In an effort to thwart vaping, Hampton Bays High School collaborated with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services to host a Vape Out program.

As part of the program, presenters from the health department spoke to students about the significant impact vaping can have on the teenage body. In addition, the school’s peer educators hung posters, delivered daily announcements on the dangers of vaping and created a presentation that they made to their peers during health classes.

The school’s peer educators are trained to create and conduct presentations to high school, middle school and elementary school students on important topics such as bullying, being an upstander rather than a bystander, making good choices and other character education topics. They were recently trained by John Martin from the Suffolk County Department of Health Services on the dangers of vaping and worked with him to design the anti-vaping presentation that they shared with their peers. It included ice breaker games and other fun activities to increase student engagement.

Date Added: 12/6/2022

To foster unity at Hampton Bays Middle School, students and staff worked together to create an impressive lip dub music video on Nov. 22. Wearing purple, students lined their school’s hallways with signs and performed acts and dances while lip syncing to music as a camera passed them. This is the first time the school has come together for its traditional lip dub since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The final video can be watched here:

Date Added: 11/29/2022

Krista Savino’s first grade class at Hampton Bays Elementary School brushed up on their vocabulary skills with a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt on Nov. 22. With smiles on their faces, the students searched for cards around their classroom that featured Thanksgiving vocabulary words. After finding the cards, they were tasked with writing down all the words they found.

Date Added: 11/30/2022

The members of the Hampton Bays Elementary School service organization K-Kids recently donated $200 toward their school’s PTA Thanksgiving fundraiser that provides gift cards for families in need to purchase Thanksgiving dinners. They raised the funds by selling rubber ducks during their lunch period to peers and teachers.

Date Added: 11/28/2022

To give back to their community, members of the Hampton Bays Middle School Tri-M Music Honor Society recently participated in the fourth annual Cards for Cops campaign. The students penned thoughtful, appreciative messages on holiday cards that will be distributed to officers by the nonprofit organization Beyond the Badge.

Date Added: 11/28/2022