Hancock Elementary School

STUDENT OF THE WEEK Congratulations to the student of the week at Hancock Elementary, Hudson Dufton! Hudson was chosen by Mrs. Karcher because he is an excellent student in class, friendly to others, always follows directions and is a big helper to his peers. Nice work, Hudson, congratulations! #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

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

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

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

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

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

PRE-K CELEBRATE WITH PIZZA Our Pre-Kindergarten students were the winners of the ‘Golden Trash Can’ award in the Elementary School this year! This award goes to the classroom kept in the best shape each day throughout the entire school year. Mr. Mitchell brought our Kindergarten boys and girls some pizza for their efforts, nice work students!! #wildcatpride

SOFTBALL HEADS TO LONG ISLAND Our D-H Lady Eagles Softball team was given a sending off by students and staff at HCS as they departed to Long Island for the NYSPHSAA Softball championships earlier today! The team took a trip through the elementary school to visit our younger students, then made their way down through the Middle-High School. The girls are on their way down to Martha Avenue Recreational Park in Bellport, preparing for their NYS semifinal game against Friendship-Scio of Section five. Deposit-Hancock (Section IV) vs Friendship-Scio (Section V) will be at 12:00 p.m., Friday, June 6th. A live stream will be available through the NFHS network ( https://www.nfhsnetwork.com ), which requires a subscription. If you’re heading down to the game, tickets can be purchased through gofan at the following links: Friday, June 7th (Semi-Final): https://gofan.co/event/1500078?schoolId=NYSPHSAA Saturday, June 8th (Championship Final): https://gofan.co/event/1500083?schoolId=NYSPHSAA The winner of D-H vs Friendship-Scio will take on the winner of Salen (Section II) vs Chateaugay (Section X) at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Good luck, ladies, you’ve got this!! #DHNation

NYS SOFTBALL SEMIFINAL/FINAL INFO Our D-H Eagles Softball team are on their way back to the NYSPHSAA Softball Championships this weekend! Games will take place at Martha Avenue Recreational Park in Bellport, NY, with semifinals on Friday, June 7th, and finals on Saturday, June 8th.  Deposit-Hancock will play at 12:00 p.m. on Friday against Friendship-Scio (Section V), the same team they went 13 innings against in last years Championship final victory. The winner will take on the winner of Salen (Section II) vs Chateaugay (Section X) at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. You may purchase tickets at the GoFan link below.  General admission tickets  are $11.50. Friday, June 7th (Semi-Final): https://gofan.co/event/1500078?schoolId=NYSPHSAA Saturday, June 8th (Championship Final): https://gofan.co/event/1500083?schoolId=NYSPHSAA The games will be live streamed on the NFHS Network, which requires a subscription ($11.99 monthly or 79.99 annually).  The link to view the NFHS Network is: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/ There is also an NFHS APP for tablets and mobile devices available. Good luck to our Lady Eagles Softball team, you’ve got this!! #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

CONCERT-ART SHOW NEXT WEEK On budget day, HCS will also have a few events taking place in the evening. The end of the year MS-HS concert will take place in the middle-high school auditorium on May 21st at 6:30 p.m. During the concert, there will also be an Elementary Art show, with elementary student artwork displayed in the hallways and auditorium entrance.

CINCO DE MAYO AT MORNING PROGRAM We want to thank our Spanish Teacher, Ms. Heesh, and several of her students for stopping up at Morning Program yesterday! Ms. Heesh and her students (Stevie Woodmansee, Olivia Esolen and Gwyneth Nebzydoski) spoke about the holiday, informing us that it is not the Independence Day of Mexico. It is a yearly celebration of Mexico’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Our elementary students asked Ms. Heesh some questions and got the opportunity to do a popular Mexican dance with her! Thank you to Ms. Heesh and her high school students for stopping to Morning Program. Thank you to all of you that showed up, as well. We hope to see you again next week! #wildcatpride