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Important Dates

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Monday, August 11, 2008 (9:00am-3:00pm)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 (9:00am-3:00pm)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 (11:00am-7:00pm)

6th Grade Orientation and Pool Party

6th Grade Orientation – Wednesday, August 20, 6:30pm-7:30pm.

This orientation is an opportunity to learn more about Hillyard Middle School and to meet the teachers. The orientation will be followed by a pool party at the Broadway Community Pool (7:30pm-9:00pm). This party is an opportunity to meet students from other elementary schools and make some new friends. This is for 6th grade students only and their parents. Students can come to the orientation in their bathing suits or change at the pool (If students wear bathing suits to the orientation they should be covered with shorts and shirts).

Important: Please bring the enclosed permission form to the pool on Wednesday, August 20.

7th/8th grade Open House

Monday, August 25, 2008, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

7th and 8th grade students can report directly to classes and meet with teachers listed on their schedules. No formal group meeting will be held for 7th and 8th grade students at this time. You may visit all areas including gym, guidance, agriculture, computer lab, etc.

-Cafeteria Manager, WILL be opening cafeteria accounts during orientation

-Bus Route information WILL be available.

Middle School Sports

(Important: Must have Physical Form Completed PRIOR to participating in Tryouts, Practice or Games)

*7th and 8th Grade Girls Volleyball:

Tryouts start Monday, August 18, 2008 from 3:00pm –5:00pm in the main gym.

*Cross-Country(6th, 7th, 8th grades: boys/girls)

Practice will begin Monday, August 18, 2008 from 3:00pm-4:30pm

First Day of School - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 (The school day begins at 8:15 and ends at 3:09)

For students entering the sixth grade for the 2008-2009 school year:

Certain prescribed immunizations are required for a child to enroll or attend public school in Virginia. Parents are responsible for providing documentation that all required immunizations are up to date or completed. These include the required doses of Tdap (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), polio, hepatitis B, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and varicella (chickenpox).

The 2006 Virginia General Assembly passed a law which requires all 6th grade students to have a Tdap booster shot prior to beginning the new school year. Please review your child’s immunization record. If the last Tdap or tetanus shot was administered more than five-years-ago or there is no documentation of a recent tetanus shot your child will not be able to begin school.

Shots may be obtained from your doctor, military clinics, or the health department.

The Tdap booster must be obtained by the start of the 2008-2009 school year. Students will not be admitted to school on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 without documentation of this immunization.

Shots are available, free of charge, at the Rockingham County Health Clinic.

The address and phone number for the Harrisonburg/Rockingham County Health Department is:

110 North Mason Street

Harrisonburg, VA 22802

Phone: 540-574-5100