Hancock Central School District

HCS Upcoming Events: Wednesday, June 19th: • Juneteenth Holiday (No School) Friday, June 21st: • Pre-Kindergarten Graduation (9:00 am – Elementary School Cafeteria) • 12:30 pm dismissal Monday, June 24th : • Kindergarten Graduation (9:00 am – Elementary School Cafeteria) • 12:30 pm dismissal Tuesday, June 25th: • 8th Grade Graduation (11:00 am – MS/HS Auditorium) • 12:30 pm dismissal • Baccalaureate (7:15 pm – MS/HS Auditorium) Wednesday, June 26th: • Elementary Awards Ceremony (8:30 am – Elementary School Cafeteria) • Fourth Grade Moving Up (9:15 am - Elementary School Cafeteria) • Middle School Awards, grades 5-7 (10:30 am - MS/HS Auditorium) • Final day of classes for grades K-8 • 12:30 pm dismissal Friday, June 28th: • High School Graduation (7:00 pm – MS/HS Auditorium)

ELEMENTARY FIELD DAYS It was a great day to be outside for elementary field days! While a bit hot, the sun was shining and our students had a great time on the playground. Our boys and girls played a variety of games, including relay races, water balloon toss, pass the sponge, and flamingo ring toss! Thank you to all our students and staff members for helping to facilitate a great field day for our elementary students! #wildcatpride

HONOR’S DESSERT We held our end of the year honors dessert last week at HCS to recognize and congratulate those students on the merit, honor, and high honor rolls for the 2023-2024 school year (cumulative through quarter 3). Congratulations to you all! #wildcatpride

ATHLETIC AWARDS BANQUET Last week, our student-athletes from Hancock and Deposit gathered at Deposit Central School for our annual athletic awards banquet. We had a nice gathering to recognize and honor all our student-athletes from each of the Fall, Winter, and Spring sports. Congratulations to all on your awards and successful sports seasons! To our graduating seniors, we wish you the best of luck in whatever your future brings to you!! #wildcatpride #DHNation

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK, BIRTHDAYS, GOLD SLIP WINNERS We were busy at Morning Program this week, as we celebrated our students of the week, birthdays, and gold slip winners! Our first student of the week was chosen by Mrs. Smith, congratulations to Paislee Conkling! Paislee was chosen because she is a good listener in class and a great helper to her friends. Nice work, Paislee! Sam Brigham was chosen as student of the week for Mrs. Prescott, nice work Sam! Sam was chosen because of his kindness and willingness to learn every day. He is also a great friend to his peers! We also celebrated several birthdays at Tuesday’s program. Happy birthdays go out to Adrian Bolster, Emma Frost, Christian Sparacio, Kendra Croci and Hope Felter. We hope each of you had the best birthday! Finally, our students of the week helped choose two gold slip winners for the week. The gold slip winners were Kallen Angel and Zayne Walker! Kallen and Zayne are pictured with their prize. We want to thank everyone for stopping into morning program throughout the year, we appreciate the support! #wildcatpride

ELEMENTARY WINNERS FOR JUSTIN’S PATRIOTIC PROJECT We want to thank Cindy and Randy Whiting for stopping back to Morning Program this past Tuesday. Cindy and Randy were on hand to present the elementary award winners for Justin’s Patriotic Project, in memory of SSG Justin Whiting, US Army. We want to recognize Sara Saul as the winner of the 2nd grade poster contest. Grayson Speer was chosen as the 3rd grade essay winner, with Dominic Rajoppi being selected as the 4th grade essay winner. Excellent work, boys and girls! To everyone that took the time to complete a poster or essay, we want to thank you for your hard work also! #wildcatpride

Our BOCES Career and Technical Education seniors were recognized on Tuesday night at the Robert W. Harrold campus for CTE Graduation.  Our HCS students recognized include: Automotive Technology: Luke Prescott Carpentry & Building Construction: Gabriel DuBois Computer Technology: Elijah Alderman, Alexzander Mosher Conservation & Heavy Equipment: James Kellam Cosmetology: Hazel Bennett Early Childhood Education: Audree Harris, Alexis Mead, Shailyn Smith Security & Law Enforcement: Kaelyn Dawson, Davis Herzog, Marshall Leonard Visual Communications: Adalina Davis, Evan Persbacker Welding: Averiona Curtis, Joseph D’Elia Congratulations to each of our senior students on their BOCES CTE Degrees, excellent job! #wildcatpride

ELEMENTARY FIELD DAYS THIS MONDAY Elementary field days will take place this Monday, June 17th. Field days will begin at 9:00 a.m. on the grass by the playground for non-water activities. Pre-Kindergarten students will eat lunch at 10:30 a.m., with kindergarten through 4th grade students having lunch at 11:30 a.m. If weather keeps us inside, field days will take place in the elementary gymnasium and there will not be water activities in the afternoon. Our tables and chairs are set up for the end of year, graduation moving up ceremony, so you may want to bring a lawn chair to sit in during field days and the picnic lunch. Thank you for understanding, we look forward to seeing you there! #wildcatpride

REGENTS EXAMS CONTINUE THIS WEEK The New York State Regents Examination schedule is listed below for you to view, with English Language Arts (ELA) and Living Environment exams taking place this Friday, June 14. Regents’ examinations will continue Tuesday, 6/18, Thursday-Friday, 6/20-6/21 and Monday-Tuesday, 6/24-6/25. Good luck to all our students as they prepare for their Exams! #wildcatpride

SENIOR WALK PICS The HCS Class of 2024 received their caps/gowns and walked the halls of the Elementary & Middle-High Schools yesterday morning! They were greeted with cheers and ovations from students and staff members from both buildings. We caught some pictures of them on their walk, one step closer to graduation!! #wildcatpride

