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Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 3
Mr. Rick Hopp, Hope Hall’s Career Development and Woodworking Teacher, smiles when he talks about how he first got started in woodworking. He was about 10 years old when he snuck into his father’s woodworking shop to start building a boat, unbeknownst to his dad. When his father caught drift of what the boy was […]
Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 2
Mr. Jeff Smith is Hope Hall’s College and Career Transitions Teacher, and he takes a very active role in his students’ preparation for life after Hope Hall. Whether they intend to enter the workforce directly, or plan to go on to college or trade school, it’s important to him that the skills he teaches are […]
Read-a-mania
To encourage Hope Hall Students to read throughout the month and over the February break, Hope Hall is holding Read-a-mania, a month-long reading competition during February, where kids read books, describe what they’ve read to an adult, record the amount of time they’ve spent reading each day, and have the adult sign the log. To […]
Hope Hall’s 4th Grade Studies the Haudenosaunee People
As part of the fourth grade curriculum, Mrs. Rachel Capozzi’s Class is studying New York State history. The current unit focuses on Native American people of the region, particularly the Iroquois Confederacy, known as the Haudenosaunee, or “People of the Longhouse.” The Iroquois did not have a written language, so they often conveyed their history […]
Hope Hall Guides Students’ Career and Academic Success – Part 1
Mrs. Michelle Robinson is Hope Hall’s College and Career Transitions Coordinator, and part of her responsibility is helping students prepare for the next phase after High School. To do that, she takes students on field trips to colleges, and brings in speakers to share information about academic and work resources available. Beginning in 9th Grade, […]
February Newsletter: Empathy, an Under-used Value
In the February Newsletter, Sister Diana uses the following quote to illustrate how taking a look at life from a different perspective, possibly even “stepping into another person’s shoes,” can help us develop empathy: “Many astronauts have reported that once they glimpsed Earth from space— a small blue ball floating in the vast expanse, lacking […]
The Gift of Poetry
The day before Christmas break, students and staff gathered in three separate groups to avoid crowding, in Hope Hall’s Cafeteria for the school’s first-ever Poetry Slam. The event was the brainchild of Ms. Megan Combs, and was a collaborative project of the entire ELA team, who worked with students to explore the various elements of […]
January Newsletter: A Post-Holiday Recipe for Happiness
In January’s newsletter, Sister Diana uses the following quote to mix up a recipe for happiness: “If you want to be happy, do not listen to anything negative, do not say anything negative, and do not do anything negative.” She goes on to say, “Happiness is an inside matter, not something that we get from […]
Experience Italy – SOLD OUT!
Thank you for your interest in Experience Italy This Year’s Event is Sold Out One of Hope Hall’s ever-popular events is its annual Experience Italy evening. After a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Italian American Sport Club of Rochester will be hosting it once again on March 12, 2022 from 6 to […]
Hope Hall Student Wins Gates Fire District Award
Congratulations to Hope Hall student Tahesha McMullen who won 1st place in the Gates Fire District Headquarter’s Fire Escape Plan Contest. As a result of preparing and practicing the best plan, Tahesha got to ride to school on the Gates Fire Department Firetruck on Monday, December 6. The wet, drizzly rain didn’t stop her enthusiasm! […]