Please join us on Friday, October 18th at 9:15am in the common room for the next Coffee with the Principals! Joanne Vorndran, Special Education & Student Services (SESS) Facilitator, as well as our two school psychologists Liz Viducich and Mary Pat Jones will talk about support services to our students. Bring all your questions for this […]
Please save the evening of Thursday, September 26 at 7pm for the first general PTO meeting of the year. Superintendent Dr. Alan Addley will join us for an informal Q&A session in the common room.
We are so thrilled to be offering Let Me Run at Holmes School this Fall. Let Me Run is a before school running program for boys that combines fun life lessons while training for a 5K race. The boys meet twice a week for 7 weeks to participate in activities that improve self-esteem and self-confidence […]
SEPAC Presentation: The Myth of Normalcy: Empowering Students with Learning Differences – Sept. 10 On Tuesday, September 10, parents and students are invited to attend a presentation by a nationally acclaimed author, Jonathan Mooney. Hosted by Darien SEPAC and Darien Library, Mooney is the author of three books, the most recent, “Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and […]
Summer greetings to Holmes families! Please note these important dates in August & September: Thursday, August 29 – First Full Day of School for Grades 1-5, Kindergarten students come with parents for a one-hour visit in their classroom (Last names A-M from 9:30-10:30; N-Z from 10:45-11:45) Friday, August 30 – First Full Day of Kindergarten Monday, September 2 – […]
School’s almost out…but reading is always ‘in’. Check out the reading lists from the Darien Library to keep your student enthralled all summer long. Lists include: Kindergarten-1, 2nd-3rd grade and 4th-5th grade.
If you are interested in being a room parent for the 2019-2020 school year, please fill out this form. Once class lists are distributed at the beginning of the school year, we will begin the process of assigning (2) room parents to each class. If there are multiple people who would like to be a […]
National program A Better Chance in Darien (ABC) helps to recruit academically motivated students of color from urban areas and place them in high schools around the country. Local non-profit ABC in Darien is in its 37th year and has been able to graduate 48 girls from the Darien High School. Pat Cage, co-president of […]
The last day of school will be Tuesday, June 18th.
If you choose to purchase school supplies through the PTO program please follow these ordering instructions. The website is www.SuppliestoPlease.com, click on “parents login” and enter username: Holmes/password: hs2019 (case sensitive). Prices and supply lists can be found on the site. All students are required to have a homework folder. These can be purchased as […]
