News and Announcements

The Hyde Park Middle School VEX and VEX IQ Teams had a State Tournament recently at Sierra Vista High School. We had to compete against 5 other middle school teams and 35 high school teams. Hyde Park Middle School had 2 excellence award winning teams who are tops in the State of Nevada and going to the World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky on April 16-18, 2015. Hyde Park won A total of 14 awards at the state tournament besting all of the other Middle Schools.

Congratulations to the following groups for their performance at various competitions during the weekend of March 13 - 15th.

Ms. Kraus and Mr. Hill's students won the Nevada State Science Olympiad Championship for the 12th year in a row and will compete in Nationals in Nebraska.

7th grader E. Vakil from Ms. Manning's US History class will be competing at the National History Bee Finals in May as well as the International History Olympiad in Virginia this summer.

Students from Ms. Simon's Future City's classes won first and second place in The House of Cards Civil Engineering Competition held at Northwest Career and Technical Academy.

GREAT day to be a PANTHER!!!!

Our cheer team participated this past weekend at the Middle School Classic Cheer Competition hosted by Green Valley High School. The girls worked so hard leading up to this competition, and earned a second place in Show Cheer Novice! If you know any of the cheerleaders, you know how much this meant to them. We are very proud of them!

Congratulations to Mrs. Wetjen and her Science Bowl students.

Their team won the Regional Science Bowl competition last weekend and now heads for the national finals.

Additionally, two other teams from Hyde Park took 2nd place and 7th places respectively.

The Hyde Park team is one of more than 100 around the nation in the competition.

Click the link within this story to see the local media coverage provided by Channel 13.

Student and Parent approval of course selection is now available through Infinite Campus' Parent Portal. To review and approve your students course selections for the 2015 - 2016, school year, please access campus portal from a computer. Academic plans cannot be accessed through the mobile app. Attached is a document to assist with the process. Only the parent access can approve a course plan. Core academic subjects have been selected by current teachers and are locked at this time.

Parents/Guardians in need of their parent portal login should contact Mr. Scott White in the front office.

If your desk or dresser drawers are cluttered with old smart phones, please consider donating them to Hyde Park Middle School. Once you have transferred your cell phone account to your newest smart phone the device is still usable with access to wi-fi. We do ask that you provide a charger if possible and that you reset the device to the factory settings which will erase all pictures, music and any other previously stored personal information. The school will be providing the devices to classrooms that are in need of the technology.

Donations can be dropped off to the front office in care of Mr. Taylor.

Hyde Park students were given their first semester report cards today, February 2nd. Hyde Park counselors will be providing a treat to students with all A's and B's (semester grade) as well as all O's in citizenship on Tuesday, February 3rd during all three lunches.

Parents,

This is a reminder that as our second semester is beginning we want to maximize instructional time and reduce the number of classroom interruptions. With that in mind, please ensure that your student has all items needed for the school day as deliveries to the classroom will not be allowed.

We will be starting our "First Friday" activity schedule this week. The "First Friday" program gives students an opportunity to take a period long course once a month that provides enrichment to their regular curriculum. Students will attend all classes with an activity period at the end of the day.

On 11-18-14 approximately 550 students from HPMS participated in a national math competition called the AMC8. There were over 2000 middle schools and 130,000 students who competed worldwide in this competition. Hyde Park was one of only 9 middle schools in the United States to earn a perfect school score! This has never been accomplished in HPMS history. Hyde Park also had 3 students earn a perfect individual score which has also never been done before.

Congratulations to all of the Panthers that performed so well.