🍎🥳🏫CELEBRATING TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK 2025:
This week, May 5-9, is Teacher Appreciation Week! Barrington Public Schools is fortunate to have teachers across our district who empower our students to be creative, curious, and confident.
Thank you to all of our educators for everything that you do! 🍏🥰
🌈💙☮️BPS CELEBRATES A DAY WITHOUT HATE:
We're all in this together! Barrington High School's Chain Reaction club recently organized a district-wide celebration of A Day Without Hate to encourage all members of our Barrington community to commit to unity, mutual respect, and nonviolence. 🤝🌼💓
Our students, staff, and families created peace posters for display in each of our schools as a visible reminder that kindness is a cornerstone of our community and BPS does not tolerate violence or hate.
🎯🎉📨BHS SENIORS CELEBRATE DECISION DAY:
High school seniors across the country recently observed National College Decision Day, the deadline by which most colleges and universities expect admitted students to confirm their enrollment.
Our Barrington High School Class of 2025 celebrated the next step in their educational journeys by wearing shirts featuring their future institutions! We are so excited to watch our Eagles soar to new heights! 🔵🦅🟡
👫👟☀️BEST BUDDIES FRIENDSHIP WALK:
Members of our Barrington Middle School Best Buddies participated in the Best Buddies International Friendship Walk in Providence over the weekend!
The Friendship Walk supports Best Buddies programs in schools, workplaces, and communities. All of our participants had a fantastic time in the sunshine on Sunday supporting an important organization! 🌈
🌎💡MLL TEACHERS RECEIVE TEACHING GRANT:
Congratulations to two of our multilingual learner (MLL) teachers, Catarina Anselmo and Terri Couto, who have received a teaching fellowship grant from Fund for Teachers! ⭐️
This summer, they will travel to Brazil to observe and learn from an Indigenous community in Três Unidos, Amazonas, Brazil. As part of this experience, they will also create collaborative partnerships between teachers and students from Kanata T-Ykua Municipal Indigenous School in the Amazon Rainforest and teachers and students in our Barrington community. 👩🏫📖
🍰⚾️🐴SOWAMS STUDENTS CELEBRATE IDIOM DAY:
Sowams School third graders have been learning about figurative language and recently celebrated Idiom Day!
Students came to school dressed as popular idioms, participated in a parade around the school, and had the opportunity to guess one another's idioms. They absolutely "knocked it out of the park" with their idiom outfits!
Mrs. Gleason, Mrs. Adamson, and Mrs. Fagan also joined in on the idiom fun as a "piece of cake", "hold your horses", and a "blessing in disguise".
Can you guess our students' idioms? ☔️🐈🐩
🐛🌳🌞CELEBRATING EARTH DAY:
Today is Earth Day 2025! 🌎
Throughout the school year, our students, staff, and schools participate in community cleaning, gardening, planting, composting, and recycling efforts, and more to make our district and local Barrington community more sustainable and environmentally friendly. 💚 ✨
🌸🎂🥳BPS VOLUNTEER BREAKFAST:
This National Volunteer Week, Barrington Public Schools is so grateful for our dedicated volunteers! From helping in classrooms to staffing and planning events to fundraising for our schools to chaperoning field trips (and so much more!), volunteers make a difference in our schools every day. 🩵💛
To celebrate our incredible volunteers, BPS is hosting an appreciation breakfast on Wednesday, April 23, from 9:00 - 11:00 AM in the Town Counsel Chambers at Barrington Town Hall. 🥳🎉
🐕💙🐾HMS STUDENT COUNCIL SUPPORTS HOMELESS DOGS:
The Hampden Meadows Elementary School Student Council hosted "Paws for a Purpose" in March and April to benefit the Hotel for Homeless Dogs, a rescue shelter in Cumberland, Rhode Island! 🦴🥎
They collected 287 donations of leashes, collars, treats, bones, toys, dog beds, food, blankets, and cleaning supplies! Students in Mrs. Cabral's 4th grade class even made homemade dog blankets as a class activity for Paws for a Purpose! 🐩
This week, Student Council members delivered the donations to the Hotel for Homeless Dogs. Students organized the donations, made homemade dog treats, bagged treats for volunteer dog walkers, toured the shelter, fed the dogs, and played with puppies! Students even got to see one puppy get adopted! 💛
There are currently 80 dogs waiting patiently to meet their forever families at the Hotel for Homeless Dogs. Great work helping the community, HMS!
👟🏃🐬NAYATT 5K RACES THROUGH TOWN:
Hundreds of runners raced through Barrington during the annual Nayatt 5k Road Race on Saturday, April 5! 🏅
Thank you to our runners whose participation supports the Nayatt School community and to our school staff, PTO members, and many volunteers whose hard work made this event a fun, inclusive success! 🥳🏃♀️
Some photos courtesy of East Bay Media.
📒✏️⭐️STAR SENTENCE SAM AT SOWAMS SCHOOL:
Kindergarteners have been learning about writing and sentence structure with the help of Star Sentence Sam, the story of a boy who found a way to remember capital letters, spaces, and punctuation. ✏️✨
Today, our Kindergarten teachers and support staff at Sowams School came to school dressed as Sam! ❤️👩🏫💛
🏅🥅🏒BHS HOCKEY PLAYERS RECEIVE HOBEY BAKER AWARD:
Two Barrington High School Eagles were among 32 high school hockey players recently awarded the prestigious Hobey Baker High School Character Award! 🦅👏
Cody, a member of the BHS boys ice hockey team, and Margaux, a member of the East Bay Eagles Co-op girls ice hockey team, received the awards during a ceremony at the Rhode Island State House hosted by State Senator David Tikoian.
