Ellsworth Elementary Middle School

Attention Bus #7 students and parents As a reminder, 3/5 (today) bus 7 students will be dropped off later than usual. As always, thank you for patience as we work through the driver shortage.

EEMS Wrestling Announcement Wrestling (for grades 5-8) will be on Mondays and Thursdays from 5-6 in the MS Gym starting this coming Monday 3/8, for conditioning only. It will be for both cohorts, fully remote and homeschooled students. We will have conditioning twice a week (Monday and Thursday) until March 25th. (Total of 6 times). At the end of each school day, wrestling students (on site) will be asked to leave school grounds (go home by parent, walk or bus) and come back for the conditioning at 4:50pm for the 5pm start. Off cohort students, fully remote and homeschooled students should also be dropped off at 4:50pm. Coach Horne will have permission slips for the kids to bring home Monday evening. We will need these signed and returned by Thursday's conditioning practice. If you have any questions please email twood@ellsworthschools.org

This evening's Board workshop has been cancelled. There is no make up date.

Attention Bus 7 & Bus 8 students and parents: Due to a shortage of bus drivers--students from bus 7 and bus 8 will be on second runs this afternoon 2/23. They should be dropped off 15 to 20 minutes later than usual. Thank you for your patience and understanding

2/23 Basketball Game Changes: The last game of the season will be B teams only vs Bucksport Girls B at 330pm Boys B at 5pm Live stream link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5AgPn7rN6T7r2Xy1cYZiA

On the evening of Tuesday, February 23, 2021, there will be a Special School Board Meeting starting at 6:00pm with a School Board Workshop to convene immediately following adjournment of the Special School Board Meeting. The meetings can be viewed on the EHS Facebook page, the City of Ellsworth YouTube channel and on Spectrum Channel 1303 in Ellsworth. The agendas can be viewed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13bas5Y-fjfGbMYZVnPYJIcTYM0vC9z9c/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f7TXL1bUo5SBdy6q5VgJQMkn89oHsmIs/view?usp=sharing

2/12 Attention Bus #5 Parents and Students: Bus 5 students will be dropped of this afternoon 20-30 minutes later than normal.

EEMS Game Information 2/11 Good morning all, The girls will combine A and B teams to play Searsport the game starting at 330pm. The boys B team will play Searsport the game starting at 5pm. Boys A will practice in the ES gym from 3-430. Live steam link for the games is:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5AgPn7rN6T7r2Xy1cYZiA 

Attention Bus 17 parents and students Great news, Bus 17 will run normal runs starting in the morning 2/11.

Edaco Court Residents: Starting tomorrow -Thursday, 2/11 Students that ride the bus will need to be at the end of the road - by route 172 - for pick up starting tomorrow morning until further notice. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Urgent Bus Transportation Update for the week of 2-9 to 2-12 This communication is to inform you that due to a shortage of bus drivers for Ellsworth School Department (ESD), pick and drop off times will be, in some cases, later than normal. At this time this shortage will affect parents and students of Bus #1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 17-for the rest of this week 2/9/21-2/12/21. However, it is important to know that other bus runs may be affected. While this situation is not ideal, we have found a way to ensure all students have a way to and from school. Bus #4 will be picking up the students for its normal run and add Bus #17 students that live on Bridge Hill and Woodland Heights for the first run in the mornings and in the afternoons. Bus #4 will then pick up Bus 7 students as well as bus 17 students that live on Straway and Edaco Court for the second run in the morning. Afternoon bus #4 will have the regular students and those students from bus 17 that live on Bridge Hill and Woodland Heights to drop off on the first run. Bus 4 will then return to school and pick up bus 7 students along with bus 17 students that live on Straway and Edaco Court for the second afternoon run. Bus #2 will be picking up the students for the normal run and add Bus #17 students that are at Beechland Y for the morning run. In the afternoon, bus 2 will have the regular students along with those going to the Beechland Y. We are still working out the particulars for Bus 8 for the rest of the week but without our drivers numbers changing, Bus 8 would be split between bus 1 and bus 9. The impact for pick up and drop off times may be anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes. If you feel that these times are too inconvenient you may want to drop off and pick up your child, which is understandable. If you decide to pick up or drop off your child please let us know. This will afford the opportunity to remove stops from the route which in turn may allow the busses to get the students to and from school in a more timely manner. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work through this together.

ATTENTION BUS #7 Parents and students for 2/9/21: Bus 7 will be 15 to 20 minutes late picking up in. the morning. More information to come about the afternoon as soon as it is known. Thank you again for you patience.

2/8/21 EEMS Basketball Games: Girls A vs Hermon at 330 Girls B No game, will practice in ES gym 3-4 EEMS Live stream link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5AgPn7rN6T7r2Xy1cYZiA Boys (B/A) games @ Hermon B at 330pm, Boys A at 5pm Boys B bus leaving EEMS @ 2pm Boys A bus leaving EEMS @330 Hermon Live Stream Link: https://hermonhawks.mylivegame.com/

2/8/21 Attention Bus #7 Parents and students: We will have a double run this afternoon so drop off will be between 15 and 20 minutes later than normal.

On the evening of Tuesday, February 9th, 2021, there will be a School Board Meeting starting at 6:00pm. The meeting can be viewed on the EHS Facebook page, the City of Ellsworth YouTube channel and on Spectrum Channel 1303 in Ellsworth. The agenda can be viewed at:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oPCXPs3fv29PCZI3dEfic7OgipvGn7_7/view?usp=sharing

EEMS Basketball Game Change for 2/4/21 Boys Basketball @ Bucksport--A 330pm, B 5pm Busses leave 2:45pm for A and 4:15pm for B A only Girls vs Bucksport---330pm There is no B girls game or practice this afternoon Bucksport Live Stream: http://bmsathletics.mylivegame.com/ EEMS Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5AgPn7rN6T7r2Xy1cYZiA There have been other changes to the basketball schedule which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cVgg0Q0TRMkwLmR13N-9dkBrH6kYeyuyk9xFBerDzmw/edit

2/4/21 Attention Bus #7 Parents and students: We will have a double run this afternoon so drop off will be between 15 and 20 minutes later than normal.

EEMS Boys' Basketball Game order Change for 2/4/21 2/4 Girls vs Bucksport (no change) B 330pm, A 5pm Boys @ Bucksport (changed to A first, B second) A 330pm, B 5pm Girls (B/A) Boys (A/B) Bucksport Live Stream: http://bmsathletics.mylivegame.com/ EEMS Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5AgPn7rN6T7r2Xy1cYZiA

Please see the attached letter from Superintendent Higgins: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_qnYlmMqFLDtAgJzVjT6dmq4NQAV9MW/view?usp=sharing

Due to inclement weather, there will be no school tomorrow for all Ellsworth Schools - there are no classes in person or remote tomorrow, February 2, 2021.