Barrington High School

🥍🧡💙GIRLS LACROSSE GAME DEDICATED TO MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS: Last night, the Barrington High School girls lacrosse team played their last home game of the season on Victory Field with a special dedication to Morgan's Message in support of mental health awareness in the student-athlete community. 🦋

🏅🏛 BHS STUDENT RECEIVES LEADERSHIP AWARD: Congratulations to Barrington High School student, Emma, for receiving the 2024 Rhode Island Young Leader Award! This award recognizes Emma's high academic achievement, commitment to community service, and entrepreneurial spirit. Rhode Island General Treasurer, James Diossa, recently presented Emma and other students from local high schools with this award during a ceremony at the Rhode Island State House. Way to go, Emma! 🎊 Read more about the Young Leader Award here: https://treasury.ri.gov/press-releases/treasurer-diossa-recognizes-young-leader-award-recipients-rhode-island-state-house-0

🎨🎉BHS STUDENT SELECTED FOR CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION: Congratulations to Barrington High School artist, Vivian, for winning the 2024 Congressional Art Competition for Rhode Island's First Congressional District! Vivian's painting, titled "Burnout," will hang at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC, for the next year and she and her family will attend the celebratory opening in June.

🌊⛵️BHS SAILING TEAM COMPETES IN CHICAGO: Over the weekend, the Barrington High School sailing team competed at the National Invitational Tournament in Chicago, Illinois, for the first time in the team's history and placed 7th overall. Way to go, Eagles! 🦀

🥇🐯TOUGH TIGER 2024: Hundreds turned out to participate in this year's Hampden Meadows Elementary School Tough Tiger race yesterday! The 1.5 mile Tough Tiger course featured more than a dozen obstacles for participants to race through including cargo nets, a mud pit, and a "car wash" near the finish line. This year's Tough Tiger also featured an adaptive course that catered to a range of abilities and levels. We are already looking forward to Tough Tiger 2025! 🌞🏆 Photos by Julie Furtado for East Bay Media Group.

🌼🌷🌸AP STUDENTS' ARTWORK BLOOMS AT THE BPL: If you visited the Barrington Public Library late last month, you may have seen artwork created by students in Ms. Lindenberg's Advanced Placement art class! The show "Art in Bloom," a collaboration between the Barrington Garden Club and Barrington High School, featured floral arrangements paired with student paintings. Congratulations to Jane, Sophia, Rosie, Lola, Chloe, Ajax, Katie, Gillian, Lillian, Fiona, Jaron, Ayla, Morgan, Gianna, Samantha, Vivian, and Eden!

🎾TENNIS DOUBLES TEAM WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN: Congratulations to our Barrington High School student athletes, Gabe and Bryce, on their repeat win as Rhode Island Interscholastic League tennis doubles state champions! They are the first doubles team to win back-to-back state championships since 2002. Way to go, Gabe and Bryce! 🎖👏

🏀🏆UNIFIED BASKETBALL TEAM WINS CHAMPIONSHIP: On Saturday, May 11, the Barrington High School unified basketball team became state champions after winning the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Division Five Unified Basketball Championship! Congratulations to our student athletes and coaches! What an awesome way to end the basketball season!

💌HAMPDEN MEADOWS CREATES KINDNESS CHAIN: As our district celebrated A Day Without Hate, Hampden Meadows Elementary School students created a kindness chain representing recent acts of kindness by students and staff. The kindness chain was more than 170 feet long! Students presented the chain to all members of the HMS community at this week's Community Meeting. Way to go, tough tigers! 🥰🐯

💙💛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. 🐝 Special thank you to BHS artist, Keta, for designing this year's BHS mural! The mural was divided into 60 square pieces and each advisory painted a square together.

🏃🏃‍♀️BHS OUTDOOR TRACK TEAMS SWEEP DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP: It's great to be a Barrington Eagle! Congratulations to both of our Barrington High School outdoor track teams for winning first place in the girls and boys Eastern Division Championship meets last weekend. Way to go, student athletes!👟 Photos by East Bay Media.

