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Dorothy Hamm Middle School PTSA
PHOENIX POST
Monday, January 8th, 2024
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Mark Your Calendar: Upcoming DHMS Dates | |
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Tuesday, January 9th - DHMS PTSA Meeting, 7:00pm
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Monday, January 15th - NO SCHOOL (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
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Thursday, January 18th - DHMS Science Fair, 4:45-8:30pm (Details below)
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Thursday, January 25th - DHMS Academic Planning Night, 6:30pm
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Friday, January 26th - End of 2nd Quarter
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Monday, January 29th - NO SCHOOL (Grade Preparation Day)
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Friday-Saturday, February 2nd-3rd - Stratford Integration Commemoration Events
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Wednesday, February 7th - Early Release (12:05pm Dismissal)
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Tuesday, February 13th - DHMS PTSA Meeting, 7:00pm
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Monday, February 19th - NO SCHOOL (Presidents Day)
Please visit the online master DHMS Calendar for all 2023-24 school year dates.
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To our DHMS Community, welcome to 2024!
Hope you enjoyed a wonderful holiday and very happy new year with your families. Welcome back, and we are looking forward to a great 2024 ahead.
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Tomorrow: DHMS PTSA Membership Meeting
Tuesday, January 9th 7:00pm
Hope you can join us via Zoom for our next DHMS PTSA Membership Meeting coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9th, with special presentations on long-term (Grades 6-12) planning, hosted by Janae Ferguson DOC, and Math Pathways, presented by DHMS Heather Donaldson, as well as the latest DHMS news and PTSA updates.
Zoom Meeting Link:
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Meeting ID: 957 7632 0120
Passcode: 621232
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Please contact DHMS PTSA President, Danusha Chandy, with any questions.
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Mark Your Calendar: DHMS Science Fair
Thursday, January 18th
The DHMS Science Fair is quickly approaching on Thursday, January 18th:
- 4:45-6:15pm - Community Open House
- 6:30pm - Judging starts (until approximately 8:30pm)
Donations Needed: Look for a SignUpGenius soon to provide light snacks and drinks for students and judges.
We are looking for judges to review projects and interact with students. If you would like to be a judge. sign up using this link: DHMS Science Fair Judge Sign-up Form
- Students in grades 10-12 are also welcome to be judges and may count their participation towards community service hours.
- Judges are asked to arrive by 6:00 for a brief training. More detailed information is in the judge sign-up form.
- The Science Fair directors (Elise Krueger and Elaine Kennedy) will be in contact with interested volunteers.
Contact DHMS PTSA Lead, Carole Russo, with any questions.
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Save the Date: Stratford Jr. High Integration Commemoration Events
Friday, February 2nd & Saturday, February 3rd
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Friday, February 2nd, 6:30pm - Formal Program at DHMS honoring and celebrating the desegregation of Stratford Jr. High and APS
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Saturday, February 3rd, 10am-2pm - Open house at DHMS with Civil Rights History Information, Entertainment, Food for purchase, Citizen Groups focused on the history
Mark your calendar, and more details to come soon!
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Online DHMS School Spirit Wear Store
As we head into 2024, just a quick reminder that the online DHMS Spirit Wear store is open all year round! You may order anytime and items will be shipped to your home address. Select from a wide variety of tees, hoodies, hate, shorts, jammie pants, bags, and accessories in adult, women, and youth sizes. A great way to show your school spirit, and the DHMS PTSA receives 5% of sales. Click below to place your order, and contact spiritwear@dhmsptsa.org with any questions.
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Donate Your Plastic Film Waste & Help DHMS Win a Trex Bench
Holiday season is here, and that means you're probably getting lots of shipping envelopes from online retailers! That's great news because the DHMS Green Team is setting our sights on winning a super cool Trex bench for our school if we can collect 1000 pounds of plastic recycling material. Bring in your CLEAN, DRY plastic film waste like newspaper sleeves, plastic grocery bags, bubble wrap and all of those empty shipping envelopes. Just drop it in the plastic bins in the hallway near the front office and we'll do the rest. Please make sure all of the plastic is CLEAN, DRY and FREE of FOOD RESIDUE.
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Advisory Council on Teaching & Learning (ACTL) Update
Advisory Council on Teaching & Learning (ACTL) is made up of representatives from each school to assist in reviewing the system-wide curriculum and instructional program, and in developing recommendations for improvement. In addition to ACTL, there are fourteen program-area advisory subcommittees that report to the council. Six subcommittees have presented to ACTL so far in the 2023/24 school year and they will be making recommendations to the January 9 School Board meeting. These include: ASEAC (Arlington Special Education Advisory Committee); Advances Academics and Talent Development; Early Childhood; English Language Arts; Math; and Social Studies. The newly formed Education Technology (EdTech) Subcommittee will also present a progress report to the School Board. The minutes of each of the ACTL meetings can be found on the web page linked above.
If anyone has any questions about ACTL or ideas/feedback on Arlington Public Schools curriculum and instructional program, please do reach out to DHMS’s representative, Erik Johnson. Also, there are two slots available to each school, so if anyone would like to join Erik as a representative, please do let him know.
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Secondary Option School Application Deadline and Middle School Info Nights
The deadline to apply to attend an APS secondary option school is 4 p.m. on Fri, Jan. 12.
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2024-25 and 2025-26 School Year Calendars
The School Board approved the 2024-25 and 2025-26 School Year Calendars that show the days schools are closed for students, the dates for winter and spring break, early release days, and marking period dates.
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The DHMS PTSA Phoenix Post is a weekly newsletter that informs the DHMS community about DHMS, PTSA, and relevant APS and community news. Please send any newsletter submissions to newsletter@dhmsptsa.org by EOD Thursday for inclusion in the following Monday's Phoenix Post. | | | | |
