Due to flooding in parts of the county, schools will open 2 hours late tomorrow, Monday, December 18, 2023. Essential & FNS staff should report on time and all other staff report when it is safe. Please attend to future messages regarding changes to this status in the morning.
We have two more days of school until Winter Break! No Tutoring or Church this week. Monday is a free casual day, festive hair themed. The 5th graders are staying after school to go judge the local Christmas Lights. Tuesday is our last day of the month and our monthly incentive! It is a free casual day: pajama themed!
Thank you for those who came out to shop and support our local vendors! Thank you to the vendors who were patient and kind with our young shoppers today! As well as our High School Volunteers to help wrap the presents. Our ABC, 123 Learning event was also successful today! Please send any photos to Mrs. Kari Pusey at kpusey@somerset.k12.md.us. If you couldn't make it, games and activities' will be sent home for you! Lastly, tomorrow is a FREE casual day and we are donning our Ugly Sweaters/Shirts! Look out for mid-terms tomorrow!
The Garland Hayward Youth Center will hold a food and community resource distribution event this Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
All are welcome. First come, first served.
Volunteers and Agencies interested in assisting or setting up a vendor table, call (443)397-8725
Menu Change: Wednesday is the holiday turkey dinner for lunch and Thursday is now a hot dog for lunch.
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, " Frozen" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
Thurs is our Prek/K "Learn with Me" event as well as our Christmas Bazaar. Please invite all to come shop! Friday is a free casual day: Ugly Sweater themed. Midterms are coming home.
The 18th and 19th are also free casual days and no tutoring after school.
We are closed Dec 20th until January 2nd, reopen the 3rd.
Our Christmas Bazaar is in ONE week! Next Thursday, students have scheduled times to go shopping. Guests are welcome to come down to go shopping with their student. This is a cash only event!
Our Christmas concert was a huge success! Thanks so much to all the families and community members who came out to watch our children sing. Washington High was a gracious host filled with an amazing staff and student volunteers! Thank you to our special guest volunteers and to Roadie Joe's of Salisbury/Berlin for loaning us the Bigfoot costume. Thank you to the Somerset County Arts Council for supplying our instruments. Lastly, thanks to our Deal Island staff for working so hard with our students for this performance!!
Please leave any photos or videos in the comments!
If you ordered a shirt, it is coming home today in students bookbags! Thank you for your order and support!
Happy birthday to our students born in December!
Good afternoon. Earlier today, Route 413 was closed due to an accident in Westover. Buses may experience minor delays this afternoon as they detour around the accident. The WIDA Access event at Somerset County Technical High School will be held as scheduled. Please plan accordingly for traffic delays. Thank you.
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, " The Santa Clause" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
Thanks to everyone who supported our Book Fair especially the Deal Island-Chance Lions club for purchasing every student a book!!! Our Christmas Concert is Wednesday at 6pm at WHS, which means no Rock Creek Church. Thurs: Prek-3 is at the Board to see Santa! Friday is a free casual day: Favorite Movie Character themed.
Every single student at DIS received a book from the Scholastic Book Fair thanks to the Deal Island-Chance Lions Club! This was over $1000 donated to our children. We can't express how wonderful this was to our students and how appreciative we all are!!!
Tomorrow is a free casual day for our end of the month incentive. We are dressing FESTIVE to celebrate December 1st. Tomorrow morning is the last chance to shop the bookfair before we close it. Thank you again for all your support!
December 13th at the Civic Center is an awesome event!!!
SCPS is seeking qualified applicants for the positions of School Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist and Substitute Teacher. Review the job requirements and application deadlines, and apply at https://somerset.tedk12.com/hire.
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Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, " The Nightmare Before Christmas." Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! We will resume our after school activities. Our Scholastic Book Fair is here all week long! The Deal Island-Chance Lions Club is purchasing every student a book under $10. HUGE thanks to them for this huge gift. Friday is a free casual day and we are dressing festive