🏃🏃‍♀️BHS OUTDOOR TRACK TEAMS SWEEP DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP: It's great to be a Barrington Eagle! Congratulations to both of our Barrington High School outdoor track teams for winning first place in the girls and boys Eastern Division Championship meets last weekend. Way to go, student athletes!👟 Photos by East Bay Media.

🏅CONGRATULATIONS, OFFICER JOEL!: Congratulations to our School Resource Officer (SRO), Officer Joel Saccoccio, who recently received the 2024 Glenford Shibley Leadership Award from the Rhode Island SRO Association! This award recognizes Officer Joel's contributions to our Barrington Public Schools community and his commitment to supporting our students every day.

🧑‍🏫💡BHS TEAM PRESENTS AT NEASC: Congratulations to our team of Barrington High School students and educators who presented at the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Student Showcase yesterday in Westford, Massachusetts! Their presentation on Eduscrum, a methodology that integrates Scrum/Agile principles into education, shared with conference attendees how to use Eduscrum to empower learners to take charge of their education and create inclusive and dynamic learning environments that promote student autonomy, engagement, and academic success. Awesome work, Mrs. Curt-Hoard, Mr. Correia, Sam, and Aden!

🧑‍🏫💡BHS TEAM PRESENTS AT NEASC: Congratulations to our team of Barrington High School students and educators who presented at the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Student Showcase yesterday in Westford, Massachusetts! Their presentation on Eduscrum, a methodology that integrates Scrum/Agile principles into education, shared with conference attendees how to use Eduscrum to empower learners to take charge of their education and create inclusive and dynamic learning environments that promote student autonomy, engagement, and academic success. Awesome work, Mrs. Curt-Hoard, Mr. Correia, Sam, and Aden!

👟🏃‍♂BHS STUDENT ATHLETE NAMED HOMETOWN HERO: Congratulations to Barrington High School senior and student athlete, Ethan, for being named this week's Cardi's Furniture & Mattresses Hometown Sports Hero by WPRI 12! Ethan is a Senior Captain for the track team who works hard in the classroom and on the field. Read his Hometown Hero spotlight here: https://www.wpri.com/.../hometown-hero-ethan-knight.../ Photos by East Bay Media.

📚📜BPS STUDENTS EXCEL AT RI HISTORY DAY: With the support and guidance of faculty advisors, students across our district have been preparing since October for the Rhode Island History Day Contest. Over the weekend, 12 students from Barrington Middle School and Barrington High School showcased research projects related to this year's theme, Frontiers in History. Great work, Harry, Cole, Estrella, Liam, Vishnu, Ananth, Ela, Samuel, Mia, Morgan, Jane, Sadie, and Jackson! Special congratulations to Samuel, Mia Morgan, Jane, and Sadie, whose projects qualified for participation in the National History Day contest at the University of Maryland in June.

🧬🔬BMS SCIENCE OLYMPIAD TEAM PLACES THIRD AT STATE COMPETITION: Congratulations to the Barrington Middle School Science Olympiad team for placing third at the Rhode Island Science Olympiad Tournament this month! As a team, they brought home 5 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals for an overall third place finish at the state competition. Way to go, young scientists! 🧫

⚓️HOPE CLUB HELPS STUDENTS MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES: Members of the HOPE Club at Barrington High School work hard to live the club's mission of HOPE: helping ourselves protect each other. HOPE Club peer educators recently shared important information about the harmful effects of vaping with students at BHS.

🚗🔧BHS STUDENTS LEARN EMERGENCY VEHICLE SAFETY: Motor vehicle safety and maintenance skills are necessary for drivers of all ages. Recently, students at Barrington High School took part in an automotive emergency training session with our BHS School Resource Officer, Officer Joel, and automotive services technicians from AAA Northeast! They learned about changing tires, charging vehicle batteries, conducting fluid and tire checks, and replacing windshield wipers and had the opportunity to apply their learning in a real-world environment. Thank you Officer Joel, the Barrington Police Department, and AAA Northeast for providing this important hands-on experience for our young drivers!