Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Welcome Back!



We are so excited to start the school year, and I know I speak for all teachers when I say that we have missed our students and are looking forward to seeing them via Zoom! An email was sent out in the morning on Tuesday, September 15th through student's grade level Google Classrooms containing the Google Classroom codes for each individual class. Once students log on to their Google Classroom they will see a zoom (in a few specific cases a Google Meet link) link to access their remote classes tomorrow.

To clarify, there are two calendars students/families should pay attention to for the school year.

The first calendar is the cohort calendar which shows Cohort A on Monday/Tuesday & alternating Wednesdays and Cohort B on alternating Wednesdays and Thursday/Friday. That calendar represents the hybrid model and the days of the week that students will be attending in-person classes. Since creating the cohort calendar, the high school in-person start date changed and in-person classes are now scheduled to begin on the 29th. Until then, all students will attend their classes virtually unless contacted by high school personnel.

The second calendar is the Day Rotation Calendar. Holliston High School follows a 4 day rotating calendar. This calendar reflects the rotation schedule to show if it is an A day, B day, C day or a D day. For example, tomorrow is an A day and class will begin at 8:10am with A block, followed by B block and so on. To see the bell schedule with the times for each block please click on the following link: Daily Block Bell Schedule. Students will also see this bell schedule with their classes when they log in to their PowerSchool Unified Classroom accounts (reminder instructions were sent in the email over the weekend).

Although most students will not begin in-person classes until the 29th, we wanted to share a quick video our students made to orient everyone to the building. Over the next week we will be sending out additional information about the logistics for navigating the building and the various procedures geared towards health and safety. Here is a quick snapshot of HHS: Welcome to HHS 2020.

We will be sending out more information about band, chorus, clubs, activities and athletics over the next several days. For now, please concentrate on getting set up with google classroom and zoom links for tomorrow!

Parents/Guardians, if you have not already done so, please complete the annual verification forms for the start of the school year. If you are having any difficulty with the forms, please contact Patty Sundquist at sundquistp@holliston.k12.ma.us

Thank you for your support and we are excited to start the year!!

HHS Administration
Principal - Nicole Bottomley
Assistant Principal Grades 9 & 11 - Ms. Karen Archambault
Assistant Principal Grades 10 & 12 - Mr. Chris Cook
Student Services Administrator - Kim Condon
Athletic Director - Matt Baker