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Jeff Boston - Principal
Bob Fairbrother - Asst. Principal

 

 

17 Malta Street
Augusta, ME 04330
Phone:  (207) 626-2490

 

Hodgkins Middle School
Newsletter #9

May 30, 2008

Message From The Principal

With warmer weather quickly approaching, we ask you to please make sure your child comes to school wearing appropriate clothing. When we feel that students are not appropriately dressed, we will ask them to call home for a change of clothes.

For the 2008-2009 school year, we will be installing a new buzz in system at our front entrance doors. Our new procedure will be to have the doors open until 8:00 a.m. in the morning for student arrivals and then again at 1:45 in the afternoon for dismissal. Between those times, the doors will be locked and you will have to push a button to announce your arrival and then someone in the office will let you in. This system was installed at the four elementary schools in the fall of this school year. This is part of our continuing effort to provide your children with a safe learning environment. If you have any questions regarding this system, please call the Hodgkins office at 626-2490. Thank you.

We would like to thank the staff, students and parents for their effort and support this school year. We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable summer with friends and family. We will see you in September.

 Important Dates:

June 6th – Hodgkins Spring Concert (7 p.m. in the gymnasium)
June 13th – Hodgkins BBQ for students
June 13th – Hodgkins Talent Show
June 16th – Last day of school for 8th grade

- 8th grade Breakfast

- 8th grade Yearbook signing in the gymnasium

- Promotional exercises at Cony

- Students dismissed at 11 a.m. (Must be picked up by parent

- 5:30 p.m. – 8th grade students are to report to the Cony

 - 6:00-7:30 p.m. – “Recognition Night” in the Cony auditorium

- 8:00 p.m.- 12:00 a.m. – 8th grade celebration at the YMCA
 
June 17th – Last day of school for 7th grade students
  • - Students dismissed at 11 a.m.
 

We would like to wish our 8th graders well with their endeavors in high school. It was a pleasure having you here at Hodgkins. Good luck!!

 

The Development of the Middle Level Student

We hope this information will allow our parents a snapshot into the development of their middle school child. This section is on ...

Intellectual Development

Middle Grade Students:

1) Display a wide range of individual intellectual development as their minds experience transition from the concrete-manipulator stage to the capacity for abstract thought. This transition ultimately makes possible:

  • propositional thought
  • consideration of ideas contrary to fact
  • reasoning with hypothesis involving two or more variables
  • appreciation for the elegance of mathematical logic expressed in symbols
  • insight into the nuances of poetic metaphor and musical notation
  • analysis of the power of a political ideology
  • ability to project thought into the future, to anticipate, and to formulate goals
  • insight into the sources of previously unquestioned attitudes, behaviors, values
  • interpretation of larger concepts and generalizations of traditional wisdom expressed through sayings, axioms, and aphorisms

2) Are intensely curious;

3) Prefer active over passive learning experiences; favor interaction with peers during learning activities;

4) Exhibit a strong willingness to learn things they consider to be useful; enjoy using skills to solve real life problems;

5) Are ego-centric; argue to convince others; exhibit independent, critical thought;

6) Consider academic goals as a secondary level of priority; personal - social concerns dominate thoughts and activities;

7) Experience the phenomenon of meta-cognition - the ability to know what one knows and does not know;

8) Are intellectually at-risk; face decisions that have the potential to affect major academic values with lifelong consequences.

 

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