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MEDIA RELEASE Continuing a decades-long Waimea tradition of celebrating May Day with the presentation of a Royal Court and student performances, Waimea Middle School is again inviting the community to its annual May Day celebration Friday, May 11 in historic Thelma Parker Gym. The formal program begins with the sounding of the pu at 9 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE If you subtract 12 days from the 66-day “break” Waimea public school students will have this summer, you will still have 54 days of pure R&R for children and families … which makes Waimea Middle School’s summer “Jump Start” program this year all the more appealing to students and families. For incoming 6th, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE As a follow up to recent meetings with Waimea Middle School’s families and community, the public conversion charter school’s not-for-profit Local School Board Hookakoo Corp. is seeking input from families and the community to assist in assessing the competencies and qualifications of candidates for leadership of Waimea Middle School. This input will be […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea families, fellow students and community friends are invited to a mini-concert sharing original songs that about 100 Waimea Middle School 6th through 8th grade students wrote this past week as part of a Kid Pan Alley immersion songwriting project in their Language Arts classes. The concert is 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17 […]

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Waimea families and community friends are again invited to participate in Waimea Middle School’s annual Thanksgiving Imu (underground oven) – both as part of a cultural learning and sharing tradition and to help underwrite the annual 8th Grade East Coast educational trip.

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MEDIA RELEASE Students from seven Big Island middle schools will participate in the 4th Annual Waimea Middle School Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 24 on the school’s campus. Participating teams will be coming from Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Parker School, Kohala Intermediate, Paauilo School, Waikoloa School and Hilo Christian Academy. Nearly 30 WMS students also […]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 Two Waimea Middle School seventh grade students — Luke Brouwer and Bodie Glasscock — made their families and school extremely proud by doing the right thing last week when they found a wallet at Parker Ranch Center and turned it in. “I … looked inside and there was around 400 bucks […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Music and the arts are “essentials” in a well-rounded youth education experience — so says all the research as well as native wisdom. But in today’s federally mandated No Child Left Behind public educational environment, forget it. No arts. No music, either, in the public school day. The emphasis is entirely on reading […]

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Clever gadgets, heart-tugging treasures and great bargains will be among the finds offered during the third “Culinary and Garden Garage Sale,” beginning 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 at Waimea Homestead Farmers’ Market on the lawn at Kuhio Hale (Hawaiian Homes Hall).

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MEDIA RELEASE Public safety is a priority with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and to better educate children, families and communities that live in areas where dangerous unexploded ordnance (UXO) may be a fact of life, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has developed a simple but powerful “3Rs – Recognize, Retreat and Report!” […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Due to the popularity of Waimea Middle School’s imu project, another invitation is being extended to community friends to participate in an Easter imu that will help raise funds for the school’s eighth grade East Coast educational trip in May 2011. Coordinating the imu with the 8th Grade East Coast Trippers and their […]

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SpaceClass lesson ‘Orion’s Path’ brings moon survival into Big Island classroom

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea families and community friends are invited to participate in Waimea Middle School’s annual Thanksgiving Imu – both as part of a cultural learning and sharing tradition and to help underwrite the annual 8th Grade East Coast educational trip in May 2011. The cost is $20 per pan, and families may bring one […]

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Waimea Middle School ‘Open House’ Aug. 25 To Celebrate Student Progress and Thank Families, Faculty and Community Delicious cake will top a celebratory menu at next Wednesday’s Family Open House at Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School – all to salute significant academic progress in the annual Hawai’i State Assessment (HSA) tests. All students and […]

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