay, buy today.
Hamilton Spirit Wear Store Link
Student council is opening up applications for 7th and 8th graders. If you are in 7th or 8th grade, you can open your Schoology Grade Level Group to find the Student Council application. All applications are due by October 3rd. Paper copies will be available in Advisory and should be turned into Mrs. Sheikhan’s mailbox. In order to qualify for Student Council, you must maintain grades of a C or higher in each class. Members meet every Friday at 8:15, so please be aware of this requirement before applying.
Dear Parents and Guardians;
Lately, there has been a social media trend circulating about misusing products like Galaxy Gas more formally known as nitrous oxide. Here is a video clip from a recent segment on Morning in America describing the concern. CCN Health has an article on the topic as well. In addition, Yale published a study on the concern and the importance of early treatment. All the recent reports discuss how nitrous oxide can be harmful to adolescents’ developing brain, and nervous system and in some instances can be fatal.
As parents, you are the most important people in your child’s life and your involvement is the number one factor in preventing your child from experimenting with alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs. Here are some evidence-based tips on having conversations with your student about substance misuse.
These five strategies have been shown to help prevent alcohol and other drug use
by adolescents.
The full article can be read here and Spanish translation.
If you need more support related to adolescent substance misuse, please contact Maria Hite, LCSW, Substance Use Prevention Float at maria_hite@dpsk12.net or 720-423-9499.
ABC Eye Care is offering students the gift of Sight. Check out the flyer and QR code for more information or fill out the link below.