MOVIE & PARK FUN Our Middle School students took a trip to AMC theaters to watch the movie IF on Friday! After the movie, they stopped by Otsiningo Park to enjoy the beautiful day! Thank you to Mr. Kelly for sending in some pictures! #wildcatpride

HCSD Superintendent June 7, 2024 HES (Elementary School Important Information:) Friday June 21st, Monday June 24th, Tuesday June 25th and Wednesday June 26th are 12:30 half day early dismissal days for all K-4 students  Friday June 21st 9:00 am: PreK Celebration in HES Cafetorium LAST DAY FOR PRE-K! Monday June 24th 9:00 am: Kindergarten Moving Up in HES Cafetorium Wednesday June 26th 9:15 am: Fourth Grade Moving Up in HES Cafetorium Wednesday, June 26th – Last day of school for K-4 students, Half Day 12:30 dismissal. Middle School Important Information Friday June 21st, Monday June 24th, Tuesday June 25th and Wednesday June 26th are 12:30 half day early dismissal days for all 5-8 students  Tuesday June 25th 11:00 am 8th grade graduation in HS/MS Auditorium Wednesday June 26th 10:30 am grades 5-7 Award Assembly in HS/MS Auditorium Wednesday, June 26th – Last day of school for all 5-8 students Half Day 12:30 dismissal. High School Important Information Thursday, June 13 – Last day of school for HS students. HS students in grades 9-12 taking regents exams will report on their exam days. *Regents exams are June 14 – June 26 BOCES CTE Graduation Tuesday June 11th 6:00pm Harrold Campus HS Honors Recognition Dessert - Wednesday June 12th at 6:00pm in the HS/MS Cafeteria  Class Day - Thursday June 13th beginning at 1:15 p.m. in the HS/MS Auditorium. Athletic Awards Night - Thursday June 13th 6:00pm at Deposit HS Auditorium. HCSD Graduation – Graduation will be in the HS/MS auditorium on Friday, June 28 at 7:00 p.m.

PRE-K & K CELEBRATE NATIONAL DONUT DAY This past Friday was National Donut Day and our Pre-K/Kindergarten students wanted to celebrate! Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Karcher’s classes read “Arnie The Doughnut” by Laurie Keller. Afterwards, they each got the opportunity to decorate and eat their own donut. Nice work, boys and girls. Those donuts look yummy!! #wildcatpride

STUDENTS TRAVEL TO ANIMAL ADVENTURE Thank you to Mrs. Karcher and Mrs. Wormuth for sending us pictures of our Kindergarten students on their field trip today! Our boys and girls took a trip to Animal Adventure in Harpursville, where they got to feed some animals, pose for photos, and have some lunch. It was a nice trip that our students enjoyed, thank you to Animal Adventure for having us!! #wildcatpride

SUMMER SAFETY AT MORNING PROGRAM It was nice to be back with you all at morning program today! During today’s program, Principal Durkot spoke with our students about summer safety. After watching a safety video, each grade discussed how there may be other ways to keep ourselves safe in the summertime. Using sunscreen and drinking lots of water is very important on hot, summer days. It is also important to ask your parents/guardians for permission before going off to play with friends. We also chose our ‘golden trash can’ award winners for the year. Mrs. Hull’s pre-kindergarten students were chosen by Mr. Mitchell because their classroom is always in tip-top shape. Since they received the award, they will be having a pizza party soon! Excellent work, boys and girls. It was nice to see everyone at today’s morning program, we hope to see you again next week!

SECOND GRADERS VISIT TEDDY BEAR CLINIC Yesterday, our 2nd grade boys and girls went on a field trip to the Teddy Bear clinic at UHS in Walton. At the hospital the kids had the opportunity to visit the emergency, ambulatory, and imaging departments. Outside the hospital they were able to look at the inside of an ambulance. They also got to meet K9 Edge from Delaware County Sheriff's department! The students had a great day experiencing what it would be like if they ever found themselves in an emergency situation. We would like to thank everyone who made this trip possible! #wildcatpride

NATURE CENTER AT MORNING PROGRAM We want to thank Emily Kinne and The Hancock Community Education Foundation for stopping by yesterday’s Morning Program to speak with out elementary students about the Robert W. Nichol Nature Preserve! Ms. Kinne spoke with our boys and girls about the Wildlife and Watershed programs available at the Nature center. She also demonstrated different sounds animals make and how they may communicate with each other. Some questions & answers with the students followed! We hope you all have a wonderful, extended Memorial Day weekend! With no school on Monday & Tuesday, there will be no Morning Program next week. We will resume program the following Tuesday, June 4th! #wildcatpride

TRACK & FIELD SECTIONAL INFORMATION Track and Field Class D Sectionals will take place this Wednesday, May 22, at 2:00 p.m. in Marathon, NY. Ticket information is below, with digital and cash tickets available. Section IV passes are accepted and children 10 and under will be admitted free of charge. Good luck to all of our D-H track & field athletes on Wednesday! https://gofan.co/event/1524304?schoolId=NYSPHSAAIV

SECTIONAL GOLF IN DELHI TODAY We want to wish our Deposit-Hancock golfers the best of luck today as they compete in sectionals at Delhi. D-H is one of thirteen other schools competing in the Class D sectional tournament. Good luck, go get ‘em!! #DHNation

T-SHIRTS DONATED TO ELEMENTARY We want to give a THANK YOU to UHS Delaware Valley Hospital and the Hancock Fire Department for donating these wonderful wildcat t-shirts to EVERY elementary student and staff member. It is very much appreciated!! #wildcatpride