The purpose of this email is to share information regarding Harding Middle School. It is a monthly newsletter featuring HMS news and current events.

In This Issue:

A Message From Mills

What's Happening In October

A Message from Principal Mills

Happy October, Harding Families!

We are quickly approaching the end of the first eight weeks of school, and our students continue to work hard and make great progress!

Our Fall sports teams have been kicking butt! Players and coaches truly appreciate everyone who has come out to support and cheer on the Stallions. As a token of our appreciation, athletes will receive two complimentary tickets for family members to attend the final 8th-grade home game for each fall sport. Thank you for your amazing support!

Important Dates & Reminders:

• End of First Quarter: Friday, October 16th
• Final Grades Posted in ProgressBook: Tuesday, October 20th
• School Pictures:
• 5th & 6th Grade: Tuesday, October 6th
• 7th & 8th Grade: Tuesday, October 13th
• National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) Induction: Wednesday, October 21st — We are thrilled to induct 68 new members!

Keep up the tremendous work, everyone, and let’s have an awesome October!

Sincerely,

Principal Bryan Mills

bmills@rollred.org

Harding Middle School – (740) 282-3481

Bracelets are available for purchase at:

• SHS Red Zone Store
• Next Home Football Game

Mornings:

Breakfast is free and served to all HMS students from 7:00 to 7:50 am daily.

All students must be seated in class by 8AM or they are considered tardy. Please allow time for daily traffic (7:35-7:55) and a few minutes for all students to go through security screening when entering the building.

Lunch Time:

*Parents may drop off lunches ONLY and must be on time. Otherwise, the student will be given the meal after school. NO delivery services (DoorDash, UberEats, ect.) will be allowed to drop off lunches!

Lunch 1 (5th & 6th) 11:02 - 11:32

Lunch 2 (7th & 8th) 12:01 - 12:31

*Please ensure their lunches arrive in the main office at least 10 minutes before their lunch starts.

School Lunches:



*All students are eligible for free breakfast and lunch at SCS

Please see the photo for our am drop-off and pick-up patterns. This must be strictly followed in order to avoid congestion and dangerous situations for our students.

In the am...(Follow the green arrows)

• All Students must enter through the cafeteria doors.
• Cars will be signaled to pull all the way down to the personnel on duty.
• Do not stop and drop off students in the middle of the traffic flow. Keep driving until traffic stops.
• When the vehicle stops, students should exit their vehicle curbside and get onto the sidewalk.
• Do not allow your student to wait in the car to be dropped off at the door (Even if it's cold, raining or snowing). These extra stops at the doors cause unnecessary & hazardous congestion on Sunset Blvd.

In the pm...

HMS will dismiss in the following manner...

1. 2:30-35 - Bus students will exit the building
2. 2:35-40 - Walkers will exit the building
3. 2:40-45 - Car riders will exit. Students will walk to your car. No front door pick up until after 2:50

• The cars must pull into parking spots while waiting on their student after school. If you are parked in the way while waiting for your child to come out, you will be asked to pull around.
• Skip the first row that faces Sunset (Buses start lining up in that row).
• Please observe directives from staff on duty.

Your compliance is necessary for the safety of our students. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

Note: The Harding girls' soccer game on Monday, October 5^th against Harrison has been moved to a 7:15pm start time.