Great Neighbor Newsletter
OPEN HOUSE 2021
Our first Tailgate Open House on September 2, 2021 was a huge success! Our families, community partners, and staff all had a wonderful time on a glorious evening catching up, learning about resources, seeing classrooms, and enjoying snowballs. We would like to thank the following community partners for your support of this event:
- Hall's Cross Roads Judy Center
- Building Strong Families
- HC Health Department Tobacco Specialist
- Inner County Outreach
- Harford Community Action Agency
- Office of Drug Control Policy
- Seedco
- Catholic Charities Head Start
- Aberdeen Church of Christ
- Kinship Navigator
- Aberdeen Boys and Girls Club
- DJ Kenny
- Habitat for Humanity
- Empowering Minds
- Chosen
- Councilman Wagner
- Master Gardeners
- Kona Ice
- Maryland Health Connection
- Harford County Public Library
- Harford County Partners for Success
- Upper Chesapeake Health
Fall 2021 Parent/Guardian Workshops
We are looking to fill our calendar for October-February with parent/guardian workshops. Topics may include but are not limited to social/emotional learning, parenting skills, community resources, nutrition, etc. If you would like to provide our families with an informational session, please contact Melissa.Stout@hcps.org. Thank you to Courtney Tramontana of Harford Community Action Agency and Natashalee Wong of Empowering Minds for being the first to schedule workshops!
Event Information
Carnival Math Night
Our school is interested in having community partners at our carnival style math night! If you and/or your organization is interested in participating with a math game, please let me know ASAP.
When?
Wednesday, Oct 27, 2021, 05:30 PM
Where?
Halls Cross Roads Elementary School, Aberdeen, MD, USA
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RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Backpack Blessings is in its Second Year!
HXES is partnered with Mountain Christian Church Aberdeen Campus to continue our Backpack Blessings initiative. This program aims to provide our students with additional food to sustain them over the weekend each week. Thank you Mountain Christian Church for all of your hard work and dedication to improving the lives of our students here at HXES!
Baby Bundle Blessings Donation
Michelle Bowditch, our Judy Center Program Manager, is continuing with "Baby Bundle Blessings" to have on hand and ready to give to expectant mothers in our community and school. Inside the basket will be an introduction to the programs and services we offer through our early childhood and community schools initiative, as well as information for parents on developmental milestones and things they can do with their baby to foster language and skill development from birth. We are looking for donations to assist with beginning this initiative to include:
- Newborn diapers and wipes
- New baby board books
- Gift cards to assist with purchasing items
- Any additional items that would be beneficial to an expecting mother
If you would like to donate or assist with this initiative in any way, please email Michelle Bowditch at Michelle.Bowditch@hcps.org.
Hall's Little Library
Our Little Library has been in use for one full year thanks to Habitat for Humanity! This is a wonderful resource for free books for our students and families. If you have books to donate, please contact Melissa.Stout@hcps.org.
We want to sincerely thank all of our community partnerships who support us with school supplies, garden help and advice, workshops, music, gift card donations, hand sanitizer, face masks, hand soap, books, book bags, coats, coffee and donuts for our staff, and so much more! A special thank you to the following:
- Mu Gamma Sigma
- Greg Murray, Harford County Master Gardener
- Aberdeen Church of Christ
- Grove Church
- Chosen
- DJ Kenny
- We Cancerve
- Upper Chesapeake Medical Center
- Aberdeen First Baptist Church
- Harford County Education Association
- Chick-fil-A
- Mountain Christian Church, Aberdeen Campus
- APGFCU