Hancock Central School District

DISTRICT SAFETY PLAN The Hancock Central School District Safety Plan is open for public comment until August 8th 2024. Comments or questions should to Principal Durkot at: tdurkot@hancock.stier.org Access to the plan is located here: https://www.hancock.stier.org/documents/district/district-school-safety-plan/569052

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY We would like to wish everyone a happy and safe July 4th! If you are staying local this holiday, there are several events occurring in and around Hancock. Visit the Town of Hancock website to view all the activities taking place! #wildcatpride

2024 GRADUATION We had a lovely night for commencement this past Friday, where we honored and recognized our 12th graders on their graduation! Valedictorian Chiara Wormuth and Salutatorian Lola White delivered a pair of well spoken and inspirational speeches to everyone in attendance to begin the evening. Excellent job and powerful speeches, ladies! The 12th graders in chamber choir gave a powerful rendition of “Photograph”, by Nickelback, while the entire senior class led the audience in the HCS Alma Mater to end the evening. Congratulations to all our seniors on your achievements, we wish you the best of luck in whatever the future may bring! #wildcatpride #graduation2024

MIDDLE SCHOOL END OF YEAR AWARDS Our end of year awards for grades 5-7 were held on the final day of school last week, where we recognized and honored students on academic achievement, effort and citizenship! Congratulations to all of you on your accomplishments, nice work. Have a nice summer! #wildcatpride

ELEMENTARY AWARDS, FOURTH GRADE MOVING UP We held our Elementary School End of Year Awards and 4th Grade Moving Up Ceremony this past Wednesday in the HES Cafetorium. We recognized our 4th quarter merit, honor and high honor recipients. We also recognized merit, honor and high honor rolls for the entire school year. Highest average awards, as well as Koalaty Kid awards were awarded to students as well. After awards were recognized, our 4th graders demonstrated their mastery on the recorders by playing several songs. Afterwards, they put on a performance of "Best Day of My Life", by American Authors. Congratulations to all our soon to be 5th graders, as well as everyone who received an award. Enjoy your summer, we will see you in September! #wildcatpride

SENIOR BANQUET We honored our 12th grade students last night during their senior banquet, as we get one step closer to graduation! It was a lovely evening with an excellent spread of dinner and desserts, thank you to Mrs. D’Elia for the pictures! Our 12th graders will be graduating this Friday, June 28th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Middle-High School Auditorium. If you’re unable to attend, we will be live-streaming graduation from our YouTube channel at the address below: https://www.youtube.com/@hancockcentralschooldistrict We look forward to seeing you Friday night! #wildcatpride

EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION Today, we held our 8th grade graduation, where we honored and recognized our boys and girls moving up to high school! Students were recognized for a variety of accolades, including sports, merit/honor/high honor roll, character, and citizenship awards. Congratulations to you all on your well-deserved success, best wishes as you move on to 9th grade. Enjoy your summer!! #wildcatpride

BUS RIDER AWARDS We want to thank Ms. Rhinebeck, our bus monitor to DCMO Boces, for recognizing several of our students who display great character and respect on their daily trips to BOCES! We want to acknowledge and congratulate Gonzalo Ruiz, Elizabeth Ellis, Zane Jefferson and Aladino Ruiz for always being kind, helpful and respectful on the bus. Each student is pictured with their award and a small goody bag thanks to Ms. Rhinebeck. Excellent work, students! #wildcatpride

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION We want to honor and congratulate our Kindergarten students on a wonderful school year! You have all grown in many ways as students and individuals, you should be proud of yourselves. We hope you all enjoy your summer; we look forward to seeing you as first graders! Congratulations to the class of 2036!! #wildcatpride

FOURTH GRADERS VISIT NATURE CENTER Mrs. Prescott’s 4th grade students took a trip to the nature center earlier today! They met up with Miss Emily, who taught them about rocks and minerals. Each student was able to smash open their own geode’s as well! Thank you to Miss Emily and The Hancock Community Education Foundation for this insightful opportunity! #wildcatpride

ELEMENTARY LIBRARY FIELD TRIPS Here are some photos from our elementary walking field trips to the library over the last few weeks! The students were able to learn a little about the history of the library, including a little about the Read family. We heard about the fun program Joann Haberli will be hosting - doodle bot making, team game challenges, movie nights, and more! Then, the students got to play a game together. We want to thank Joann for taking the time to welcome us into the library and show us what wonderful things it has to offer! #wildcatpride

MIDDLE SCHOOL FIELD DAYS Our middle school students had some fun earlier today as they participated in field days! The students played a variety of games, including ‘drip-drip-drop’, relay races and ‘California kickball’. Our boys and girls enjoyed the nice weather, some got wetter than others! Afterwards, the students enjoyed some cooler air inside while watching a movie. Nice work, students, have a nice weekend. One (half) week to go! #wildcatpride

PRE-KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION We held our Pre-Kindergarten graduation earlier this morning in the Elementary school cafeteria! The students did a great job on stage singing us songs and working on their rhymes. It has been wonderful to watch you all grow throughout this year, your first full school year! It was an excellent turnout for our boys and girls, thank you for attending. Congratulations to the Class of 2037! #wildcatpride

SENIORS RETURN FROM TRIP Our 12th graders returned late last night from their trip to Maryland, welcome back! It sounds like everyone had a great time, here are some more pictures of their trip! #wildcatpride

PRE-K/KINDERGARTEN TRIP TO LITTLE ITALY Our Pre-K and Kindergarten students took a field trip to Little Italy III in Deposit to see how pizza is made! The boys and girls were able to create their own pizza with pizza stickers, then they got to eat some of their own yummy pizza. Nice job, kiddos! #wildcatpride

5TH & 6TH GRADERS HEAD TO FRENCH WOODS CAMP Our 5th and 6th grade students recently took a trip to French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts camp for a fun-filled day! Students received a tour of the camp and the different areas/activities available for them to access. Activities available included the circus, ropes course/zipline, horseback riding, magic, sports and arts/crafts. Thank you to Mrs. Rice for sending in these pictures, it looks like everyone had a great day! #wildcatpride

SCHOLARS OF THE MONTH At morning program, we selected our elementary Scholars of the Month for April and May. Congratulations to the scholar of the month for April, Luka Brkaric! Luka was chosen because he always works hard, tries his best and follows directions. He is also very kind to his peers. Nice work, Luka! Congratulations to the scholar of the month for May, Kylie Tompkins! Kylie was also chosen because she is a hard worker and tries her best. She also is a great friend to her classmates. Excellent work, Kylie! Each student will receive a gift of $100 (in trust). We want to thank The Hancock Community Education Foundation and Camp Hilltop for sponsoring the scholars of the month at HCS! #wildcatpride

SENIOR TRIP Our 12th graders were ready to head out bright and early this morning for their senior trip! The students are off to Maryland, visiting Baltimore first and finishing up in Ocean City. We caught some pictures of them arriving in Baltimore, then having some lunch at the Hard Rock Café. We hope you all have an excellent trip, we will see you soon! #wildcatpride

BIRTHDAYS, GOLD SLIP WINNERS AT MORNING PROGRAM We gathered today for our final Morning Program of the 2023-2024 school year! At morning program, we celebrated June/Summer birthdays and picked a plethora of gold slip prize winners. Happy birthday to you all and congratulations to those students who were selected for gold slips! While we won’t have program next week, we will have our elementary awards ceremony next Wednesday, June 26th, at 8:30 am in the elementary cafeteria. We hope to see you then! #wildcatpride

CLASS DAY PICTURES We honored and recognized our high school students at Class Day last week, see pictures below! #wildcatpride