EGMS Library Makerspace

Mr. Friedberg has put together an amazing workspace full of tech, green screens, and robotics for our students to use during lab time and collaboratively during classtime with our core teachers in all of the grades.

UConn Writing Contest Award Winners

Six of our East Granby Middle School students received award recognitions in the 2022 University of Connecticut Student Writing Contest. One of our students, Stephanie Clement, received a Platinum Award and will be published in the 2022 Student Writers Magazine. The awards ceremony for these students will be held at UConn in-person on May 12 from 5-7 p.m.

Introduction to Theater

In Ms. Gilbert's 7th grade Intro to Theater class, students created freeze frame shows from well known stories.

Random Acts of Kindness Day

In our ongoing mission at EGMS to make kindness the norm, we had a Purple Spirit Day on February 17, 2022. The color "purple" was well represented by our students and staff, and people were in great spirits for the day! "Kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have". - Raktivist

DAR Awards

We are excited to announce that three of our eighth grade students have won first, second and third places in this year’s Abigail Phelps Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Essay Competition. A clean sweep! Students wrote historical fiction stories about the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier following World War I. Congratulations go out to:

1st Place -Genevieve Corricelli

2nd Place - Maya Mosteanu

3rd Place - Izabella Dallesander

EGMS Students - Scout Klondike Derby

February 12th, East Granby Scouts participated in the annual Scout Klondike Derby. East Granby Middle School was represented by Noah Bouchard, Ella Hayes, Cal Thompson, Caitlin VanNeil, Logan Nicole, Nathan Russell, and Colin Daly.

There were over 280 scouts from multiple states making up 40 separate patrols. They competed against each other on two identical courses, 20 patrols on each. Prizes were awarded for 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place on each course. We had some East Granby Middle School students help win 3 of those 6 ribbons awarded. Congratulations to Noah Bouchard for leading his team to 1st place on one of the courses. Ella Hayes for winning 1st place as a part of the first all girls patrol to win a Klondike derby in our district, and Cal Thompson for leading his team to 2nd place his course.

Each course had 5 stations, called towns, scattered throughout the woods. The scouts had to use a map and compass to find each town, all while carrying 100% of their gear on their backs. At each town, the scouts had to demonstrate a set of scout skills, ranging from life saving and first aid to knot tying and wilderness knowledge to building a fire and boiling water and more. Each set of skills was judged on a scale from 1 to 5 and balanced against the overall time required to finish the course. A demanding day, both mentally and physically.

Congratulations to these students for a job well done!

The Great Kindess Challenge Week

EGMS shared the Great Kindness Challenge week at EGHS during the last full week in January. Each day, we had a spirit day with a color theme for different kindness practices (ex. Green for Gratitude, Orange for Helpfulness, Blue for Encouragement). Students were also able to take part in some fun activities like making a schoolwide kindness chain, where each link had a kindness quote or a positive affirmation (like "I will make the world a kinder place by ______"). We would like to extend a special thank you to the EGPL for coming in and making kindness buttons with our students that week!