Holgate Middle School

Our 8th grade students spend part of their Wednesday studying the language of Mathematics.

8th graders lock into We Will Write, creating haunting story lines!

Today's Game Day Eats at #AberdeenPublicSchools: 7 Layer Dip! Students, enjoy 7 layers of delicious served with nacho chips!

#GameDayEats #GoEagles 💙🦅💛

Congrats to our first Good Eagle Feather winner, Victor! Mrs. Netzer nominated Victor for taking the initiative to clean a lunchroom table that wasn’t his. He saw something that needed to be done and helped out without being asked. Thanks for being so thoughtful and helpful!

Another month, another group of students making us proud! Help us give a big shoutout to our October Students of the Month! Keep up the awesome work!

6th grade math students practiced creating ratios of witches brew and finding unit rates to buy the materials before enjoying their own witches brew and treat!

We had some pumpkin-hunting fun on Friday, and these lucky students were our winners! One student even tracked down the GOLDEN PUMPKIN and walked away with a Target gift card!

THE RESULTS ARE IN! Thank you to everyone who helped us crown the winners of our "Anything BUT a Pumpkin" Decorating Contest! The votes have been counted, and the results are in!

🥇 1st Place: Mr. Swenson's Homeroom – Olaf

🥈 2nd Place: Mrs. Doxsee's Homeroom – Jellyfish

🥉 3rd Place: Mrs. Lechner's Homeroom – S'more

Mr. Swenson's homeroom has earned some serious bragging rights AND a delicious breakfast of hot, fresh breakfast burritos on Monday!

Our November edition of Holgate Happenings is here! Catch up on important dates, upcoming events, and all the latest news at HMS!

https://aberdeen-news.edurooms.com/newsletters/holgate-middle-school/newsletters/november-2026

🎃 ACT FAST! WE NEED YOUR VOTES! 🎃

Our homerooms were challenged to turn their pumpkins into ANYTHING BUT a pumpkin! Now we need YOUR help deciding who will be victorious!

🏆 A trophy, bragging rights, and HOT, FRESH BREAKFAST BURRITOS are on the line!

Click here to CAST YOUR VOTE: https://forms.gle/R3TAYY4fwZgRgHb16

Students: Today is our Halloween Celebration at #AberdeenPublicSchools! 🎃

Enjoy a Monster Breakfast with "Spooky Donuts,” and a Spooktacular School Lunch with BOO-NANA Bites for Dessert! 🍩🍌

#AberdeenPublicSchools #GoEagles 💙🦅💛

IT'S JERSEY DANCE TIME!

Help your child grab their favorite jersey and get ready for our first school dance of the year! DJ Lil T will be bringing the music, plus games, concessions, a photo booth, and GIVEAWAYS throughout the dance! 🎉

🎁 BONUS: One lucky student will take home our $50 GRAND PRIZE gift card bundle!

🎟️ The $5 admission fee includes your raffle entry! Tickets will be sold during homeroom November 5th & 6th.

Friday, November 6 | 3:15–5:00 PM

Mrs. Fries’s 7th Grade ELA classes have been hard at work over the past two weeks writing their spookiest stories and getting ready to share them with their classmates!

Congratulations to our Spooky Story winners!

🥇 1st Block: Brooke Ehnes, Deacon Doering, & Jaxon Stephen

🥇 2nd Block: Eleanor Buckhouse

🥇 3rd Block: Daniel Erazo Moreno

These 6th graders really know how to CRUNCH some numbers! Our 6th grade MathCounts teams took on their first competition of the season yesterday, and they sure made it COUNT!

Individual Finalists:

🏅Asher – 2nd Place
🏅Tyler – 9th Place

⭐Honorable Mention: Alex, Gabe, Logan, and Luke


Team Results:

🥈 2nd Place: Alex, Tyler, Asher, and Logan
⭐ Honorable Mention: Hailey, Gabe, Pierce, and Jace


We'd say these mathletes are off to a pretty CALCULATED start! 😉

Congratulations to all of our 6th graders on a fantastic first competition!

Join us TONIGHT for our Fall Concert!

Come enjoy an evening of music as our talented students take the stage! Performances begin at 7:00pm in the gym, featuring our 6th grade band, followed by the 7th grade band, and wrapping up with a performance by our combined 7th and 8th grade choir!

Can't make it in person? No worries! You can still enjoy the show from home by tuning in to our livestream!

🔗 Watch LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/live/D1ktYsZIJ8Q?si=xb_go7lz-hitQRHj

We hope to see you there for a great night of music!

Who Dunnit!?!?! The middle schoolers had an unfortunate murder take place in Miss Walks' English class. Who killed Roger and why? A fun way to learn how to make inferences and back them up with strong evidence, these kids cracked the case!

Our kids MATHED HARD today!!

Our HMS MathCounts teams officially kicked off their competition season today and let's just say... our mathletes came ready to CALCULATE!🔥Check out these impressive results!

8th Grade Individual Finalists
🥇 Asher – 1st Place
🥈 Ashlynn – 2nd Place
🏅 Ayden – 4th Place
🏅 Abigayle – 5th Place
⭐ Honorable Mention: Kinsley & Maren

7th Grade Individual Finalists Results
🏅 Danika – 5th Place
🏅 Ramsey – 8th Place
⭐ Honorable Mention: Claire, Sterne, & Madison


TEAM RESULTS
🥇 8th Grade – 1st Place!
Abigayle, Asher, Ashlynn & Ayden

⭐ 8th Grade Honorable Mention
Kinsley, Maren, Alison & Samuel

🥈 7th Grade – 2nd Place!
Danika, Claire, Eleanor & Evy

🥉 7th Grade – 3rd Place!
Ramsey, Madison, Sterne & Porter

👏 Way to go, Mathletes!! You really SUMMED up what it means to be a Golden Eagle! We're COUNTING on an awesome season ahead!

A SPOOKTACULAR SHOW with a COZY TWIST!

Join us for Gravestone Manor on October 29th & 30th at 7:00pm, and don't miss your chance to take home a little handmade magic!

Some of our talented students have been busy putting their skills to work, creating these AMAZING blue and gold hand knit blankets! (A huge shoutout to Mrs. Doxsee for helping make this happen!)

🎟️ Raffle tickets are just $1 each, and we'll draw one lucky winner EACH night!

Come for the show, stay for the suspense, and you just might leave with the coziest prize in the house!

8th Graders wrapped up their unit on thermodynamics this morning by melting chocolate using the sun's radiation!