The Hobey Baker Award recognizes student-athletes whose strong character has led them to excellence as players, teammates and leaders. Congratulations, Cody and Margaux!
🎭🍰♟BHS STAGEMASTERS PUT ON A SHOW:
The Barrington High School Stagemasters Drama Club presents three performances of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland this weekend! 🐇🎩🍄
Our talented students and guest appearances by Barrington High School faculty and staff as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum will make this a fun-filled adventure for audiences of all ages!
🎟Friday, April 4, at 7:00 PM
🎟Saturday, April 5, at 1:00 PM
🎟Saturday, April 5, at 7:00 PM
All performances will be held in the Barrington High School John R. Gray Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults, available at the door.
🎤🎼🏆BHS MUSIC DEPARTMENT PERFORMS AROUND THE STATE:
Our Barrington High School Music Department has been busy lately! 🎼
Over the last two weeks, students in the BHS choral program have performed at the Rhode Island State House for Arts in Our Schools Month and competed at the RIACDA/RIMEA Choral Festival, where Concert Chorus received a silver rating and Choral Ensemble received a gold rating! 🥇🥈
They also attended a trip to New York City and saw SIX on Broadway! 🚖🍎
BHS singers will perform a spring concert next Tuesday, April 8, at 7:00 PM at St. John's Episcopal Church in Barrington. All community members are welcome!
🙋♀️🏛⚖️PRIMROSE HILL STUDENTS VISIT THE STATE HOUSE:
Representative Jennifer Boylan D66 who represents Barrington and Riverside in the Rhode Island House of Representatives hosted our third graders from Primrose Hill Elementary School at the State House!
Students had the opportunity to tour the historic State House building and participate in a mock general assembly where they debated and voted on bills. ✅ Thank you, Rep. Boylan, for this immersive learning experience!
🌡🧫🧪BPS STUDENTS PRESENT AT RI SCIENCE FAIR:
Students from Barrington High School and Barrington Middle School presented their research at the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair (RISEF). ⚗️🧬
Special congratulations to a number of our students whose projects won RISEF awards! Way to go, young scientists! 💡
🔵Siddharth (BHS): Best in Fair and CRMC Award
🟡Katherine (BHS): Best in Fair, 1st Grant; Naval Science Award, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award, Rhode Island Health-Systems Pharmacists Award, Yale Science and Engineering Association Award for Most Outstanding Exhibit in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
🔵Julia and Iris (BHS): Best in Fair, 1st Grant; Rhode Island Health-Systems Pharmacists Award, $1,000 Scholarship to the University of Rhode Island
🟡 Alexandra (BHS): 2nd Grant; Narragansett Bay Commission's Excellence Award
🔵Jason (BHS): 2nd Grant; Naval Science Award, Society for In Vitro Biology Award
🟡Anton and Joey (BMS): 2nd Grant, Junior Division
🔵Catherine (BMS): 2nd Grant, Junior Division
🟡Cameron (BMS): 1st Grant, Junior Division
🔵Tobey (BMS): 1st Grant, Junior Division; Naval Undersea Warfare Center Innovation Award
🟡Vivian (BMS): 1st Grant, Junior Division
🥇🤸♀️🎉BHS CHEERLEADERS ARE STATE CHAMPS:
Congratulations to our Barrington High School cheer team for becoming RIIL Division II Competition Cheerleading State Champions yesterday!
What an exciting end to a great season. Way to go, Eagles! 🦅
📚🌈🧩LOCAL AUTHORS VISIT BPS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS:
Local authors, Hayley and John Rocco, visited Nayatt School, Sowams School, and Primrose Hill Elementary School this week! They shared their writing and illustrating process, read their recently released picture book All the Books, and even gave our students a sneak peak of their upcoming book project.
You can find Barrington's influence in some of John Rocco's books. He grew up in Barrington and attended Hampden Meadows Elementary School, Barrington Middle School, and Barrington High School! His book, Blizzard, is based on his experience living through the Blizzard of 1978 as a student at Hampden Meadows.
Thank you to the Roccos for sharing your time and talents with our students! 🎨📝
👨🏫👩⚕️🧑💼🧑🚒BMS CAREER DAY HELPS STUDENTS EXPLORE:
Seventh graders at Barrington Middle School explored how their interests and passions intersect with different career paths during last week's Career Day event.
Thank you to Mr. L, karate master and co-owner of Rocky Silva's American Karate, for the inspiring keynote and to our two dozen guest presenters for sharing your time, talents, and insights with our students!
This year's Career Day would not have been possible without the hard work and organization of our BMS Counseling staff and the generosity of our community volunteers. 🌞💡
👟🎖⭐️BOYS TRACK & FIELD TEAM COMPETES AT NEW ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS:
The Barrington High School boys track and field team competed at the New England Championships and our Eagles broke records!
Bobby, a senior student-athlete, broke the Rhode Island all-time state record previously held for 21 years with a remarkable time of 7.37 seconds in the 55-meter hurdles. 🏆
Marius, Daniel, Michael, and Fritz, the BHS 4x800-meter relay team, also crushed Barrington's school record set last year by more than 10 seconds. They are the first BHS 4x800 team to break 8 minutes. 👟
Way to go, Eagles! 🎉👏
